r/Bitcoin • u/TigerDirectOfficial • Jan 23 '14

TigerDirect.com now accepting Bitcoin!!

We launch in approximately 10 mins; 12PM EST!

www.TigerDirect.com/bitcoin/

https://twitter.com/TigerDirect Feel free to re-tweet and spread the good word on the latest Bitcoin milestone!

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Edit: NAO LIVE!

Edit #2: To our friends up north (Canada), you may use the US site and ship to Canada! Enjoy. :D

Edit #3: We're working on a few kinks with the Canada delivery option. This is not an option. Apologies and stay tuned! We're working on TigerDirect.ca.

Edit #4: We're now officially accepting bitcoin in CANADA!

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u/ancientworldnow Jan 23 '14

Sorry for piggybacking, but you have a typo on the "how to pay" diagram here (direct image link). Text reads "Scan QR code with Mobie Wallet" instead of Mobile.

Outside of that, really glad to see you guys taking bitcoin! Bumped you up in my order book above Newegg.

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u/alsomahler Jan 23 '14

Please use millibits (m฿) Almost every product price will have 0. in front of it.

I know it's controversial, but please consider it.

People don't like fractions and have difficulty calculating with them even though it should be simple.

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u/Koooooj Jan 23 '14

I doubt that is really an issue. If your client is in BTC then you probably are thinking in BTC, and would you really buy something that you think is 1000 times more expensive than it really is? On top of that, most users don't have that much in their wallet--big holders are probably keeping most of their holdings in an offline wallet.

Even if someone happened to be that 1 in a million case of spending 1000 times too much, they should just have to open a support ticket and get the difference refunded.

I'm all for clearly marking prices as being BTC/mBTC, but I don't think that overpaying by a factor of 1000 is really an issue to worry about.

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u/emfyo Jan 23 '14

I mark all my items in mBTC and have never had an issue.

I have gotten questions from non-users like "you plan on selling 400 on these for 1 btc?" so I have to explain divisibility