TigerDirect Scam

Or error?

~Gooda~

An error costing people an extra $300? They better fix this.

Coould be a typo? should this be in deals thread?

TigerDirect is one big fail boat, the deal wit te 260 and the e8400

TigerDirect is pretty reputable. I got my Phenom 9650 on TigerDirect for less than on Newegg.

I've seen this happen with TigerDirect a million times. They just don't pay attention to their prices.

lol, the Q6600 is the same in that screenie! both of them listed are priced differently...though, not as much as the one you highlighted.

edit: so is the Q8200...there must be something else going on..are you sure one doesnt come with an aftermarket cooler or something?

They've failed me before and I never went back. There MIRs.. But I guess I am a fan of newegg, not thinking about the price. O_O

That much for a Q9550? I got mine for $299 at Microcenter a while ago.

Tigerdirect charges sales tax for us in texas so there deals are never worth it for me over newegg.

Really, it's not a scam. It's expensive, but realistically they charge as much as they want for the parts at any time.

It's up to the customer whether or not the listed price is worth the item in consideration.

If the customer can choose to not participate, or get the item from elsewhere for a similar or less price, it is not a scam.

If you go to the site, you'll see the difference is OEM vs Retail. They'll sell for whatever it costs them plus markup, and it just so happens that the OEM 9550 costs significantly more than the retail version, but makes sense when you consider that Intel doesn't really target the OEM versions for retail distribution. The manufacturers aren't paying that much for them!
You'd need to be pretty clueless to pay almost twice as much..
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