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Re: Circuit City to close 155 stores
« Reply #15 on: November 12, 2008, 02:04:46 AM »
Quote from: guyjin on November 12, 2008, 01:18:17 AM
No wonder they're going out of business; they can't do math.

Even if they could, 5% off of a discontinued model ain't exactly a sweet deal.  :lol:
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Re: Circuit City to close 155 stores
« Reply #16 on: November 12, 2008, 03:56:46 AM »
Serve's 'em right, I say. I've had nothing but bad luck with this chain since they fired all their best people a few years back to save a couple of bucks. I even complained to the district manager once, I was so ticked off. Went in to buy a TV, and this zitty jackass kid who was running the department (which I was the only person in) talked to his girl on the phone for ten minutes before coming over. When I asked him the difference between two TVs, he just shrugged, said 'I dunno', and walked off. Lots of stuff like that. I defected to Best Buy when it moved into town.

Just goes to show you that you don't skimp on quality help in ANY customer service business. That's what kills them. Bust Buy, while still a chain, has much friendlier, more knowledgeable people, on average.
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Re: Circuit City to close 155 stores
« Reply #17 on: November 12, 2008, 09:09:49 AM »
I thought Circuit City became way hip and way fly to appeal to all of the cool people out there by changing their name to "The City", though in my opinion it should have been "Tha City".  God damn I hate them.

Jay Leno had a good joke the other night:  What do you call a bankrupt Circuit City?  Radio Shack.
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Re: Circuit City to close 155 stores
« Reply #18 on: November 12, 2008, 09:41:25 AM »
Anyone recall their DVD rental scheme known as DIVX (not to be confused with DivX)?  That six month debacle should've been their clue that the clowns at the helm were incompetent.
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Re: Circuit City to close 155 stores
« Reply #19 on: November 12, 2008, 11:45:39 AM »
I recall that it made me hate Circuit City for a lifetime.  What a stupid idea!  I only ever when to The City as a last resort or to avoid crowds (as there never were any).
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Re: Circuit City to close 155 stores
« Reply #20 on: November 12, 2008, 12:24:56 PM »
The were consistently 10-15% more expensive on everything. I bought a Vaio k45 laptop and warranty from them when they did a price match deal 4 years ago, and the motherboard went out after 3 months. The repair departmment refused to honor the warranty due to "catastrophic repair" and I had to ship it back to the manufacturer. The motherboard they replaced it with lasted an additional 4 months, and the battery went dead as well.

They have worse customer service than Ed Debevics.
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Re: Circuit City to close 155 stores
« Reply #21 on: December 02, 2008, 04:47:51 AM »
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Re: Circuit City to close 155 stores
« Reply #22 on: December 02, 2008, 05:22:40 AM »
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Re: Circuit City to close 155 stores
« Reply #23 on: December 02, 2008, 05:37:01 AM »
Why keep it?  It'll just get in the way when it comes time to burn down the store and claim the insurance money.  :lol:
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Re: Circuit City to close 155 stores
« Reply #24 on: December 02, 2008, 07:40:49 AM »
Is that a re-charge tag or a price tag?

Sad thing is, if they have a sign on the extinguisher, an employee probably already tried to sell one... or did.

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Re: Circuit City to close 155 stores
« Reply #25 on: January 09, 2009, 02:28:38 PM »
Doesn't look good......

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Circuit City CEO details bankruptcy proceedings, admits possibility of liquidation

by Darren Murph, posted Jan 9th 2009 at 1:28PM

Things have been a little rocky (to say the very least) for Circuit City since it filed for bankruptcy protection back in November of last year, and now the acting president and CEO has sent out a letter informing a select few (or the world, as the case may be) of what exactly is going / could be going on. In short, the company has just recently "filed with the Bankruptcy Court a motion that seeks Court approval for a process that formally puts the company up for sale." There's a lot of fluff after that, but the long and short of it is this: a sale could be approved before an auction begins (and its working mighty hard to make sure that happens), but if that doesn't go down by the 16th, the outfit will be " forced to liquidate" soon. We're not trying to be overly dramatic or anything, so we'll encourage you to read the entire, soul-soothing email posted just after the break before going into full-on panic mode.



http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/circuit-city-ceo-details-bankruptcy-proceedings-admits-possibil/
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Re: Circuit City to close 155 stores
« Reply #26 on: January 16, 2009, 04:55:02 AM »
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« Reply #27 on: January 16, 2009, 06:01:05 AM »
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Re: Circuit City to close 155 stores
« Reply #28 on: January 17, 2009, 12:20:11 PM »
I should see if I can score a DVD / VHS combo unit before the stores around here are closed. I've got a $10 dollar gift card that I never used. I'm gonna try it. The website says they're still accepting gift cards.
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Re: Circuit City to close 155 stores
« Reply #29 on: January 17, 2009, 03:05:27 PM »
All the Circuit City stores here (the whole 3 of 'em) have announced liquidation.
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