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by 2bluesc 3558 days ago
All the more reason to shop more at NewEgg.
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Their prices are usually quite close to Amazon, and for me it's worth just sticking to NewEgg to reward their customer service and anti-troll work.
I'm shopping on Newegg because most other websites have awful category and filtering capabilities.

Edit: But yes, their anti-patent troll activities are something I appreciate.

One of the beauties of a niche site like Newegg is that they actually understand which products are interchangeable or related.

If I search for USB splitter by price on Amazon, I'm going to get flash drive cases, then USB cables, then flash drives, then I'll get into splitters. Newegg knows I didn't mean that, and that "products like this" shouldn't include everything with a USB connector on one end.

That's a great point, I never thought of searching for accessories on Newegg... even if I end up buying elsewhere, their accessory/peripheral search has always been one of the best on the internet for a long time.
I only noticed it when I tried Amazon and got slammed with a hundred pages of "it has a similar name!" matches. You can buy a laptop there fine, but peripherals and internals just aren't arranged in any coherent way.

I'm not sure what Newegg is doing (apart from specializing), but it works damn well.

Cheng's financial support of the racist Abigail Fisher case is exactly why I won't shop with Newegg.
I'd forgotten about his role in that case. It makes me admire him even more for standing by his principles that racial origin should not be a factor in determining college admissions. Does his argument that Asian Americans should not be discriminated against by state universities also bother you?

Here's more background on the case: https://www.propublica.org/article/a-colorblind-constitution...

And here are the two amici that Cheng co-authored:

http://www.asianamericanlegal.com/images/AALFAmicusBriefs/AA...

http://asianamericanforeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2015...

> The group meticulously selected the people who would elicit both sympathy and outrage, who were pristine in form and character.

This is an excellent strategy, a unifying strategy, and one that seems lacking in today's social media driven activism.