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Newegg Launches $50 Amazon Prime Competitor

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Re: Newegg Launches $50 Amazon Prime Competitor

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Post by ams6110 »

nivla wrote: post #48
dangrossman wrote: post #18

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Horrible compared to what? For that price, you could buy one second-rate DVD per month. Or buy half a season of TV episodes for streaming. Or half a ticket to a movie theater. Or 3 weeks of Netflix/Hulu/etc -- Prime is cheaper even if you allocate $0 in value to the shipping perks. For that price Prime is giving you thousands of movies and TV series, including some awesome original programming (Betas, Alpha House). I…

I wouldn't call it horrible but you can't compare it to NetFlix or Hulu. Their selections are very limited and they rarely update ~ every 3 months or so.

I compared netflix streaming to amazon once and they seemed pretty much the same. I have netflix streaming and it seems like there's actually very little worth watching on it, have considered canceling a few times.

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Post by nivla »

spydertennis wrote: post #69
nivla wrote: post #51

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I once ordered an XBox Live Membership Card from them. I ended up getting an empty envelope. Imagine shaking the envelope furiously and holding it up against the sun to see if something drops. Contacted the customer service, they asked me to email the picture of the desperately ripped open envelope. Once done, they finally sent another one. Well nothing really to complaint about but it was still weird receiving an em…

Wait so when you realized the envelope was empty you went into a rage and shook it furiously, then held it up against the sun so you could see through it?

Its one of those instincts, like when you realize there is no money in your wallet you still dig through it or hold it upside down and shake it. There was no rage involved, just disbelief, also since all I was looking for was a 16 digit code, there was also possibility it might have been in a fortune cookie styled paper.

Re: Newegg Launches $50 Amazon Prime Competitor

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Post by ef4 »

Finster wrote: post #59

What's to stop me from getting the 30-day trial, buying all the parts for my new desktop build and then canceling? Nothing, I guess, but unlike Amazon, I don't see myself using Newegg beyond the once every two years to buy system components for a new build.

That's how I used to think of Newegg too, but they've branched out way beyond computer parts.

It's a very similar evolution to Amazon itself, which of course used to be a book store.

Re: Newegg Launches $50 Amazon Prime Competitor

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Post by chm »

GFK_of_xmaspast wrote: post #67
chm wrote: post #36

That's good news, but I'm still forming my opinion about Newegg. I've only ordered three times from them, but allow me this comparison: I never received a product from Amazon that didn't match its description. That doesn't mean these don't exist. I recently received an item from Newegg that didn't match the description. The page has since been removed and it was changed in Google Cache too. It was a 1000W PSU which w…

"it was changed in Google Cache too" Have you considered the possibility that you made a mistake.

Yes, I have. I checked and rechecked the order multiple times, with another person. We were building a computer together.

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Post by nivla »

ams6110 wrote: post #71
nivla wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wouldn't call it horrible but you can't compare it to NetFlix or Hulu. Their selections are very limited and they rarely update ~ every 3 months or so.

I compared netflix streaming to amazon once and they seemed pretty much the same. I have netflix streaming and it seems like there's actually very little worth watching on it, have considered canceling a few times.

I never had Netflix so I can't give a honest comparison but I believe Netflix has their own exclusive shows and their library is atleast 10 times bigger than Amazon's.[1]

http://bgr.com/2012/04/13/amazon-netflix-said-to-be-inflatin...

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Post by spydertennis »

nivla wrote: post #72
spydertennis wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait so when you realized the envelope was empty you went into a rage and shook it furiously, then held it up against the sun so you could see through it?

Its one of those instincts, like when you realize there is no money in your wallet you still dig through it or hold it upside down and shake it. There was no rage involved, just disbelief, also since all I was looking for was a 16 digit code, there was also possibility it might have been in a fortune cookie styled paper.

> like when you realize there is no money in your wallet you still dig through it or hold it upside down and shake it

huh. ive never done that.

Re: Newegg Launches $50 Amazon Prime Competitor

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Post by hayksaakian »

Finster wrote: post #59

What's to stop me from getting the 30-day trial, buying all the parts for my new desktop build and then canceling? Nothing, I guess, but unlike Amazon, I don't see myself using Newegg beyond the once every two years to buy system components for a new build.

Some fraction of people won't cancel. They wager that those people can cover the costs of those who do cancel.

At least that's the intuitive logic.

Re: Newegg Launches $50 Amazon Prime Competitor

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Post by pkroll »

blah32497 wrote: post #53
ericd wrote: post #34

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Or those prime packages simply get bumped up in the queue to be before other orders that were already placed because they need to be to get out as fast as they do. And how is Prime anticompetitive?

Membership plans are anticompetitive b/c they effectively lock you in to one retailer thereby decrease competition. You're effectively paying for the shipping ahead of time with the membership, so going to NewEgg or TigerDirect means you "throw money away". The other issue is that since there is no fixed cost associated with shipping you things throughout the year, do to the the economics of it, the plan must be to y…

I don't know where I fit in the scheme of things, but I suspect people get a lot more on Amazon than you're thinking they do once they have Prime. I've got 120 orders in the last 6 months. If you take the $80/year and split it among all orders, it's close to free: and that's before all the Amazon Prime Video I've watched. Amazon of course is making money on Prime, but how does that mean consumers are losing out, any more than on anything else they purchase? I'm paying for a bunch of videos, and a very small amount per order to get physical items in two days, with (often) a cheap option for next-day. Lastly, I do not think anticompetitive means, what you think it means. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-competitive_practices

Re: Newegg Launches $50 Amazon Prime Competitor

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Post by invisible »

chm wrote: post #74
GFK_of_xmaspast wrote: post #67

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"it was changed in Google Cache too" Have you considered the possibility that you made a mistake.

Yes, I have. I checked and rechecked the order multiple times, with another person. We were building a computer together.

This may be inaccurate info but I recall the actual invoice having the data hard coded in it rather than linked to the product in a direct manor.
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