Circuit City question.

[proxpilot]

20% off there BR's and they are still more expensive than most places

[supersix4]

Originally Posted by omgitsmikeyc

ok... time to explain the whole liquidation thing. it is not circuit city anymore. its actually 4 liquidation companies that have banded together, outbid the buyers, simply to make quick cash that have highjacked the stores. heres the scheme... they take signs... and mark everything 10-30% off. but.... move all the merchandise back to the recommended retail price. not actual market price that has lowered these products price range because of competitve consumerism, and out right depretiation of technology as competitors start to catch the new trends. example... the samsung ln52a650. market value should be about 1900-2100 in store... maybe 16-1800 online. origional market price.. 2500 ish. so 10% off would stick it at 2250. as time goes on in liquidated places.... the percentages go down... but ultimately.. they made a whole lotta profit off of the 10% off crap... its good business to unintelligent buyers or ignorant buyers who dont know the scheme... hopefully i have educated some

thats why you wait and hope that once the week comes that they go to 50+% off that you grab up stuff.

thats what I did with compusa

[The Effendi]

Originally Posted by omgitsmikeyc

ok... time to explain the whole liquidation thing. it is not circuit city anymore. its actually 4 liquidation companies that have banded together, outbid the buyers, simply to make quick cash that have highjacked the stores.

Noticed your from Corpus Christi. I visited one of the stores yesterday and was charged 5 dollars to go in. I laughed at the guard and walked away. Ridiculous.

[stahl7639]

Originally Posted by proxpilot

20% off there BR's and they are still more expensive than most places

Preach it brother

[DRC72]

Originally Posted by proxpilot

20% off there BR's and they are still more expensive than most places

There's a sucker born everyday.

[Marquoz]

Went last night 10 minutes before they closed, and was stopped at the door telling me they were closed. Asked what time they closed and was told 9, looked at the time, it was 8:50. Told the guy, "No wonder ya'll went bankrupt, hopefully Best Buy is open", and left. They still don't even want my money.

[proxpilot]

I went there last night to see if i could haggle them on there prices but it was a no go. lol So i pretty much laughed in the guys face. they wanted $34 for A Bridge Too Far witch is a war movie from the 60's. Every other place Ive seen it, it was $13.

[Jim L]

Looked at their prices and walked out.

By the time they have anything on a decent sale, there won't be any titles worth buying left.

[STARSCREAM]

Originally Posted by The Effendi

Noticed your from Corpus Christi. I visited one of the stores yesterday and was charged 5 dollars to go in. I laughed at the guard and walked away. Ridiculous.

WTF!!??!!! I think you need to contact somebody over this, sounds like someone is just trying to pocket cash!

[xtop]

Originally Posted by Marquoz

Went last night 10 minutes before they closed, and was stopped at the door telling me they were closed. Asked what time they closed and was told 9, looked at the time, it was 8:50. Told the guy, "No wonder ya'll went bankrupt, hopefully Best Buy is open", and left. They still don't even want my money.

wow..sympathetic. i'm so glad i'm done with retail, can't stand people like you who think you're owed the world.

they're going out of business..why would they care if they got your money or not? they're losing their jobs..why would they care that you want to waste their time so close to closing?

[Siri]

Originally Posted by Jim L

Looked at their prices and walked out.

By the time they have anything on a decent sale, there won't be any titles worth buying left.

Agreed. I might walk through once more later this week, the 'sale' is just ridiculous.

[xtop]

Originally Posted by Sirius389

Agreed. I might walk through once more later this week, the 'sale' is just ridiculous.

its not a sale...

[DetroitSportsFan]

I went there for kicks today. The store was as crowded as I've ever seen it, yet nobody was buying anything. The prices were a joke, as expected.

[jw]

Originally Posted by The Effendi

Noticed your from Corpus Christi. I visited one of the stores yesterday and was charged 5 dollars to go in. I laughed at the guard and walked away. Ridiculous.

lol, sure that was the stripper club.........Bright lights, flashing signs..I could se how you could mix those up

[xtop]

Originally Posted by jwbbud

lol, sure that was the stripper club.........Bright lights, flashing signs..I could se how you could mix those up

the first sign should have been the smell of broken dreams as he got close.

[jw]

The only difference I saw was they stamp your hand on the way in at stripper clubs and your receipt 'All Sales Final' at the liquidation sale. Everything else in between was for the sake of doing it

[Forrestandjen07]

anyone else wonder what the question was here?

[Marquoz]

Originally Posted by xtop

wow..sympathetic. i'm so glad i'm done with retail, can't stand people like you who think you're owed the world.

they're going out of business..why would they care if they got your money or not? they're losing their jobs..why would they care that you want to waste their time so close to closing?

It's symptomatic of how that Circuit City was before they closed down. They would never have anybody in the store to help you, I asked them once if they had more of an item in stock because the shelf was empty, they looked at the shelf and said no. I asked them if they had more in the back, and he said no without even looking. When you go to checkout there wasn't even checkout lanes open you had to go to the customer service line which was always long. If you needed help getting something down off a high rack they pointed to a ladder.

I also would have been done shopping long before the 10 minutes they would have closed would have been up. If I wasn't there for a single simple thing, I wouldn't have been pissed. I just wanted to run in, grab a new keyboard and run out. I didn't think I was owed the world, just that they stayed open until the normal scheduled closing time. I've worked retail before, and I would never EVER turn a customer away until the clock said it was past closing time. I don't care how tired of pissed off I was, a customer is still a customer. I've worked Christmas Day itself, and we were supposed to close at 12:00, we were still letting people in at 12:10-12:15. I guess that's the difference between a good employee and a bad one though. *shrug*

[xtop]

Originally Posted by Marquoz

It's symptomatic of how that Circuit City was before they closed down. They would never have anybody in the store to help you, I asked them once if they had more of an item in stock because the shelf was empty, they looked at the shelf and said no. I asked them if they had more in the back, and he said no without even looking. When you go to checkout there wasn't even checkout lanes open you had to go to the customer service line which was always long. If you needed help getting something down off a high rack they pointed to a ladder.

I also would have been done shopping long before the 10 minutes they would have closed would have been up. If I wasn't there for a single simple thing, I wouldn't have been pissed. I just wanted to run in, grab a new keyboard and run out. I didn't think I was owed the world, just that they stayed open until the normal scheduled closing time. I've worked retail before, and I would never EVER turn a customer away until the clock said it was past closing time. I don't care how tired of pissed off I was, a customer is still a customer. I've worked Christmas Day itself, and we were supposed to close at 12:00, we were still letting people in at 12:10-12:15. I guess that's the difference between a good employee and a bad one though. *shrug*

haha..well it is annoying finding employees like that, kinda funny when you think about it tho. and trust me..nobody hated circuit city more than me. it just seems like people are expecting so much from them right now..doesn't make any sense.

hope you didn't get the wrong idea from my post tho..it wasn't a cut against you, i should have clarified

[steve1971]

Nope I havent saw one deal yet! All they are asking is 10% off on their HD's and they wont even drop the prices for their display models! I asked the sales guy about it and he said the prices will drop from week to week and its the liquidators that are setting the prices not them. But even with the prices drops at 10% they aint selling anything as far as their HD tvs are concerned. I will see what happens during the first week of Feb what the prices are.