Glava

I ordered an Ethernet switch, a NIC, and 100ft of Cat5e cable in order to hook up a recently acquired computer to the internet, for a total of $25 + $13 shipping by Fedex Express Saver. It was shipped out today, and it turns out that Newegg upgraded my shipping to Fedex 2day for free, something which would have cost me $12 more. What a pleasant surprise.

Has anyone else experienced anything like this?

I may sound like a Newegg shill on this board, but I am in no way affiliated with them, and I'm on the other side of the country.

Lasereth

Ha ha, how about this?

I opened my package the other day. I found the 40 GB Maxtor HDD I had ordered in the box, but guess what else was with it? A 120 GB Caviar Western Digital hard drive. It wasn't on the invoice...I simply got it for free. NewEgg is awesome. Best damn Internet company ever, even before they shipped me a free 120 GB hard drive.

-Lasereth

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Glava

Your surprise was probably not a mistake. My guess would be that they ran out of the hard drives that you ordered, and didn't want to dissapoint a customer by canceling his order. Whatever the reason, you got a lot more than you paid for, and that's always good. My surprise, however, remains a mystery. Maybe it's because I ordered it on a Saturday, knowing that it wouldn't be shipped until Monday or Tuesday, and they wanted to speed it up.

JStrider

once they added 4 yes 4 floppy drives and a celeron processor to my package... i thought it was kinda funny... i mean what on earth am i gonna do with 4 floppy drives...

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tritium

I got a 17" monitor from Dell once. Nothing else... just the monitor sitting on my doorstep addressed to someone with a strange name (my guess was CC fraud, and the theif figured he could snatch it from my doorstep). I got to keep the thing too (after I called Dell) b/c the return shipping costs would have been more than the monitor was worth -- Dell's inadvertant gift to me (I've bought several subsequent PCs over the years from these guys to compensate).

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Glava

Ebay, perhaps?

nanofever

Install the Floppy version of UT2k4 at four times the normal rate ?

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Glava

How about setting up a floppy duplicator and pirating floppy-based software 3 at a time (one drive to read and three to write)?

The Phenomenon

Heh... Never ordered from them... Do they ship hardware internationally?

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soccerchamp76

Well, hearing this story gets me excited!!!
My computer (everything from case to processor, to speakers to video card) should arrive August 5th according to the Fedex tracking number. I got packages coming from California, Tennessee, and New Jersey.

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SecretMethod70

yet another reason for me to keep ordering from NewEgg

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The Phenomenon

Dammit - Finding good places to buy hardware from here is damn near impossible.

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Lotronex

Damn, been ordering from newegg ever since egghead went down, never got a freebie.

Glava

I ordered everything needed to build a computer last September from Newegg. In a few months, I had to RMA the motherboard due to a bad BIOS flash. They did it easily and without questions.

Lasereth

But they shipped me the 40 GB hard drive I ordered AND the 120 GB. I got the drive I ordered plus an extra 120 GB.

-Lasereth

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thebeat

I bought all my parts to build my PC off of new egg, I actually got mine upgraded cause I spent like $700 and i think like orders over $599 got it or something, it was a promotion not just out of the blue, thats good for you though!

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mikec

every time I order from newegg, I get the order early.

I think they follow the mottow, under promise, and over deliver.

they do that every time, newegg is hands down, the #1 online retailer!

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soccerchamp76

Scheduled delivery: August 5th
Delivery: August 4th!

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Buk

There is actually a simple explaination to this: Someone at the warehouse is skimming parts and trying to hide it from security. They hide them in customer's packages and take them out of the package right before shipping, but I imagine sometimes they aren't able to get them out and they get shipped out.

You may think newegg would want the parts back if you reported it, but they probably would be just happy to know about it since now they can figure out who was working the warehouse belts at the time your box was packed and shipped.

oiekeooiyw

Never disappointed with Newegg.
one thing about FedEx or UPS... they deliver faster to business addresses. my experience is that a delivery to work arrives one day sooner then a delivery to my home address a few blocks away.

sailor

Ive always been happy with NewEgg. I actually ordered my new machine from ZipZoomFly because they had the video card I wanted in stock and they had free 2 day shipping... And it ended up being cheaper, too. But I normally go NewEgg.

Buk, thats an interesting hypothesis.

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soccerchamp76

Well, no free stuff....

Everything arrived 1 day early though!

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Rawrr

Newegg is awesome that is for sure.

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Glava

Fedex lost my package and now I must call Newegg so that Fedex may credit them back, and they can send me a new one. Ugh.

bendsley

I got two of these.

Free NEWEGG BEACH TOWEL 100% COTTON when you buy AMD Athlon MP 2800+, 266MHz FSB, 512K L2 Cache Processor - OEM

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grendel

newegg rocks. i've ordered several times from them (mostly blank DVD-Rs) and every time has been a very good experience.

punx1325

I never have gotten anything free, but my stuff has always come early.

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SanitariumZero

The FedEx Saver option is basicly 1-3 day depending on where you live. It was no mistake. If you live in CA FedEx will get it to you in a day. It's usually 3 days to the east coast unless it ships from their NJ location.

Destrox

Actually I live in North-Western PA.

I have found that items comming from CA get here within 2 days somtimes 3. But items comming form the NJ location are ALWAYS 3 days, never have I got somthing a day early from there.

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Delirious

Anyone ever use the $2.99 rush processing option? I did once for something I really needed ASAP and it was just as fast as doing it normally =) (Which is still fast)

viper11885

I wish that Newegg shipped to Canada

godzilla23

Me too... is there ANY decent alternative for Canadians? Probably not. *sigh*

xepherys

Newegg is the best. I've never had my order come later than the day BEFORE it was supposed to. Shipping is always really cheap, prices are great and they always have what I'm looking for.

Flyguy

I didn't get anything extra in my Newegg package.

They don't love me...

Confederate

Apparently mine was mixed up due to a mechanical problem. And they promised a small gift to compensate. But they didnt tell me what it was or when I will recieve it. I'm curious how they are going to handle it.