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Well 3 day shipping for $50 or 2 day shipping across many sites for $79 with shoprunner. Also shoprunner is a free benefit with an Amex card and they occasionally have a deal of spend $x on y site and get a one year membership.
Wow, I have an AMEX but didn't know about it. For anyone else curious: https://www.shoprunner.com/americanexpress/ EDIT: Apparently it's not all American Express cards. My Fidelity AMEX doesn't qualify.
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…
NewEgg sent me 1000 dollar Titan GPUs late, despite me paying extra for 1 day shipping. The box came with a huge hole in it and one Titan, out of the three that I ordered, was missing. I called up customer support and they dicked around and finally said they would send me new ones' overnight. Well I didn't get the GPUs for two weeks because they waited until they got the holed up package back. I would never order fro…
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Blue Cash Preferred qualifies. Man, I'm still discovering little perks to AMEX like this.
Any other notable perks?
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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.
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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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From my limited experience, Amazon is behind the customer experience while NewEgg is mainly behind low prices for computer parts, and that's about it. I'd say that you feel the difference when the 'limited' experiences occur, because good support only really matters when there are problems.
So you get what you pay for, in other words?
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NewEgg sent me 1000 dollar Titan GPUs late, despite me paying extra for 1 day shipping. The box came with a huge hole in it and one Titan, out of the three that I ordered, was missing. I called up customer support and they dicked around and finally said they would send me new ones' overnight. Well I didn't get the GPUs for two weeks because they waited until they got the holed up package back. I would never order fro…
Why did you sign on a package with a hole in it? Its not Neweggs fault someone stole from inside the box, its Courier service.
I've been a Prime subscriber for years now, and have recently been reconsidering my membership. The free 2-day shipping now frequently means 2-day free to the local post office. Once there, it's usually another couple of days before it gets to me (and my office is literally next door to local post office). Not cool, Amazon.
Have you mentioned this to amazon? I had a book a few days late and amazon overnighted me another one and told me to keep the other one when/if it arrived. Their customer service is rather decent in my experience.
I've been a Prime subscriber for years now, and have recently been reconsidering my membership. The free 2-day shipping now frequently means 2-day free to the local post office. Once there, it's usually another couple of days before it gets to me (and my office is literally next door to local post office). Not cool, Amazon.
you should check if there are Amazon lockers in your area or lockers from other companies you can receive packages in, so you could pickup the stuff yourself.
It seems weird that they let the US Post Office make the final leg of the delivery, when the destination is literally next door. I understand the reason behind it, it's just odd from a human perspective.