A few days ago in Newegg Sucks! It’s Official, Newegg Has Gone Rotten! I complained about how Newegg rather badly packaged my order for shipping and I was lucky to A) still have all of my items in the box and B) have none of the items damaged, even though they went Freddy Krueger on one of the items. Clearly this is how not to package items.

Well let me give you a completely opposite experience. I ordered a largish item from Amazon.com not long ago. It took a while to get here because I had it shipped by “Free Super Saver Shipping”. Now, in spite of going with free shipping, this item was in its manufacturer’s box (in perfect condition, in a box that just perfectly fit the manufacturer’s box – presumably to protect it, and then in the actual shipping box with protective packaging. The latter two boxes were both considerably thicker and stronger than Newegg’s flimsy box. And so my item was protected quite well from the rigors of shipping. (Especially UPS. I don’t know why UPS seems to play hacky-sack with boxes, but I swear they must.)

Now this was a purchase from Amazon directly. These days so many Amazon products are delivered from third parties. But this one was from Amazon. Obviously third party experiences will vary. I’m not saying all Amazon purchases will be packaged well. But the ones directly from Amazon seem to be handled exceedingly well.

And so, there we have it. Some companies today (like Amazon) still know how to package a product for shipping. And some companies (like Newegg) couldn’t properly package if lives depended on it.

Amazon is good.

Newegg sucks.

It’s as simple as that.

It’s really a shame that Amazon doesn’t sell computer parts like Newegg does, or just based on their quality of packaging alone I’d be tempted to do all of my business with them.