I thought they started to go downhill fast once the marketplace vendors took off. It felt like they cut their own inventory / skus so you couldn't just filter t

I thought they started to go downhill fast once the marketplace vendors took off. It felt like they cut their own inventory / skus so you couldn't just filter them out and still get a broad selection. I too held them in high regard for the patent troll fighting. I stopped using them completely around ~2012-13 after getting so many dead motherboards from Newegg and zero from other sources I was convinced shenanigans were afoot.