newegg.com ??

[wulf109]

I guess I got spoiled by their excellent service. Lately they've gotten slow and expensive to ship. I got use to placing an order in the AM and shipping that PM by Fedex 2day. Now it takes 2-3 days to precess an order. Shipping by Fedex has trilpled in cost,leaving me to use UPS 3day. I guess good service and cost couldn't last forever.

[Soopafresh]

Probably fuel prices driving the cost up. Don't write them off just yet.

[adam]

Yeah that's exactly what happens to everybody when gas prices double and triple. You can hardly blame newegg for that. Blame hurricanes instead.

[lumis]

gas prices werent so great prior to the hurricanes..

[budz]

I guess I got spoiled by their excellent service. Lately they've gotten slow and expensive to ship. I got use to placing an order in the AM and shipping that PM by Fedex 2day. Now it takes 2-3 days to precess an order. Shipping by Fedex has trilpled in cost,leaving me to use UPS 3day. I guess good service and cost couldn't last forever.

The cost of gasoline is the reason for raising the shipping cost.
The rise in their shipping costs rose in a days time. Last month I had placed a order on a Monday morning at 6:00 a.m. then had to cancel it because a out of stock item then became available but my order was already at the stage where changes can not be made. So I cancelled the order and reordered when I got home in the evening. The shipping cost had doubled compared to when I had placed my order that morning.

Being in Hawaii at least we now have UPS 3-5 business day option that we never had before. but we still pay much more for shipping compared to the other 48 states. Although depending on how many items you order the shipping options can only be a few dollars difference.

[rallynavvie]

FedEx shipping has not doubled or tripled in price. I ship with them almost weekly and I've only seen my rates go up maybe $2-3 in the last few months. I can't imagine NewEgg would be marking up their shipping that much. Part of it may be that you now have the option to ship UPS so they aren't getting the volume discount they once had with FedEx.

[adam]

gas prices werent so great prior to the hurricanes..

Yeah but its not as politically correct to blame the war...or Bush. Everybody agrees that hurricanes are bad.

[Poppa_Meth]

I don't think gas prices has much to do with war, hurricanes, or Bush. It has to do with the greedy oil corperations, same as always. Why the hell does my natural gas go up everytime the price at the pumps goes up? Anyone want to explain how they are connected?

[adam]

I won't get into the war's effect, there's lots of other posts on that. But 2 large hurricanes effectively shut down or destroyed almost every single oil refinery on the Gulf Coast, which is the US's largest oil supply. As for natural gas's connection with oil... the largest energy consumers are large industrial companies and electricity generators and they can switch between oil and natural gas as needed. When oil prices rise everyone shifts to natural gas and that drives up demand and cost. Oil and gas are directly related because they are interchangeable in the industry.

[Poppa_Meth]

I can understand that, but I still maintain that a lot of it is pure greed. All of my local gas station immediately jumped in price almost a dollar when the hurricane hit New Orleans, and not one of them had gotten a truck in yet. So in other words, the sudden jump was basically pure profit for them. I could understand if they upped prices when a truck came in with fuel that cost them more as well. But to up the price on their existing stock like that is just gouging.
I guess everyone is going to be pissed about the situation for a while. The natural disaters and the war effects are bad enough without the middle men ripping you on top of it all.

[budz]

I can understand that, but I still maintain that a lot of it is pure greed. All of my local gas station immediately jumped in price almost a dollar when the hurricane hit New Orleans, and not one of them had gotten a truck in yet. So in other words, the sudden jump was basically pure profit for them. I could understand if they upped prices when a truck came in with fuel that cost them more as well. But to up the price on their existing stock like that is just gouging.
I guess everyone is going to be pissed about the situation for a while. The natural disaters and the war effects are bad enough without the middle men ripping you on top of it all.

We have a price cap on gasoline in the state of Hawaii based on prices of gas in Los Angeles, New York, & the gulf coast. We still have the highest price of gas in the nation even with the price cap. Although some time next week we supposedly will see prices drop considerably from what the news media announced. Now get this we get our oil from Alaska & Asia not from the gulf coast. I have to agree that the MIDDLE MAN is ripping us all off which is why the Deputy Attorney General here as with some other states wants a investigation on those gasoline/oil companies.

Back to the topic of Newegg.....shipping costs have risen and will continue to rise with the energy crisis that we face.....Newegg's policy of "NO WILL CALL PICKUPS" is purely crap....They said they have had to deal with too many cases of fraud. On their website it states NO WILL CALL PICKUPS. Dunno why because you have to show a picture ID when picking up stuff from the WILL CALL PICKUP. The FEDEX guy told me the other day Newegg and Sony do not allow WILL CALL PICKUPS because in order to keep their prices low and competitive the deliveries have to be made at the door. I told him sounds like they expect customers to be at home 24/7.

[deadpac]

I can understand that, but I still maintain that a lot of it is pure greed.

NOT! by the local gas stations. You obviously have no idea how the chain works when it comes to oil. The overseas middle eastern oil conglomerates are the ones who control the pricing for gas. Depending on what type of oil is refined be it clean or dirty oil, some of the smaller refiners like Valero have decided to make their money in the refining process while the bigger refiners like the Union 76's and Shell's would rather pass that cost down to the smaller distributor's and dealer's. By the time your "local" gas station has priced their gas most if not all them are looking at LESS than 10 cent margins (sometimes even less; try working on 2cent margin) after all the credit card fee's, delivery cost, and TAXES!!!!!!

The independent unbranded gas stations are the ones making money right now, atleast in California, right now they have like 20 to 30 cent margins because they can price with the branded stations such as the Arcco's, Shells, Valeros, 76's....etc. Independents by in bulk and that allows them to price for several weeks at a time based on their cost at the time they bought the gas; so if the branded refineries go up, they can go up as well.

so ok maybe that local station bought their gas before the price hike but at most the average station is not going to have more than 12,000 (even less thanks to ulage restrictions) gallons in 87 regular; most stations don't by large volumes of midgrade, premium, and depending on the area not a lot of diesel. Depending on the volume of that stations; NO station is going to be "price gouging" for more than 7 days they will eventually have to buy at the new rate and whatever margin they made on the the previous load I can guarantee you that it will easily be eaten up by the next load.

Diesel which by the way has seen spikes since the hurricanes jump up almost as much as 25cents at any given day and are just now seeing *barely* noticeable 5cents drops. And now more than ever these "Greedy" gas stations you refer to are being screwed even more with so called fuel "surcharges" which were almost non-existent before the hurricanes. Oh and yeah the war has not lead to an increase at the dealer level, maybe at what you pay at the pump but no where near what the local gas stations pay for the cost of fuel; maybe once in that last two years has a jump in prices been attributed to the "war".

Middle Eastern Oil Union -> US government (you NEVER see this part) -> Refineries -> Distributors -> Dealers (poor but oh so greedy local gas stations you refer too)

[mrtristan]

Ha ha. I hear you, budz. The gas cap finally kicked in, and we got screwed by the hurricane, even though our crude supply is largely unrelated to the rest of the continental US. Most of our oil comes from Indonesia, yet our gas cap is based partially off the gulf coast. It would make more sense to average the supply and demand costs from the countries of origin, but that would actually be logical and not work in Hawaii.

When I order from newegg, I usually wait until I have a few things I need, so the shipping doesn't kill me. If it's a single item, it's usually cheaper to go to CompUSA, although the selection isn't as great.

[rallynavvie]

Bloody hell, move this to off-topic if the gas debate continues here please

[Poppa_Meth]

I've talked to a few of those gas station owners around here. And yes they've as much as admitted that it's pure profit on their part. Not saying you aren't right to some extent, but that doesn't cover every station out there by any means.

Back on topic, I've also noticed newegg is taking longer to get the packages out to begin with. Shipping doesn't seem to take any longer for me but there is a one day delay in sending it out. So far most of what I've ordered recently has been free shipping so I haven't noticed much on freight fees yet.

[ROF]

I ordered $300+ in parts on Wednesday and received them this morning. I'd say 3 business day turn around time is pretty good considering I paid $17 dollars in shipping costs. Less than 5% shipping is still better than a 15% tip for food delivery.

[enstg8er]

zipzoomfly. most everything free 2 day shipping. not as great a selection, but if you have trouble with shipping it may be worth a try..
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Home.jsp

[budz]

zipzoomfly. most everything free 2 day shipping. not as great a selection, but if you have trouble with shipping it may be worth a try..
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Home.jsp

I've checked out their website before but for me being in Hawaii they charge a extra freaking ass handling fee of $10.00. In my opinion it's not worth it for me to order from them. Of course for others who live in the 48 states it's excellent to get 2 day free shipping.

[studtrooper]

Dude, you live in Hawaii. You instantly wave all rights for bitching about shipping costs when you are within walking distance to the frucking beach

[budz]

Dude, you live in Hawaii. You instantly wave all rights for bitching about shipping costs when you are within walking distance to the frucking beach

:P jealous that I'm in Hawaii eh! I live in the boonies as you mainlanders call it.....Deep in the koolau mountains....far from any freaking beach....

[rallynavvie]

Hmm, tropical mountain retreat instead? Same diff