[TriLUG] Bye bye Tiger

[Ken MacKenzie via TriLUG]

I rarely went into the store.  I would check them online for price shopping
and a long time ago I would stop in to see something in person just to be
sure.  I thought CompUSA bought them out.  Anyway last time I was in there
was to see some Chromebooks in person before I bought one.  While in there
I heard a rep overselling someone to death with garbage reasons.  I don't
recall ever hearing so egregious an example of said tactics there before
and I left before I chimed in in a way that they might ask me to leave.

Ken

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Matt Flyer via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> Sounds like how competition and marketplaces are supposed to work.  The
> inefficient fail and go out of business.  The downside is that it leaves a
> vacuum, but one has to ask if they really filled much demand and how badly
> they will or won't be missed.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On May 29, 2015, at 3:34 PM, Brian Henning via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
> wrote:
>
> >> one warning on Fry's, they mostly repackage return item and sell as
> >> a new item.
> >
> > TD did this too, which strikes me as an unethical business practice
> which should be illegal if it isn't already.
> >
> > In the days of TD on Capital Blvd, they also had the crappiest inventory
> system ever.  Several times, the website said some number in stock, only
> for me to get there and find zero in stock.  After a couple of those
> experiences, I called to ask if an item was in stock; the clerk checked the
> computer and reported some number in stock, only for me to get there and
> find zero in stock.  Finally I started asking the clerk on the phone to
> visually confirm stock before I'd go, and more than once the clerk would
> come back on the line and report that there were actually zero in stock.
> >
> > Most of the people that I encountered working at Tiger Direct also
> didn't know their [redacted] from holes in the ground.
> >
> > I’m not sad to hear of Tiger's departure at all.
> > --
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