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Circuit City Liquidation Sale!!!

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0bsessions:
Retailers do that all the time, John, that wasn't what caused it, just an indicator that the writing was on the wall.

Circuit City's been on its way out since the nineties, to be perfectly honest. I was actually with the company back when they had a round of layoffs back in 2003. They eliminated commission to try and curb new employee salaries a bit (The place was a fucking dream come true for a teenager, I made $8 to start PLUS commission), compensating high sellers by averaging everyone's yearly commission aggregates into a base pay. Unfortunately, this resulted in a large number of extremely high sellers in big market regions  being let go because they were too expensive. While it sucks, I can completely understand it, as there were salesmen making more than management and sales really isn't a job that deserves the $30+ an hour that some dudes laid off were pulling in (I think the cutoff was $26 an hour that they started letting people go). While sales isn't as easy as some people make it out to be, electronics retail is not a job anybody should be pulling in close to $60K a year doing.

Best Buy and Wal-Mart are why CC went under. Wal-Mart's always been cheaper and while CC generally had better customer service and prices than Best Buy, Best Buy had much better marketing and had some extremely aggressive expansion in the late nineties. My store closed in late 2003 because we were actively pulling business away from a full-sized store (We were one of the boutique stores in a mall, only two of which survived that particular downsizing nationwide) that was already having trouble due to the Best Buy that had moved in next door.

While, yeah, it's fun to hate on the big guy, Circuit City folded because of Best Buy and Wal-Mart, not because they laid off a bunch of people who were, for the most part, making much more money than they were worth.

bicostp:
I went the Friday before they closed (the CC in town hung on until the very end), and the only useful things they had left were a UPS with a dead battery and an ATX power supply tester. Unfortunately the UPS's battery was dead, but I found a replacement in the garage.


:D


Best of all, the new battery is bigger than the original, but it still barely fits. (There were a bunch of plastic bits that had to be ripped out, but that was pretty easy. It looks like they used the same molds to make several models with different capacities.) Bigger battery = more backup runtime.

Other than that they had piles of random broken DVDs, beaten floor model laptops for NewEgg prices, the 80s TV with knobs from the employee break room for $20, assorted printers with missing and/or broken parts, and tons of cables and video distribution parts they used for the HDTV displays. (Oh and heaps of security tags and plastic boxes.)

Avec:

--- Quote from: KvP on 23 Feb 2009, 11:24 ---The Diablo 2 battle chest usually goes for $40 even today, so you did get a pretty good discount there.

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I don't think he's talking about expansion packs. In terms of value, I bought Diablo 2 classic about three years ago for 19.95. So is Circuit City closed completely or are they still trying to get rid of shit? I'll willing get some stuff if games are like 40% off.

bicostp:
They closed every store down completely almost a month ago. The only stores labeled "Circuit City" that are still open are "The Source by Circuit City" stores, which is actually RadioShack's Canadian branch.


--- Quote from: circuitcity.com ---Circuit City would like to thank the millions of customers who have shopped with us during the past 60 years. Unfortunately, we announced on January 16, 2009, that we are closing our stores.

CircuitCity.com is also temporarily closed, although we anticipate the website will reopen in the coming weeks. Please check back for updates.
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Sounds like they want to re-open as an online retailer! :D

Trollstormur:
aaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrgh fuck you circuit city so glad i did not ever buy anything at that store.

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