New Egg? OMG!

NEWEGG IS THE BEST

BUY BUY BUY
Usually have the best prices but others sometime others have nice MIRs. I get all my stuff in 2 or 3 days. And no DOA as of yet

same here
purchased all parts form newegg and im not looking no further.
they have best selection, i looked at tigerdirect,buy.com and they ehh limited

Newegg has the largest stock, by far. Ive ordered 99% of my PC parts from there for the past 4 years. Ive recently had problems with their shipping the last few times ive ordered, took 2 days to ship, and UPS will usually damage the box, or just straight up open it.

Zipzoomfly is also good, they are in CA and have exelent shipping. Awhile ago on my old build, my power supply died thursday night. Friday at lunch I ordered a Thermaltake Toughpower 700W from there, was on sale for like $85 and had free overnight shipping via FedEx. It was on my doorstep that Saturday morning at about 8:30AM, less than 24 hours from CA to VA.

UPS does suck, but thats not Neweggs fault. UPS has damaged a few of the rigs I have mailed, no matter how many fragile stickers I put on it.

i guess u should know that newegg is the seller that every online tech store strives to be like.

they're #1, cant get any better than that...

Just like others said. New egg is awsome. When I built my rig at the time well over 2k I had no problems with them at all. Had all my stuff in 3 days.

my entire rig (only $900 some) is from there. Pretty awesome. Going to have to pick a complaint with UPS though. The first set of boxes came in December 07, and it was a cold wednesday night, and they left the boxes outside (i think the temp was 20 F something), and put the heavier box, which had the MOBO, CPU, VC, and PS on top, and could have easily fallen down.

Frys has some really sweet deals as well.

But If I had to only buy from one etailor, that would be NewEgg w/o a doubt.

newegg is definitely the best online retailer in the US.

First started buying from newegg when they were egghead and had stores. Shipping has taken a downturn (UPS fault). Also like zipzoomfly, forget what their name use to be.

As you can see from the posts newegg is very very popular. I have been buying computer parts from newegg for at least 4 or 5 years and I am very satisfied with their service and prompt shipping.

Newegg is acceptable. You will get your products and there are no games played with the prices.

However, I found Newegg to cut too many corners in their shipping process. Newegg is not being singled out for this failure as other internet companies (Amazon comes to mind and is actually far worse than Newegg) pack to the same marginal standard.

BTW I am a manufacturer and distributor of non-consumer products. I would personally fire any employee that packed to Amazon standards. Newegg standards would get the employee suspended.

IF I was grading Newegg, I would give them a B- to a solid B. Good, but not great. TigerDirect is packaged to the same standard.... Good, but not great.

The consumer electronics company that I give an A? Crutchfield.

Every product that I have received from Crutchfield has been packaged with an exterior box that has doublewall cardboard. Often prefab foam inserts will be used between their exterior box and the manufacturer's interior box instead of foam peanuts. In other words Crutchfield is packing to the same standard that manufacturers usually package their products. Might cost a few $ extra to order from Crutchfield, but I know their is less chance of the UPS elephants breaking the product.

Yea, I wish Crutchfield sold computer parts.

It looks like ill also be buying my next rig from newegg.

Just like everyone else whos responded, newegg is the best. usually have the best prices and good shipping.
I've gotten most everything from them. You cant go wrong.

Everything so far that I bought from newegg has worked.
No problems at all.Their shipping was a little slower than expected to my residence but their prices were great.I will never buy from a local retailer (high prices).

Once you know you Newegg

I have bought my last 3 computers I have built for myself from Newegg, the 3 I built for my grandparents, my friends use it and I also will buy just random parts from there such as new fans or AS5.

Newegg is simply the best PC componet site ever. I even have the Newegg Prefered account with them.

I usually get the free 3 day UPS shipping (only takes 2 since I am in AZ and most every part ships from Cali) and never had a problem. I did get one GPU, a X800XT PE, DOA but the RMA was hassle free and I got my check for it in a week.

Simply put, if you are buying PC parts to build your own or to upgrade Newegg is the place to do it from. No other place comes close.

I want your budget

My wife used to manage party stores and seasonal costume shops over a 20 year lousy retail career (now she's into graphics). She always pronounces UPS "Oops".

And your a dime a dozen...

QFT.

Although, I've never had to RMA to Newegg so I cannot really say, closest was when a product was in and out of stock literally every couple of hours and had to confirm it actually was before I ordered it and the gentleman I spoke to was helpful.

TigerDirect was also pleasant to deal with when I returned an "unsatisfactory" case I bought in a bundle, and even let me just pay the difference between the new one and cheap feeling old one instead of losing the bundle savings, so I just paid $11 and shipping was refunded both ways. Thats something uncommon with most stores.

I should add the case was an Ultra Aluminus, it was the flimsiest case Ive ever seen(and Ive seen some really crappy cases) fortunately for me the holes on the motherboard tray were stripped like 5 or more were so I didnt have to live with the case or eat the cost and replace it myself.

If I remember correctly Newegg was started by a old PC parts shop called Egghead computers. We had a shop here and there was a article about them closing the store to go online only.

I am a systems builder. I wish I had that personal budget also, lol

I love Frys. I just cannot stand to pay for something and wait 2-3 days to get it. When I am in the mood to upgrade or build, I want what I have paid for in my hand when I pay for it. If something is wrong, I will be in the return section talking with a live person getting my situation resolved right now. However, I know that a lot of people don't have a Frys in there neighborhood and web ordering is the only way.
Newegg is the way to go.

Those Frys bundles, if you just ask, you can usually upgrade to whatever motherboard you want and still get a pretty good deal. Just ask them.

Zipzoomfly = googlegear. You only get one guess why their name changed.

Wooohooo1!!!! My memory rules. Its funny because I started to really get into building computers and stuff back in 1998/1999 and me and my grandfather wanted to go to Egghead, we knew where it was, but when we drove by it was gone and we found the article for its transition.

I guess the New part makes sense now too. They are a New version of the Egg.

Weird thing is when I order parts I swear I see a icon for a store..... wounder if they plan on opening stores or alreayd have.....

Um Google said to? And you don't mess with the Google?

I love that Newegg has either combos/specials on the product page you are looking at with a link to evn more. Most products have about 20 combo specials that you can save a bit of cash on.

And Newegg is expanding even more. They now offer almost eevrything Best Buy does apart from appliances and a massive movie/DVD/music selection.

But it would be cool if they did expand to that, opened up stores. It would be like a Best Buy (only not gay) and Frys Electronics all rolled into one. I would go hang out just to look at the hardware.