TigerDirect Considers Bitcoin As A Payment Option
Online electronics retailer TigerDirect just may be considering adding bitcoin as a payment option. That is according to a tweet the company sent out this afternoon in response to a tweet from user @Bitcoinstore. The tweet reads, "How bad do you want it?", with a request to retweet and essentially beg for the company to accept the digital currency. The move would give TigerDirect a considerable amount of publicity, especially in the Bitcoin community. TigerDirect isn't the only retailer considering the digital currency. Just recently, NewEgg stated they themselves were considering bitcoin....
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TigerDirect now accepts Bitcoin payments. If you're going to shop at TigerDirect, Bitcoin is now a payment option during the checkout process. The online electronics giant currently sells over 200,000 different products over the Internet, and they are the first large electronics retailer to accept Bitcoin payments from their customers. This move makes a lot of sense for a company that focuses on selling electronics over the Internet, and some will be surprised that it did not come sooner. This could force Newegg, another major electronics retailer, to make a similar move. Why Accept....
Another major online retailer has announced that it is now accepting bitcoin. This time it's TigerDirect. The company revealed the news on Thursday to much fanfare on its site, with an educational guide to bitcoin and incentives for GPU card shoppers to "Start Mining with AMD". TigerDirect will use BitPay as its payment processor, becoming that company's largest client to date. Bitcoin will be accepted only for online purchases, not in physical stores. TigerDirect's parent company, Systemax Inc. (which includes Canadian subsidiary TigerDirect.ca) is a Fortune 100 company with annual....
Technology retailer TigerDirect has announced that it is now accepting bitcoin payments via its Canadian e-commerce portal TigerDirect.ca and on all of its tablet and mobile websites. The company first announced that it would take bitcoin payments in January. At the time, TigerDirect said it was interested in offering its customers innovative methods of payment. Since then, TigerDirect has reported more than $1m in bitcoin-denominated sales as of early March. TigerDirect is partnering with BitPay for the Canadian rollout, according to a statement from the company. Steven Leeds,....
Save your loonies and toonies... Spend Bitcoin at Tigerdirect.ca instead! As revealed today in a press release and via various social media platforms, Tigerdirect.ca is now accepting Bitcoin. TigerDirect.com first started accepting Bitcoin from American customers in January of 2014. Many international customers lamented the fact that all these websites claiming Bitcoin acceptance were only accepting American's bitcoins: Bitcoin is an intrinsically international currency. TigerDirect has sold over $1,000,000 USD worth of merchandise for Bitcoin since January. Press Release: TigerDirect....
Popular electronics retailer TigerDirect began accepting bitcoin earlier this year in January, and it's made an absolute splash in the community, making the company the second-largest to adopt bitcoin after Overstock.com. It's been successful, too. In the first day of acceptance, TigerDirect brought in a whopping $250,000 worth of bitcoin payments, and by the time March rolled around, the company had managed to bring in over $1 million in bitcoin sales. Today, the company has announced they are bringing bitcoin payments to their Canadian arm, TigerDirect.ca. Effective immediately, the....