Inside Newegg: They give us a Tour and you a Prize
by Anand Lal Shimpi on February 14, 2006 3:31 PM EST- Posted in
- IT Computing
The Secure Area
While motherboards, optical drives and video cards are kept in the three stories of racks, the more expensive items like CPUs, memory and software are kept in a separate area that's fenced in. After all of the components from the picker area are placed into your tub, it rolls down a ramp towards the secure area:
Here we are standing at the third level of the picker assembly line looking down upon the secure area:
And after making our way down we find ourselves at one of the entrances to the secure area:
It may not look like much, but what's contained within is truly a tech enthusiast's candy store. Newegg keeps the processors segregated, all of the Intel CPUs were on our left, while all of the AMD CPUs were on our right.
While we were wandering around the CPU area we did manage to swipe a few processors for you. The best we could do was a set of five Athlon 64 X2 4600+ CPUs; we'll be giving one away each day from February 14, 2006 through February 17, 2006 and the final CPU will be given away on February 20th. To enter to win just head over here and drop your email in the box, good luck :)
CPUs weren't the only things plentiful in the secure area; there was also lots of memory on hand:
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jims23211 - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
As a FedEx employee, the info that NewEgg supplied you about a price hike was bogus. Fact is NewEgg received a substantial discount, but UPS decided to undercut FedEx, so NewEgg renegoitated their contract on a less volume. Last I heard from our Corporate Sales rep, Newegg finally realized their mistake (a huge amount of damage returns and missed/lost deliveries by UPS) and is trying to get their deal back with FedEx, good luck...Jim
NullSubroutine - Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - link
aww poor fed ex, do they want a sucker? im sure its not just one sided to fex being innocent.yacoub - Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - link
Considering FedEx is the better shipper to use most of the time...hergieburbur - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
I agree, I have shopped Newegg for years, and I never once had any problem receiving my order extremely quickly until they switched to UPS. First time I ordered that was sent UPS took 2-3 days more, held up by shipping. Personally, I miss Fedex Ground.overclockingoodness - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
I'm guessing that's based on Newegg's dealings with UPS. A shipping company better be competent if it wants to handle 25K orders a day. I guess Newegg has created a benchmark for making sure shipping companies are doing their job well (so has Amazon.com).jfunk - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
I've always loved Newegg since the beginning. Almost always within a couple bucks of the cheapest price and service has been great the few times I've had to contact them.I just hope not too many of my shipments start comming out of the new TN warehouse, it takes longer to get to me than the stuff from NJ.
overclockingoodness - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
Yes, that's Anand in the picture. :)AndrewChang - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
Hey Anand, that wouldn't happen to be you by any chance would it? Haha, Goodstuff...PClark99 - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
the link to enter the contest is not working for me.DigitalFreak - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
Leave the contest link broken! All the n00bs won't be able to figure out how to re-construct the correct URL and won't be able to enter! More chances for the rest of us.