[TriLUG] TigerDirect is having problems

[Tom Eisenmenger]

It's as much fun as playing the lottery and sometimes the cheap piece of Chinese junk will actually work!

Tom

---- Allen Freeman <knieveltech at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> Eh, just one more example of tigerdirect's customer service sucking. Seriously I don't understand why folks still do business with them.
> 
> --- On Wed, 10/29/08, Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at wm7d.net> wrote:
> From: Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at wm7d.net>
> Subject: [TriLUG] TigerDirect is having problems
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 12:47 AM
> 
> Since tigerdirects website came up earlier...
> 
> I just ordered something through Tigerdirect's webpage and 
> paid with Paypal. The transaction stayed pending in paypal 
> for an hour (rather than getting instant e-mail confirmation 
> from paypal and the vendor). After a couple of rounds of 
> phone calls Tigerdirect admits it's their problem; their 
> machines are down (but still happiely accepting orders 
> apparently) and _I'll_ have to contact paypal to cancel the 
> payment, as the transaction ID will be invalid.
> 
> mutter mutter
> 
> Joe
> 
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