Scion Of Faith

So I received a telephone call about two weeks ago from a representative from TigerDirect apologizing for the experience I had ordering from them. On the call he promised to give me a 30$ gift card and refund my shipping costs. I was pleased to hear that this had gotten some traction from administrators at Tiger. He said I should receive those items soon. two weeks later and I haven't heard nor seen anything I can only surmise it was another jerking of my chain by TigerDirect. I take that back I did get a standard please rate our service email. ~smirk~

From this day forward I will stay loyal to newegg.com. I received a 50$ gift card from work last week for being a superstar. The gift card was administered by GiftCertificates.com and the only hardware provider I saw was TigerDirect.com.

So I made my gift card selection and received the confirmation code and went to their(tiger) website. I selected the item I wanted and went through their checkout process, their documentation says you will prompted for payment types and that where you will select gift card. I went through the steps and lo and behold I ordered my item but was never prompted for a gift card code (cha - ching).

I was livid called support and was told in no uncertain terms could i have my CC credit back for the balance, EVEN though it was there system failure. I had to order AGAIN and OVER THE PHONE (cha-ching) to be able to use the gift card and receive the 50 credit. This is such a dishonest process and for tiger to be completely unapologetic is unacceptable. So from here on out they will not see a drop of my cash ever agian. and I strongly recommend others to learn from my mistake.

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My thoughts on this are as follows. Back in the day of playstation/nes you could buy a decent rpg like xenogears or final fantasy for about 30 dollars, if i remember correctly, both games gave you minimally 50 hours of play time and were complete games delivered by the developer. Today we have been delivered pretty looking games without substance, substance is added later with additional game packs. to get the full release of GTA it would cost you well over a hundred dollars. Marvel Ultimate alliance 54.00$ it only features 20-30 hours game play. console game have become more expensive as well as the consoles themselves. but the bargain/value has disappeared. So the only consumer reaction is too either not buy the games or seek illegal means of gaining content. I won't call it anything that what it is (stealing) but I can see the reason for it and applaud the efforts of the modding community.

I have lost 8 years of email. I trusted in a USB hard drive as a backup device and it died before i could move the backed up mail folder off it. its not quite as bad as a family member dying , but I lost several letter from my now wife I would have liked to have kept to show our children. Everyone and I mean everyone needs to backup to a trusted physical device as much as possible.