5 ms·
10 years ago I used Newegg a ton, but with third party items now mixed into their store, I find shopping there a bit more of a dice roll.
by rkagerer 7y ago
10 years ago I used Newegg a ton, but with third party items now mixed into their store, I find shopping there a bit more of a dice roll.
- caymanjim 7y agoAmazon suffers from that as well. I'm loath to buy anything from Amazon, Newegg, or any other retailer when it comes from a third party seller. As far as I know, that's always indicated on the product page. They don't hide it, but they don't aggressively inform you either.
- lotsofpulp 7y agoSince Amazon commingles inventory, it doesn’t matter if it says shipped and sold by Amazon since the item you get could still be supplied by a third party.
- beamatronic 7y ago100 percent this. I dropped NewEgg when they added third party sellers.
- atlasunshrugged 7y agoI was just comparison shopping for an HDMI adapter across Amazon, NewEgg and Bestbuy. Out of the 3 I found NewEgg still to be the best even with the 3rd party sellers mixed in. Amazon the quality looked super sketchy for some of this stuff and for Bestbuy the website had loading problems, an unintuitive UI for store selection (and put me into a store in CA for some reason even though I'm nowhere near there and had no VPN).
- mypalmike 7y agoMonoprice is a good place to go for adapters and cables and such.
- atlasunshrugged 7y agoThanks, I'll check them out
- raegis 7y agoI always press the "Seller: Newegg" button. This way I never get counterfeit stuff. On the other hand, specifying the seller to be Amazon on Amazon.com sometimes yields third party products in disguise.
- rfeather 7y agoI have decent luck with Microcenter as a Newegg substitution. + if you live in some cities, they have brick and mortar
- gowld 7y agoHmm? Newegg is a Microcenter alternative if you live too far away.