Author Topic: Newegg.com product reviews always postive (Read 452 times)

stantond · « **on:** August 10, 2005, 07:34:30 AM »

Since I use Newegg.com and others here have had positive experiences with their services, I thought this was worth a note.

You will never see a negative (or anything other than positive) review about products at newegg.com. To me, that means don't read or rely on their reviews. Others may see some vaguely dark and sinister motivation for this (or not).

In short, don't rely on Newegg.com product reviews. Maybe that is common sense, but again, it seemed worth a note.

Regards,

Malta

JimBear · « **Reply #1 on:** August 10, 2005, 07:51:27 AM »

I have seen many reviews of products by end users at newegg that were critical and or negative of a product. Look again

stantond · « **Reply #2 on:** August 10, 2005, 08:20:09 AM »

That has been my experience. I suggest googling a search using the words newegg product reviews if anyone is interested. I would add links, but this is just something I am doing as my good deed for today. Feel free to ignore this notice. I hear Newegg has a very good return policy.

Regards,

Malta

streakeagle · « **Reply #3 on:** August 10, 2005, 10:54:38 AM »

I just built a new PC using newegg exclusively. I had literally been shopping using pricewatch and google/froogle for two years before finalizing my decision. I read every review I could find of every product I was considering. I found the reviews at newegg very useful, especially when products had hundreds of reviews or more. I can assure you that I found plenty of negative reviews at newegg while trying to decide on a motherboard, case, and power supply. The number of good reviews versus bad ones does tend to be high on most products, but that is to be expected when a business works hard to keep its customers happy and stock only good products.

So far, I have only had time to post one review. I didn't find the quality of the Antec P160 case to be as good others claimed it to be and wanted to give other people a head's up. While I gave it 4 out of 5 stars, most of the text from my review is critical. Newegg posted it. Many other reviews of this case have complaints similar to mine.

The only other negative thing I have to say will be in my review of the motherboard. I had intended to get the ASUS A8N-E, but for some strange reason, newegg only carried it in the barebones box at the time. This is BFG's first board, but based on reviews I found all over, it appeared to be equal to or better than the ASUS board and at newegg the price was right. So, instead of getting the ASUS board from another site, I went with the BFG. After I purchased it, I discovered in web forums that it was made for BFG by Chaintech. I could have gotten the virtually identical Chaintech board for $30 less. BFG claims that while it is true that Chaintech makes the board for them, their specifications and the resulting product are much better than the Chaintech version, and or course the BFG board has a 3-year warranty. It would have been nice if someone else had posted this information in a review at newegg so I could know the all the facts before I made my decision. Maybe I would have ordered the Asus from somewhere else or bought the Chanintech? The only way I will know if I made a good decision is whether the BFG board still serves as well 5 years from now as my original Asus CUV4Xmotherboard that still works flawlessly despite being used continuously for gaming and work since 2000 as well as 4 TUV4X motherboards that have been in use since 2001. BFG's reputation seems to be as good as ASUS, so I am keeping my fingers crossed.

StarOfAfrica2 · « **Reply #4 on:** August 10, 2005, 12:22:40 PM »

I have always had good experiences shopping with newegg. Thats why I reccomend it to people. That doesnt mean I've never gotten bad products, because I have. But newegg has a great return policy, and it's relatively painless compared to places like TigerDirect. The thing to watch with Newegg is not the good or bad feedback (although both are very helpful), its the products with little or no feedback. Watch these carefully. Newegg DOES go for a value segment as well as known quality segments, becasue they try to offer low price stuff to go with the rest. Sometimes it pays off. It didnt for me. When I was shopping for memory for my gaming rig, I tried going with a company I hadn't heard of, because I could get really fast, low latency RAM sticks in matched pairs for dirt cheap. There were no reviews on the product, but I hadnt ever paid much attention to them before anyway. Long story short, the RAM was flaky and I had to send it back. In only 4 days time, the entire thing was done and I had the credit on my bank account for the amount paid (they even refunded my shipping, although I had to pay to send the memory back to them). I re-ordered with them and this time paid attention to how many reviews and how many feedbacks had been left for the various brands. I ended up going with Corsair, because almost every other brand had at least a few complaints about bad memory sticks. I did buy the value version of the Corsair sticks, but when run at the advertised speeds they work perfectly. This was in the reviews by the way. I knew at the start they were no good for overclocking but thats not what I wanted them for anyway.

Bottom line, there is all kinds of feedback at Newegg if you look for it. But I am sold on their customer service. They dont make the products they sell, but they do stand behind it and work as fast as can reasonably be expected to process your returns. They want your business, and they know how to get it (IMO). At least they know how to get mine.

llama · « **Reply #5 on:** August 10, 2005, 01:54:04 PM »

newegg kicks ass, and I've almost completely stopped buying online elsewhere.

There are plenty, PLENTY of negative reviews on newegg. Just start checking out notebook hard drives, for example.

Additionally, if a part is faulty, newegg will replace it better than pretty much anyone else. That can stop a lot of negative reivews right there.

-Llama

JTs · « **Reply #6 on:** August 10, 2005, 03:21:14 PM »

back in the 486-33 days new egg was a small brick and motar chain in so. cal. the fun we had seeing those 1meg video cards and 2400 modems.

RedDg · « **Reply #7 on:** August 10, 2005, 07:14:02 PM »

Newegg rocks

Grits · « **Reply #8 on:** August 10, 2005, 11:29:25 PM »

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Originally posted by JTs
back in the 486-33 days new egg was a small brick and motar chain in so. cal. the fun we had seeing those 1meg video cards and 2400 modems.

Wait.....

EggHead=Newegg?

RookieCAF · « **Reply #9 on:** August 11, 2005, 03:29:24 PM »

No connection between the two. Egghead went out of business way before Newegg got its start.

FWIW I loved Egghead too..

ALF · « **Reply #10 on:** August 11, 2005, 05:07:02 PM »

Ive had very good luck with NEWEGG.....now Tiger (screwyou) direct is another story. I think the 94% feedback rating on Ebay says it all....and trust me when I say 94% for someone with the volume of TD is abhorent, and the worst Ive come across for a major online retailer.

About 1/2 if the negatives and neutrals are 'item was not in stock'

I think Ebay needs to clean up its act, when you sell something thats not in stock you should be required to send a significant compensation to the high bidder (Id suggest 50% of the sales price in cash), Otherwise you end up with companies only actually delivering the item if the price is high enough and if they happen to have their crap together enough to actually own what they are selling. most of those who got screwed said it took week(s) for TD to admit they didnt have the item they sold.

NEWEGG ROCKS

TD....youve got rocks in your head if you buy from them.

SunKing · « **Reply #11 on:** August 11, 2005, 05:59:36 PM »

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Originally posted by RookieCAF
No connection between the two. Egghead went out of business way before Newegg got its start.

FWIW I loved Egghead too..

Ah the ole weekend pilgrimages to Egghead. I think the last game I bought there was Diablo.

Grits · « **Reply #12 on:** August 11, 2005, 10:46:58 PM »

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Originally posted by RookieCAF
No connection between the two. Egghead went out of business way before Newegg got its start.

FWIW I loved Egghead too..

LOL....first thing I ever bought from Egghead was a 1200bps modem so I could dial BBS systems like Microprose to get game patches on my 286-16. I think I paid over $100 for it, must have been '86-'87.