Question Old Newegg Build Orders

Sgraffite

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It turns out you can search your old orders on Newegg by searching keywords such as motherboard, cpu, memory, hard drive, etc. I may have ordered some stuff from zipzoomfly or elsewhere at the time.

Here is a build I did in 2001:

 

mindless1

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Up to point, if I search CPU it doesn't show me any purchases prior to July 2004, while I'm 100% certain I bought several CPUs prior to that.
 

Sgraffite

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I had that issue too, somehow this order didn't come up if I searched motherboard or CPU, but it did with hard drive.

You could try pluralizing words too. Like processors. As they have generic placeholders for some stuff.
 

mindless1

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Yeah I see a few more, a bit older searching processors instead of CPU, though whether it's all, I have no idea and it wouldn't bother me if it isn't, as I documented purchases at the time including screenshots, can find them faster with an archive search.
 

mindless1

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... and Directron! I got a lot of Dell OEM surplus from them dirt cheap. For nostalgia's sake I just checked their site and it looks nothing like it used to, devolved into a simpler site rather than fancier like everyone else did, like they gave up on direct to consumer many years ago. Same address though, so whether someone bought the whole company or they just scrapped the site design to do B2B, IDK.
 

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... and Directron! I got a lot of Dell OEM surplus from them dirt cheap. For nostalgia's sake I just checked their site and it looks nothing like it used to, devolved into a simpler site rather than fancier like everyone else did, like they gave up on direct to consumer many years ago. Same address though, so whether someone bought the whole company or they just scrapped the site design to do B2B, IDK.
Ever get stuff off Xoxide? My first self built PC at 19 was a Pentium IV with a DFI Lanparty mobo. It had a UV reactive motherboard and I bought cold cathode tubes in UV light to bring it to life with UV reactive matching orange rounded IDE cables for the seagate barracuda and the CD combo drive.
 

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Dang, I forgot about Tiger Direct until just now!
I had not thought of ZZF in ages before you mentioned them in the OP. I remember MWave had some of the best prices before Newegg opened. They are still doing biz down under.

I sourced parts from Directron for some builds. They tried the pricing error for a few items, trying to get more money from me, so I stopped doing biz with them. Newegg ended up with 99% of my biz because they were the whole package; price, service, support.
 
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tcsenter

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Up to point, if I search CPU it doesn't show me any purchases prior to July 2004, while I'm 100% certain I bought several CPUs prior to that.

I also had order history purged before ~2003/2004. Not sure why. I commented about it a long time ago like 2014 or something.
 

Sgraffite

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I also had order history purged before ~2003/2004. Not sure why. I commented about it a long time ago like 2014 or something.
Up to point, if I search CPU it doesn't show me any purchases prior to July 2004, while I'm 100% certain I bought several CPUs prior to that.
I think it is not necessarily purged, but the search words don't always match what you think they should. I bought a CPU in my order shown at the top, but the search term "CPU" does not match as the line item now has a more generic name.
 

tcsenter

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At the time, I hadn't used the search feature I just pulled up order history for "all time" and some of my older orders had dropped off. While others were going back further.
 

manly

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May 2003:
Open Box: ASUS A7N8X Deluxe 462(A) NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400 ATX AMD Motherboard

June 2003:

AMD Athlon XP 2500+ - Athlon XP Barton 1.833 GHz Socket A Processor - AXDA2500BOX
 

GodisanAtheist

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Hurts to go back and look at old computer purchases, was a simpler time and the hobby was so much more vibrant. I can go years now without doing a PC upgrade, was literally upgrading something every 6 months or less back in the early 2000's.

It's funny how my lack of lack of money tied "deal hunting" with DIYPC, now I can go drop $5000 on a l33t w00tz0r PC if I wanted to but the fun all comes from finding the best performance to price mix.
 

mindless1

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Newegg was my primary computer parts source for several years. I've probably bought more from them than any other online computer parts retailer.

I stopped shopping Newegg nearly as much as I used to, about 12-15 years ago, after multiple things happened.

1) I used to buy a lot of refurb stuff, but got tired of staying up late at night to catch their new listings before someone else snatched them up.

2) The quality of their refurbs went down, often I received something that was missing critical pieces. This wasn't always the case, they seemed to have lowered their standards for what is acceptable to sell.

3) They used to use FedEx and due to my location, even at the great distance they were from me, if I put in an order early in the day, they could get the delivery to me the next day, 2nd day at most with free shipping, due to my proximity, and theirs, to major airports.

4) They started fiddling with shipping prices, where their seemingly small sum, put them above other sellers like amazon.

5) It pissed me off when they started trying to be amazon and listing all the 3rd party sellers. I have zero interest in buying from a 3rd party seller on newegg so it was just crap to wade through every time I searched for something. The site became too cluttered, and amazon got aggressive at price-matching, so if you're going to try to be like amazon but not beat their prices, and also not beat their customer service, then why?

On the other hand, I don't want them to fail, and would buy the same widget if at the same delivered price as amazon, because I don't want amazon wiping out all competitors which would be bad for all of us.
 
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