Dell Sues Tiger Direct For Misleading Customers

An anonymous reader writes "Dell is apparently suing popular online retailer Tiger Direct, claiming that Tiger violated the resale contract it had with Dell, which included false advertising, misleading representation and unfair competition. Dell has accused Tiger Direct of selling old and out-dated Dell computers that Tiger Direct purchased from other resellers and then saying they were brand new directly from Dell. They also passed the computers off as still having a full warranty, but the warranties had expired long ago."

What? Tigerdirect? Unethical?

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

Impossible! The only way I'll be willing to believe a story concerning TigerDirect and unethical behavior is if it includes interminable rebate-and-switching...

Strange contract

[kimvette]

Tiger violated its resale contract they had with them which included false advertising, misleading representation and unfair competition

Dell required Tiger to advertise falsely, mislead customers, and compete unfairly? That's an awful strange contract!

(badly worded summary. Obviously. Tiger sucks. IMHO. Carry on.)

What's Tiger Direct?

[captnbmoore]

Never heard of it. Is it where you can get tigers imported directly form the country of origin?

Re:TigerDirect reminds me of AOL

[idontgno]

Me too!

Re:Strange contract

[Kamokazi]

Doesn't sound strange to me...I thought all that was Dell SOP?

Re:Tiger direct or indirect

[nizo]

Sadly I can't recall if it was Newegg or Mwave that included what looked like a prison shank (boxcutter razor blade taped to a PC empty slot bracket) for FREE in one of my orders! Man was I stoked!

Thankfully I didn't find it the hard way.

Dell Sues "Tiger Direct"

[Anonymous Coward]

You should never sue a tiger direct. Tigers take their legal clawses very seriously. It's much safer to negotiate through an intermediary like a monkey or an elephant.

Re:What? Tigerdirect? Unethical?

[jgtg32a]

You either work for Tigerdirect or it was a business decision to treat a few customers very well so they become great supporters who will spread the news.

Re:Tiger direct sucks

[popeye44]

Well for me it's simple, I live in California and pay a recycle tax and sales tax on many items. "I was already recycling electronic gear before the TAX" If I can buy somewhere and not pay tax or shipping and skip the recycle fee I will. Places like TigerDirect give me that option.

Note I do not say TD is a good place.. but I only buy new items from them. I still occasionally will buy from Newegg but it's getting rarer and rarer with new sales tax hike. Of course I do remit the owed amounts of sales tax every year. Just like every good tax payer should. Ahem.

Re:the old saying

[camperdave]

You haven't played Pong 'till you've played it in 0180p.

Re:Tiger direct sucks

[Anonymous Coward]

That would be a nice idea if newegg.com actually delivered anywhere useful [newegg.com].

If you actually lived in the civilized world they would deliver to you.