Comments on: Circuit City: The Frenzy Has Passed!

By: Ndayishimiye

Ndayishimiye — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:41:35 +0000

Dear sir,please can you happy me,
my computer laptop fujitsu has:
the problem it’s:
difficalite to display but process running;
if it is start after 5 minite machine stopping,
can you give me some advace please.

By: Linda

Linda — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:20:10 +0000

Until it’s 70-80% off, I won’t bother…

By: audiofriend

audiofriend — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:20:02 +0000

Instead of waiting for liquidation sales on last year’s products, Circuit City car audio customers should check out Car Toys. They can get expert service and selection on the latest car audio and video products by visiting any Car Toys location. Find the stores nearest you at: http://www.cartoys.com/stores

By: racy_rick

racy_rick — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:20:13 +0000

They probably raised prices 50% and then dropped them 30%. I’m sure anything of any value will be sold to another company. They were scammers to begin with and they will die being ruthless scammers.

Good Riddance!

By: chrismcdevitt

chrismcdevitt — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:09:03 +0000

That solitary cashier walking away from the only register is nothing new at Circuit City. It’s been like that for years, despite how many people were in the store and how many wanted to purchase an item. This is why they’re going out of business

By: Dave Mackey

Dave Mackey — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:06:15 +0000

On MLK Day, I went into a Circuit City that had just begun its liquidation – one other near me had been already earmarked for early closing – and was quite underwhelmed. I believe it was 10% off everything in the store, 20% off CD’s and DVD’s, and 30% off all audio and video cables. (Wha?) I was hoping to find some more Nunchuks for the family’s Wii, but they didn’t have any. It seemed like the greatest interest in the store was in the digital cameras, of which there were already a number of low-end models out of stock.

The fact is that liquidation sales are really the greatest test of supply and demand pricing – it’s almost like eBay in reverse. How LITTLE are you willing to pay for something?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:14:51 +0000

Brandon is correct, liquidation is just a term. Everything is set at MSRP and discounted from there. If any of you vultures had bothered to shop at Circuit City before it was going out of business, you would have gotten much better deals.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:21:00 +0000

Just in case everyones forgotten, a liquidation sale by definition was never inteneded to be ‘cheap’. It’s simply a court-ordered selling of assets so as to quickly repay creditors and (with luck) share holders. Quite literally, it turns non-liquid assets into cash (aka ‘liquid’). In fact, creditors (in this case the vendors) would have very real grounds for legal action if Circuit City’s liquidators turned this into a fire-sale, essentially robbing companies that are still in business of profits just so that we can walk out with some 60% BluRay discs… I thought that was just common knowledge, but let me know if I’ve missed something. ;). If more retailers go under like they are predicting, it will be important for the consuming public to remember that ‘liquidation’ is just a boring accounting term, not the marker of a shopping bonanza.

By: digitalcameras

digitalcameras — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:21:12 +0000

I can personally attest to the fact that the “liquidation prices” are anything but, thus far. They’ll likely drop them as time goes on, to unload everything by the end of March, but everything good will be gone by then. I went to CC on day one of the “liquidation”, and I’ve seen cheaper prices during regular CC sales. Lame.

By: Dave Barnes

Dave Barnes — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:38:47 +0000

No one who reads this blog/website will buy anything at Clueless City.
Everyone here knows EXACTLY how much to pay for an item.
But, the liquidators will sell everything at much higher prices than WE would pay as most of the consumer base is clueless.