Circuit City

[free]

If you had one in your area did anyone get any good deals before they closed last week?

[stevenson]

My wife and I went but didn't see any good deals. I wanted to grab some Monster Cables but the price was too high for being discounted.

[dolfan]

On 2/27, I was at the one in Huntsville, AL. Their "deep discounted" prices were still considerably higher than their competitors' regular prices. It's no wonder they went out of business. I'm surprised they lasted as long as they did.

[Full Quiver]

I don't think the economy had a thing to do with CC going under. Their refusal to compete did. A couple years ago Best Buy moved less than a mile down the road into a vacant building just next door to the local CC. You could literally park at one store and walk into the other.

[Pastor Bill]

you have to be careful with all these closing sales, often it's 70% off a doubled price.

[Tim Elston]

I don't care about Circuit City, but I hope Buy More comes to Juneau.

[Paully_44]

I don't care about Circuit City, but I hope Buy More comes to Juneau.

Love it!

[Pastorbps]

These going out of business sales are gimmicks. Circuit City doesn't own these products any longer. My understanding is they were sold to liquidators who then sell them as "Going Out of Business Deals." They aren't deals.

[TW]

I have a friend, I know that's hard to believe , that went to the Circuit City the very last night that they were open. They gave him a bag for $10.00, anything that he could get in that bag was covered by that $10.00. Now granted, everything had been pretty well picked through by that time, but he still made out pretty good on batteries, cables, and little odds and ends. The bad thing is that there were a bunch of batteries ($50.00 each normally) for Canon Cameras that he passed up because he didn't have a Canon, the next day his wife gave him a Canon EOS.


TW

[pastorables]

The DS video games were only about $5 off, and we had most of them already. Sale?

We did much better at our Toys R Us closing sale. Although heavily picked, my son got a lego Castle (retail $79) for $20.

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[Full Quiver]

Wish I had known about that deal TW. Wen burns through some batteries.

[PastorP]

I went to the CC in S'Burg, SC. Everything was marked up to an extreme high price. The only thing that I found at a good price was some ink cartridges that were for an HP printer that I have in my office.

One example of the markups was a Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse that stated that the original price was suppose to be over $200.00, marked down to about $125.00. Quite a deal if I had not already purchased one for $39.00 at another store.

[Jeremy Gault]

I can attest to that fact.

My dad picked up a 500GB external hard drive (one of those Western Digital deals) at liquidation price. I want to say it was around $110 when all was said and done.

A few days later, found Best Buy had a 1TB hard drive for like $85 or so.

Mind you, we didn't want to run all the way to Chattanooga to get it, but still... sounds like Circuit City marked everything up and then back down.

I know someone else had mentioned that they bought a GPS for normal price back around Christmas there, and then found the liquidation price was *higher* than they paid... wouldn't surprise me a bit.