Looks like there’s a pretty good history here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TigerDirect
Not good when your Wikipedia article has a paragraph titled: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TigerDirect#Founders_convicted_of_fraud I didn’t realize that along the way, they had acquired assets from the defunct CompUSA and Circuit City. It’s also amazing to see sale prices like $14 million, at a time when we see valuations like $100 billion for Instagram. Heck, one of us could probably have raised $14 million. Elon Musk just agreed to a fine bigger than that. From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Mathew Howard Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2018 9:29 AM To: AFMUG <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] neobits I think the original TigerDirect pretty much did go under, and it was taken over by a different company a few years ago. On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 7:27 AM Ken Hohhof <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Website seems same as always. Still good prices on Tripp-Lite surge strips. I had some bad experiences with Newegg several years back and won’t buy from them, but never had trouble with Tiger Direct. So they may look like a sleazy discount store, but I’d recommend them if they have what you want. From: AF <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On Behalf Of Tim Withrow AF Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2018 6:24 AM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Cc: Tim Withrow <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] neobits Someone is still posting ads on their tigerdirect Twitter feed for their items for sale. May be an automated bot. https://mobile.twitter.com/TigerDirect?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor _____ On Saturday, September 29, 2018 Ken Hohhof <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Tiger Direct is gone? That was my favorite source for surge strips (we need them sometimes at customer installs). I’m talking about mail order, not their outlet store by Aurora. From: AF <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On Behalf Of Steve Jones Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2018 9:13 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] neobits newegg killed tigerdirect, then went to crap.... irritates me. I got a tax id for tiger direct to get the better pricing, then they went down and illinois ket sending me 0 dollar bills and percentage penalties of 0 dollars. i ended up having to send the state a zero dollar check over it On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 7:01 PM Seth Mattinen <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: On 9/29/18 4:44 PM, Steve Jones wrote: > Theyre a glorified ebay store. tried to be newegg and failed. have > suspiciously low prices and pay an SEO well to get in results Newegg feels like they are/were trying to become Amazon when they started added all kinds of random shit to sell. I liked them better when it was just computer stuff. -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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