Although the mandatory sign-up for VBV on Newegg is old news (~3 years ago now?), any time you get a "you are now being redirected to your credit card's website for a mandatory additional agreement," that should be a huge red flag.
You can cancel the "mandatory" VBV page by pressing the back button. At first, the VBV page did have a tiny link that let you opt-out, but it disappeared some time in 2009.
I was quite surprised when I had finally given up and was ready to empty the Newegg shopping cart, only to find the order was accepted when I used the back button to escape VBV.
does this mean i have more than $50 fraid liability if something goes south with my newegg purchase? if so- thus is a real reason not to risk doing business with them.
Kind of sad, the last time I built a PC I had to have the hardware within 2 days. Newegg said the order went through and then the next day I got an e-mail to call and verify my order. I cancelled the order, found everything on Amazon for the same price and had it shipped overnight it.
I don't know how many times now I've gone to an e-commerce site and the stupid Mastercard-Securecode has popped up, or my order has been frozen for verification -- and I immediately go straight to Amazon. Perhaps the real beneficiary here is Amazon. They know my order history and they know when I order a $4000 TV to an address I been shipping $X amount of stuff to without incident.
I've also shifted all my business from newegg to amazon for that reason and also this one: newegg's packing is horrible. What am I supposed to do with an enormous pile of packing peanuts from the box that's three times larger than it needs to be? If you want to collapse the box, good luck pouring all those peanuts into a garbage bag without getting them everywhere. And if you don't have access to a dumpster, you get to waste a ton of space in your garbage can.
With amazon, you get to stab the air bubbles with a knife and wad them up.
same thing happened to me. on a whim, i wanted a very specific poster. i went to order it from the first place i found it and then had trouble on the order enty. after 10 minites of frustration i decided to check amazon, and found it cheaper and with free shipping, as im on prime. amazon really is the walmart of the web. my last newegg purchase was split as many of the pieces were cheaper on amazon, and i have more trust in them.
