Circuit City liquidating remaining stores

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Unfortunately I imagine their out of business sales will suck, like 10% off merchandise and then in the final days 40% off printer extension cords :(
 

blackangst1

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Yeah, the one by my place shut down right after black friday. Their final deals were OK on big ticket items (80% off) but for stuff like printers, monitors, memory, etc werent really any better than new egg et al.

RIP.
 

BlueWeasel

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Originally posted by: blackangst1
Yeah, the one by my place shut down right after black friday. Their final deals were OK on big ticket items (80% off) but for stuff like printers, monitors, memory, etc werent really any better than new egg et al.

RIP.

My local store closed down at about the same time. I was in the store several times during the liquidation (final time being as they were physically taking down the shelves), and never really saw any great deals.
 

jpeyton

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Originally posted by: DealMonkey
Great, so we're left with what? Best Buy? So much for competition...
WalMart. Frys. Teh intarw3bs.
 

Genx87

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Originally posted by: DealMonkey
Great, so we're left with what? Best Buy? So much for competition...

There are plenty of other outlets. Circuit city hasnt been competitive for years.
 

daniel49

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Know a friend at work who will be sad. He bought everything from CC.
On another thought..
What no bailout for them?
 

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Originally posted by: daniel49
Know a friend at work who will be sad. He bought everything from CC.
On another thought..
What no bailout for them?

They don't sell cars and they aren't a bank/financial company. Those are the only two industries that matter in this economy, you know?
 

PokerGuy

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Everyone saw this one coming.... still sucks though, yet another blow for the economy.

For me personally, I'm waiting on a rebate from them for a purchase on black friday, I guess I can kiss that one goodbye.
 

OCGuy

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Originally posted by: daniel49
Know a friend at work who will be sad. He bought everything from CC.
On another thought..
What no bailout for them?

You want to keep bailing out companies that cant sustain themselves? :confused:
 

Genx87

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Originally posted by: Ocguy31
Originally posted by: daniel49
Know a friend at work who will be sad. He bought everything from CC.
On another thought..
What no bailout for them?

You want to keep bailing out companies that cant sustain themselves? :confused:

I think he was being sarcastic.
 

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Originally posted by: jpeyton
Originally posted by: DealMonkey
Great, so we're left with what? Best Buy? So much for competition...
WalMart. Frys. Teh intarw3bs.

Amazon, Costco. I am not surprised this happened. Last year I was in the market for a new Video Recorder. I did my research I wanted one of those Video Recorders that recorded directly to a internal Hard Disk so I wouldn't have to mess with tapes, disks etc. I then could export media directly to my Computer and then do with the videos as I pleased. I originally went to CC since I usually am fairly happy with them. They had the video camera that I wanted on display but no power cord. Both the wife and I wanted to check out the features etc. before we bought and see how it worked. Well you can't do that if the Camera has no power. I went down the street to Best Buy and they had one on display with power, checked it out and was very happy with and Best Buy got my business. I am not surprised they are going under.
 

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Originally posted by: Atreus21
I hope Best Buy is next. They piss me off with their prices.
Yeah, darn Best Buy and their $600 50" Samsung plasmas :roll:
 

Dulanic

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Originally posted by: Dissipate
Originally posted by: daniel49
Know a friend at work who will be sad. He bought everything from CC.
On another thought..
What no bailout for them?

They don't sell cars and they aren't a bank/financial company. Those are the only two industries that matter in this economy, you know?

Whats funny is they were and they were. Carmax to sell cars and FNANB for a financial company.
 

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Too bad Blockbuster didn't go through with buying them out back in June, could of potentially taken out two terrible companies.
 

HOOfan 1

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Originally posted by: Dissipate
Originally posted by: daniel49
Know a friend at work who will be sad. He bought everything from CC.
On another thought..
What no bailout for them?

They don't sell cars and they aren't a bank/financial company. Those are the only two industries that matter in this economy, you know?

guess they should never have give up Carmax....

I am from Richmond, so this will mean plenty of jobs gone in my area.

Best Products
Reynolds Metals
Circuit City
Land America

Henrico County ain't doing so well with their national companies.
 

Dissipate

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Originally posted by: HOOfan 1
Originally posted by: Dissipate
Originally posted by: daniel49
Know a friend at work who will be sad. He bought everything from CC.
On another thought..
What no bailout for them?

They don't sell cars and they aren't a bank/financial company. Those are the only two industries that matter in this economy, you know?

guess they should never have give up Carmax....

I am from Richmond, so this will mean plenty of jobs gone in my area.

Best Products
Reynolds Metals
Circuit City
Land America

Henrico County ain't doing so well with their national companies.

Sorry, should have said: they don't build cars. AFAIK individual auto dealers didn't get any bailouts, just the auto manufacturers.
 

Dissipate

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Originally posted by: Dulanic
Whats funny is they were and they were. Carmax to sell cars and FNANB for a financial company.

Did FNAB get a bailout? If so that could have been used to salvage CC.