The Richmond BizJournal on the auction:
"It's essentially a mailing list," said Gabe Fried, managing partner and founder of Streambank.
"There is enough information there for marketing people to sort of cull the list to find their targets," Fried said.
This is great news for "targets" who gave Circuit City personal info but were feeling blue that the company was no longer contacting them since it went belly up. Rest assured that whoever buys the info from Circuit City will want it really, really bad. Like, possibly $14 million bad. And they'll need to recover costs by selling you stuff. Yay!
Do I hear $10 million for firedog? [Richmond BizSense]
(Thanks, Jon!)
it never stopped them from ringing me up at the register.
]]>Make Michael Vick buy the Firedog brand with the money the Eagles are giving him for returning to the NFL.
(Can't wait for that first away game he plays cause you just KNOW the other team's PA booth is gonna play "Who Let The Dogs Out".
]]>I run a pc repair job on the side, and the lists I am on, small companies do this too, they go under, or do not wanna be in the business, so they sell their clients list to someone, send out letters saying this is who is going to service you now, then the new company I am sure sends out a letter.
I doubt this has anything to do with people ordering online, just their clients who got their computers serviced or upgraded.
]]>The agreement not to solicit you based on that contact list was an agreement with CC - which no longer exists. The purchaser is not bound by those terms - as unseemly as that might appear. They ARE still bound by the Do Not Call list though and since the purchaser does not have a previous business dealing with you they can't exploit that loophole.
It is not unusual in bankruptcy proceedings for a company's trademarks and customer lists to be amongst the greatest assets left to satisfy creditors and the creditors take precedence in a bankruptcy. Your loan situation is not analogous.
]]>That's a good question. I had them come and hook up my wireless because I was too chicken to try and do it myself. Is that going to haunt me?
]]>Perfectly legal. Your information is sold every day to anyone who pays enough for it. They're also legally able to sell your information to the US Government for any purpose. No search warrants required.
]]>It's a spamming list.
Anyone spamming me on my unique CircuitCity email address will automatically be labeled as a spammer and blacklisted as well as reported to all appropriate anti-spam blocklists.
]]>My Circuit City had policy of asking me for my phone number before every transaction. I would always give them a fake number and this ladies and gents is the reason why..
]]>It's not uncommon to sell an established business with the customer list - you just don't hear about it at this level very often.
]]>When CC B&M stores went under, I thought they gave people the option to get a pro-rated refund on their Firedog service?
The question I have is that is it everyone who has bought a FD service, ever, or is it those who still had existing contracts with time left?
If so, the buyer might have to fulfill those contracts which make it more than a mailing list. They'll have to provide tech support for the tvs, cameras and CPUs...
...which makes it a perfect purchase for Dell, Best Buy or even Wal-Mart (if they want to get into that business).
]]>@nytmare: Even if they got fined, they'd probably pull a profit.
]]>I'm guessing the breakdown is $13,999,999.94 for the mailing list and $0.06 for the Firedog name.
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