Newegg's FantasTech Sale 2023: Prime Day for PC Hardware Enthusiasts

By Stewart Bendle
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PC hardware bargains coming soon.

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(Image credit: Newegg)

It's that time of year again when the big summer sales season starts. Prime Day 2023 has been announced for July 11th and 12th, and following suit are some of the other large retailers and manufacturers with events of their own. Today Newegg announced its sales event, the FantasTech Sale, which will be running from July the 10th to the 14th. 

More focused on PC hardware and tech, the FantasTech sale is going to be of more interest to PC enthusiasts especially. If you're on the hunt for a new bit of hardware for your beloved PC, like a new graphics card, gaming monitor or CPU, then you might be able to find a great deal here. 

Not to be outdone by Amazon's "Early Deals," the FantasTech Sale also features a sort of early access part to the main sales event. From July 5th to the 9th, the FantasTech Presale event kicks off, where you can start to find deals on tech items. 

To reassure customers, that the Presale Event will offer the best deals, Newegg will honor any difference in price between a Presale Event item and an item sold in the main FantasTech Sales window, as long as it shows a FantasTech Price Protection badge against the product. 

The company says any price differences will be refunded to your original payment method by July 25th and a notification email sent to inform you of your credit. This is a great touch and certainly saves you the hassle of having to price-track every item if you decide to buy something in the Presale Event. 

Stewart Bendle
Stewart Bendle
Deals Writer

Stewart Bendle is a deals writer at Tom's Hardware. A firm believer in “Bang for the buck” Stewart likes to research the best prices for hardware and build PCs that have a great price for performance ratio.

8 Comments Comment from the forums
  • Thanks for the tip. I actually will be looking for SSDs and ram for the new laptop that is due to arrive in early July... right in time for this and Amazon Prime Day.
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  • pixelpusher220
    Last PC I built, I bought most of the parts from Newegg. The box had all the parts around the outside and the packing material on the inside....literally no protection for the contents.

    Of course it was damaged in transit. UPS guy who came to get it was flabbergasted at how piss poor that pack job was. He took the entire box even though only the motherboard was technically damaged, clearly wanted the evidence of the absolute crap inside.

    I'll buy elsewhere thanks.
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  • pixelpusher220 said:
    I'll buy elsewhere thanks.
    Sounds like you got unlucky. I bought pretty much every part you see in my sig from NewEgg... and everything arrived safely...

    ... in bubble wrap too.
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  • pixelpusher220
    TravisPNW said:
    Sounds like you got unlucky. I bought pretty much every part you see in my sig from NewEgg... and everything arrived safely...

    ... in bubble wrap too.
    If I need bubble wrap I will def order from Newegg. Mine had it to, nicely protected by the $1000s worth of computer goods around it ;-)
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  • pixelpusher220 said:
    If I need bubble wrap I will def order from Newegg. Mine had it to, nicely protected by the $1000s worth of computer goods around it ;-)

    Hahah… the bubble wrap comment was a joke. I actually don’t believe anything was bubble wrapped… just boxes inside of shipping boxes with a little brown paper bag stuff thrown in.

    Nothing was DOA though. 😂 I guess I have UPS to thank for that!
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  • micheal_15
    newegg have (ever since they got bought out) basically been scamming customers.
    claiming items bought that were damaged returns are "new" and replacing manufacturer seal stickers, supplying the wrong items/lower grade gear and hoping customers just wouldn't notice.

    Remember they tried to scam the VERY well-known Gamers Nexus (a hardware review site), and if they'll do that to GN, just imagine how they'll rip you off.
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  • King_V
    Eh, I have never bought open box from NewEgg, and only bought sold-and-shipped by NewEgg - with the exception of where the vendor was the part manufacturer itself (Aukey for a mechanical keyboard).

    NEVER a problem in about 20 years of buying from them.

    I can't speak to open-box, or 3rd party sellers who are not the manufacturer of the product they're selling. I wouldn't trust either.

    But, somehow, it seems to have become popular to just bash them across the board.
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  • 2Be_or_Not2Be
    King_V said:
    Eh, I have never bought open box from NewEgg, and only bought sold-and-shipped by NewEgg - with the exception of where the vendor was the part manufacturer itself (Aukey for a mechanical keyboard.

    NEVER a problem in about 20 years of buying from them.

    I can't speak to open-box, or 3rd party sellers who are not the manufacturer of the product they're selling. I wouldn't trust either.

    But, somehow, it seems to have become popular to just bash them across the board.

    This comment bears out my own experience - I generally don't have problems when buying items Sold and Shipped By Newegg (not including straight-up DOA components). It's the 3rd-party sellers that more often are the source of problems for the unknowing buyer. Same is mostly true for Amazon as well.

    One thing both Newegg and Amazon can do, though, is to inspect "new" merchants a lot more deeply. A lot of 3rd party sellers who start to accumulate bad ratings will just open a new account, and sometimes they even take over (somehow) older item listings to sell their own. Newegg & Amazon have both addresses & bank info for these merchants - they could cross-check these a lot more thoroughly on these 3rd party sellers. That could help get some of those bad sellers off the platform.
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