So I drive 45 miles to tigerdirect to stand in the rain...

ta8689

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I wanted to buy my girlfriend a digital camera, and Tiger had a nice refurb fuji one. New was abt 260 bucks and it was 130 for refurb. So ill get that and a 1 gig xd card.

Ok, leave about noon. get there at 1. Well theres a big sign on the doors that says they are having electrical work done and that they will open at 3. I think... Why could they have not posted this on the website.. or at least uner the part where they show the specific stores. Or when I tried to call them.. couldnt they add that to their message. (of course they didnt answer their phone..) So I go to Guitar Center and buy a new cable for a friends guitar and go to Boston Market to have some chicken. Get back there at 2. Wait half an hour in the car. Then I go and wait under the leaky awning until they open. Theres about 50 people standing by the door by the time they open (like 3:10) and then about 100 more people came from cars.

Once in, I had to recheck the part numbers so the warehouse people could bring the camera and memory to me from the warehouse. They send me across the store twice to talk to someone else and by the time I have my two items, theres about 20 people in front of me in line. Then they give me my camera and tell me that the cashier has to grab the memory for me when i'm checking out. Get in another line of 20 people. Get to the register and then wait 5 mins for the dumbas$ cashier to figure out that they left the camera memory in the basket that they are supposed to get it from. Check out and leave.

So it took me 3.5 hours to get a camera and memory from tigerdirect. From now on, im buying online and ONLY online.

Cliffs: never actually go to tigerdirect. Just buy online.

(also... the actual store... like the building is labeled "tigerdirect.com" with those big light up letters like on wal-mart.... kinda weird
 

preslove

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K. So never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever buy anything from tigerdirect?

check. way ahead of you, buddy
 

Ika

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teh pwned

It's not like Tiger is world-renowned or anything. I wouldn't even recommend buying from TIger online.
 

LordMorpheus

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This happened at circuit city once, when I was working in the warehouse. One of the lights went out and filled the warehouse with smoke.

We were closed for 4 or so hours. It's nobody's fault, these things happen.
 

ta8689

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Originally posted by: LordMorpheus
This happened at circuit city once, when I was working in the warehouse. One of the lights went out and filled the warehouse with smoke.

We were closed for 4 or so hours. It's nobody's fault, these things happen.

No, it was planned. They had a poster up saying that the store will be closed on the 30th and other random days they might not have items. I wish they would put it on the site instead of waiting for people to drive there to find out that they are closed.
 

giantpinkbunnyhead

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tigerdirect can lick my big ones. I've never seen an online retailer so blatantly excited to rip off Alaskans.

THey quoted me 48.82 to ship 1GB of RAM via ground shipping. 48 DOLLARS!! Thinking it was a fluke, I again called upon them when I needed a 19" LCD. Their ground shipping charge? 95 bucks. That same monitor only incurred a 28.00 charge to ship from Newegg.

 

Shawn

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Originally posted by: giantpinkbunnyhead
tigerdirect can lick my big ones. I've never seen an online retailer so blatantly excited to rip off Alaskans.

THey quoted me 48.82 to ship 1GB of RAM via ground shipping. 48 DOLLARS!! Thinking it was a fluke, I again called upon them when I needed a 19" LCD. Their ground shipping charge? 95 bucks. That same monitor only incurred a 28.00 charge to ship from Newegg.

Maybe that's because Tiger Direct is located in FL and Newegg is located in CA????
 

ta8689

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Originally posted by: Shawn
Originally posted by: giantpinkbunnyhead
tigerdirect can lick my big ones. I've never seen an online retailer so blatantly excited to rip off Alaskans.

THey quoted me 48.82 to ship 1GB of RAM via ground shipping. 48 DOLLARS!! Thinking it was a fluke, I again called upon them when I needed a 19" LCD. Their ground shipping charge? 95 bucks. That same monitor only incurred a 28.00 charge to ship from Newegg.

Maybe that's because Tiger Direct is located in FL and Newegg is located in CA????

Tiger has an equally sized warehouse in Naperville, IL
 

giantpinkbunnyhead

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Originally posted by: Shawn
Originally posted by: giantpinkbunnyhead
tigerdirect can lick my big ones. I've never seen an online retailer so blatantly excited to rip off Alaskans.

THey quoted me 48.82 to ship 1GB of RAM via ground shipping. 48 DOLLARS!! Thinking it was a fluke, I again called upon them when I needed a 19" LCD. Their ground shipping charge? 95 bucks. That same monitor only incurred a 28.00 charge to ship from Newegg.

Maybe that's because Tiger Direct is located in FL and Newegg is located in CA????

That doesn't matter with Alaska. Alaska is a separate zone altogether when shipping from the Lower 48. Same price from FL or ME or WA.