OT: newegg alternatives

[Michael Butash]

While I hate having to whitelist sites with no/notscript, newegg is one 
that I'll simply deal with their excessive scripting tendencies.  When 
it comes to pc sales, most only get worse from there (buy.com comes to 
mind for horrid scripting woes despite sometimes good deals).

The one time in 12 years I was PO'd enough and did complain to newegg 
customer service, they ended up giving me an $80 dollar gift certificate 
for not delivering on a pre-order special edition game, plus refund of 
the cost of the item.  Score, 100% profit for two gripe emails and 
having to buy it from gamestop.  ;)

Downside, oem hard disks there are a crapshoot sometimes due to shipping 
and inadequate protection of individual disks.  I've been bitten by this 
too. I really cannot otherwise complain, and in fact go out of my way to 
still recommend them.

Between ample reviews, 98.9% of the time the lowest price, fast/cheap 
shipping (from california), and no tax it's a small cost of entry to 
enable scripting and stay with newegg.  If you hit a lot of random sites 
off dealnews or ben's bargains, you'll appreciate that they're "not that 
bad".  I'd trust them with scripting access over amazon.

-mb


On 11/13/2011 09:56 PM, der.hans wrote:
> moin moin,
>
> I first heard of newegg via PLUG many years ago. I've been mostly happy
> with company, but I'm tired of not being able to navigate the site without
> enabling javascript.
>
> Any suggestions for companies that actually want me to be able to see
> their products and purchase them?
>
> TigerDirect is out because of spammy messenging. Even the receipts have
> pages and pages of advertising and much of it before the actual receipt.
> Stopped purchansing there a long time ago because I shouldn't have to read
> the adspammed version of War and Peace to figure out what I purchased.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans