SyntheticBlinkerFluid
SyntheticBlinkerFluid PowerDork
10/11/14 3:38 p.m.

Well apparently they decided to go into the automotive retail business.

http://nutrend.com/

Giant Purple Snorklewacker
Giant Purple Snorklewacker MegaDork
10/11/14 3:42 p.m.

If they are as good at that as everything else they have touched then "bookmarked".

The0retical
The0retical HalfDork
10/11/14 3:50 p.m.

Awesome. I shop Newegg rather than Amazon for a lot of items because Neweggs CEO has come out and said that they'll go to just about any length to beat down patent trolls in court to invalidate those patents. They continue to do it and I'll continue to support them. Plus I've had nothing but good experiences with their customer service.

I'm starting to tire of Jeff Bezos feeding his own ego (see the Bezos patent tree) and Amazon is turning into the patent troll type organization I despise so much. Plus I really hate those Fire phone commercials.

Plus the EBC brakes look to be fairly reasonable on there.

ProDarwin
ProDarwin UltraDork
10/11/14 4:02 p.m.

Cool.

I just put in my car and like 99% of what they sell is brake parts. Not much else. Odd.

rebelgtp
rebelgtp UberDork
10/11/14 4:18 p.m.

Cool I will have to check them out.

Woody
Woody GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
10/11/14 4:18 p.m.

Been there. Done that. Good company.

Derick Freese
Derick Freese UltraDork
10/11/14 4:45 p.m.

Sweet, an easy way to spend Bitcoin on car parts.

1988RedT2
1988RedT2 PowerDork
10/11/14 5:15 p.m.

I'd shop there. Done it before.

Rockauto is still doing right by me also. I pretty much don't shop local brick and mortar anymore. Sales staff is too stupid/annoying for my taste.

NGTD
NGTD SuperDork
10/11/14 7:01 p.m.

We have Newegg.ca, hopefully they will the car parts side up here too.

1kris06
1kris06 Reader
10/11/14 9:29 p.m.

Once everything isn't "out of stock" it might be a useful website for me.

NOHOME
NOHOME SuperDork
10/12/14 9:18 a.m.

Looks promising for what I will need for the BJORNAGN project; lots of brake and suspension stuff for low bucks.

Will have to see how the border mucks up the deal.

Grizz
Grizz UltraDork
10/12/14 9:55 a.m.

They seem to have a ton of stuff for my truck.

VWguyBruce
VWguyBruce HalfDork
10/12/14 10:01 a.m.

I just bought my E30 a Z4 shifter on there. OEM part, cheapest price I found and shipping was fast.

VWguyBruce
VWguyBruce HalfDork
10/12/14 10:07 a.m.

Based on what Adam Carolla is saying on Carcast, Amazon is helping him a great deal with his patent troll battle.

The0retical wrote: I'm starting to tire of Jeff Bezos feeding his own ego (see the Bezos patent tree) and Amazon is turning into the patent troll type organization I despise so much. Plus I really hate those Fire phone commercials.
spitfirebill
spitfirebill PowerDork
10/12/14 12:47 p.m.

I wonder if my Newegg ban will extend to them too?

The0retical
The0retical HalfDork
10/13/14 12:31 a.m.
VWguyBruce wrote: Based on what Adam Carolla is saying on Carcast, Amazon is helping him a great deal with his patent troll battle.
The0retical wrote: I'm starting to tire of Jeff Bezos feeding his own ego (see the Bezos patent tree) and Amazon is turning into the patent troll type organization I despise so much. Plus I really hate those Fire phone commercials.

Not to derail the thread but I'll just leave this here for you to read.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/how-amazon-got-a-patent-on-white-background-photography/

Tl;Dr version: Amazon owns the patent on white background photography. They haven't leveraged it yet though.

Plus they own more ovbious patents like the one click to buy patent which they have leveraged in court.

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