Sheesh, this is fast becoming "Whinetech" ...
1.) EVERY retailer participating in the PayPal 20% promo had a set limit to the amount of money they were devoting to this event. From the sounds of things here, it's apparently Newegg's fault that they are so popular that their limit was hit before any other merchant participating. Yeah, right. And BTW, Dell hit their limit soon after. Yet nobody's b!tchin' about them. Reminds me of the 1997 "Hot Deal" from BUY.COM on a 19" Samsung CRT that the whiners here moaned about for months on end, eventually even filing class action lawsuits ! Lame lame lame ...
P.S. - Thanks to any suit filers who may still be around here though. Regretably I missed out on the monitor, yet somehow I managed to live another day. But it really made my day when I got a settlement check for something I never even protested / took part in.
2.) Since Monday afternoon, anyone could call Newegg or Paypal and get a simple answer as to whether your order qualified or not. I actually called both and got the same answer from both - if your order was placed before 12:00pm PST, your Paypal account will be credited with the $ sometime in January. The nice CSR even sent me an email verification of our conversation upon my request. Reading through this thread I see someone else also actually bothered to call (vs. whine) and got a very similar answer, ie. 2:30pm EST. So perhaps there were a few orders in limbo whilst the systems caught up but that would ONLY be those falling between 2:30 & 3:00pm EST.
3.) As for complaints about their shipping, if they send you a package via UPS 3 Day and it doesn't make it in time, that's UPS hosing you, not Newegg. One should also note that orders do not always ship same day as ordered (though I've never had one fail to ...) and no where do they guarantee as such. So, once your order has shipped, if it then exceeds 3 days, call UPS. I've had orders from Newegg arrive in my city in one day, only to have UPS let it set for 2 days before they deliver it, yet I'm less than 10 miles from their main depot here. And this big promo certainly had no effect on their ship times ... I placed an order at 10:16am EST on Monday and at 10:30am Wednesday the UPS man was on my porch with my order. And note, it shipped from CA to Ohio and never even started its "journey" from CA until 10:45pm Monday night.