ot: the best online computer parts store?

[Littlefield, Tyler]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jane Lee" <applegoddess at gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 6:13 PM
Subject: Re: ot: the best online computer parts store?


> 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.
> 
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