[2014-01-24] TigerDirect.com now accepts BTC. Get your GPUs with BTC now

C. Bergmann

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Quote from: bobdude17 on January 26, 2014, 05:09:49 PM

Quote from: C. Bergmann on January 26, 2014, 06:10:32 AM

Do they accept bitcoins or dollars?

Say, are the bitcoins changed immediately by coinbase / bitpay?

If so, if have to congrat you americans: You now have the option to by bitcoins by coinbase and order computers via coinbase. Great! (for coinbase

Don't be stupid. Large companies holding on to the coins right now would be idiotic. The economy just isn't there yet. They need to pay their suppliers in dollars, for now. And yes it still counts as accepting bitcoin. What Overstock/TD does with the coins is irrelevent. To the consumer the transaction is already done. All their goods are available for purchase with bitcoin. This is an amazing first step. What is your country doing?

Yea, its right that consumers now could buy many things with btc, and this is great.

About my country, which calls itself the most technically-gifted of the world - we do nothing. The best you can buy here with btc are pizza and t-shirts.

But you have to admit that the way money goes to tiger is ironical:
§ --> coinbase --> btc --> coinbase --> $

NotSoSerious

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So has anybody actually used this yet?

I can't see any way to see the price of an item in BTC BEFORE you place the order?

bobdude17

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Quote from: C. Bergmann on January 26, 2014, 06:10:32 AM

Do they accept bitcoins or dollars?

Say, are the bitcoins changed immediately by coinbase / bitpay?

If so, if have to congrat you americans: You now have the option to by bitcoins by coinbase and order computers via coinbase. Great! (for coinbase

Don't be stupid. Large companies holding on to the coins right now would be idiotic. The economy just isn't there yet. They need to pay their suppliers in dollars, for now. And yes it still counts as accepting bitcoin. What Overstock/TD does with the coins is irrelevent. To the consumer the transaction is already done. All their goods are available for purchase with bitcoin. This is an amazing first step. What is your country doing?

Zeal0t

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To the moon?

This is so epic, I feel the need to buy something for a new mining rig immediately lol.

C. Bergmann

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Do they accept bitcoins or dollars?

Say, are the bitcoins changed immediately by coinbase / bitpay?

If so, if have to congrat you americans: You now have the option to by bitcoins by coinbase and order computers via coinbase. Great! (for coinbase

coinerbit

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Really good for BTC specially since they have different hardware options that can be even beneficial to miners.

Faince1985

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And FANCY.COM started accepting BTC's too (from 25/1 I think but not so much publicity) . But for GPU's and electronics I think Overstock would be the best option Wink

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Well then explain how Overstock did it fairly quickly? Let me tell you something I am little more in the loop of bitcoin stuff than you, I kinda know what happened and if want to use them great, but they are just using a PR marketing ploy, they weren't working on this as long as you think they were, and they had a heads up overstock was doing this so they kicked into high gear.

This "they aren't true bitcoin believers so I won't buy from" holier-than-thou shit is so stupid. Grow the fuck up, this isn't a religious debate.

HAIL SATOSHI! BURN THE HERETIC!

Oooo! More hardware, that's awesome! Cheesy

dave111223

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When i visit tigerdirect.com I get:

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Access Denied
You don't have permission to access "http://www.tigerdirect.com/" on this server.

Reference #18.ca75f8d5.1390572179.819faa8

RodeoX

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The revolution will be monetized!

Sorry NewEgg, Tiger is getting my money now.

EDIT: Wow, from the looks of their front page they're all in.

LiteCoinGuy

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great, more and more bigger retailers are joining.

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Quote from: aigeezer on January 23, 2014, 01:59:57 PM

That's great news. I buy from them almost as often as from Newegg. No sign of it on their Canadian site yet though.

Only: "Systemax VeriSign Paypal Mastercard Secure Verified by VISA"

They said from within Canada you can use the US site and they are working on adding Canada shipping to the US site!

bassclef

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Awesome news! There's actually a brick & mortar Tigerdirect in my town.

SirWilliam

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And another thing...It can take time for a large corporation to clear an entirely new payment system with their legal department and accountants. The tax implications alone must freak out the shysters and the bookkeepers...

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Quote from: DaRude on January 23, 2014, 01:52:34 PM

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They are kinda too late to the game, overstock overshadowed them by a mile. If they listened awhile ago, they would have had all that press, now no one really cares.

True, they could've had a bigger spot light if they were first. But you can't argue that wider acceptance and more positive news is not a good thing for BTC.

I never said positive of news is not good thing for BTC, but I am just saying they had so much time to do, and we begged them a lot and they brushed us off and now overstock accepts it and they go and accept it. Just saying I am not going to be buying from them for that reason, they never believed in it and thought they would get a huge press because of it. I am glad they don't.

So you're not happy with them just because they weren't the first one? I say being the second major retailer to adopt BTC is still pretty good, before newegg, amazon, ebay etc... Which puts a bit more pressure on the rest to follow

They aren't major just for the record, they are far from it actually, but they are suppose to be geeky and sell computer hardware and they didn't believe in bitcoin so yeah. just my opinion.

Man, your ignorance is shocking. You aren't American, nor a native English-speaker are you... TigerDirect is majorly major. They have 2 Billion plus in Revenue a year, Overstock only has half of that. EVERYONE BUYS FROM TIGERDIRECT at some point if they work with computers or are into electronics. My father, a programmer, must have spent 10s of Ks over the years with them. I have bought dozens of things from them, even if I don't work directly in information tech.

TigerDirect is just a MAJOR discount electronics and computer retailer. Period.

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They are kinda too late to the game, overstock overshadowed them by a mile. If they listened awhile ago, they would have had all that press, now no one really cares.

Which is very indicative of how far Bitcoin has already come.

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They are kinda too late to the game, overstock overshadowed them by a mile. If they listened awhile ago, they would have had all that press, now no one really cares.

Too late to join a financial revolution? Don't think so.

They weren't the first? Who cares. Perhaps they were not only after a PR bump, but simply opening themselves up to a multi-billion dollar market space that has brought success to other retailers like Overstock.

aigeezer

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That's great news. I buy from them almost as often as from Newegg. No sign of it on their Canadian site yet though.

Only: "Systemax VeriSign Paypal Mastercard Secure Verified by VISA"

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Quote from: DaRude on January 23, 2014, 12:41:18 PM

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They are kinda too late to the game, overstock overshadowed them by a mile. If they listened awhile ago, they would have had all that press, now no one really cares.

True, they could've had a bigger spot light if they were first. But you can't argue that wider acceptance and more positive news is not a good thing for BTC.

I never said positive of news is not good thing for BTC, but I am just saying they had so much time to do, and we begged them a lot and they brushed us off and now overstock accepts it and they go and accept it. Just saying I am not going to be buying from them for that reason, they never believed in it and thought they would get a huge press because of it. I am glad they don't.

So you're not happy with them just because they weren't the first one? I say being the second major retailer to adopt BTC is still pretty good, before newegg, amazon, ebay etc... Which puts a bit more pressure on the rest to follow

kjlimo

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I suppose it's January 24th somewhere?

Does Tigerdirect sell time machines?

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