Wednesday, February 23
The title of this entry is entirely serious. I’ve always liked newegg.com because of some cheap games that it has, but also because it probably has the quickest free shipping I have ever seen. And this most recent story doesn’t disappoint on their shipping.
Recently, probably last Thursday or Wednesday, my graphics card decided it just didn’t want to live anymore, but it did want to show its affection by displaying pretty red dots and making my computer blue screen. It was a sad day especially since my laptop is about as fast as a brick. Surfing the web is slow on it so just imagine doing anything else…
Luckily for me, I was going to get a new graphics card and pretty darn quickly too. I looked around over the weekend for some good replacement cards, and ended up with a GTS 450 (Not a power house I know, but it does a great job on a budget). So on Monday I ordered the card from Newegg. Now the shipping was entirely free so I was expecting roughly 3 days, since that is usually how long their free shipping takes, but to my surprise I got it the very next day. Oh yes, I bought a card off the Internet on Monday and received it on Tuesday without having to pay outrageous next-day shipping charges.
Now I do need to add that it was shipped from Memphis and I live in southern Illinois so it really didn’t need to travel that far. But still normally items shipped at a cost from other sites don’t even take 3 days.
Anyway, I really wanted to write this because I didn’t write a sad post about how I lost my graphics card and the fantastic shipping story needed to be told.
And finally onto the question… Do you have any interesting shipping tales (could be good or bad) or just an interesting tale about buying something off of the Internet?
