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2020/03/29 21:59:09 (permalink)
The 650 Watt SuperNOVA is on sale. I tried to buy it. After adding a whopping $17.00 for standard shipping, other sources, such as Egghead were less expensive and I don't have the hassel or wait of a mail in rebate. 
 
No skin off my knees but it would seem to me EVGA is lossing money (direct sales) doing business that way.
 
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    Re: When is a deal not a deal? 2020/03/30 03:59:34 (permalink)
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    The 650 Watt SuperNOVA is on sale. I tried to buy it. After adding a whopping $17.00 for standard shipping, other sources, such as Egghead were less expensive and I don't have the hassel or wait of a mail in rebate. 
     
    No skin off my knees but it would seem to me EVGA is lossing money (direct sales) doing business that way.
     
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    Re: When is a deal not a deal? 2020/03/30 04:39:21 (permalink)
    Egghead? I thought Amazon bought them out like 20 years ago. If you mean Newegg then they are still around but they also charge shipping unless you sign up for a membership program which costs money every year almost like Amazon Prime. These types of programs can save you money if you are buying a lot from the stores or end up costing you money if you are not.

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    Re: When is a deal not a deal? 2020/03/30 08:14:33 (permalink)
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    Egghead? I thought Amazon bought them out like 20 years ago. If you mean Newegg then they are still around but they also charge shipping unless you sign up for a membership program which costs money every year almost like Amazon Prime. These types of programs can save you money if you are buying a lot from the stores or end up costing you money if you are not.


    Newegg did away with the premier program and gave a prorated refund of any remaining months that were left on the account.
    Most of the things on Newegg are now free shipping. Mostly ground shipping, but still free.

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    Re: When is a deal not a deal? 2020/03/30 09:35:23 (permalink)
    Newegg has a much bigger distribution chain than EVGA does. Newegg does far more volume of shipping. Because of this, they can get way better shipping rates from the shippers than EVGA can.

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    Re: When is a deal not a deal? 2020/03/30 23:41:26 (permalink)
    SteveFl
    The 650 Watt SuperNOVA is on sale. I tried to buy it. After adding a whopping $17.00 for standard shipping, other sources, such as Egghead were less expensive and I don't have the hassel or wait of a mail in rebate.
    No skin off my knees but it would seem to me EVGA is lossing money (direct sales) doing business that way.
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    @SteveFl, if you're looking to save some bucks, you can always buy used, plenty of places to look like craigslist or hardwareswap.
     
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    Newegg did away with the premier program and gave a prorated refund of any remaining months that were left on the account.
    Most of the things on Newegg are now free shipping. Mostly ground shipping, but still free.

     
    I remember back in the day, Newegg did free 2-day shipping for everything and overnight wasn't that much more expensive. Then somebody, outpost.com (???), out did them by doing free overnight shipping on everything.
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    Re: When is a deal not a deal? 2020/03/31 04:26:29 (permalink)
    When is a deal not a deal? When the person looking for a deal decides it isn't.
     
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