how to be poor: yeah I totally know what u’re talking about. that seems to be only the case for big items though.. they don’t bother to slap the box in another box. but for their smaller items, they’re usually decently packaged.

I’m thinking sometimes the monitors are shipped directly from manufacture’s warehouse.

Newegg should work on their damn packaging. It’s a solid company and I love it, don’t get me wrong, but to ship a brand new 19″ LCD ViewSonic from Cali to Michigan in a torn-up factory box with no additional padding is disrespectful to me, the consumer. A UPS man shows up and THROWS me this slim square box with ViewSonic logos on it. Come on, would it kill Newegg to put it inside a slightly larger box with some crumpled up paper?