You think Tigerdirect.com has good deals sometimes? Think again...

goahead

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Here's a copy of an Email I sent to Tigerdirect.com's president today. Try to fathom what I went through... If you are not even mad after reading this, I don't know what is wrong with you.

Hello,

I have been an internet shopper for over 3 years. I have spent thousands and thousands of dollars throughout these years as an internet shopper.

Of all the purchases I have ever made through the internet, I must say that Tigerdirect was ABSOLUTE worst experience that I ever faced as a consumer.

I have bought a fan, motherboard, CPU package deal which was on the home address of your website. When I received these items and tried to install to my computer, they never worked. It kept on crashing. I have never had this problem before. I thought it was my computer's problem. I thought I could eliminate this problem by formatting my hard drive. This was a big sacrifice since my hard drive contained gigs of data.

After formatting, the new cpu & motherboard kept on crashing. After holding on to the customer service person of total of 2 hours (I timed it on my stopwatch), the problem was the the CPU & the motherboard are incompatible!!! My sales rep told me that the fan it came with is a single fan. Since I wanted a double fan, I bought a separate fan from the package deal. When I received the package, the package came with a double fan! The rep lied to me that it only comes with a single so I bought an extra useless double fan!

Why would your company advertise on your home internet address to sell incompatible items from first place???? I cannot imagine how many returns the company have received. I have spent over 10 hours reinstalling Windows, all the programs, etc. back into my hard drive.

Then even your assistant manager, Tony, couldn't even give me a money back after what I explained to him what happend to me. One of your reps even hung up the phone on me and I was polite!

I also obtained one of the company's supervisor's telephone number, Mr. Montez, which was given by one of the sales reps. I left him three messages to complaint, but he NEVER called back.

I finally received a Return Authorization # after being on the phone for 3 hours. I have been waiting for my "store credit" for over two weeks now, and I didn't get it yet. I left two emails to customer service, but they NEVER responded!!!

Could you imagine the entire senario that I went through which is written above? What would you do if you went through what I went through. This was the absolute worst experience I have ever been through buying computer parts.

I will post my experience all over the internet newsgroups. See how they will feel.

Please improve your customer service. It's incredible how unhelpful they are.

 

Cybordolphin

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Sounds like a horrible company to deal with. Thanks for sharing the info.

Did you know what you were buying before hand? Did you know what CPU and what Motherboard you were purchasing? I am only a little confused how the CPU and motherboard were not compatible.
Many would have realized this before making the purchase. Unless the CPU and Motherboard were sold as a "kit" or "package", and no mention of the CPU type/model nor mention of the Motherboard type/model.

It sounds like the sales/customer service department is clueless. Are you still certain that the CPU and motherboard are NOT compatible? What gave you this closure to the problem? The customer service department? Are you sure you can trust ANYTHING they tell you at this point?

What is the Name and model on the Motherboard..... and what is the type/model on the CPU?

You probably are fed up.... and may not want to answer..... but it might help us.

Thanks.
 

uOoGLy

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Have you tried complaining the the better business bureau?
Hope everything turns out okay in the end.
 

mikeford

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If this was your worst experience in three years and thousands of dollars of purchases, you were VERY lucky. Welcome to the real world.

Sorry to be blunt, but you leave out all the details that would allow us to look at your transaction and see if your complaint has merit. A general understanding of the really cheap deals is that they often come with LOUSY customer service, and misleading sales reps who have no clue other than a spiff sheet (list of items that pay a bonus to sales reps).
 

mdplayer00

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I feel sorry for you. But unfortunately, your thread is not a hot deal. You should try and post in the brag & moan thread. The mods will lock this thread real soon.
 

SodBuster

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I agree wholeheartedly that these butt heads are the worst. I had a run-in with them 7 years ago in Dallas, during an in-person inquiry about a product I wanted to buy. The customer service dickhead was totally disrespectful. I would bet that they train employees to be pure aholes. They rarely have any good deals, and if ya happen to run into one, good luck if anything goes wrong. STAY AWAY FROM THESE WEANIES!!
 

Bob/NYC

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To be fair...what CPU and mobo combo did you order and was it their package?
They (CSR) refunded me a $5 overcharge, credited the same day as the charge.
Means little, but < 100% suck.
 

morkinva

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yes, I too have experienced this annoying company's non-existent customer service. A few years ago at work I bought a system from their flashy catalog (whose pages are better used to clean your windows). Something went wrong (what a surprise) and the only way to talk to a human was to pretend I wanted to buy more stuff.

VERY BAD COMPANY !! KEEP AWAY AT ALL COSTS !!


a most irritating phrase which I will remember for all time when they put you on hold: &quot;thank you for continuing to hold....&quot;
 

JahWren

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Be prepared to be spammed mercilessly. Once upon a time TigerDirect got ahold of my email address, even though I never bought a thing from them. For the last three years I get a tigerdirect spam at least 4 times a week. Of course they all have the &quot;click here to unsusbscribe&quot; thing at the end, but they never, ever honor it. Like most spammers, they probably use it to confirm a live account. They've also sold their spam list to other companies like x10.com and such that star their spam with &quot;tigerdirect has recommended you [for our spam]&quot;

So now anything with the word &quot;tigerdirect&quot; in it goes straight into my trash.
 

SemperFi

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I just bought several items from them. A prodcessor MB combo Athlon classic 950Mhz, Voodoo3, and a Case.

The Mobo combo took almost a month. They did send a post card saying it was delayed. They didn't send an email telling that it was shipped. I sent them an email the day before recieving it saying if they could not tell me when I will get this item I want to cancel. I recieved nothing back

The voodoo and the case were shipped promptly with a confirmation email of shipment. The case was a POS!!! the front cover plastic hooks wouldn't hold it on. I took it off and tried to bend in place for a sung fit. Hook broke POS!

Anyhow the mobo combo worked fine and I am happy with it.

I would say if you find something really cheap it is worth taking a chance. If you are only saving a couple of bucks go spend extra elsewhere.
 

TatSteeL

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goahead I can image what its like to be ripped like that man trust me I've been through troubles like that before but I guess wasn't as bad as yours. So ever since I got ripped I only buy from trusted vendors like buy.com, amazon = sucks they also did ripped me when I buy a toy as a present for my Nephew, they send a similar i mean really alike except the one I bough was $45 and they send the one that's only $29, the other one was buying 50pk 12X cdr TDK but the send me 8X cdrs.
 

Dealtarget

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I too have a horror story from Tiger Direct involving a laptop. I will not go into detail but I will offer my warning to stay away from TD.
 

render

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I don't get this.

My question is: Why did you buy from tigerdirect?

Good price: No

Good customer service: No

Good resellerratings: No

no combo $hit.. make one for yourself
 

fong718

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i bought the athlon 900 with fan and motherboard combo from them for 199. it said 1-2 weeks shipped and i got it the middle of the first week, and theres been nothing wrong with it really. guess maybe once in a while they do something right.
 

Bigdude

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I bought 21 notebook computers from them a couple years ago, they were a good price with lots of features other notebooks didn't have at the time, it was their store brand, actually built by Everex. Well after a couple months, they started to break, displays, motherboards etc, the first few they repaired or exchanged quickly, then they started giving trouble, said they were out of parts, would call back etc, after much complaining, they replaced a couple dead notebooks with brand new CTX's, that were more powerfull, then they said don't call back, we won't replace anymore. I was tired of dealing with them, so I cannibalized the rest to keep them running.
 

goahead

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The package deal consists of:
AMD 950Mhz Thunderbird CPU and Soyo SY-K7VIA Slot 1 MB and double fan. I thought it was a great deal for $199. What a waste of time and money.
 

bnummerdor

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A few years back I bought a system from them and after 9 hours total on the phone, 3 new motherboards, 4 sticks of RAM and 2 video cards, and 5 installs of windows it finally booted!
 

istguru

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I had a similar bad experience, I order a laptop that was advertised and I called back in a week wondering where my product was and they said it was no longer in stock and would no longer be carried, I asked why they did'nt call, they had no answer but offered me a similar model for slightly more. Me being a moron and needing the laptop asap decided to purchase it. Low and behold that one did'nt come either. I called to cancel thinking I did and when I recieved my credit card statement they charged me for both, had to call again to get this straight. They were not even a help in this matter, I had to call my credit card company and get them to hadle it. And then after I got that straight, i got like three charges for magazine subscriptions they tried to sell me while on the phone with them trying to resolve the issues. I once again had to call my cc company to get charges reversed. My point, is NEVER EVER DO BUSINESS WITH THEM. (only perk is that I got a couple maazine subscriptions for free because they kept sending them even after the charges were reversed, i figured I deserved this for all my hassle.
 

bigdoggy

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Whow I ordered the 150 deal with the Epox board, but I dealt with epox, they finally gave me a magic number to use when calling tiger direct and they gave me an rma #, they tried hard to sell me the 199 deal, but I declined. My two cents is that Tiger came up with a deal using cheap, non
stable mobos. Dumb on my part as I ordered a cutting edge MSI Mobo and Duron 800 from Monarch for a little over two hundred. The fifty bux I saved at Tiger, could have been earned at MacDonalds at minimum wage for the time I spent tryng to get the combo to work.
I think as a consumer, I f-cked up by not researching the resellers ratings prior to dealing with Tiger. :(
 

PG

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That's a Slot A MB, how did you get a socket CPU to even fit? The only Slot A T-Birds were either 650 or 700.

If it was a 950 and a Slot A CPU, then it was a Classic Athlon and does seem incompatible based on the info from the Soyo USA website. Soyo's website says the MB only supports a max 900 MHz CPU Classic Athlon.

Also are you sure that you used a big enough power supply? Was it Athlon approved?

I am sorry for the trouble you went through, but you need to be more careful and make sure the stuff you buy will be compatible. In less than one minute I just found Soyo's website and I can see that it clearly supports a max CPU speed of 900.
 

poolshark

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This is an inexpensive lesson. Now you know to check out resellerratings before you buy from these companies.
Now that you have gotten burnt from these scum bags make sure you
leave their deserved feedback at resellerratings...

 

HKSturboKID

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I almost ordered from them until I hear a lot of horror stories from our fellow Anandtechies. Thank goodness.