Meanwhile, sitting here waiting on Tiger to release the authorization so I can get my PayPal funds back into my balance and useable again… lol
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Deals: M1 iPad Air Hits Record-Low Prices at TigerDirect, Starting at $313.99 (48% Off)
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You can laugh all what you want, but this kind of people is the one that make things change in this world. Doing nothing gets nothing accomplished. At least he is trying to do express his protest against crooked websites offer's. As IT Manager with long years of experience I don't believe for a second that a big website like TigerDirect doesn't have any kind of monitoring to avoid those issues. Sorry I run a very small website for a small company and I have monitoring tools, so don't give me that BS.
I fail to understand the anger towards this deal. Sure, it was a to good to be true deal and it turned out that way. Orders were placed and quickly cancelled the next business day. Some even got lucky price matching with BB.
Anyone else still have their charges pending and and not get any type of cancellation email?
I do... No emails and charges are still pending in PayPal.. When I check order status on the TD website it shows cancelled though. My paypal balance is $0.00 though.. I just have 2 transactions that just say authorization.
Tiger cancelled my orders, BUT I have pending charges that ARE counting against my available credit on the credit cards I used, as well as still as pending on paypal. And there's no way I can dispute this 'pending charge' on the paypal website. This is ridiculous - on the phone with Tiger, then credit card company, then if necessary paypal. And Tiger won't answer the phone - on hold forever. Great company.
The only BS involved here, is the assertion that ordering something at a too-good-to-be-true price, and getting that order canceled, somehow “damages” the purchaser in the process (this includes me; my M2 iPad Pro 12.9” order got canceled).
The ones who SHOULD be upset, are Best Buy and others who had to match the BS price. THEY actually lost out on this fiasco.
I don't have an account either, but there was a link in the original email that allowed me to put in the order number and my email address to check the order status.
Ah that failed for me the first time i tried it… and just failed again saying the zipcode doesn’t match for some reason….. i just checked my chase account and the pending credit card stuff is gone but my PayPal acccount still says authorization in progress on everything and the PayPal account credit is gone
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Exactly. They're doing exactly what Circuit City used to do*. They advertise a false price to drive business to their website in hopes you buy other stuff and just cancel your iPad.
*Circuit City would falsely advertise prices in their weekly fliers and every Sunday night store associates had to print and place "ad corrections" all around the store (there were usually a dozen or so per week). These corrections would explain the price in the ad was a "mistake" and the real price was X amount, or X amount with a rebate that took 6 months to get, etc.
Every....single...week...
I personally don't. All modern inventory tools have safeguards to catch this kind of thing. I think its a case of "lets advertise something to drive people to our site in hopes they buy other stuff."
Anything’s possible but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ seems like an awful lot of trouble gathering/canceling the orders, plus the negative publicity. It’d be a stupid move on their part. That said, people do have a tendency to act stupidly sometimes 🙄
Well apparently this isn't their first time: https://www.dealnews.com/features/B...-Canceling-Orders-Left-and-Right/1577317.html
"DealNews has stopped listing any deals from TigerDirect, due to a multitude of complaints we've received about the vendor not fulfilling orders."
You'd think other websites *ahem* would stop listing "deals" from TD. I guess they don't care if they get something out of it. 🤷♂️
Not exactly. They only canceled the iPad purchase….everything else in your shopping cart gets processed.
The bigger issue is deal sites like Slick Deals promoting sham sales.
I checked last night and my United MileagePlus miles from that did get reversed within about a week of the above.
Oh well. I'm not surprised.
I ended up buying an refurb 14-inch M1 Pro MBP via a friend of mine who works at Apple using his friends & family discount. He'd helped me out (same discount) awhile back for a new M1 Mac Mini back in the day.
FWIW, at one point TigerDirect and Circuit City were under the same ownership: https://www.digitalcommerce360.com/2012/11/19/tigerdirect-will-swallow-compusa-and-circuitcity/.
