19 CC Stores Closing, Close-Out Sale.

[monkuboy]

Let's see.. since only 19 stores are closing that means the others are still open. Why should they drop their prices drastically if the cost to ship the new merchandise to another store is cheaper than offering a big discount? I suspect there will be demo items on sale because they don't want to pack and ship those things but for items in box, they can only discount it to a point where it still makes sense to do this rather than send it to another store. These sales create such a frenzy with people snapping up 10-20% discounts that there won't be anything decent left once they get to the next round of discounts.

 

[Injury]

It's likely they've shipped off all of the GOOD stuff to other stores.

 

[daveymark]

if it's anything like the store closings last year, the prices will drop from "extremely overpriced" to "lightly overpriced". All of the units will be display/open box items as well.

 

[EvilYoda]

doh, all 4 michigan stores are at least 30 minutes away...don't have the money anyway, good thing.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: Injury
It's likely they've shipped off all of the GOOD stuff to other stores.

Yeah, that's what I'm guessing happened too.

 

[imported_Mike]

People, if you're expecting anything besides display models and/or out of production items to be on sale you can forget it. Everything else is either sent back to the manufacture or to another store.

 

[Slickone]

If it's anything like the Kmart store closing sales I've been to, everything is marked up to list price, and they take 20% off of that, so it's still higher than what you could have gotten it for before, when on sale. Then they take off another 10% every week, but by then there's nothing but the worst of the junk left. Also w/ Kmart, an outside company comes in and does the liquidation, and the regular Kmart employees are already gone.


CC has made me mad by not honoring their price match guarantee for different reasons, or refusing to give rebates when they do match, when their policy states nothing about rebates.
And how their store managers make up their own policies (BB does this too).
My mom and aunt won't ever shop there anymore for different other reasons CC pissed them off in the past.

 

[laxjax13]

Originally posted by: CheapArse
People, if you're expecting anything besides display models and/or out of production items to be on sale you can forget it. Everything else is either sent back to the manufacture or to another store.

^ Exactly what he said

 

[Warder45]

Ha, I knew the East Lansing store had to go here sometime soon. The only time I've seen more then 5 people in that store is around christmas. It also didn't help that it had the worst location, compared to CompUSA and Bestbuy.

 

[Spooner]

nothing in mass, so nothing that applies to me

 

[coolred]

Anybody check these out yet?

 

[Sandersann]

I did

It is an utter waste of time

only open box items

all the goodies were shipped to other stores
no XBOX, PS2, Little or no pc stuff
mainly TV's and Camera's

the markup is the same for regular open box items

stay home and warm

 

[tkimball]

I just wasted my time, too. Don't bother with the Traverse City location. An example of a markdown was a $429 receiver Open Box Special now for $419.

A total fiasco!

 

[daveymark]

Originally posted by: daveymark
if it's anything like the store closings last year, the prices will drop from "extremely overpriced" to "lightly overpriced". All of the units will be display/open box items as well.

as usual, I' was right. What a complete and utter waste of time.

 

[pcmax]

Believe it or not they had just about wiped everything out at my store closing sale within a few hours. I grabbed an open box dvd/vcr combo I had already had my eye on for about $20 off the normal price but everything else was pretty much like 10-20% off.

 

[Samus]

I picked up a 30" Widescreen Toshiba TV for $600 with free 2 year warranty. It's a display model, but the MSRP is 1000+ and cheapest elsewhere is Fry's for $800.