Avoid buying on Newegg?

[Memes]

Been reading the comments on reddit saying how Newegg is terrible in their return policy and how theyre a scam. I'm looking to buy a PSU and ram on their so I dont need to pay for extra shipping and taxes. Anyone have bad experiences with Newegg?

[r.linder]

Newegg isn't that bad, and it's up to the user to trust the seller. Not everyone selling on newegg is legitimate.

[xSOSxHawkens]

Newegg opened themselves up a vit by allowing third party sellers. As long as you buy *from* newegg and not a third party seller its great and they are just as good as amazon.

Buy from a third party seller and you are at the whims of them not newegg.

[_I_]

if you buy from newegg, be sure to buy from newegg not other sellers
when searching or filtering items, tick the newegg seller/warehouse box

[Chompman]

The only thing I would avoid buying on newegg directly from them is monitors as they don't use the normal no dead pixel return policy most decent sites use and instead will only do it if there is 8 or more and that's plain insane.

Otherwise you should be 100% fine buying directly from them or even 3rd party sellers as your payment option such as with a credit card will overrule their return policy usually as they can say no returns and that means nothing really with the use of a credit card much like on other sites such as ebay.

[Illusion of Progress]

Been buying with Newegg for over a decade and have never had a bad experience.

I only had to return something (two duplicate items) once. It was some strange case where later in DDR3 life cycle, some new RAM with certain ICs or chips or whatever wouldn't work with some older chipsets and I was trying to upgrade two PCs with 8 GB RAM. The manufacturer made two near identical sets, and one worked with older ones whereas the other didn't. I was able to return both for the one that worked. I want to say I did this through Newegg and not outside Newegg with the manufacturer but I'm not certain as this was years and years ago (both PCs still have said RAM and still work fine).

That said, I haven't purchased as much from them recently (no particular reason involving them, just less tech purchases lately besides a recent upgrade I instead did through Micro Center for cost and availability reasons).

[Memes]

I would buy straight from Newegg of course. People on Reddit say otherwise but ill take my chances and buy the PSU and Ram instead of their GPUs I guess

[[☥] - CJ -]

Before i started using Amazon i used Newegg for all my PC stuff

Have to say they arent as important as they used to be because of Amazon, and the shipping costs tend to suck :/

And with that said, i decided to check Newegg
damn crazy and inconsistent prices/shipping for TP4056 boards

[Mad Scientist]

Nguyên văn bởi ☥ - CJ -:

Before i started using Amazon i used Newegg for all my PC stuff

Have to say they arent as important as they used to be because of Amazon, and the shipping costs tend to suck :/

And with that said, i decided to check Newegg
damn crazy and inconsistent prices/shipping for TP4056 boards

I get you with this, even TD was decent... theyre crap now, newegg is OK but the shipping gets you and prices aren't competitive, it's a shame because they were the best for this stuff in the past.

[xSOSxHawkens]

Nguyên văn bởi Orion - RUSTy Shopkeeper:

Nguyên văn bởi ☥ - CJ -:

Before i started using Amazon i used Newegg for all my PC stuff

Have to say they arent as important as they used to be because of Amazon, and the shipping costs tend to suck :/

And with that said, i decided to check Newegg
damn crazy and inconsistent prices/shipping for TP4056 boards

I get you with this, even TD was decent... theyre crap now, newegg is OK but the shipping gets you and prices aren't competitive, it's a shame because they were the best for this stuff in the past.

oh man.... Tiger Direct...

Im still on their mailing list, once in a great while I will poke over there... What a dumpsterfire its become.

I can also add in the hat as a newegg cutomer for years. First purchases on there were like 15 years ago. Long enough back that they have purged the purchse records from my account and only the email invoices remain (and man, did they look different back then) lol.

[Mad Scientist]

Nguyên văn bởi xSOSxHawkens:

Nguyên văn bởi Orion - RUSTy Shopkeeper:

I get you with this, even TD was decent... theyre crap now, newegg is OK but the shipping gets you and prices aren't competitive, it's a shame because they were the best for this stuff in the past.

oh man.... Tiger Direct...

Im still on their mailing list, once in a great while I will poke over there... What a dumpsterfire its become.

I can also add in the hat as a newegg cutomer for years. First purchases on there were like 15 years ago. Long enough back that they have purged the purchse records from my account and only the email invoices remain (and man, did they look different back then) lol.

I don't even know what to think of TD anymore, it looks like the sections of websites that are just ridden with ads - like news sites where 75% of the site is ads, just horrible overall.

[xSOSxHawkens]

Nguyên văn bởi Orion - RUSTy Shopkeeper:

Nguyên văn bởi xSOSxHawkens:

oh man.... Tiger Direct...

Im still on their mailing list, once in a great while I will poke over there... What a dumpsterfire its become.

I can also add in the hat as a newegg cutomer for years. First purchases on there were like 15 years ago. Long enough back that they have purged the purchse records from my account and only the email invoices remain (and man, did they look different back then) lol.

I don't even know what to think of TD anymore, it looks like the sections of websites that are just ridden with ads - like news sites where 75% of the site is ads, just horrible overall.

There are parts of their site that striaght up look the same (or worse) than they did back in 08... x.X

[Bad 💀 Motha]

If you not sure and might need to return, buy from places like Amazon or MicroCenter. I only buy from Newegg when I'm 100% sure I won't have a reason to return it. Now if it comes DOA or broken from shipping, that's another story and I've had no issues getting that taken care of.

Where Newegg screwed me once was I had a brand new un-opened GPU I bought for a customer. Their phone support assured me that due to my situation I would not be charged any restocking fee since the box was still sealed. Well dam if they didn't charge me anyways and gave me back only like 320$ when it should have been 350$

[[☥] - CJ -]

I used TD before i used NE and Amazon
I WISH they still had their physical store in my area

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Yea I used to use Tiger Direct back before Newegg and Amazon existed. Once I got a MicroCenter in my local area, I pretty much stick to Amazon, Ebay, MC, B&H now days. MonoPrice is good for certain things too. Such as if need alot of cables and they have a decent selection of budget friendly Mechanical KB also.

[Bing Chilling]

while i vastly prefer amazon because of shipping
new egg is genuine, i'v ordered lots of stuff off their because they allow use of paypal.
shipping is longer, you have to pay for it too.. (there's no prime like amazon) but i always check newegg and amazon when looking to buy something, new egg sometimes has the better deals and they often have rebates and game deal bundles that are an amazing deal (like a free copy of ACO with a ryzen 3600 purchase as an example)
, they also do alot of sponsorships with youtubers
so you can get discount codes and special discounts on certain items (usually these can be stacked on top of existing sales for even more savings)
i don't mind new egg , honestly way better then ebay lol.
sometimes you can genuinely save alot of money there.