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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Minot - Monday, February 20, 2006 - link
Anand, did Newegg give you any insight into their refurbished product opteration? I'd be interested to know where the items come from (i.e. percentage from working returns and percentage from manufacturers) and how often they arrive at Newegg. I'b been buying refurbished parts from Newegg for years and I've found some brands that always come with full accessories and others that are hit and miss. Is there any rhyme or reason to know the accessory status of the item before you order?Great article! Keep it up! -MINOT-
JumpyBL - Monday, February 20, 2006 - link
Any winners yet?DAPUNISHER - Saturday, February 18, 2006 - link
It is Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory for Computer enthusiasts :Pneweggvp - Friday, February 17, 2006 - link
To confirm what Anand explained, Newegg did not pay Anandtech for this article. Anand and Newegg just thought it would be nice to show a little bit of the Newegg operations.Newegg also has no affiliation with EggHead.
Hope this clears up a couple questions.
Best Regards,
NeweggVP.
andrep74 - Friday, February 17, 2006 - link
It's completely a win-win situation. NewEgg gets advertising, costing them perhaps a lunch with Anand, several CPUs for a contest, and draws more consumers to their website. Anand gets a free meal, perhaps some free product, and draws more readers to his website with a contest. Now if that isn't capitalism, what is?My kudos to them both...
PWNettle - Friday, February 17, 2006 - link
Thanks for the article - it's cool to read how NewEgg does its thing.I've bought parts for 3 builds and some additional components from NewEgg and I've always been very happy with it all.
UPS el cheapo shipping usually takes 3-4 days to reach me but it's not THAT big a deal since that's still pretty quick.
The only thing that irritates me is that when I order parts for a complete PC they usually get shipped from 2+ locations - and it's painful to have every part for a new build EXCEPT the case, which arrives the next day. :)
Davelo - Friday, February 17, 2006 - link
Is Newegg related to EggHead Software? Remember them?Glenn - Friday, February 17, 2006 - link
What a way to start my day!! Read this article and was enlightened and impressed with the way an order progresses and how they get them to me so fast! As usual Anand~ good work and thank you!Then I read all these bulls**t childish comments! I could go on for hours about what I'm thinking but all I really need to say is~ Anand has earned the respect of most of us because of his informative website and articles. I've gained most of my computer knowledge from his website since I first signed on in 1996. I really don't know what I would do without it. In my opinion, NewEgg owes some of its success to Anand and the exposure they gained in his forums. Particularly early on! I really don't mind if they paid Anand for the article, in fact, I hope they did! He earned it well before this article was ever written! A good part of these etailers profits are directly attributable to Anands website! With so many of us having the ability to share experiences, information and recommendations on this website they have benefited greatly! Keep it up Anand and I wish you continued success! My only recommendation would be to have the mods filter out the childish jerks that never seem to have anything productive to say about anything!
And jnmunsey, where do you come off with comments like that? What an idiot!
JBT - Thursday, February 16, 2006 - link
Man I wish I could spend just 5 minutes in there with a shopping cart...amish - Thursday, February 16, 2006 - link
i used my work email addy for the contest. not like i'm going to win, but i hope that any email that could be sent makes it through my employers spam guard.anyways, the pic of all of those CPUs just sitting there was awesome