Newegg refuses to repair defective laptop because user installed Linux

Re:Newegg refuses to repair defective laptop because user in... by luser001 on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @01:31PM (#4101635)

Heh, me too. Also, I just discovered http://pcpartpicker.com/ yesterday. Looks pretty cool. I might do my research there and buy on Amazon. I might feel a little less guilty. :) The restocking fee policy (which screams "shady retailer" to me) on Newegg is only reason I stopped shopping there.

OTOH, Newegg seems to have a much larger catalog of tech items than Amazon.

Also the search feature on Amazon is quite bad: try searching for '16 gb ram' and sort by price. It will insist on showing you 2 gb packs also.

Everything except the default sort order sucks. Which doesn't inspire confidence that Amazon isn't listing the items with the highest margins on top.

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Re:Newegg refuses to repair defective laptop because user in... by pcarmichael on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @02:45PM (#4102047)

Out of curiosity, how did you hear about pcpartpicker? (I created it, so I'm always interested to know how people find out about it. Hope you find it useful!)

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Re:Newegg refuses to repair defective laptop because user in... by luser001 on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @06:43PM (#4103345)

Saw a build on a post in the the hackintosh sub-reddit, the link to which was posted here on HN. Great site.

Since you're here, I'm going to file a bug. :) I just noticed that the following motherboard isn't showing an amazon price for me: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-motherboard-gaz68xud3h...

although amazon has it: http://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-Intel-DDR3-Motherboards-GA-Z6...

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Re:Newegg refuses to repair defective laptop because user in... by pcarmichael on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @08:23PM (#4103660)

Thanks! I've fixed up the motherboard price for Amazon, though the price I list is when fulfilled from Amazon.com directly and not from their marketplace merchants.

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Re:Newegg refuses to repair defective laptop because user in... by thesis on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @05:25PM (#4102962)

Nice website! Do you have any plans to add server hardware to the lists?

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Re:Newegg refuses to repair defective laptop because user in... by pcarmichael on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @08:24PM (#4103661)

Definitely. No ETA yet, but that is on the roadmap.

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Re:Newegg refuses to repair defective laptop because user in... by krsunny on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @07:19PM (#4103446)

Nice site, very useful. Do you scrape all your data?

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Re:Newegg refuses to repair defective laptop because user in... by slig on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @01:47PM (#4101724)

> http://pcpartpicker.com/

Built by an HNer: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1883123

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Re:Newegg refuses to repair defective laptop because user in... by acgourley on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @02:00PM (#4101785)

I love pcpartpicker. It's great to see someone reverse engineering the pc part sales cycle. The fact it helps people communicate complete builds and see compatibility between parts is a nice feature too

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Re:Newegg refuses to repair defective laptop because user in... by pcarmichael on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @08:25PM (#4103668)

Thanks, Alex. I've really appreciated the feedback and encouragement you've given me.

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Re:Newegg refuses to repair defective laptop because user in... by talmand on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @11:41AM (#4106485)

I discovered the site because of this thread. Big thanks as I just picked up an I5-3570K with a $60 discount.

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