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Offline Meatwad

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Circuit City going out of business
« on: January 16, 2009, 09:15:28 PM »
http://www.circuitcity.com/closed.html

Circity City decided that it is closing all the US stores with clearance sales starting Saturday the 17th. Wonder what kind of deals they will be having starting Saturday?
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Re: Circuit City going out of business
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2009, 09:19:31 PM »
Circuit glazety...never cared for them...sign of the times...prolly make out pretty good...from what I read they ignored the threat that Best Buy  presented a few years ago to dominate the electronics sales industry and hence suffered for it..its a shame..
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Re: Circuit City going out of business
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2009, 09:22:32 PM »
I wouldnt mind checking it out, but the closest one is 50 miles away.

No thanks, too overpriced for me anyways
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Re: Circuit City going out of business
« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2009, 09:24:03 PM »
i always found them to be pricey...
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Re: Circuit City going out of business
« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2009, 09:27:22 PM »
All of the good stuff will be taken by the outgoing staff.
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Re: Circuit City going out of business
« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2009, 09:29:15 PM »
Too pricey, and terrible service. Didn't Family Guy lampoon their clueless employees with Stewie asking the salesman questions about the printer and the guy responding to every question with "Yeah, you can get faxes on this thing", or something along those lines?

I know every time I was there, I got the impression that they were on their first day on their own and were just recited canned answers from a list to all of your questions.

No great loss to see them go under.
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Offline JimBear

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Re: Circuit City going out of business
« Reply #6 on: January 16, 2009, 09:57:09 PM »
And 30,000 people lose their job, lets all chuckle.
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Re: Circuit City going out of business
« Reply #7 on: January 17, 2009, 01:29:31 AM »
No one is chuckling about 30,000 people losing their jobs, but try this on for perspective

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The Washington Post, December 29th, 2000

Montgomery Ward Inc., one of the oldest names in American retailing and the originator of catalogue shopping, is shutting its doors after 128 years, the company said yesterday.

Oddly enough, we went on to have a major economic boom after 2000, and other stores opened.

Just like it will this time.

Things change, we move on, that's the way it goes.  Of course, we could establish a system of protecting everything, but imagine  if we did that with the wagon wheel industry. 
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Re: Circuit City going out of business
« Reply #8 on: January 17, 2009, 01:31:41 AM »
change is inevitable
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Re: Circuit City going out of business
« Reply #9 on: January 17, 2009, 02:29:00 AM »
Quote from: Meatwad on January 16, 2009, 09:15:28 PM
http://www.circuitcity.com/closed.html

Circity City decided that it is closing all the US stores with clearance sales starting Saturday the 17th. Wonder what kind of deals they will be having starting Saturday?
If it goes anythink like COMP USA went around here.

You still can get a better deal on Newegg LOL
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Re: Circuit City going out of business
« Reply #10 on: January 17, 2009, 02:48:52 AM »
I'm gonna go tomorrow I think to check it out.  There's one just about a mile away.
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Re: Circuit City going out of business
« Reply #11 on: January 17, 2009, 02:57:16 AM »
Good Riddance....
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Re: Circuit City going out of business
« Reply #12 on: January 17, 2009, 07:52:18 AM »
I'll check it out....there is one here in a middle of nowhere.
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Re: Circuit City going out of business
« Reply #13 on: January 17, 2009, 08:49:38 AM »
circuit crappy is really already gone. the liquidators own it now. same thing happend with linens and things. they will mark up the prices, then offer 20%-40% off to start which is still more than the original price.
people around here found out what they did at linens and things when they pulled the price tags off to see the original prices. Iirc think wfaa did a big news story about the price gouging.
I checked lastnight and their site was down so ya cant compare prices from a few days ago to now. It's gonna be a big rip-off. maybe at the end you can get a deal but by then all the good stuff will be gone
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Re: Circuit City going out of business
« Reply #14 on: January 17, 2009, 09:06:56 AM »
Quote from: DREDIOCK on January 17, 2009, 02:29:00 AM
If it goes anythink like COMP USA went around here.

You still can get a better deal on Newegg LOL

Yup.

I checked out my local CompUSA when it was going out of biz. for a new Vid. card.  It was still MUCH cheaper at NewEgg.  I found a local shop right down the road that beat CompUSA's "clearance" price by $20-40.00.  (I would rather buy local than use NewEgg if possible)
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