Comment on Best Buy Membership "discount"

solidgrue@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Ajen@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is Newegg really that much better?

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  • glarf@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Back when they introduced their marketplace, I found an extremely good deal. Thinking it was too good to be true, but cheap enough to say “what the heck,” I bought it anyway. Fast forward a week and I received a completely different item than what was described (no surprise, to be honest) in the listing. Naturally, I reached out to customer service for a refund because the item I received was not as advertised. To my surprise, Newegg refused to refund me the whole amount even though they acknowledged the listing was essentially a scam, so I back charged through my credit card. Then, they banned my account. I had been an avid supporter of the company and built many computers from things purchased there, up until that complete joke of a refund process.

    Newegg died the day they sold out way back in the 2010s, screw that horrible customer service.

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  • solidgrue@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wrong question.

    Is NewEgg any worse? Too close to call.

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    • MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Alright, so if those 3 are all bad, then what’s the right answer here?

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      • Confused_Emus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Micro Center! Unfortunately they can be a little hard to shop with if you don’t live near one. Their inventory for online shopping and shipping is more limited than their in-store stock.

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• isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You can still get a deal on occasion at Best Buy, but you have to be careful and you have to be ready to walk away.

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• DarkPassenger@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I know about Best buy and Newegg but what’s the deal with monoprice?

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  • PorradaVFR@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah….also curious. It’s been a couple of years but when I previously bought stuff from Monoprice it was a smoking deal and I’m pretty certain none of the cables I bought ever failed me.

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    • atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They were my go to for a long time for good charging cables and dongles. Don’t know what happened with them. I do know they got delisted from online shops.

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• atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ll still shop there if I can use trade in credit for old tech. But I literally only spend the store credit I get back from old tech. Its usually something that’s several years old and worth like $40-50, and I spend it on something I was planning to buy anyway. I’ve tried reselling that kind of thing on eBay. It doesn’t move because nobody wants a windows 7 computer or an old pair of earbuds from 7 years ago.

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