Zizoomfly VS Newegg

[KristopherKubicki]

t3h l337 n3wb: we actually have a shopping.com portal too: http://anandtech.dealtime.com (shopping.com and dealtime.com are the same company). However, we are kind of migrating to our own portal that doesn't rely on data from shopping.com at all (we wrote our own bots). That url is http://labs.anandtech.com.

Kristopher

 

[Mucker]

I have had NO problems with ZZF, Newegg, or Monarchcomputer. I like them equally well and will take the lowest price from any of them....

m

 

[deepinya]

I wont use Newegg cause I have to pay tax since I live in NJ.

The kicker is, my friend ordered something from them and got charged tax only to find out it shipped from CA. So he paid tax and had to wait 4 days to get it!!

 

[Justus]

Zipzoomfly has failed me on customer service issues on several occasions, with no positive CS experiences to offset this.

Newegg and Chiefvalue have both come through on CS issues whenever I have needed to contact them.

Monarch is untested, with several orders being fulfilled satisfactorily.

I avoid ZZF now. A company should not be successful on price alone; a moderate amount of customer service is essential.

 

[intogamer]

ZZF is good with that free 2nd day
Would prefer newegg cheap and I get it in 2-3 days

I have not tested ZZF, 2nd must be really fast since newegg's saver takes 2-3

 

[classy]

Originally posted by: deepinya
I wont use Newegg cause I have to pay tax since I live in NJ.

The kicker is, my friend ordered something from them and got charged tax only to find out it shipped from CA. So he paid tax and had to wait 4 days to get it!!

Same here. It sucks. And what is messed up is that most of the stuff still ships from CA.

 

[TecJunkie]

Originally posted by: TrentSteel
Buying online is so 20th century. Now I barter for electronics with animal pelts at the trading post.

HAHA that was the most funny original thing ive heard in a long time u made my day!

 

[wchou]

Originally posted by: TrentSteel
Buying online is so 20th century. Now I barter for electronics with animal pelts at the trading post.

screw best buy
screw service merchandise
screw walmart
all retailers are rip off

I love shopping online, it's convenient and you save lots of money too
You get a lot more for your money, it's like a bargain everyday

 

[josepavento]

ZZF is nice with the free 2 day...but only if they ship it quickly. It sucks to wait 2 or 3 days for them to ship it. Although, about half my orders ship within one day from them...

 

[mindwreck]

newegg! good service, good prices(don't mind the tax), fast shipping ~1-2 days 3 max since i live about 20 minutes from their store in california

I even have their bumper size sticker right smack in the middle of my casequick pic .

 

[Penth]

Originally posted by: mindwreck
newegg! good service, good prices(don't mind the tax), fast shipping ~1-2 days 3 max since i live about 20 minutes from their store in california

I even have their bumper size sticker right smack in the middle of my casequick pic .

Your computer must be really fast with all of those stickers! See Here

 

[mindwreck]

Originally posted by: Penth

Originally posted by: mindwreck
newegg! good service, good prices(don't mind the tax), fast shipping ~1-2 days 3 max since i live about 20 minutes from their store in california

I even have their bumper size sticker right smack in the middle of my casequick pic .

Your computer must be really fast with all of those stickers! See Here

lol. I think that gateway sticker makes the computer a couple GHz slower.

 

[Fisher999]

Originally posted by: jonleekan
What is the return policy of Chiefvalue compared to Newegg? If I get a Lcd monitor and there is a problem with the pixels, can I return it?

Newegg states on their webpages for LCDS that their dead pixel policy is no returns unless 8 or more dead pixels.....

 

[Fisher999]

Originally posted by: perry
...Newegg isn't quite as agressive in their pricing these days it seems.

You said a mouthful Perry !!! I have spent thousands of dollars with NewEgg since late 2000 and they USED to offer BOTH low prices and SPEEDY shipping AND great after-the-sale service. They weren't such a BIG outfit then.

Now that they've gotten too big for their britches they have upped their prices (although their shipping is still quick).

They also play games with their prices. I am building a new system so I have a lot of items in my NewEgg wishlist. They had several items tagged as "end of month specials" that (when May rolled around) were either no higher in price or just slightly higher ($3.xx shipping instead of "free", for example). At least one item on my wish list the price stayed the SAME - it wasn't a "end of month special" at all.

With all this said I am still a Newegg customer.

Some here have convinced me to give ZipZoomFly or Monarch a try and I will probably give Monarch a try this week.

I haven't heard of ChiefValue before. I will go give them a look.

Thanks,

Greg

 

[Fisher999]

Originally posted by: RideFree
..."threads of this nature belong in OT in case you havnt noticed" (???What is OT???)

OT = Off Topic

 

[Fisher999]

Originally posted by: Kato
ZZF seems to have some issues with BBB.

BBB file on ZZF

That doesn't sound good !

 

[Fisher999]

Originally posted by: MogyBear
Um... yeah, gotta love that ninety nine hundredths of a cent shipping!

Um... you mean ninety nine hundreths of a dollar shipping ! ( 99 cents = $0.99 )

 

[Fisher999]

Originally posted by: mrrman
should add Monarch to as that is where I get all my deals from and no tax to CA

I've been informed about Monarch lately and have received a lot of good referrals from anantech forum members.... will be placing an order from them after I finish reading this thread.......

Wish me luck.....

 

[Fisher999]

Originally posted by: jamesey
http://www.Mwave.com is better than both and if youre in southern california, you can drive over to the place (which is directly next door to newegg) and pick up your order.

I got a Shuttle ST20G5 and an A64 3000 for $32 less than newegg or zzf would have cost with shipping.

Mwave's rating over here at resellerratings.com is only a little better than average with a six month overall rating of 7.73 out of 10.

I think I'll pass !

 

[Fisher999]

Originally posted by: jamesey
http://www.Mwave.com is better than both and if youre in southern california, you can drive over to the place (which is directly next door to newegg) and pick up your order.

I got a Shuttle ST20G5 and an A64 3000 for $32 less than newegg or zzf would have cost with shipping.

Also notice over here at resellerratings.com that mwave's customer service is only rated at 5 out of 10 ... NOT good !

 

[Fisher999]

Originally posted by: Granorense
Off topic but buy.com is not a good place to buy. Their free shipping suck, I bouhgt a monitor 3 weeks ago and still hasn't arrived.

With over 2058 lifetime ratings buy.com's six-month rating over here at resellerratings.com is only an abysmal 3.40 out of 10.

Why don't more people take advantage of this EXCELLENT site that's only gotten more informative in the 6 or so years I've used them.

Resellerratings.com REMEMBER THAT !!!!

Only trying to be helpful !

 

[Fisher999]

Originally posted by: PRAISETHELORD
Newegg is become like best buy. BAD BUSINESS WITH REBATES ON EVERYTHING.

I've noticed that too Praise... and MOST of the rebates are those infamous MIR (mail-in rebates) - in many cases you don't ever get the rebate or you have to call, call, call and eventually (3 months later) you FINALLY get the rebate....

MIR Suck !!!

 

[Fisher999]

Originally posted by: Reikon

Newegg has BBB files too.

Newegg BBB file

Reikon:

Since you can NEVER please everyone everytime I bet that almost ANY internet company, it they last long enough, will have a BBB report on file, you think ???

 

[Fisher999]

Originally posted by: The Pentium Guy
How's ZZF's RMA policy?

I wonder about that too Pentium!

Please let me know if you get feedback !

Greg

 

[Fisher999]

Originally posted by: timluong

Originally posted by: Granorense
Off topic but buy.com is not a good place to buy. Their free shipping suck, I bouhgt a monitor 3 weeks ago and still hasn't arrived.

That's the main reason I don't shop at buy.com again.

Here is the number of complaints on them

BBB file

Just go over here to resellerratings.com and it tells the SAME story !!!