I don’t know if many people know this but Tigerdirect.com has 5 outlet stores in the United States. It just so happens that one of the stores is near my home (45min-1hour). I shop there very frequently keeping to myself mostly b/c their sales associate are not the smartest. If you think about that it makes sense why would a middle age man work a 8$ an hour job if he had the goods up stairs, anyways, I purchased a DFI LANparty NFII Ultra B motherboard and brought it home and it was DOA. I tried everything in my power to get this thing to work. So the next morning I take this pile of junk back to the store and the sales associate is getting ready to return my stuff for an exchange when is buddy at the other counter tells him no. It turns out you need a RMA number to return hardware….that’s fine you have to have rules to run a business. So I ask to talk to the manager to see if I can’t ask for a favor because this week along I have dropped 3000 bucks in there.
This is where it gets good……
This guy comes out of the back with a crazy wicked attitude; mind you I have yet to say one word to this gentleman. I plea my story and he says no and walks away while I am in mid sentence….no I am a little upset. I ask the sales associate to use the phone to see if DFI is open to get the number save my self a drive if I can, makes sense to me you be the jugde. so I dial 9 for an outside and all of a sudden I get pushed down and I see this manager with the phone above his head and he throws it down to the ground and it breaks everywhere…..now I am past upset and have moved into dumbfounded
So I leave and go to a nearby store and call the police. The police show up and take his side of the story over mine. And b/c I am a kid that’s the way it went. So as the cop is leaving I ask him so if I would have pushed him would you have cuffed me and put me in the back of the car and he said that employee’s are protected under special laws!?!
Now I decide to cut my loses and just leave I call tiger back for the corporate office b/c I will have the last laugh on this guy. And I inform him that I am never shopping there again. This is what the jerk a$$ says to me. We don’t need your snot nose punk’s business or your friends. I don’t know about you guys/gals but I take that statement personal. If you have ever been jerked around by a business this is your chance to grab them where it hurts.
Boycott Tigerdirect.com
this is our chance to stand up for ourselves.
Tigerdirect alternatives
www.newegg.com http://outpost.com/
These guys have good deals most of the time. Just head to
www.pricewatch.com and always make sure you look up your stores on resellerratings.com
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