Ask HN: Do you still shop at Newegg now that they have blocked VPN?

You can thank all the scalpers scraping the website every second and possibly trying to circumvent blocks with VPNs.

why would you need a vpn to use newegg?

Why do you use a VPN?

Not the OP, but perhaps because they live in a country where the gov blocks lots of useful websites, or they want to see public broadcast material (Eg pbs/bbc) from other countries, or because their ISP sells barely anonymised data to 3rd parts in bulk and on the cheap.