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Re:Amazon private label brands are quietly taking over Amazo... by ukyrgf on Friday October 05, 2018 @12:10PM (#18149249)
+1 on Newegg. I built a PC last year, and unknowingly bought something from newegg.com that was in their Marketplace. Paid with Paypal, got charged by Newegg, but never got a confirmation email. I called Newegg, who had no record of the transaction, so I filed a claim on Paypal. Bought the part off Amazon, built my PC, waited for the claim to resolve.

Three weeks later, suddenly the seller adds tracking to the Paypal claim, and a few days later the part that I no longer need shows up in a Newegg box. No invoice, packing sheet, etc. and it's still not listed on my Newegg account. My claim gets closed, and there's nobody I can even return this to.

What a stupid, stupid situation.

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Re:Amazon private label brands are quietly taking over Amazo... by dylz on Friday October 05, 2018 @02:38PM (#18150611)
Re: https://www.riskiq.com/blog/labs/magecart-newegg/

Newegg has not said anything about this to me, nor explained why after a Newegg transaction my card was cancelled defensively and reissued.

I haven't been able to trust Newegg in a very long time, which is sad. They used to be the gold standard, now it's a decrepit pit of dropshipping garbage.

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Re:Amazon private label brands are quietly taking over Amazo... by maxxxxx on Friday October 05, 2018 @12:34PM (#18149505)
It's really sad. I don't know what Newegg's financials are but for me they went from being the gold standard for online stores to "don't use".
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Re:Amazon private label brands are quietly taking over Amazo... by lozaning on Friday October 05, 2018 @02:02PM (#18150270)
I was under the impression that you could filter out their marketplace sellers and that they didn't commingle their own inventory with anyone else's. Is that not the case?

Where do you go for computer stuff that you can trust these days? Every box in all the Fry's stores around me all seem to have already been opened and returned twice by the time i see them.

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Re:Amazon private label brands are quietly taking over Amazo... by michaelmrose on Friday October 05, 2018 @01:51PM (#18150164)
That is surprisingly crappy I heard that their marketplace had substantial counterfeit issues much like Amazon.

It is at least possible to filter it to items only sold by Newegg.

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