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Will have to wait for their full write up but there genuinely were a lot of quality items for the lowest price ever.
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Interesting. I also find myself picking up tech from NewEgg more often than Amazon. And I recently ordered most of the supplies for a cocktail party I was having at Walmart and Bed Bad and Beyond. Amazon prices might beat local retail, but they are only sometimes competitive with other (often more specizlized) online retailers at this point. Also, at least for me, shipping New Egg, Walmart and BBAB was faster than Am…
And, NewEgg also generally has excellent customer service, in my experience. So, it's not like I'm trading away convenience or confidence in the vendor. I've bought hundreds of more items at Amazon than NewEgg in the past several years, but I'd bet my gross dollar spend is similar at NewEgg because I've bought a half dozen servers and computers.
Edit: I have NewEgg Premier though, so I get free shipping on certain items and free RMAs. Cheaper than Amazon Prime. I'm always amazed NewEgg doesn't get more love around here.
I've become more and more disillusioned by Amazon over the years. Prices are now almost never the best; I only buy from them when I need something quickly (and can't get it locally). NewEgg (nearly) always has better tech prices. Walmart often has better prices on everyday items and I can have it immediately. I just bought a pair of tweezers at my local grocery store for two bucks that was $6 on Amazon for the same m…
Where do you wind up going instead? I frequently wouldn't even know where to go to buy, say, a pair of lacrosse balls and adjustable sprinkler nozzles for a better price. I'm sure there's better deals to be had somewhere , but is there a go-to? Or a search engine that does particularly well deal-hunting? Maybe that's a sign they've trapped me.
Electronics is really my only big/expensive habit and NewEgg gets a lot of my business. I bought my last laptop directly from Dell Outlet during a sale and saved about $300 off of the same refurbished machine from Amazon. Though the ordering process from Dell was stupidly inconvenient as I had to get an agent involved to apply the discount and to deal with payment, as for some reason my business debit card wouldn't work. It took half a day, so it's not something I would do for less than a significant discount.
And, as I mentioned, Walmart is often a better choice for regular stuff, and they now have a quite large online selection including stuff that is not stocked in stores.
Oh, yeah, I buy truck stuff, parts and the like for my old pickup. I buy about half from Amazon market sellers and half direct from diesel specialty dealers. And parts for my old RV, same story. Big items never come from Amazon, though; my rooftop AC replacement was purchased from a local dealer for $240 less than the Amazon price.
I guess Google Shopping is how I've found most of the specialty shops.
I've become more and more disillusioned by Amazon over the years. Prices are now almost never the best; I only buy from them when I need something quickly (and can't get it locally). NewEgg (nearly) always has better tech prices. Walmart often has better prices on everyday items and I can have it immediately. I just bought a pair of tweezers at my local grocery store for two bucks that was $6 on Amazon for the same m…
I saw ads for chrome extensions but I don't know if they are good.
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I have saved thousands of dollars thanks to Amazon. Not because I bought from them. No, but because I use their app to compare items and get a price match. Nearly every major store (Walmart, Target, Home Depot, Best Buy, Staples, Office Max/Depot) match or beat Amazon. With Amazons app I can instantly scan all my products at a store. I may only save 2-5 dollars per item, but I do it every time I shop. The other day I…
So Amazon gets a list of everything you're interested in offline as well, even if you don't buy from them. Sounds like win/win for them!
Competition is good.
After all, why would a retailer ever discount more than 10-20% off what everyone else is charging, outside of a clearance?
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Interesting. I also find myself picking up tech from NewEgg more often than Amazon. And I recently ordered most of the supplies for a cocktail party I was having at Walmart and Bed Bad and Beyond. Amazon prices might beat local retail, but they are only sometimes competitive with other (often more specizlized) online retailers at this point. Also, at least for me, shipping New Egg, Walmart and BBAB was faster than Am…
My newegg account got permamently banned so I shop at Amazon. I don't even know why.
I can't imagine why they'd ban someone permanently. I mean, they want money, right? That seems weird. But, also sucks.
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Over and over again I've realized just before or after buying an item from Amazon that I paid way too much. I have finally broken the ingrained habit of leaping before looking. That can't be good for Amazon if too many people do that. On another note, I am beyond tired of the craptacular deals that are >80% fly-by-night products with astroturf reviews. The gold box deals used to be a favorite bookmarked stop.
Gold box (and so much of prime day) seemed like warehouse spring cleaning days.
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My newegg account got permamently banned so I shop at Amazon. I don't even know why.
I do remember I had to jump through a couple of hoops to get something (about $8000 worth of something) shipped to an address not on file with my credit card, which is not something Amazon has ever done (I'm always shipping to weird places because I travel mostly full-time in an RV), but it wasn't too traumatic. I can't imagine why they'd ban someone permanently. I mean, they want money, right? That seems weird. But,…