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Circuit City going belly up

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Three times I used the warranty on my computer - three times they either sent it to the wrong place or lost it altogether for downtime that must be measured in months. Two of these were an issue with their contracted services, but the stores and hotlines were distinctly unhelpful - lying about having it only to get a call that it was in another state altogether, or insisting it was on the way back when in fact it was sitting in a pile of misplaced items on a loading dock where they didn't bother to look for it until I'd called every manager up the line for two weeks. Every time, the repair held less than a month. Once it came back with all sorts of files in "My Recent Documents" that I hadn't been viewing and certainly weren't necessary for repair. Thank goodness I know how to clean off the machine so there wasn't anything important on it, though it did freak me out that they found the one random pic of my family I had missed.

Darwin that sucker now... someone better will step in to fill the void.
 
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Well, out here we have "Living Space" a furniture store that's built a partnership with Pauls TV, the prices if you decide to get a living room set with a nice new TV is nice, also, with stores like Frys, Best Buy, and Gamestop opening, it leaves a very small window for people to go to traditional electronics stores like Circuit City, especially if you consider it's not like their prices are that great.
 
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If you are in the Cincy area, the Western Hills store on Glenway is closed today but will be open tomorrow for liquidation sale. I have that on word from an employee of the store.

He also said he'd be shocked if the entire company isn't out of business by the first of the year.
 
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Google Map of those closing stores:
http://digg.com/business_finance/...ity_Storeshttp://digg.com/business_finance/...ity_Stores

Slickdeals threads:
Circuit City Closes 155 Stores-store list link included
Circuit City closing 155 stores... How does this affect their BF sales?
Any store going through liquidation (the 155 CC stores and all LNT stores) WILL NOT honor the BF ad or any other sales ad. They also likely won't honor any coupons and possible GCs as well.

For CC, the stores that are not closing will operate business-as-usual, including BF. BF ad items will also be available on circuitcity.com as usual.

However if things don't change, this could be the last BF for CC. First CompUSA last year and now CC. We'll be left with BB and Staples (and much longer lines at both) for decent tech deals on BF.
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Ok let me clear up a couple things.. ( work at a Circuit City.. one that stays alive):

They are closing only the stores that cost too much to operate. They looked at two things, the cost of the lease for the building/land and how much profit the store was making. So that's why they axed the ones they did. Black Friday for the stores that remain open will go on as usual.. none of the deals are changing. The closings have nothing to do with Best Buy being nearby or Fry's.

The remaining stores will get some of their product witch is nice. We also have lower budgets now for everyday goals. It sucks to see this happen... this helps no one and causes problems for everyone. Lost jobs, less 'brick and mortar stores', and the loss of competition in the areas will drive up prices. Nothing much anyone can do... GG economy.
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I found prices to be lower than normal at CompUSA when they liqiudated but not "Holy Monte Hall" Batman...

I don't expect say PS3's going for much less than listed price. In otherwords anything you REALLY want for bargin basement prices - Won't happen.

But for SD Memory Cards, USB Memory Sticks and little "shhhh" like that, you might find "pennies on the dollar" cheap.

Story in TO is closing I see.
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