[2014-06-17] newsBTC: TigerDirect Bitcoin Payment Acceptance Expands to Canada

[bryant.coleman]

http://newsbtc.com/2014/06/17/tigerdirect-bitcoin-payment-acceptance-expands-canada/

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 company’s Canadian customers can take advantage of buying their wares with bitcoin, which is made possible in partnership with Atlanta-based BitPay.

[aigeezer]

I can confirm this. I just got an ad from them which gave me warm fuzzies at first. The teaser headline was "We Now Accept Bitcoin, plus $299 Bitcoin Miner Deal"

The miner deal turns out to be a (cough) "BFL  BTJ-102313408 Butterfly Labs BF0010G Bitcoin Miner".

My warm fuzzies are gone, but it's still nice to see tiger.ca in the game finally.

[epere]

I just wanna say it is pretty awesome how TigerDirect  took the subtle approach to accepting bitcoins on homepage

[bambino]

“TigerDirect has taken an interest in bitcoin not only as a payment option but also a new product line through the sale of bitcoin mining equipment,”

IMO, it is one of the most attractive reasons of  BTC using.