Editor’s Take: Watch Your Back This Season

Compound that with another key problem that Tiger, a division of Systemax, faces: A good portion of what Tiger sells is easily resellable — illegitimately of course. “So,” Fiorentino continued, “we try to go out of our way to make sure we’re not a victim of too much credit card fraud.”

Tiger operates 30 former CompUSA stores, mails more than 1 million catalogs a month, and cancels $1 million or more worth of fraudulent orders per month. “We have our own very sophisticated systems,” Fiorentino said about Tiger’s internal antifraud efforts, “but still, I wished we could share our fraud data with others and they with us.”