CompUSA

HTC Touch Diamond Available on CompUSA For $779

If you really want to get your hands on an HTC Touch Diamond before the official US launch, CompUSA has one available for $779. The good news is that it's unlocked, so you can use it on both AT&T and T-Mobile, and quad-band, so you can take it just about anywhere where GSM goes. It's a nice phone, though kinda slow in our first impressions. Might want to wait until some more reviews hit before making your decision. [CompUSA]

5:00 PM on Wed Jun 18 2008
By Jason Chen
8,600 views, 53 comments

Latest by jrinco11: Yah, I've only seen tri-band -- wish I would've seen the quad band before buying mine as I'm having issues with not being able to get 3G/HSDPA on ATT down in atlanta. (for any of ya'll wanting to see actual usage more »

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CompUSA: It Lives!

After it died, CompUSA was bought by Tigerdirect, and here are some of the first pictures of the freshly awakened PC retailer. Even better, the zombified store is reported by reader Martin B. to be better than its pre-undead version:

It's a much better store than it used to be, full of components, motherboards, and lots of actually _helpful_ people who know computers.

9:36 PM on Mon May 5 2008
By Brian Lam
8,906 views, 40 comments

Latest by bbfreak: Huh, I'd go check 'em out, but thats all the way over by the Arlington Expressway, and that's 22 miles away. Ya know, it really sucks to live in the largest city in land area in the contiguous United States more »

it's alive!

CompUSA "Grand Re-Opens" in Florida, Hopefully With Less Suck

After purchasing out-of-business CompUSA a couple months ago, TigerDirect is reanimating the red, white and blue corpse with "Grand Re-Openings" of fifteen stores in Florida, along with one brand new one. They're promising "Lower prices... New wider selection... And amazing new deals." We hope so, their prices were ridiculous even when they were actively trying to dump everything. [CompUSA via Consumerist]

3:30 PM on Fri Apr 25 2008
By matt buchanan
4,668 views, 25 comments

prodigy

11-Year-Old Network Administrator Sorts Out Alabama School

Jon Penn isn't your average 11-year-old school kid. No, Sir. In his spare time, mostly between classes, he manages the entire computing network for his school in Alabama. The network consists of sixty computers and Jon took up the role when the previous administrator upped and left, completely unannounced. More »

4:00 PM on Sun Mar 30 2008
By Haroon Malik
28,565 views, 91 comments

compusa

The Sad Final Days of a CompUSA

It's always sad when a store you used to frequent goes out of business, but how about when that store used to mark up its prices like mad? Things become slightly less sad. Nevertheless, this desolate scene at a Portland CompUSA definitely brings a slight tear to our eye. Reader Russ went in for some "last gasp" deals, but there's pretty much nothing left, aisles and displays having been long torn down. He tells us that if there's a store closing near you, you might be able to nab 40% off some Xbox or PSP games as well. Bonus shot after the jump. More »

3:50 PM on Mon Feb 25 2008
By Jason Chen
125,732 views, 92 comments

Latest by lonnypaul: There are 11 CompUSA stores open already: [news.compusa.com] more »

out of business

CompUSA Supplies FAQ About Store Closings

Now that CompUSA is closing its doors, it has begun the process of tying up loose ends regarding issues like gift cards, rain checks, rebates and returns. In a nutshell, if you purchased anything from the store after December 12th you are pretty much S.O.L. More »

8:00 PM on Fri Dec 14 2007
By Sean Fallon
15,530 views, 28 comments

out of business

CompUSA Throws in the Towel, Sells to a Liquidator

While the rumor has been floating around all week, the Wall Street Journal reports CompUSA has been sold to a liquidation firm, effectively putting the company out of business. The move is largely based on declining sales, with the company speculated to only do $1.5 billion in sales this year (compared to $4 billion last year). While it will be open through the holidays, the company is actively working to sell and/or close its 103 retail stores. Can you say clearance deals? [WSJ]

7:45 PM on Fri Dec 7 2007
By Adrian Covert
16,452 views, 81 comments

Latest by Hello_Newman: Yeah I think we all have a story about them, I always went just for the convenience when I needed a power supply or something like that. It's not like Circuit City or Best Buy don't carry all those things, more »

home entertainment

Cheap LCDs to Blame for CompUSA Store Closing?

Manufacturers of cheap flat-panel TVs, like Vizio and Olevia, could be partially blamed over the recent closing of 128 CompUSA stores and 70 Circuit City stores. Obviously, the low prices of the off-brand LCD flat panels have put a lot of pressure on the "premium" flat-panel manufacturers like Sony and Panasonic to drop prices to compete. The price drops all around have squeezed the margins and hurt the brick-and-mortar retailers like CompUSA and Circuit City, in turn partially causing some of the recent closings. The general consensus at yesterday's U.S. Flat Panel Display Conference was that there are too many brands on the shelves and that the discounts need to stop. Maybe it's just a hunch, but I don't think that opinion will be too popular with the consumers. –Travis Hudson More »

11:00 AM on Wed Mar 7 2007
By Travis Hudson
1,515 views, 45 comments

Latest by pinkfloyd01: "Obviously, the low prices of the off-brand LCD flat panels have put a lot of pressure on the "premium" flat-panel manufacturers like Sony and Panasonic to drop prices to compete." Anyone remember when Curtis Mathis was the best TV in the more »

gadgets

CompUSA Closing 128 Stores

Oops, looks like it's 128 stores, not 100 like we thought before. 229 minus 128 leaves only 101 stores—a nice round number that management no doubt was aiming for. More »

6:50 PM on Tue Feb 27 2007
By Jason Chen
18,323 views, 28 comments

gadgets

CompUSA Closing 100 Stores Nationwide, Unemployable Smartasses Everywhere Are Devastated

Ben over at the Consumerist has a tip that CompUSA, our favorite computer retailer if this were the mid 90s, is closing down 100 stores. That doesn't sound like a huge number, for a nationwide chain, but considering they only have 229 stores, it means they're in some big trouble. More »

4:30 PM on Fri Feb 23 2007
By Jason Chen
36,109 views, 46 comments

home entertainment

Weird Combo of the Day: iTunes Card Free With Zune

Hey, this looks like a great deal from CompUSA in Spokane: Buy a Microsoft Zune and you get a free $15 iTunes gift card. Wait a minute. iTunes? Zune? What's wrong with this picture? Note to CompUSA Corporate: iTunes songs won't play on a Zune. More »

12:30 PM on Thu Feb 8 2007
By Charlie White
1,101 views, 16 comments

peripherals

Leak: Budget GeForce 8800 Card Coming

Our trigger-happy friends at CompUSA have taken the veil off Nvidia's unannounced GeForce 8800 GTS card. What makes this new card stand out from the pack is that rather than carry a full 512MB of RAM on board, it settles for 320MB, which makes it cheaper. $349 kinda cheap to be exact. The card is slated to come out Feb 17th (next Saturday) according to CompUSA. Just make sure you got your drivers straightened out before you buy it. – Louis Ramirez More »

8:38 PM on Wed Feb 7 2007
By Louis Ramirez
410 views, 7 comments

Latest by Thrasher: The 640mb versions uses 5, 128mb memory chips, this uses 5, 64mb chips. With memory prices the way they are this seems like a decent way to save on manufacturing costs, with out hurting performance too much. more »

deals

CompUSA Clueless about InterWebs

Further evidence that bricks-and-mortar stores are out of touch: our esteemed brothers at The Consumerist got a note from reader Rick, showing a letter he wrote to CompUSA after the company refused to budge on a $100 price for a Linksys network storage drive he found on the Internets for $84. CompUSA's salesperson said the company will only match the price of competitors doing business nearby. Says Rick:

"I'm confused. Did I time warp back to 1998? Does CompUSA not realize that they compete DIRECTLY with on-line retailers? I put the product back on the shelf. I did not buy any of the other accessories I was prepared to purchase from you. NewEgg got all of my business."

This is not surprising to us—we saw HDMI cables at Best Buy selling for upwards of $80 which were available on Internet for $15. How can these companies survive? It's crazy. It's the "get it now" mentality. – Charlie White More »

1:18 PM on Mon Jun 12 2006
By Charlie White
440 views, 13 comments

Latest by Worf: The smartest of the lot I've seen that acknowledge and match prices online... however, they match it based on the overnight shipping cost (you are getting it now, versus in a week, so the extra cost is warranted). And they more »

deals

Buy a Notebook, Get a Free TiVo Series 2

Such a deal: get a free TiVo if you buy an Intel Centrino-based notebook from CompUSA. It's a 80GB Series 2 TiVo box they're giving away, and it also includes a free TiVo wireless adapter. More »

11:59 AM on Thu May 11 2006
By Charlie White
115 views, 3 comments

laptops

CompUSA Gets Crazy with Laptop Pricing

And you thought that $398 laptop at Walmart the day after Thanksgiving was cheap! Fuhgeddaboutit. CompUSA can beat that. On Sunday, the computer company was selling a Toshiba laptop with a 15-inch screen, 1.5GHz Celeron M processor, 256MB of memory and a 60GB hard drive for $150, after $550 in rebates and signing away your life to AOL for one year. It lasted only 16 hours, but even with the AOL thrown in that's a darn good deal. And then, to go one step further, the retailer offered a $99 Compaq desktop with an AMD processor, 17-inch CRT monitor, 256MB of memory, an 80GB hard drive and a CD-RW drive—also after about $480 worth of rebates. Obviously it's a ploy to get warm bodies into the store and spending money. Brian Woods, executive vice president and general merchandising manager of CompUSA, reported the company sold 7500 Toshiba notebooks in just 2 hours, while 7500 desktop bundles were also sold during the day. But don't fret, though the laptops were completely sold out, some of those desktops are still around, so I suggest checking your CompUSA flyer this weekend if you're looking for a deal. More »

8:52 AM on Tue Dec 20 2005
By tgrumet
204 views, 4 comments

Latest by spoggle: This looks a lot like the Honolulu CompUSA store, not like anybody should care... more »

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