TigerDirect: Bitcoin is Now Accepted
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....
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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....
TigerDirect Canada seems to be working on bitcoin integration, but for the time being details are sketchy. Shoppers south of the border can already use bitcoins on the company's US site. The tech retailer started accepting the currency back in January, just two months later TigerDirect announced that the total volume of its bitcoin sales had surpassed $1m. Canada could soon join the fun. TigerDirect's bitcoin rollout appears to have been a success in the US and now it appears that it is about to expand to Canada. There is still no official announcement, but newsBTC came across a curious....
TigerDirect made a splash earlier this year when they announced they'd be accepting bitcoin somewhat suddenly at the end of January, making it the second mainstream retailer to embrace the digital currency behind Overstock.com. In under one day, the retailer brought in a whopping $250,000 worth of sales paid for in bitcoin, and just last month, TigerDirect announced they'd surpassed the $1 million mark. But our friends in Canada were watching from the sidelines. Unfortunately, TigerDirect only enabled bitcoin payments here in the United States, leaving shoppers at their Canadian site at....
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....