Newegg Now Owned by Chinese Company

"55.7% owned"

Reading this, I realized that I've pretty much stopped ordering anything from Newegg and purchase those things from Amazon instead.

With Amazon Prime, I'm almost certainly assured that I'll have my items in two days. At Newegg, it can take three to five days for my items to arrive -- even when I pay extra for two-day shipping (due to "order processing").

In addition, for several months out of the year, Discover gives 5% back on Amazon purchases.

The only time I can recall ordering from Newegg in the last three years or so was one evening when I suddenly "needed" another SSD for a project I was working on. I had a pair of Samsung 850 PRO SSDs I had purchased from Amazon but decided at the last minute that I should get one from a different vendor (in the hopes of minimizing the chances of a failure affecting both simultaneously). Newegg has a warehouse/distribution facility about an hour away so I ordered another one from them and picked it up the next afternoon.

Several years ago, they were the "go to" for my techs friends and I but it seems like nowadays pretty much everyone I know just goes to Amazon "by default".

I do applaud them for fighting back against patent trolls and appreciate their efforts.

A few years ago when they were contemplating an IPO their business practices(marketplace, irregular ship times, price creep) started feeling like the IPO had gone through despite it not happening. Their patent troll slayer attitude revived my usage for a bit, but irritants prevailed and they have been a simple reference resource for a couple years now. So far to fall, so sad to watch.

With new ownership (i.e., different investors) I wonder if they will be as combative when it comes to patent trolls.