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Hmm. I was more expecting a bitter \"You won't have Circuit City to kick around any more!\", than that message.
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Hmm. I was more expecting a bitter \"You won't have Circuit City to kick around any more!\", than that message.
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In regards to CompUSA, does anyone really purchase anything on their site? Also, is it true that they still have stores open in TX and FL?
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Yep, CompUSA store in a northern Dallas suburb. I bought a big screen TV a few months back. They actually had the best price at that time.
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@xAnarChisTx: Yeah, there's one in Orlando, FL. I've been there a few times, and it's not all that bad. It's a good place to go if you need odball computer crap. Also, aside from some of the local computer shops, it's the only place in town where you can get actual computer parts like motherboards and what have you. The staff seems nice enough. They even have a greeter at the door, and they are always very pleasant.
I've never really had any real issues with CompUSA to begin with, but then again, i barely ever even shopped there. Hell, I even had a pleasant experience dealing with Geek Squad a couple of days ago. I took my Macbook in for repair, (dead HDD, and the little plastic piece that always breaks was broken), and they fixed it up real nice. Even put in a brand new touchpad and keyboard. Granted, it took them like three weeks to do it, but that was the estimate I was given to begin with, so I knew what to expect. So yeah, whoda thunk it?
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@xAnarChisTx: The one is Fort Lauderdale, FL off US1 is still open and is still branded CompUSA. It seems to have the same confused lazy staff though, perhaps different people with the same attitude.
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@xAnarChisTx: I know of one that's still open in Norfolk, VA. I haven't been there since they laid me off 10 years ago, but they're still up and running.
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@xAnarChisTx: I live about a mile from one in the Dallas area. It's alive and kicking, and frankly, with CC gone, is kinda a nice \"other choice\" for computer stuff, alongside Fry's and Microcenter. Oh and uh, best buy.
@aphex242: That's cool. around me, We used to have just Best Buy, Circuit City, and CompUSA. Now it's just BB, unless I wanted to order everything online. I usually just get stuff from Newegg, and I'm good.
@xAnarChisTx: The tiger store in Durham, NC is going to be called CompUSA soon...so it looks like they're baaaaa-aaaaccck.
@nwaasob: Woah, I didn't know TD had actual stores?
Then again, I live in Upstate NY, where we only have 25% of what the rest of the country has, in terms of retail and food. =P
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@xAnarChisTx: There is one by my work office here by Tampa, FL.. The store has bailed me out a few times for some odds and ends I didn't want to wait for newegg to ship to me.
@dreamsneverend:
I like to go the TD warehouse pick up parts when I need them same day pick KICKS ass over waiting for shipping.
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@xAnarChisTx: All stores were closed from the previous CompUSA. TigerDirect IS running a few of their stores, but none in Texas and also TigerDirect runs the website.
The only good to come from CompUSA dying is that TigerDirect has become a pleasant to deal with now. I order from them quite often.
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@CaptZ: I work for a non-profit agency, and deal with a company called Global - which is part of Tiger Direct (Well it's Tiger Directs government arm which deals with agencies and non-profit agencies like where I work.)
I have ALWAYS been happy with them, I even purchase only their Systemax PC's - Great PC's.
It was funny when Tiger Direct purchased CompUSA - they started to change everything over to the CompUSA name, and the people I dealed with at global even got CompUSA email addresses.... but then because of licensing issues of selling non-profit prices of stuff and other legal reasons, at least the \"Global\" part of it dropped the CompUSA all together and only goes by Global now.
@CaptZ: You're kidding... TD + CUSA = good service? I'm genuinely shocked. Maybe I'll give them a shot next time I need something cheap.
@CaptZ: Yeah, I was kinda pleasantly surprised by TigerDirect actually. I bought a refurb PC from them back in September - the price was great, it came quickly, was well-packaged, and works like a dream. A very satisfying experience.
@xAnarChisTx: there are stores still open. they are owned by tigerdirect so if you buy from tiger you buy from comp. i like that i work 5 miles from one of the stores.
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Wasn't that message posted there in like... January?
This is probably the same as when a family-owned restaurant says they're closing \"in order to care for a sick family member.\" It saves face and sounds better than saying, \"We're closing because we don't know how to run a business.\"
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@redskull:
or when a scandal-plagued politician resigns to \"spend more time with his family\"
Sure, spend more time with his family thinking about how close he got to being fired/impeached/arrested.
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Circuit City is a lumbering zombie that just won't die. Did they think that the \"Circuit City\" was a sellable name? There's a reason why people don't name their kids \"Adolph\".
@ThinkerTDM: Well, if anybody really wanted to, they could buy the name, and use what Circuit City was recently tossing around, which was \"The City\". Granted, it's a shitty nickname, and it would still carry on the legacy, kinda.
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My guess is that they're going to sell the domain name and branding rights (god knows why), so they need to maintain them.
Well, the Circuit City stores are still operating in Canada, to my knowledge, so it's likely that they are revamping their website to serve the Canadian market rather than continuing to use \"The Source by Circuit City\" as they do now.
As part of the liquidation, the Circuit City name was sold at auction. So circuitcity.com is now owned by a totally different entity.
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@CardedForDissent: I believe thats what happened with CompUSA and Tiger Direct snatched them up and reopened some retail locations.
@Red_Eye:
Hmm, a whois still shows it as registered to circuit city stores with the cc headquarters as their address. Still, I think the liquidators got it as part of the buyout, and I'm sure they are looking for a buyer.
I doubt anything will come of this. Many brands have been bought up recently (eg. Sharper Image), but nothing has really been done with them.
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@mbz32190: I saw \"Sharper Image\" -labelled stuff at Brookstone and somewhere else. SI used to have a few decent items back in the '90s, but once they went crazy with making everything out of ugly silver painted plastic I knew their days were numbered.
Actually CompUSA is now not an online-only operation. TigerDirect has named all of its retail stores \"CompUSA Outlet\".
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Aw, man, they were SO CLOSE.
But for maximum effect, this should have happened in a couple of days. Y'know, for better symbolism.
As it is, \"the Wednesday before Maundy Thursday\" isn't very cool.
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My .02 is that CircuitCity.com will come back as a website online etailer similar to other Amazon or Buy.com. They get a ton of traffic, could sell ads on it's pages like Walmart.com or even partner up with a brick and mortar store (ex. HHGregg, PCRichards) for In-store pickup.
The site is still registered to the company, so who knows.
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@loogee: Yeah that's what I thought when I saw it too. Combining with other posts, maybe they're hoping to sell the brand name and domain to someone who wants to start an online home electronics retailer.
This happened with CompUSA. Tiger electronics bought the name and website. It is very cheap to display the same products at multiple websites from a common database.
These company need to know when to stay the fuck down. The bell has rung. The match is over and your ass got knocked out. Stay down.
Wise from your gwave!
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Heck if the Service Merchandise name can come back why not the Circuit City name.
Of course, the new Service Merchandise is now just two strip mall jewerly stores versus a Southeaster US regional retailer employing hundreds with headquarters based in Brentwood, TN.
For those who don't know Service Merchandise it was a store chain that employed the exact opposite of Walmarts stocking methods. Service Merchandise stores were all warehouse and a small show room. You took a ticket or number from the display product and somebody pulled the carton and sent it down a conveyor for you to pay. Walmart stocks nothing in stores-except what is on the shelves- and relies on a close to just-in-time restocking almost directly from product vendors via central and massive-sized logistics shipping warehouses.
Also , for the record, I once lived around the corner from the Service Merchandise HQ and the only vestiges of the company now is the Service Merchandise Drive that leads to a new office park encompassing the onetime HQ building. My ex-wife and I lived there when it cratered and shopped the closing sale at the Cool Springs store nearby to the HQ that had probably been the crown jewel store at one time.
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@econobiker: all I remember about Service Merchandise is that they had awesome prices on Star Wars action figures, and a pretty legit selection too (if I'm remembering this right, and there's a good chance I'm not)
@econobiker: Growing up my family spent lots of money at Service Merchandise. The one near us was always a nice store, although not always very clean, and the employees were helpful. It was the only place in town where you could get some electronics (esp. calculators) without having to order from a catalog.
Montgomery Wards did this. Closed everything store wise prior to 2001 and went back to catalog business. They are still around too. [www.wards.com]
Is it too late to squeese them into the Worst Company In America contest?
The headquarters for CC is by me and they are still liquidating it. Every other radio ad is for the liquidation of cubicles and copiers etc. I think they might be trying to sell the website but who really knows.
@TEW: I worked there briefly one winter in their web dept... For an org as big as they were, they had some of the absolute crappiest office spaces ever. If you missed out on their liquidation, you didn't miss much.
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Eat...More...Brains!
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You can fight against the Circuit City Zombie by yourself, of with your friends if you pay an extra $5.
@Applekid: And they will pricematch the CompUSA and GoodGuys zombies, too - or you get a $25 gift card!
I don't understand why people will pay money to use names synonymous with poor service and quality.
@HarcourtArmstrong: Well, in the case of Tiger Direct, \"Adolph Hitler's Retirement Home for Jews and Communists\" would have been an improvement to their image. It's all relative.
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@HarcourtArmstrong: Because then they can attatch \"NEW\" to it somehow and people will go just to see if it's different.. lol.
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It's probable they intended to relaunch the site as a support marketing tool for the liquidation but corporate wouldn't relinquish it to the liquidators. If they do come back as a web-only operation, it will only be long after the obligations of the bankruptcy have been cleared and ownership of the URL has been established. Could be a year or so.
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Wow, first CC is threatening to rise from the dead in a grisly return to pre-2008 terror. What's NEXT?!
Umm, can someone please put a second stake in Cheney and Bush's hearts? They might start getting ideas...
Aw, dammit. Quick, what's the business equivalent of a wooden stake through the heart, head stuffed with garlic, and face-down burial at a crossroads?
@diasdiem: Judging from the way our tax dollars are being used to animate the dead corpses of Wall Street criminal enterprises, there is no \"business\" equivalent. The politician zombies are put in by their zombie buddies to eat all of our blood. Bwahahaaaaa!
Why would I go to a Circuit City website to look at stuff that I'm going to buy at Newegg? It made sense to do that with the brick-and-mortar stores, but not online. That's just silly.
When this website comes back up, it'll probably take a lunch break right after you click \"order\" and you'll stand around waiting like a doofus for 30 minutes or so and then wander away to bestbuy.com instead.
Its got some brand recognition but I imagine most people know about Circuit City going out of business and it might take a while to rebuild. If Compusa can do it then why not CircuitCity?
It only says the Web site will reopen. So maybe they are going to be just an online store, so they have less overhead, and can sell stuff for less than Best Buy?
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No, Circuit City, you can't come back. My parents and I have already danced on your grave and we don't want to deal with some creepy zombie company.
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NO! NO! DIE CIRCUIT CITY! DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I bought Circuit City.com and I'm getting a kick out these replies. I plan to bring back your favorite features of CC:
1) High prices but many \"sales\"
2) Chat bots will pop up as you browse our pages and encourage you to buy using high pressure sales tactics. We will up sell you exclusive warranties.
3) Our new state of the art pricing engine will determine how much to charge you based on how you arrived there and what links you clicked on.
4) We will sell stuff we can't ship for weeks or months.
5) We'll have state of the art price match guarantees that will magically morph as you try to make a claim.
6) We'll sign you up for exclusive offers, you can't refuse at check-out.
7) We're going to contract out the same teenagers for FireDog service that you've come to rely on.
8) We'll send some lucky buyers boxes with something totally different in the package that you are expecting.
9) We're installing a state of art phone system that will keep you running around for days, never to speak to a representative.
10) Lastly, we'll make sure to stuff your mailbox full of incredible offers!
Can you wait?
@vastrightwing: Will you still have the $25 gift card for taking longer than 15 minutes to have my order ready? I really enjoyed how that one always mysteriously changed from \"when you place your order\" to \"when you are standing at the desk to pick it up in the store.\"
@PGibbons: Yes, only now, you will get a $25 promo code if your order isn't totaly scewed up. If you ever get through to customer service or you get your package in good condition before 4 weeks, you get $25!
Most of the Circuit City stores seem to be in the process of being converted to PC Richards.
The one that closed in Norwalk CT is already hiring and they have a \"PC Richards coming soon\" sign outside.
Let's see if they do any better. At least it will give me some choice other than just Best Buy.
As someone said earlier, this is the exact same website that has been up on circuit city since they announced the liquidation. I don't know who thought it was news.
What is PC Richards? I think our CC is still empty and unmarked.
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LOL. CompUSA.com was bought by... TigerDirect (aka Systemax).
That's a sad fate for any brand name.
While the President ran the company into the ground with one stupid decision after another, the brand \"Circuit City\" has value and that and the web site will probably be sold.
Montgomery Ward, CompUSA and others are all examples of stores that died and brands that live on. Why not buy the CC name and use it on your store and web site after so many millions were paid building it up?
\"In regards to CompUSA, does anyone really purchase anything on their site? Also, is it true that they still have stores open in TX and FL?\"
The company who bought the CompUSA brand did indeed start re-opening some stores that closed as \"CompUSA\" in Florida, I heard about that.
I still think it can be a good idea if you do it correctly.
Hi, I'm new to this forum.
I was never a fan of Circuit City; I still remember that blatant consumer ripoff they tried to pull off in the late '90s called DIVX. However, I hate to see the loss of competition with other big chains like BestBuy.
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Well no freaking, DUAA!
Actually Circuit City stated it would be staying around from the beginning of the going out of business deal. They still have tons of small outlet shops located in canada, and planned to stay as an online company. This may have changed since then, but that was one of their original statements when they first notified they were going out of business.
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I was wondering what was going on for a bit because whenever I typed in circuitcity.com, all I got was a white page. Enter the www part this time, and that message shows.
Weird.
The Circuit City name (and some of it's remaining stock) was bought by TigerDirect.com
They have a store near me in Raleigh and the employees just started wearing Circuit City shirts. When I asked I was told they would be opening more stores under the Circuit City name but it would still be Tiger Direct... Which is a little weird if you ask me because I always thought Circuit City sucked so I don't know why any store would want to take over the name.
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I bet it's going to be the same people that owns TigerDirect and CompUSA.
A simple Google search told me that Hilco Trading LLC and Gordon Brothers Brands LLC wants to take over the company's assets and website. This is the liquidation company that oversaw the first round of CC closures.
Sound familiar? That's right, this partnership has already done the same thing with Linen N Things and The Sharper Image.
It makes sense that Circuit City could not find a buyer and stay open as they were. Now that they filed for bankruptcy, potential buyers are going to be able to buy the company name and assets for a lot cheaper and build the company up THEIR way.
We bought couple months ago(2.22.09) Digital frame MDF 1062-MTL and this frame works just 2 weeks...What we can do now, CircuitCity is closed . Can we return this product somewhere??? Let me know,please....Tomas Dudacek 4224 Saratoga ave. # J-312 Downers Grove,IL. 60515 Thank-you
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That tagline has been there since they shut down. They were probably hoping to sell the website/branding to someone that would keep it going.
@vmspionage: I may be in the minority, but I'm hopeful that CC will come back as a web-based entity. Personally never had any issues with CC.
@vmspionage: Yea, it's too bad to, I really liked the design and functionality of their site compared to BBY. I'm a website designer...
@vmspionage: yes, the message has been there for a while....