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    Circuit City's Headquarters Liquidation Is As Depressing and Expensive As Its Stores

    Circuit City Closeout Deals Aren't Deals At All

    The Downfall of Circuit City, In Convenient Graph Form

    Circuit City to Liquidate, Prices May Go Up to MSRP

    Circuit City Trying to Sell, Liquidation Possible After January 16th
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    Image of EBone EBone
    03/04/09

    In reply to Circuit City's Headquarters Liquidation Is As Depressing and Expensive As Its Stores
    Isn't Henrico the same place where people trampled each other when the school district sold off used iBooks a few years ago?
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    Image of PynkFloydd PynkFloydd
    03/04/09

    In reply to Circuit City's Headquarters Liquidation Is As Depressing and Expensive As Its Stores
    Why not just buy up all their surveillance/security system stuff and come back afterhours for the "real" sale?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    03/04/09

    @PynkFloydd: The rent-a-cop the liquidation company hired? The one who watches "Roadhouse" everynight.
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    03/04/09

    In reply to Circuit City's Headquarters Liquidation Is As Depressing and Expensive As Its Stores
    Bastards still haven't sent me my rebate for the last JerseyCam I bought there. $50 I'm owed!
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    Image of getz76 getz76
    03/04/09

    @McNugget911_GitEmSteveDave: You're hosed.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    03/04/09

    @getz76: They even sent me an email saying they mailed the check. But I haven't seen it yet.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    03/04/09

    @McNugget911_GitEmSteveDave: They mailed the check, just not to you.
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    03/04/09

    In reply to Circuit City's Headquarters Liquidation Is As Depressing and Expensive As Its Stores
    Just give me a bat and a couple of hours alone in there.
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    Image of Thats Dr Bear to You Thats Dr Bear to You
    03/04/09

    @bpapa9013: Office Space comes to mind
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    03/04/09

    @Thats Dr Bear to You: Really?
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    Image of Thats Dr Bear to You Thats Dr Bear to You
    03/04/09

    @bpapa9013: No just kidding
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    03/04/09

    @Thats Dr Bear to You: okay.
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    Image of ZLevee ZLevee
    01/19/09

    In reply to Circuit City Closeout Deals Aren't Deals At All
    Doesn't it always go this way during liquidations? Big sale off of full MSRP that every other store is already unrcutting?
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    Image of samscottgiven samscottgiven
    01/19/09

    In reply to Circuit City Closeout Deals Aren't Deals At All
    I dont care what you say, I just got a 360 pro for 288 and change after tax.
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    Image of Serolf Divad Serolf Divad
    01/19/09

    In reply to Circuit City Closeout Deals Aren't Deals At All
    The thing that most ticked me off about CC and Compusa was what ripoffs their floor models and open box items were. Usually you could get the newer model, which was about twice as powerful, for just a few bucks more. It hardly surprises me that their "blowout" going out of business prices are just as lame.
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    Image of Luke Karmazin Luke Karmazin
    01/19/09

    In reply to Circuit City Closeout Deals Aren't Deals At All
    I got one deal, 3 Blu-Rat movies for $10. The only other good price I saw was a crappy Coby DVD Player for $15. My advice is to save the gas and not go. The movies I got sucked, "Man of the Year", "Star Trek: Insurrection", and "Matrix Reloaded".
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    Image of AJ_Syrinx AJ_Syrinx
    01/19/09

    @Luke Karmazin: CC would have had to pay me to get those $hitty movies.
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    Image of Luke Karmazin Luke Karmazin
    01/19/09

    @AJ_Syrinx:"Star Trek: Insurrection" is decent, first time I have seen a Blu-Rat version.
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    01/19/09

    @Luke Karmazin: I remember walking out of the theater disappointed after watching "Insurrection." It didn't work for me.
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    01/19/09

    @AJ_Syrinx: Clone Picard came off as a cut-rate Dr. Evil.
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    01/16/09

    In reply to The Downfall of Circuit City, In Convenient Graph Form
    I think two of the dates or arrows are flipped around. The "6/20 $164.8 million loss" arrow points to an earlier spot on the graph than the "6/01 Blockbuster Withdraws" arrow. On my calendars, June 1 always comes about three weeks before June 20.
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    Image of ae86takumi ae86takumi
    01/16/09

    In reply to The Downfall of Circuit City, In Convenient Graph Form
    I was recently in Orlando. There is a Circuit City and a Best Buy just blocks from each other. Guess which one was packed? Best Buy because they were catering to the tourism which was Brazilian and had good sales people. This is a vivid example of how Circuit City came to be where it is now. I feel bad for the people working there.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    01/16/09

    @ae86takumi: I don't feel bad for the people who work there. Every time I went to a Circuit City, the employees were idiots who ignored all the customers, didn't know anything about what they were selling, and stood around in a corner talking to each other. From what I hear, their management is no more competent. Companies like this need to go out of business.
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    Image of scarbrtj scarbrtj
    01/16/09

    In reply to The Downfall of Circuit City, In Convenient Graph Form
    I thought nasty thoughts about Circuit City ever since they forced me to take a 15% restocking fee for returning a DVD camcorder about 4 years ago, even though I only had it for a day. Evil thoughts... day in... day out. "DIE DIE DIE" I would say to myself, silently, each night.


    HA! Take that Circuit City!


    Now where'd I put my thorazine... maybe I can ask my refrigerator.

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    01/16/09

    In reply to The Downfall of Circuit City, In Convenient Graph Form
    My guess would be they had higher prices in a competitive market. First rule of microeconomics kids, if you're in a price-taker market, and you sell above market prices, you will be destined for failure.


    Here's a fun game to play. Find your 10 favorite gadgets. Then compare the prices of those products against Best Buy, Amazon, Egghead, or even Crutchfield, etc. Circuit City would always most likely have the higher price. TAKE NOTES BEST BUY!!!!

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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    01/16/09

    @Deadhouseplants will never get a star by his name, but he'l...:
    Once you factor in shipping costs, and the inconvenience of having to wait for a package to get stolen off your front steps...er, I mean to arrive on your front steps, Best Buy doesn't have a lot to worry about. Mostly, the thing that's telling is if you walk into a Best Buy and a Circuit City, and see which store has a higher customer-density. Even when you factor in how much smaller CC stores are than BB stores, they're still generally pretty empty feeling, and that means less sales at the checkout.
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    01/16/09

    In reply to Circuit City to Liquidate, Prices May Go Up to MSRP
    CC's decline started when they decided to dump their appliances department, at a time they were second only to Sears in number of appliances sold. Bad business thinking.
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    Image of frigg frigg
    01/16/09

    In reply to Circuit City to Liquidate, Prices May Go Up to MSRP
    Damn you Circuit City!!! And your Circuit Suburb, Circuit Federated Township, Circuit Island, and Circuit County friends!!! Now where am I going to go to wander in the hallucinogenic mix of off-gassing electronics, eye-numbing monitors, ear-numbing speakers, mind-numbing employees, and last year's camcorders? Oh. Best Buy. that's right. Best Buy. Thank God for Best Buy.
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    Image of nospacesinmyname nospacesinmyname
    01/16/09

    In reply to Circuit City to Liquidate, Prices May Go Up to MSRP
    damn i should have taken one of their credit cards a few months back.....
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    01/16/09

    @nospacesinmyname: Key word is credit. You'd be screwed if you decided to go nuts :P
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