OT experiences with tigerdirect

[Ken O. Burtch]

I ordered an IDE-to-SATA adaptor from them last week and it was fine.  Of 
course, that's not exactly something that would be easy to screw up.  Now 
I can plug my Blu-ray writer into my old motherboard (hurray).

I know of people who use TigerDirect but I don't recall hearing of 
advertsing code problems.

It would seem to be that refusing shipment over an advertising code is a 
pretty extreme response, unless you're talking hundreds of dollars.  Have 
you considered other, less antagonistic alternatives?

It's been a while since I've been down to College and Spadina.  There's a 
bunch of discount computer stores that way that deal mainly with 
university students.  You can get cheap prices on hard drives.  It's also 
a good place if you're looking for rare items, like memory upgrades for 
old laptops, again probably due to the student clientel.

Generally speaking, when buying high priced items, I like to deal with 
humans where I can see the merchandise and can ask questions like "when do 
I get my discount?"

Ken B.

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On Tue, 18 May 2010, Dave Cramer wrote:

> I've recently ordered something online with tigerdirect. They send a
> flyer which advertised a code to input. When I got to the checkout
> there was no place to enter the code. I decided I would fix it after.
>
> So I emailed them with the problem. They now say the item is shipped
> and there is nothing they can do about it.
>
> At this point I am going to refuse shipment and challenge the credit card
>
> Anyone else have poor experience with TG ?
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