{"id":55,"date":"2006-03-06T19:51:59","date_gmt":"2006-03-06T23:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rakkar.org\/blog\/?p=55"},"modified":"2006-03-06T19:51:59","modified_gmt":"2006-03-06T23:51:59","slug":"newegg-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/03\/06\/newegg-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Newegg sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tNewegg sucks.  I just spent $920 on computer parts that I ordered on Monday and got on Friday despite the fact that it was shipped with 1 day shipping.  The $120 motherboard arrived DOA.  Now to get my money back, I have to accept a $20 &#8220;Restocking Fee&#8221; although I don&#8217;t know why you&#8217;d restock a defective motherboard.  On top of that, I had to pay $10 to ship it back, plus my gas and time to get to the post office.<\/p>\n<p>In my opinion, a retailer should be responsible for the parts they sell and if a part is defective the retailer should absorb the cost to correct the situation.  What right do they have to charge people for defective goods?  It would be like if I went to Fry&#8217;s and they told me &#8220;If this part is broken, you can have your money back, but we get to keep 15% to put it back on the shelf.&#8221;  As it is, they put the defective parts back on the shelf for free \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The cost of buying from NewEgg was about $200 less than if I had bought the same parts from Fry&#8217;s.  But if you consider all the time and money I spent because of the defective parts, plus the headache of waiting for the parts, I would have been better off just paying the $200.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newegg sucks. I just spent $920 on computer parts that I ordered on Monday and got on Friday despite the fact that it was shipped with 1 day shipping. The $120 motherboard arrived DOA. Now to get my money back, I have to accept a $20 &#8220;Restocking Fee&#8221; although I don&#8217;t know why you&#8217;d restock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}