Deal Dead, let it rest.

[XeonTux]

Sorry to hear about your misfortunes.

On the positive side, most of that stuff is below what broken stuff goes for on eGay. Personally I never throw anything out - if it's broken I note it as such and put it on eGay, and people buy it up, sometimes for amazing prices. I think the worst part of your order was probably the monitors. Not like they were cheap to ship!

I am waiting to hear from that guy who bought the "Some Good Some Bad" OSes. If there are CD Keys that is a hell of a deal.


I clearly hope it's the former, because if it's the latter it proves that unemployment can be quite draining on both the brain and the funds of those who have only one purpose in life. heh heh

LMAO. At least I'm not that pathetic...but close.

 

[freakflag]

Rebuilder, YGPM

 

[jtw99]

I bought 4 CDRW's and 4 DVD's. 2 of the DVD's work fine, 2 are dead.
The CDRW's are as follows:
Plextor SCSI 12x ....I can't test 'cause I don't have any SCSI equipment.
Plextor 12x....doesn't work
Creative Labs 4x recognizes...might work with some tinkering
Unknown brand 8x....dead
So I got 2 good DVD's and some projects for $57.....Good deal as far as I'm concerned.

 

[BobF]

Well that certainly qualifies as "some good,some bad". It looks like a luck of the draw type of thing.

As was suggested above, sell the non-working stuff on eBay. It's amazing what some people will bid on stuff.

Bob



<< I bought 4 CDRW's and 4 DVD's. 2 of the DVD's work fine, 2 are dead.
The CDRW's are as follows:
Plextor SCSI 12x ....I can't test 'cause I don't have any SCSI equipment.
Plextor 12x....doesn't work
Creative Labs 4x recognizes...might work with some tinkering
Unknown brand 8x....dead
So I got 2 good DVD's and some projects for $57.....Good deal as far as I'm concerned. >>

 

[Kwad Guy]

Most of this stuff, if it doesn't work, you simply toss it or ebay it.

But I'd strongly recommend NOT buying the monitors. At least if
your state is like mine (Mass). Here, you pay $10 to get rid
of a monitor. That's state law. Even GoodWill won't take ANY
monitor (working or not) unless you pay them to take it.

So I'd stay FAR AWAY from the monitors if you live in a state
like this one!

I noticed that the bargain monitors had dropped to $0.50 +
tons of shipping!

Kwad

 

[Lanyap]

I think I've figured it out! Newegg has become so popular that they think they can sell us anything. First, they added the refurb section which has become hugely popular. Everyone here waits till they update the inventory everyday then several people post here that such-and-such refurb item is in stock. Of course they only have a few so it goes OOS almost instantly. Then, they came along with the dead section. No telling if this stuff ever sold. Next, they start selling these "maybe good, maybe bad" items which appear to be mostly bad with the good items being so old you can't or don't want to use them. Newegg has not been around too long (a few years) and I think they are online online so they must be getting them from somewhere.

How can Newegg pick up all this old bad stuff? Simple, they are going out every night to B&M computer shops and raiding their trash bins behind the store for old stuff those shops have thrown away, probably from upgrades they did on old or broken machines. This is the only logical reason I can think of.

I like Newegg and order from them a lot BUT, I think they are taking advantage of us techies looking for a hot deal.

:Q

 

[LukFilm]

Actually, Newegg.com has been around for only 13 months. VERY impressive to get that kind of reputation and volume in such a short time.

 

[XeonTux]

Especially when you consider the number of e-tailers who have gone under in those 13 months. Not the best time to get into the biz.

 

[rodan]

I got my "some good, some bad" stuff in late today, and, got a chance to try some of it out:

Mainboards: Quantity 4
2 - are old Soltek AT style ( didn't test them yet, one tagged with "floppy controller not detected"
with a 7/28/00 tag date, which I find interesting
1- Abit KT7A atx ( the third pci slot is burnt really bad, I'm not gonna test this one, actually looks
like a fire started there)
1- Epox 8KTA3Pro atx ( this is a brand new board, at least still has cpu socket sticker on it, it has
a tag saying broken pcb board, it looks like someone bent it, I tried it out,
but, can't get any power to it, I'm gonna test it some more, though)
Video Cards 3 agp
1- Diamond Viper 770 32mb, works , the other 2 cards do not, get the beep codes, I will test
them in another system later, at least one of the three works

CD-ROM drives Qty 7 ( only one works, it's missing the front tray door, and labeled as such,
but was still marked bad, the other six drives are dead

Modems 3 ( two are ISA, one PCI, in process of finding drivers for them, so, don't know
if they work yet.
Summary: Well, so far, I have one working 32mb AGP video card, and, a cdrom drive that
looks crappy without the front door, but, it works( so far ) I had same attitude as
"rebuilder" on this category, I never bought anything from the "dead" one, but,
when they started the "some good, some bad", I would have expected, about
half the stuff to work, but, when I started pulling the items out of the box, with
tags and red "bad" stickers all over the stuff, I knew I was in trouble. If I could
get that Epox atx board to work, I guess I could break even( I spend $ 70.00 )

 

[Joony]

hrm, seems to be more dead stuff then good stuff...not worth the gamble.

 

[Lanyap]

<< Actually, Newegg.com has been around for only 13 months. VERY impressive to get that kind of reputation and volume in such a short time. >>


I'm afraid their reputation will be tarnished for the dead and some bad, some good offers. They must have a huge volume of new sales. Why would they want to take chances with their rep selling old, bad stuff?

 

[rodan]

Something I just noticed: I just glanced at my Newegg invoice, and noticed the items are listed as
"Refurbished Item: 30 days Warranty Only!!". This is printed directly above each category of items
I purchased ( five times ). I definitely bought my items from the "some good, some bad" category,
which brings me back to thinking that I didn't see any " no warranty on these items" when I did
buy them. I guess it's definitely worth a phone call to Newegg customer service after I test each
item out. Anyone that bought any from this "some good, some bad" category, check your invoices
and see if yours says 30 day warranty, too.

 

[rodan]

Ok, I tested everything( except for two AT mainboards ), here are results:
The new Epox 8KTA3 board, is definitely bad. I looked closely at the "bend", and, it's definitely cracked
bad. The Abit board is also dead( has the burnt pci slot) = 2 dead atx boards.

3 agp video cards, 2 are definitely bad, 1 ( Diamond 770 32mb agp), works

3 modems - I found the drivers, all three modems do not get dialtone, probably returns from
customers who lost them in a surge. all 3 dead

7 cdrom drives - 1 works, but, cosmetically bad, front door off of it, and, it's scratched bad
6 are dead

I didn't pay much for this stuff, but, the shipping was high. Half the cost was shipping. I'm assuming
the AT mainboards are bad, too, from the tags on them. IF I could have gotten the Epox mainboard
to work, and, maybe two cdrom drives, I would have been OK with that, but, as the results
turned out, I'm not happy, therefore, definitely not a " Hot Deal". Looks like I saw one person
happy with the "some good, some bad" deal, though, and, I hope some of the others get better
results. too.

 

[PHiuR]

they have some listed as "some good some bad" but mostly they dont.. they just say "this item may be defective, use as demo" maybe the "some good some bad" ones are the ones that have about 1 out of 5 that work.....

 

[OrlandoTiger]

<< I bought 4 CDRW's and 4 DVD's. 2 of the DVD's work fine, 2 are dead.
The CDRW's are as follows:
Plextor SCSI 12x ....I can't test 'cause I don't have any SCSI equipment.
Plextor 12x....doesn't work
Creative Labs 4x recognizes...might work with some tinkering
Unknown brand 8x....dead
So I got 2 good DVD's and some projects for $57.....Good deal as far as I'm concerned. >>


Im glad that someone got something that works,wonder if that was accidental (maybe no tag to id it one way or the other and they guessed it might be bad.maybe im being to hard on them but ill say this I have purchased a lot of untested equipment elsewhere and have had much more sucess percentage wise than ive seen from these few posts).Either way,I personally dont see 2 used dvds,and some hopeful? projects as a deal for almost $60. My shuttle dvd was found here...new,for 25.

 

[rebuilder]

Well, I received the 2nd half of my orders.

You guessed it......the biggest pile of crap you can imagine! Red stickers on 95% of it.

All of this stuff is NOT from newegg. It is coming from ABS computers which is next door!

I don't know why Newegg allowed ABS to sell there dumpster fodder to their customer base!!!!


There's not a whole lot of testing to be done when just about everything has a sticker on it indicating bad.

Are you familiar with the smell of burned electronics?
When I opened the box that had the 10 power supplies it literally took my breath.
I was going to connect them to a motherboard to try them out but now I'm afraid they will kill my motherboard.

I have my fingers crossed on the remaining 2 or 3 items that doesn't have a sticker.

Why in the heck do they continue to show the description as "some are good, some are bad" when they already know the condition of this crap? They removed that phrase from most of the descriptions yesterday and today it reappears with a vengeance! Did their legal dept tell them to stick with the "some good" since someone occasionally gets something that seems usable? Hmmmm.....

And do NOT order the ATX cases w/o power supplies!

They are vintage AT cases (turbo switch!)
They even ripped out the wires that go to the led's and switches!


Yes I'm whining and the only reason I'm continuing this thread is to warn folks to stay away from it since they refuse to take the items off the market or change the description back to "Dead".


EDIT
They just deleted the "some good" description again. I called raising cain with a supervisor and suggested that she have that comment removed from the description. I actually first suggested that they remove all the items and have ABS computers pay for a dumpster to have the stuff sent to a landfill but so long as folks don't expect "some good" then I guess it's ok.

 

[Rally1]

Atrac

there is a program out there that checks if websites (like neweggs refurb site) is updated, and then notifies you.

 

[UWEntropy]

Heh, if anyone gets the Asus A7V133 I got and returned with a big chunk broken off one corner, let me know....this junk selling could turn out to be fun, see who gets your broken equipment!

 

[AndyGet]

I got my box of junk a couple of days ago. Nothing worked. I'm putting my order in DISPUTE. I'm never going to purchased from newegg again. This is a pretty good scam. I'm sending it back to them soon, so beware. I'm sure they will sell it over and over again. My receipt said I had a 30 warrentee but they refused to RMA the crap. Let us all get on the phone and give them what they deserve. Better yet, send them an email demanding a refund. Next, we could then give them a good rating.

 

[bordjon]

I ordered one of the some good some bad tv tuner cards. it's a genius video wonder pro II v2. tv tuner , vid cap(svid, and rca) etc. works fine so far after digging around for some software and such.

 

[arg]

I think I did alright, nothing spectacular though:

4 cd-rom drives(24x-50x): 2 work, 1 door doesn't open (fixable, I think), 1 completely dead
4 PCI TV/FM tuner cards: all work (one is missing coax input thingy)
4 zip drives 100mb: 1 works(missing faceplate), 3 completely dead

 

[Oaf357]

How is this a HOT DEAL?

 

[wasssup]

<< How is this a HOT DEAL? >>



nazi.

 

[Refurbit]

I got burned too. I order 6 MOBO's from the "some good some, bad section". I thought that I might at least get one board out of 6 that was good. No such luck, in fact everyone was completely fried and with yellow stickers on them saying that they were no good. This to me says that NewEgg deliberately sold me junk. There never was a chance of geeting some good boards.

Oh well, you live and you learn. After spending $1000's with NewEgg over the last year, I'm going to take my business elsewhere.

Refurbit

 

[rodan]

<< How is this a HOT DEAL? >>

You are absolutely right! It's not a hot deal! From the ad, it seemed like a "hot deal", and, with Newegg's past record, we ( who bought from the "some good, some bad" category) would have been happy IF it even turned out to be very lukewarm. It's not even that! "Some good, some bad", insinuates to me, roughly half of the items could be good. I, personally, would have been satisfied, if one fifth of the items were, though, I was hoping for more. A step further, I would have been content if I would have almost broke even, almost, but, I'm far short of that, and, I'm suspecting even more customers were screwed! And, it just doesn't sound like Newegg, they've always been good to me, and, I've bought from them a long time! A lot of you have. Those of you who didn't buy from this "some good, some bad" category, I'm sure still have high regard for them. I'm guessing they got a rash of calls from us, and, are trying to decide what to do. IF I was the supervisor of Newegg's customer service, I would compromise with the customer, say......something like this: " Look, Mr./Ms customer, we sold you a lot of bad items, tell you what, we will credit you, for all the items that didn't work,( just toss them in the dumpster) and, we will refund you the cost. But, you pay ACTUAL shipping costs, of what it cost us to ship you these dead items, fair enough?" I, personally, would accept that. I don't mind eating the actual shipping costs, kinda like a "grab bag" type of buy, anyway, which is what I think they were after to begin with.