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All the more reason to shop more at NewEgg.

by 2bluesc 10y ago

Bartweiss 10y ago
Their prices are usually quite close to Amazon, and for me it's worth just sticking to NewEgg to reward their customer service and anti-troll work.
- ansible 10y ago
  I'm shopping on Newegg because most other websites have awful category and filtering capabilities. Edit: But yes, their anti-patent troll activities are something I appreciate.
  - Bartweiss 10y ago
    One of the beauties of a niche site like Newegg is that they actually understand which products are interchangeable or related. If I search for USB splitter by price on Amazon, I'm going to get flash drive cases, then USB cables, then flash drives, then I'll get into splitters. Newegg knows I didn't mean that, and that "products like this" shouldn't include everything with a USB connector on one end.
    - degenerate 10y ago
      That's a great point, I never thought of searching for accessories on Newegg... even if I end up buying elsewhere, their accessory/peripheral search has always been one of the best on the internet for a long time.
      - Bartweiss 10y ago
        I only noticed it when I tried Amazon and got slammed with a hundred pages of "it has a similar name!" matches. You can buy a laptop there fine, but peripherals and internals just aren't arranged in any coherent way. I'm not sure what Newegg is doing (apart from specializing), but it works damn well.
BossHogg 10y ago
Cheng's financial support of the racist Abigail Fisher case is exactly why I won't shop with Newegg.
- nkurz 10y ago
  I'd forgotten about his role in that case. It makes me admire him even more for standing by his principles that racial origin should not be a factor in determining college admissions. Does his argument that Asian Americans should not be discriminated against by state universities also bother you? Here's more background on the case: https://www.propublica.org/article/a-colorblind-constitution-what-abigail-fishers-affirmative-action-case-is-r https://www.propublica.org/article/a-colorblind-constitution... And here are the two amici that Cheng co-authored: http://www.asianamericanlegal.com/images/AALFAmicusBriefs/AALF-FisherI-Amicus.pdf http://www.asianamericanlegal.com/images/AALFAmicusBriefs/AA... http://asianamericanforeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Fisher_II_Amicus.pdf http://asianamericanforeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2015...
  - jshevek 10y ago
    > The group meticulously selected the people who would elicit both sympathy and outrage, who were pristine in form and character. This is an excellent strategy, a unifying strategy, and one that seems lacking in today's social media driven activism.

All the more reason to shop more at NewEgg.

by 2bluesc 10y ago

All the more reason to shop more at NewEgg.

Their prices are usually quite close to Amazon, and for me it's worth just sticking to NewEgg to reward their customer service and anti-troll work.

ansible 10y ago
I'm shopping on Newegg because most other websites have awful category and filtering capabilities. Edit: But yes, their anti-patent troll activities are something I appreciate.
- Bartweiss 10y ago
  One of the beauties of a niche site like Newegg is that they actually understand which products are interchangeable or related. If I search for USB splitter by price on Amazon, I'm going to get flash drive cases, then USB cables, then flash drives, then I'll get into splitters. Newegg knows I didn't mean that, and that "products like this" shouldn't include everything with a USB connector on one end.
  - degenerate 10y ago
    That's a great point, I never thought of searching for accessories on Newegg... even if I end up buying elsewhere, their accessory/peripheral search has always been one of the best on the internet for a long time.
    - Bartweiss 10y ago
      I only noticed it when I tried Amazon and got slammed with a hundred pages of "it has a similar name!" matches. You can buy a laptop there fine, but peripherals and internals just aren't arranged in any coherent way. I'm not sure what Newegg is doing (apart from specializing), but it works damn well.

BossHogg 10y ago

Cheng's financial support of the racist Abigail Fisher case is exactly why I won't shop with Newegg.

nkurz 10y ago
I'd forgotten about his role in that case. It makes me admire him even more for standing by his principles that racial origin should not be a factor in determining college admissions. Does his argument that Asian Americans should not be discriminated against by state universities also bother you? Here's more background on the case: https://www.propublica.org/article/a-colorblind-constitution-what-abigail-fishers-affirmative-action-case-is-r https://www.propublica.org/article/a-colorblind-constitution... And here are the two amici that Cheng co-authored: http://www.asianamericanlegal.com/images/AALFAmicusBriefs/AALF-FisherI-Amicus.pdf http://www.asianamericanlegal.com/images/AALFAmicusBriefs/AA... http://asianamericanforeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Fisher_II_Amicus.pdf http://asianamericanforeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2015...
- jshevek 10y ago
  > The group meticulously selected the people who would elicit both sympathy and outrage, who were pristine in form and character. This is an excellent strategy, a unifying strategy, and one that seems lacking in today's social media driven activism.