It is a really good price. I just hate the mail in rebate part.
I have bought many things through newegg, although I generally avoid the rebates because my mindset is that if they can give you a rebate, why dont they just give it to you right then and there vs having to play this game and make you take the time and postage to mail in the proof of purchase with all supporting documentation and waiting. I have had bad luck with rebates where I bought something say today and the rebate expires in 7 days and I send it in and it is send back stating that it was not submitted in time etc or I never hear back and never see the $5 or $10.
However I did buy two OCZ SSD's a year ago when the price was low for SSD's and got a 60GB and 90GB for like $45 for the 60GB and $55 for the 90GB and on top of that OCZ had a rebate offer through newegg to get $5 off of each of the SSD's so I was going to get $10 back. After about a month surprise in the mail was a $10 prepaid American Express Credit Card. Only problem now was that Subway resturant wouldnt accept american express, tried wal-mart and they also ran it and it came up unable to process through them. I was just about going to throw it away and I figured I'd try Mc Donalds and YAY Mc Donalds accepted it and so the $12 lunch for me and my daughter was now just $2 out of pocket.
I generally such as my last video card purchase paid more to get 50% of the potential savings such as the following to do away with the rebate gamble and collect instantly 1/2 of the mail in rebate potential. As seen below, Video Card Option #1 you can get for $24.99 with the mail in rebate, and Video Card Option #2 you can get for $29.99 and not have to deal with mail in rebates.* BUT Video Card Option #1 is really $34.99 until you see the rebate money and sometimes it never shows up. So you are taking a gamble on the $10 savings. I go with the $29.99 Video Card #2 option which I know I will get at least $5 of the potential for $10, almost like Deal-or-No-Deal the game show in which you have 2 brief cases one has 0 savings and the other has $10 savings and the banker calls and is offering you $5 savings.
$59.99 Video Card # 1 Regular Price
$39.99 New Eggs Marked down price
$34.99 New Eggs Price with instant $5 rebate
Cost to you is $34.99, but they have a $10 mail in rebate to add to it to get it for $24.99 if you ever get your $10
$59.99 Video Card # 2 Regular Price
$39.99 New Eggs Marked down Price
$29.99 New Eggs Price with instant $10 rebate
( No Mail In Rebate Offer on top of this so $29.99 is the price tag for this)
* I'd rather buy the more expensive card for $5 more since I know I will get at least $5 out of the potential for $10 off and pay $29.99 vs paying $34.99 for the gamble to get it for $24.99 if I actually see the money. * Some rebates are also worded in fine print ( As funds remain available ) so there is a limited allocation of funds to cover the rebates and more rebates handed out than the funds to cover them, so its almost like a check book with $20,000 in it to cover the rebate program for promotion of a product, and the rebates are = checks so each one hits the balance deducting the $10 per purchase or per customer etc, so they can only cover 2000 customer rebates, and all rebates that come in after the 2000 bounce, but they dont tell you it bounces, you just never see the money! And the game they played just like a casino with house advantage, the house advantage increases with the number of products sold that exceed that of the funds to cover the rebates so the merchant gets the extra $5 on it vs youself who tried for $10 off, but if you played the game and settled for 1/2 they get their $5 and you get your $5 vs them getting $10 and you $0
I hate rebates, but OCZ did good in paying out the $10 which even though was in the form of a prepaid credit card that just about no one accepted, at least Mc Donalds took it as $10 to offset my meal and my daughters happy meal.