Wednesday, April 8th 2020
Newegg Offering Free Face Masks with All US Orders
Newegg will be offering all US customers the option to add a free pack of disposable face masks to their orders. Newegg managed to secure a shipment of face masks for its employees and is now offering their spare inventory to customers, for those looking for more masks Newegg is also selling 50 packs for $35 with any purchase.
Newegg CEO Anthony Chow said in an interview with Tom's Hardware "This is a short-term distribution limited to stock on hand. Every U.S. customer shopping Newegg.com will receive the pop-up offer at check-out unless they take the offer, opt out of future notifications, or our supply is depleted." Limits of one pack per customer are also in place to prevent hoarding, so it would seem this means everyone has an equal chance of securing some masks. If you've been looking for masks now might be the time to order your next upgrade.
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Tom's Hardware
Newegg CEO Anthony Chow said in an interview with Tom's Hardware "This is a short-term distribution limited to stock on hand. Every U.S. customer shopping Newegg.com will receive the pop-up offer at check-out unless they take the offer, opt out of future notifications, or our supply is depleted." Limits of one pack per customer are also in place to prevent hoarding, so it would seem this means everyone has an equal chance of securing some masks. If you've been looking for masks now might be the time to order your next upgrade.
35 Comments on Newegg Offering Free Face Masks with All US Orders
And given the masks, test kits, and other PPE China has been shipping out has repeatedly proven to be worthless at best and infected with corona at worst, yeah, I wouldnt chance these things.
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600K masks from China were recalled for being defective:
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The test kits China was supplying were defective:
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These all came after China made a big deal on the world stage about "helping the rest of the world deal with coronavirus", this stuff was coming from the same factories that, for years, have been making these things without issue. Curious timing.
I'll keep looking for other articles, I remember other shipments from other European countries being affected by this, but I'm having trouble finding the articles. I wouldnt trust any PPE, whether it be gloves, maks, ece or testing equipment of any kind from china right now (or ever, but thats a tale for a different thread).
Not to mention lying through their teeth about human to human transmission for at least a good month or so!
Any way since this thread is gonna go the usual way might as well put it here ~
Coronavirus: China stockpiled more than 2 billion masks and
Whistleblower saw TONNES of facemasks being packed for China
Enough of this holier than thou attitude from you :rolleyes:
You've got an issue with other opinions, report them & Mods will decide, not you!
Surgical masks are to help prevent the person wearing them from spreading any infection they might have to someone else. If s surgeon coughs during surgery, the mask catches what comes out of their mouth so it doesn't go into the patient. Yes, the argument can be made that some will get out around the mask since it doesn't seal, but it really doesn't, the mask does a good job of catching the cough or sneeze.
Than going without ?, you sure, you actually 100% sure that mask is not infected even before it gets to you. and these look like those dodgy things of ebay too.
Isn't Newegg owned by China now too ?, seems sup they trying to help a few people out in China to off load this crap.
Its not rocket science either. We know China manufacturing quality is hit or miss and if you don't explicitly check your order, you will get ripped a new one. Hundreds of companies have experienced this, why would it be different when things are under pressure? Production lines have hastily been revamped into mask lines... what do we expect? Its the same thing as that emergency hospital in Wuhan where stuff collapsed due to shoddy construction... These things are not coincidental, its a side effect of the system this country has. The same side effect that kept this virus unknown to us for months even with information available in China. They can't even help themselves, its inherent to the command structure.
And obviously this is virtue signaling on Neweggs part, and IMO it is utterly disgusting. Creating false sense of security to drive sales. BleghThe virus doesn't care, but Xi does and there are more and more signs China is taking advantage of the situation right now. I'm all for a happy peaceful world where everyone hugs everyone, but its not the reality. Some of the claims are BS, correct, but some of them are also supported by evidence.The consensus of the US health institutions is not that face masks help, only the mouthpiece has said this under pressure. And neither is that anti malaria drug Trump was boasting about going to be of any use. He's got 29 million overpriced placebo pills right now. Virologists in the EU are still not sharing this consensus and we also know that the WHO is being pressured from China's end. And China really loves masks, too.
Will they help? In certain situations, perhaps. But with random people/masses wearing them and going about their business again? Its a direct ticket back into a new pandemic.
But hey, 'what have you got to lose'.
Its time you wake up. POTUS has failed miserably in this crisis and is already pretty much predicting and accepting hundreds of thousands of deaths, because then he can say in the near future 'he did great'. Its already what he is saying btw. And those 'face masks at least help a little bit' statements fall right in line. His 'What have you got to lose' statement says it all. That is what you say when you're out of options, or simply refusing to fix a problem. Political lies at the expense of lives, that is what this is, no more and no less.
The truth you DONT hear, is that domestic healthcare is in need of a serious change, along with a bunch of other social support systems and that the decentralized approach right now is a complete failure, too. Another truth you don't hear, is that a vast majority of the populace doesn't care if the bottom end of the ladder rots away and dies miserably, 'as long as its the other guy and not me'. Every man for himself. Make your own mask. Dig your own grave.
That is the context in which people are now advocating the use of masks.
On another thought it's like hey look we have face masks for sale and their fore most will look for other ones meaning they would make money from it.
That said, any cloth'll due for that level of protection. It doesn't have to come from Newegg.No one is advising that. My state now requires a mask of some sort to shop for groceries even, though.You can't be sure of that with ANY mask right now. Even the states is a hotspot. Infected people go to work in states that don't offer sick leave. Who'd of thunk it?
If you are referring to "not the medical consensus" as the fact that medical professionals wear masks when performing their duties that is SOP, pandemic or not that doesn't change.
Newegg should be giving these to hospitals, for free, not customers.
I prefer sanity and fact based, well thought over decisions on my actions and do's and don'ts right now and I do believe it is important to actively combat the herd mentality moving into crazy land. I think you too, are smart enough to see commerce is desperate for new ways to make money off this pandemic. Newegg right here being a prime example. Do you realize this?
That is the backdrop of the whole mask discussion. Political and commercial gain. That applies to China and it being the largest salesman of masks and filters in the world. It applies to the US president who is completely and utterly mismanaging this and wants 'tools' to make you feel better so he gets re-elected and can tell the world how much he tried. It applies to economies the world over because everyone wants business as usual and maybe, just maybe, a mask may help us do so. And that in turn leads to increased risk. The mask is a placebo that might push us back into the workplace and massed events and does not fix any problems at all. The virus will still be there. It will still have a 3x infection rate. It will still push heavily on healthcare and risk groups. And it will still pose the exact same risk to your situation as it does today.