Anybody still order from Newegg?

J

John Doe

Just curious.

I just ordered an air conditioner :)

Walmart had the AC for the same base price but plus tax. My last
order from Walmart was a ripoff. Haven't ordered anything PC from
Newegg for a long time.
 
T

ToolPackinMama

Just curious.

I just ordered an air conditioner :)

Walmart had the AC for the same base price but plus tax. My last
order from Walmart was a ripoff. Haven't ordered anything PC from
Newegg for a long time.

I ordered from then twice this week. I rely on them a lot.
 
S

shellyf_DELETE_

Just curious.

I just ordered an air conditioner :)

Walmart had the AC for the same base price but plus tax. My last
order from Walmart was a ripoff. Haven't ordered anything PC from
Newegg for a long time.
If Amazon or NewEgg don't have it, y'all don't need it.
Go with the cheapest, include shipping charges in the calculation.
 
F

Flasherly

Just curious.

I just ordered an air conditioner :)

Walmart had the AC for the same base price but plus tax. My last
order from Walmart was a ripoff. Haven't ordered anything PC from
Newegg for a long time.

I'd buy that from Walmart if possible. Hell, a pawn shop for $15,
free from somebody going central and glad to have a haul-out, just to
get rid of a wall thumper.

Something like the Spectre 40" LCD I got from Walmart for $250, or
save the breadmachines and induction stovetop-burner for NewEgg.

Playing the market in stocks, it's about diversity in generally
understood terms for the long run. Don't cut short options while
burning the bridges, nail your shoe to the floor if trying to kick
yourself in the butt with the other foot, run with scissors or play
horseshoes with hand grenades. Something like that, I reckon.

I'm NewEgg's first customer, in my humbly partial opnion, before
actually named NewEgg and operated out of a college dorm room.
 
C

Charlie Hoffpauir

I'd buy that from Walmart if possible. Hell, a pawn shop for $15,
free from somebody going central and glad to have a haul-out, just to
get rid of a wall thumper.

Something like the Spectre 40" LCD I got from Walmart for $250, or
save the breadmachines and induction stovetop-burner for NewEgg.

Playing the market in stocks, it's about diversity in generally
understood terms for the long run. Don't cut short options while
burning the bridges, nail your shoe to the floor if trying to kick
yourself in the butt with the other foot, run with scissors or play
horseshoes with hand grenades. Something like that, I reckon.

I'm NewEgg's first customer, in my humbly partial opnion, before
actually named NewEgg and operated out of a college dorm room.

Maybe you can clear something for me. I seemed to notice
"Newegg" on-line soon after the brick & mortar computer stores called
Egghead went out of business.... so I kind of assumed that it was the
same organization, switching from physical stores to on-line. But your
mention of Newegg's beginning doesn't fit that assumption at all. Can
you confirm taht the Egghead- Newegg connection was just my
imagination at work?
 
J

John Doe

Flasherly said:
I'd buy that from Walmart if possible. Hell, a pawn shop for
$15, free from somebody going central and glad to have a
haul-out, just to get rid of a wall thumper.

Your writing is better when it's unintelligible, Flasherly.
 
F

Flasherly

Maybe you can clear something for me. I seemed to notice
"Newegg" on-line soon after the brick & mortar computer stores called
Egghead went out of business.... so I kind of assumed that it was the
same organization, switching from physical stores to on-line. But your
mention of Newegg's beginning doesn't fit that assumption at all. Can
you confirm taht the Egghead- Newegg connection was just my
imagination at work?

To swear on that, Egghead, perhaps, yes, indeed that does bring to
mind what would be the original beginnings -- and, I do also recall
mention that the initial Egg* business was based on efforts effected
out of a college dorm room at the University of Tampa.

A likely assumption, I'd agree, Egghead would have consolidated or
merged into NewEgg. I'm unaware of any "physical" store, though, apart
from online dealings, for a general inclusion among survivors from a
economic "dotcom" and heated-swell, FED Chairman, Greenspan
effectively squashed;- a lot of 30-something-year-olds retired early
as millionaires from the computer onslaught.
 
T

TVeblen

To swear on that, Egghead, perhaps, yes, indeed that does bring to
mind what would be the original beginnings -- and, I do also recall
mention that the initial Egg* business was based on efforts effected
out of a college dorm room at the University of Tampa.

A likely assumption, I'd agree, Egghead would have consolidated or
merged into NewEgg. I'm unaware of any "physical" store, though, apart
from online dealings, for a general inclusion among survivors from a
economic "dotcom" and heated-swell, FED Chairman, Greenspan
effectively squashed;- a lot of 30-something-year-olds retired early
as millionaires from the computer onslaught.

I thought so too. But no, I checked, they are two different companies.
Nothing but the egg in common.
 
F

Flasherly

I thought so too. But no, I checked, they are two different companies.
Nothing but the egg in common.

Just occurred - believe it was EggHead, I'm thinking I was originally
buying from. . .

http://www.answers.com/topic/egghead-com-inc

Where on earth, possibly a rumor associated with someone originally
starting up, in close association to either, out of Tampa University;-
really a long time ago, though, when I was first buying XT parts from
a likes first from Computer Shopper, sometime before first online or
Egghead purchases.
 
T

TVeblen

Just occurred - believe it was EggHead, I'm thinking I was originally
buying from. . .

http://www.answers.com/topic/egghead-com-inc

Where on earth, possibly a rumor associated with someone originally
starting up, in close association to either, out of Tampa University;-
really a long time ago, though, when I was first buying XT parts from
a likes first from Computer Shopper, sometime before first online or
Egghead purchases.

Mmmm. That completely contradicts the info here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newegg (Look under "Name")
Which questionable source do we believe?

Bought my first PC from a store in Computer Shopper, built my first from
parts found there. They are still printing, no?
 
T

TVeblen

Mmmm. That completely contradicts the info here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newegg (Look under "Name")
Which questionable source do we believe?

Bought my first PC from a store in Computer Shopper, built my first from
parts found there. They are still printing, no?

Ach! Sorry. Nowhere in that answers.com article about Egghead does it
mention Newegg or any connection with Newegg. I confused the names while
reading it - which is probably why the misinformation is so common.
 
C

Charlie Hoffpauir

Ach! Sorry. Nowhere in that answers.com article about Egghead does it
mention Newegg or any connection with Newegg. I confused the names while
reading it - which is probably why the misinformation is so common.


So, all the links confirm that there are no connections between Newegg
and Egghead..... which only leaves unanswered Flasherly's question
about who started up a business in Tampa "back when".

And, is Computer Shopper still around?
 
T

TVeblen

So, all the links confirm that there are no connections between Newegg
and Egghead..... which only leaves unanswered Flasherly's question
about who started up a business in Tampa "back when".

And, is Computer Shopper still around?
Looks like the magazine went out of print in 2009. But they do still
have a website
http://www.computershopper.com/
 
F

Flasherly

And, is Computer Shopper still around?


CS was a part of ZIFF publishing, early along and during the
technological "revolution," directly in following the industry
rote-step and in suit;- favoritism would have quite naturally run
something along laissez-faire, due in course, as manifest by higher
pricing among, overall, a generally inclusive principle of positive
reviews, unlike today's populist expectations provided by end-user
review databases conceptualized for virtuality when purveying products
of a like NewEgg or Amazon proffers.

Later along, coincident to somewhat past, most certainly nearer to a
prime of accessibly-affordable computer power, at the turn of the
century, as it were, a cadre of interested persons from the Dept. of
Defense bought out the controlling editorial direction within Ziff
Publishing. Computer Shopper thereafter shrunk to roughly a third,
physically, of content from its former size.

I'd agree, though, a best a dubious proposal among little nibbles from
yet another gist I've stored away in dusty tomes along rumor-mills for
things that possibly go hmmm.
 
C

Charlie Hoffpauir

Oh Lord. That was 14 years ago. Remember Y2K!? Pepperidge Farm remembers!

Now THAT made me do a reset of my brain. It seems like just yesterday
when that phrase meant 1900.
 

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