Newegg Vs. ZipZoomFly

[diddyb]

Building my first rig... ZipZoomFly seems to be cheaper on most items, but I've heard lots of praise for Newegg. Any thoughts???

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Both are good.

You can order from both and get parts wherever they are cheaper.

EDIT: for a first time builder, did you check out mechbgon's guide yet?
http://www.mechbgon.com/build/index.html

 

[Chucko]

I use both. Its really a tought pick. Sometimes ZZF sits on my order for one day, and newegg usually ships the same day I order.

Newegg I hear has a pretty good RMA process too.

They are both GREAT companies. I usually order my CPUs from ZZF and everything else from Newegg. Newegg has a much better site IMHO.

 

[alimoalem]

Originally posted by: diddyb
Building my first rig... ZipZoomFly seems to be cheaper on most items, but I've heard lots of praise for Newegg. Any thoughts???

the cheaper one

 

[aatf510]

I live on the East Coast:
if I order from ZZF Sunday night, the item is usually here on Wed (assuming ZZF don't delay my order for reasons).
if I order from NG Sunday night, the item can be here on Wed (if the item is shipped from the NJ warehouse), or Thursday (if the item is shipped from CA)

 

[wrangler]

They're both really good. Just pick whichever is cheaper. Sometimes it's ZZF with their free shipping and sometimes it's Newegg even if they are charging for shipping. Seems like I end up buying cpu's and ram from ZZF, drives and other periph's from the Egg and it's a toss up on motherboards and vid cards.

 

[Aznguy1872]

50/50 between both.

 

[Agaruvala]

new egg has a much better site

 

[Mday]

just ordered nearly 1.5k worth of stuff from zzf. why? free 2day shipping vs 3day paid from newegg.

 

[Reiniku]

Newegg ships via UPS by default now... ZZF all the way.

 

[duckdown]

I'm anti-UPS too

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: diddyb
Building my first rig... ZipZoomFly seems to be cheaper on most items, but I've heard lots of praise for Newegg. Any thoughts???

Neither. Shoparound, you will get the best prices if you use http://labs.anandtech.com/ and http://www.froogle.google.com/

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: Agaruvala
new egg has a much better site

Yes newegg's site is much easier to navigate. But that should not stop you from shopping zipzoomfly, you can still find what you need there. Also sometimes TechDeopot has good deals too.

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/Googer/386_Dollar_XP_PC_512mb_Sempron2600.png

 

[bamacre]

Originally posted by: Googer

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/Googer/386_Dollar_XP_PC_512mb_Sempron2600.png

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[teezee3000]

I like newegg as well especially with the buyers comments, I buy most of my pc hardware and software from newegg. Just don't buy a LCD monitor from them,their megapixel policy sucks

 

[1Dark1Sharigan1]

Basically Newegg has generally greater selection while Zipzoomfly has free shipping for most items. The only real reason you should get something from Newegg other rather than ZZF is if you cannot find that item on ZZF (i.e. certain cooling products) because the same product will almost undoubtly be cheaper on ZZF (especially taking Newegg shipping into account) . . . the only notable exception is VGA cards which are noticeably cheaper on Newegg . . . also ZZF doesn't stock refurb'd items if your into that kind of thing . . .

 

[diddyb]

Thanks all... some good stuff in here...

 

[zest]

ZipZoomFly allways have new stuff 1st...

 

[Trevelyan]

needs poll

 

[bamacre]

Some of the other vendors I use happily...

Monarch
Ewiz
Edazz
Buy
Allstarshop

Gotta also mention PriceWatch, it's a dandy little tool for us techies.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: bamacre
Some of the other vendors I use happily...

Monarch
Ewiz
Edazz
Buy
Allstarshop

Gotta also mention PriceWatch, it's a dandy little tool for us techies.

Pricewatch is cool. Pricegrabber too.

Use resellerratings.com to check places before ordering.

 

[JEDIYoda]

Originally posted by: teezee3000
I like newegg as well especially with the buyers comments, I buy most of my pc hardware and software from newegg. Just don't buy a LCD monitor from them,their megapixel policy sucks

I never have trusted the buyers comments from NewEgg mainly becuase those comments 9 times out of 10 are comments by people who have no prior dealing with the product other than well it works!!

Also I understand that NewEgg edits or has the right to refuse to post comments that are overly negative about a product!!

Both sites are good as is another site that I use alot lately-- http://www.jab-tech.com/

 

[YoshiSato]

Both are great vendors. When I was working as a buyer for a computer reseller I'd bought 1000s of dollars of parts from both places for the store.

I tend to be a little more bias to ZipZoomFly because you can not beat free 2 day shipping and their prices are reasonable(Cheaper than most places that charge for shipping)