I gotta disagree about tigerdirect. All my dealings with them have been average to terrible. Usually you get what you order, but if anything goes wrong like a mis-shipment or DOA, be prepared to bend over and take it like pee-wee herman in the federal pen. I've been on their spam list for 3+ years now, despite numerous attempts to be removed. They even rent out their spamlist and tell the rentees that everybody on the list are voluntary spam recipients (I know this because tigerdirect thinks my email address is tigerdirect@mydomain, so I can track them by the To: address, I ended up talking to the advertising buyer for citibank or nation's bank (on of them big banks) about why they were spamming me using the tigerdirect address, he told me how tigerdirect was presenting the spam list to renters, he cancelled their spam contract with tigerdirect after hearing from me).

I was going to point you to the entry at reselleratings.com for tigerdirect, they used to be down in the less than 2 out of 10 rating level. But oddly enough, in the last six months they've gone from about 600 reviews over the last 4+ years to 1800 reviews. Those 1200 reviews in the last six months make me think astro-turf since they've brought the rating up to 8.5 out of 10. It would be completely in character for tigerdirect to run an astroturf campaign on reselleratings.

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review: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=16219