Comments on: Circuit City, Electronics Retailer, Dead at 59

By: Mick Russom

Mick Russom — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:37:39 +0000

Circuit City and CompUSA , and most of these idiot dumps going out of business, are simply obsolete. Carrying volatile inventory, hiring morons (rare to find good help), lots of employee theft (I know , I used to work at CompUSA and saw the theft), prices are terrible, technology is mostly behind the times. Its mostly a giant pile of the stuff you really don’t want.

I literally hated those stores, even places like Fry’s get on my nerves, I pretty much only ever get what I want from Internet sales where I know the exact model number, the exact return policy, the exact everything. And other people post reviews, and you can ask pre-sales questions and end up with what you want.

Honestly, laptops, TVs and monitors/LCDs really need a look-at before you buy them and these stores never carry anything good to look at anyways.

Shopping in general sucks, but its a step worse at places like circuit city.

By: MegaZone

MegaZone — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:31:27 +0000

I feel bad for those losing their jobs, but I haven’t set foot in a Circuit City since they backed DIVX – the *original* DIVX, the stupid pay-per-use disc competitor to DVD which inspired the codec DivX;-), which is now just DivX. That just tweaked me off so bad I never again felt like shopping there. Of course, it helps that I buy pretty much everything online now anyway.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 05:31:15 +0000

bye bye cc, we’ll miss you

http://thenewhustle.wordpress.com/2009/01/17/circuit-city-going-out-of-business/

By: Gryphon

Gryphon — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:34:07 +0000

Huh, okay. Last I heard anything of CompUSA, it was December of ’07 and they were announcing the imminent liquidation of their physical stores, having been sold to some investment shell company. As they’re now saying about Circuit City, complete with the possible-but-I-wouldn’t-bet-on-it continued existence as an online-only brand.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:27:16 +0000

I feel sorry for the folks that will loose their jobs. But….every time I have ever been in the one by me the selection is poop, they never have what your looking for, and the sales staff almost always treated me like an idiot. Sorry, clueless teenage biscuits straight out of central casting, that’s the wife’s job. The only solution they had when the car alarm wasn’t working was “Your remote is bad, you have to buy one for $75.”. I took it to a small mom and pop shop and they had it fixed in 2 min. for free.
Last time I bought something over $100 was in 2003. Ehh, what the hell are you gonna do.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:24:55 +0000

CompUSA did not “buy the farm”. They merged or were bought up (however you want to look at it) by TigerDirect. There is a CompUSA store about 4 miles from me right now. At Tiger’s discretion, many stores were probably boarded up but the company is alive and well under Tiger’s umbrella.