ot: the best online computer parts store?

[Jane Lee]

On 9/12/07, Doug Smith <dougsmith1 at charter.net> wrote:
>  do not shop on line, and I don't recommend it to anyone.

Doug - shopping online is perfectly fine.  I have a Fry's nearby me,
and that's the only retailer that has more than like, 3 motherboards
(if at all) available, and even then their selection isn't that great
compared to what I can find online.  That's just the selection,
nevermind the pricing.  Plus ordering online is cheaper, even with
shipping factored in (and you don't count the gas it takes to drive to
a place that might have what you want).

On 9/12/07, Karen Lewellen <klewellen at shellworld.net> wrote:
> What I prefer, and what I wish newegg did for its customers who cannot
> shop online is to choose what I desire, and order over the phone.

Karen - newegg doesn't even do email orders, unfortunately.  They
never have..it's all online.  There's certainly a phone number to call
for support though, maybe you can go yell at them, smile.

On 9/12/07, Gregory Nowak <greg at romuald.net.eu.org> wrote:
> He claims that outletpc has no sli mb's, nor for that
> matter, mb's with features that advanced pc users would want, and
> expect to have on an mb.

Yeah, I noted that too.  And even if there were, it was difficult to
find because it wasn't organized well, nor do they have the same tools
newegg gives you to narrow down the selection.  Plus they don't have
DFI motherboards, and those are my absolute favorite.

On 9/12/07, Lorenzo Taylor <daxlinux at gmail.com> wrote:
> I actually used newegg with lynx, but that was several years ago. I
> sincerely hope that they haven't changed things so much that this has
> become impossible now.

Newegg actually did a complete overhaul of their site like, a year ago
or so.  It's a lot messier now.  I'm sighted, but even I have a hard
time trying to navigate the pages sometimes because the menus are
mucked up CSS...and the pages take forever to load because there's so
much cruft.  Nevermind that my primary browser is Safari for Mac, and
when the new site was in beta some things just absolutely didn't work
at all in that browser.

On 9/12/07, Gregory Nowak <greg at romuald.net.eu.org> wrote:
> There is also frys electronics:
> which is a chain of stores in the western U.S., though I believe they
> have the most locations in Arizona, as opposed to other states.

Fry's isn't bad, but I think they have the largest number of stores in
California, not Arizona...their salespeople are awful and sort of
sexist (I haven't had good experiences with asking them to find a
product I couldn't find..ends up with "are you sure you want that?  is
that compatible with what you're doing?" every other minute..what, do
women not shop for hard drives and motherboards?!) but their selection
in-store is passable and definitely better than retailers like circuit
city or best buy.  But I digress...five or six years ago, I built a
computer all out of parts from Fry's.  Worked great.  It's being used
as a headless server now.