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Where is the best place to buy Bare-Bones PC's Online?
« on: October 16, 2006, 05:27:15 pm »
Where is the best place to buy Bare-Bones PC's Online?

New, used, whatever.  Where do you guys recommend looking for the best price and service?
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Re: Where is the best place to buy Bare-Bones PC's Online?
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2006, 05:49:51 pm »

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Re: Where is the best place to buy Bare-Bones PC's Online?
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2006, 06:13:09 pm »
lots of people really like newegg.com.  thats where i just bought my mobo/cpu.
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Re: Where is the best place to buy Bare-Bones PC's Online?
« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2006, 06:27:20 pm »
You'll likely get the best prices at Frys (outpost.com) or at TigerDirect.  As long as you don't mind dealing with rebates.

You'll get the almost the best non-rebate prices at NewEgg.com, and you'll get much, much better service.

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Re: Where is the best place to buy Bare-Bones PC's Online?
« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2006, 06:57:04 pm »
Newegg is such a phenomenally phenomenal phenomenon of a store that I will shop their unless a competitor can significantly undercut them.  If the difference is $5 or $10 I'll go with Newegg any day of the week.  Everything about the service you recieve from Newegg is top notch, and the shipping is supernaturally fast. 

Great Seller . . . A++ . . . Would buy again!!!    ;D
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Re: Where is the best place to buy Bare-Bones PC's Online?
« Reply #5 on: October 17, 2006, 03:52:09 pm »
Newegg is such a phenomenally phenomenal phenomenon of a store that I will shop their unless a competitor can significantly undercut them.  If the difference is $5 or $10 I'll go with Newegg any day of the week.  Everything about the service you recieve from Newegg is top notch, and the shipping is supernaturally fast. 

Great Seller . . . A++ . . . Would buy again!!!    ;D

Ditto....they pretty much locked down my business about 5 years ago.  They were always within 5-10% of the "best" web price, had reasonable shipping (and super fast), good stock level, and great inventory.

I believe they sell barebones, but tigerdirect seems to be the barebones king, but as always, you get what you pay for, and tigerdirect has had complaints with their rebate processes.  so  :dunno

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Re: Where is the best place to buy Bare-Bones PC's Online?
« Reply #6 on: October 18, 2006, 05:11:19 pm »
I perfer ZipZoomFly for my computer parts. No shipping, No tax. A lot cheaper in the long run.
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