Comments on: Circuit City Under Siege

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By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:11:18 +0000

There is only one reason that I will buy something from a brick and mortar store: it is a product where the possible return or service fee is lower than online. Since I cannot return the product to CC, nor can I get after sales services, I have no motivation to pay extra to get something at CC. Once the price is at or near online I may buy something from CC. I’ve been there 3 times since they started their liquidation, and it was a joke, most people just milled around but didn’t buy anything except DVDs.

By: alan goldberg

alan goldberg — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:53:05 +0000

The Story re-inforced what I have been telling my “intelligent” friends. You are getting screwed for the final time by(not really)Circuit City. And I ask why we are continuing to get shafted by big corporations in the USA. Banks, Wall Street, and I guess everyone wants a piece of the consumers money! Old, basic, but real…”Let the buyer beware” or ” a sucker is born every day”.

By: Kris

Kris — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 13:35:05 +0000

I am in the same thought process as all of you. I worked for Best Buy as a “tech” before and after it became “GeekSquad”. I knew a local CC manager for years and suggested in-store service, then 2 years later they had it. The cost of product is just what another said, 25 to 400% above what they paid. I went in the store to see the so-called deals and have gone in every couple days to talk and see what has sold since then. It is amazing what people bought at the inflated prices! I looked at a Canon 40D w/ lense, $1299 their price and on-line I can get it at $699! On Friday, this same camera is down to $909, still $200 more. Costco sells this camera with two lenses, a tripod and case for $1149, granted you pay a membership fee, but you get much more for the price.
I have been waiting for this day for some years ans CC deserves to go the way of the Dodo. I have benn going to CC lately to dicourage people from paying full price for their 20% off items. I hear atouney generals from some states are looking into the marking-up before the sale. In my state, marking-up a price and then having it on sale is illeagle. If you leave the tag on with a lower price, they MUST give you that price plus the advertised discount.

By: Minz

Minz — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:23:36 +0000

Yup.. price is too high… it was waste of car gas going there… they still try to rip you off at their final breath.. tsk tsk..

By: Steve Kleine

Steve Kleine — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:30:49 +0000

Many years ago when I was in college I worked for an independent sporting goods store. It went out of business due to competition from the chains and a new lease that was 4 times the old one.

They brought in a liquidation company that did the same thing Circuit City is doing now…taking prices up to suggested retail and only offering small discounts. Those discounts took the price down to a level ABOVE what they had been selling for before the liquidation. But my mind was boggled at how many people showed up the first day and went home happy thinking they got a bargain. Sales that day were so high it covered all of the liquidators fees.

It was not until two months later that the real bargains showed up.

It is an old trick that obviously still works today. Buyer beware!

Steve

By: Auto Glass Repair

Auto Glass Repair — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 04:06:54 +0000

I did not find any deals at the city, same usual junk as always :(

By: Cynagen

Cynagen — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:20:13 +0000

Circuit City was overpriced to begin with, here they are, knowing their balls are in the proverbial grinder, and they’re still trying to milk the customer of more money than the customer should have to spend for the same item around the corner and down the street at big blue. I’m far from surprised that CC is bombing, there were only 3 here in the valley, and even on Black Fridays they were pretty much empty because the “deals” were jokes. Now, to respond to those who said “it’s no wonder traditional brick & mortar stores are going under if customers just go in to check merchandise and go home to shop online,” maybe we wouldn’t shop online if they were price gouging. CC has had that nasty habit for a long long time, and it’s not helping them now either. CC had no problem keeping the lights on and people on staff at their stores with the measly amount of transactions occurring because they were gouging, and making lots and lots of money on little overhead. You need to realize, that most of these tech businesses, get products at, sometimes, 60 percent cheaper than MSRP on the bigger things, up to 400 percent cheaper on smaller items. I worked briefly in a tech business that was a specialty market, and our items, while there was competition out there, about 4 other companies, big named ones too like HP, and IBM, we had markup of about 400 percent on cost. A product that cost us $100 new to stock, we sold for $400+. Sadly, that’s cheaper than the big name competition, but it kept us very much afloat. Now had CC not started up “firedog” the knockoff “geek squad”, which are both horrible tech support companies (Google: “Geek Squad Exposé” find out why), and not hiring those extra idiots, they could have put that payroll towards “lowering” prices on products and becoming competitive again. They figured they could continue to price gouge in the age of online purchasing becoming the dominant market force. Sometimes I see stuff on STEEP discount at big blue, lower than or price close/matched to my favorite online shops, then I’ll buy from blue, simply because I have the product same day, and if I need to, easy returns. CC didn’t want to recognize the internet as a direct threat to their sales, and it hurt them, badly, that’s their own fault. Big blue is doing something right because they’re still in operation, and no “clearance” sales to speak of.

By: Dauric

Dauric — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:51:53 +0000

I looked the day after their announcement came out, I’ve been looking at getting a micro-laptop for a while and figured I’d have a look-see and CC’s liquidation.

Shortly after I had to go to the nearby Best Buy just to check on something: Even with the liquidation ‘Discount’, Best Buy was still $50 cheaper, and for better hardware.

By: lacrosseboy

lacrosseboy — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:25:03 +0000

Wait until the end and go to the store and see what no one wants, it’s more fun!