Would you check out this layoff slip CompUSA sent around? We know we shouldn't expect their director of HR to get all blubbery or anything, but it's like the corporation really is as soulless as it gets credit for. Like, you're really going to sit in your office in Texas and write a hundred word letter that instantly puts thousands of people out of a job, and the best you can do is "We thank you for your service to CompUSA, Inc."? Thanks for peppering in that "Inc." there, sure it made everyone feel great, but not even a personal anecdote or something? We're actually a little surprised they didn't finish it off with "and don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out." Man, even in the throes of death CompUSA treats people like garbage.
P.S. -Upshot to the vultures in the audience, liquidation is beginning within the next week or two at certain stores, so keep an eye out for going-out-of-business carrion.
[Thanks, CompUSA Employee]
posted Dec 12th 2007 11:51AM
Warning when the store by me went out there liquidation still was more expensive then what you can find on the net. So make sure you go into the store knowing what the prices for the item is on the net.
Or if you had an iPhone you could simply look up the price on-the-fly while you're there.
Or with any other phone with a data connection.
Really? the iPhone lets you browse online? What a novel idea! It's not like every other phone out there can get online... oh, wait.
I went to my CompUSA when they were going out of business and had their liquidation sale. Lets just say there was nothing to write home about. They closed pretty fast too.
They already started the liquidation sale at the lower Midtown Manhattan store this morning, and indeed some of the "deals" were far from good. As a matter of fact, the same copy of "Viva Pinata" I purchased for $10 last week had been marked back up to the MSRP of $39, and then received a standard 10% off making it about $35 -- in other words 3.5 times what I paid a few days ago!
Anyway, I bet you could try snagging some of the open box computers on the cheap if they'll haggle. They had prices already marked on the opened Windows PCs, but not on any of the Mac products.
BTW, curiously enough they had big trailers crating away boxes hours after the liquidation announcement. It looked as if they were taking the HDTVs away.
They will not haggle. Gordon Brothers owns the merchandise and sets the policies for the discounting. I worked the last round of CompUSA store closings and can tell you from personal experience that the employees are being put in a miserable position. The customers are going to come in and try to haggle and then they are going to take their frustrations out on the employees who have absolutely no authority to discount. The prices will be their best around a week or two before the stores actually close.
Indeed, the prices are always best just before the store closes because the liquidator doesn't want to be stuck with the merchandise. However, by then, there are few items most people want, hence the reason for steep discounts.
At any rate, an employee at the store in Midtown Manhattan said that on Dec. 26, the liquidators will dramatically slash prices.
BTW, thanks for the info about Gordon Bros.'s no haggling policy.
When the ones by here closed, the last few weeks they were selling all kinds of HDTV cables, optical cable etc from the displays. I got tons of Component and DHMI cables for very cheap, you had to check them as these were the cables used for the display units, but most were better quality than what they sold. (At least on paar with the overpriced Monster Cable in terms of quality.)
"THE HR GUY IS LOSING HIS JOB TOO so why should he have to be norman mailer and write a touching letter?"
The difference is that the senior director of HR I'm sure will get a pension, severance package, etc, while all the employees get unemployment for a few weeks if they're lucky.
He could at least act like he gave a shit that he just fired thousands of people. Instead he just took 30 seconds to C+P the same layoff letter he's bee using for 10 years.
Looks like standard corporate language to me.
How can they customize it for thousands of workers?
Basic business letter, makes it point short and sweet. It's a cut throat business world out there.
I didn't mean a personal anecdote for all employees, I meant a personal anecdote from their director of HR, who basically came off like a soulless corporate robot. These people should be ashamed.
"These people should be ashamed."
Oh please. Who are you? Michael Moore? Where's the real Ryan Block?
It came from their corporate office HE IS A SOULLESS CORPORATE ROBOT! Seriously, if he started getting all "anecdotal" it'd just be sand in the face of the store employees. Those dicks at corporate usually get a severance package for things like this. (I know, I used to be one of those dicks at corporate). Nevermind the fact that dude is losing his job too, so he's probably not to keen on commiserating with the register monkeys.
I suppose if he had been more personal the title would have been something like "Compusa sends out layoff letters, spins it as if bankruptcy was a good thing"
An ever better title would have been "Compusa HR director sends layoff letter to everyone, including himself." The company is going out of business and the "soulless corporate robot" is also losing his job, not that I feel any more sorry for him than everyone else at Compusa that will be out of a job soon.
I expect this sort of thing on the consumerist, where it belongs, but this is engadget.
Trust me, Legal pored over this thing. Any hint at emotion or sorrow (or liability) was struck.
The ironic part to all of this for me, being the poor old fifth-year college student that I am, is the job offer I got in the middle of November. Had I taken it, I would have been getting out of training just to receive this nice little notice.
Oh and yeah, this is no big deal. It's not like the employees didn't know it was coming. Corporate's just trying to cover their asses on the way out. If it were me , the less I was reminded of the situation the better.
This is a business, not pat on the back camp.
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=compusa_sucks
Thats from 2004 by Maddox. Still makes sense.
That's the reason why they shut down... It may have taken some time. But Maddox has done it again!
i actually emailed him about that when i read the article a week or so ago. and he replied saying "I guess I won" (that was the entire email).
hehe. "I guess I won".
Hilarious.
Too bad all of the CompUSA stores closed down in San Diego county a long time ago. I missed out on all of the liquidation sales. :/
Beyond the fact that this guy sounds like an incompetent, non-caring, self-absorbed asshole, don't you just love the titles that Congress comes up with for their POS legislation? The "Federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act"? Gee, sounds like you should get a partial refund and free training for working in the place under that title. I guess the "Federal Your Ass is Gone in 60 Days Notification Act" would be a little insensitive, although more to the liking of Mr. Ed.
But then they couldn't have a cute acronym like "WARN" as in "WARNing...Your job is gone...The feds say we have to tell you within a reasonable period of time. Good luck feeding your family."
@ DJ
It's better than a "Federal Pound-Me-In-the-Ass Prison".
Whats going on is Carlos Slim bought goodguys and is slowing since then closing down compusas around the country. This has been going on for the last 2 yrs. What there doing is closing down, letting people go, and only keeping high profit stores. There goal is to elimate all the loss the retail stores are taking and focus on an online Biz.
Dont expect deep discounts beyond 50% on junk noone wants as all the good stuff is sent to other stores, to the main warehouse in Dallas, or back to the manufacture. Compusa has a deal with there suppliers that they can return any item at any time and recieve full credit for it for a future purchase.
Also, be cautious of big ticket items. Often the good untouched stock will be sent to other stores that sell that particular item. The store keeps returns or banged up items and repackages them to look new. Often floor modles will be missing the remote, cable, power adapters, and other nessasary items to function. So you might get $200 off but your spending $200 on those missing parts from the manufactures.
As far as the letter goes, thats normal for compusa. They treet there employees like Toilet paper. Infact 2 years ago when compusa merged with goodguys, they moved employees to the new stores, offered incentives, then 2 or 3 weeks later closed down that store. They told the employees "You can quit now, or hang around at minimum wage till the store closes and no bennifits." Managers got stiffed even worse as they made to work overtime only to be kicked out weeks before doors closed as the "liquidation manager" took over. The lquidation company is also owned by Carlos Slim, so you can speculate there.
Actually the liquidation firm is not owned by Slim. I went through the liquidation the last time and trust me, Gordon Brothers has NOTHING to do with any holdings Slim has. They are not focusing on Online sales or cutting out loss in retail. They are closing up shop everywhere. I have contacted the guy "mike" who liquidated our store last year and it is confirmed that no stores will stay open, unless they are sold to a new "chain" of stores using the CompUSA name, or sold to an individual opening a new store. The existing corporation is no longer owned by Slim, nor is the inventory.
In addition, the Good Guys buyout wasn't the downfall. It was a miserable mistake, but was preceded by years of mistakes by Tony Wiess and Larry Mondry, the major "leaders" of CompUSA since slim took over. Every year we had a new "focus" that a new "consultant" came up with. They tried to transform the store from the "Computer Super Store" to the "Technology Super Store". Even back as far as 99 when Halpin was in charge, they wanted to due this and started looking at Good Guys. They wanted to become Best Buy without the appliances. They couldn't focus though. They tried to be a technology leader, and appeal to "High end users and small businesses" while still trying to and i quote from Tony Wiess "Bring them in with can be beat deals, and sell them complete solutions, not just deals". Focusing so much on bringing customers to the door with prices instead of service is what killed the company. Allowing technicians without c+ certifications and no experience is what ruined the company. Not giving stores enough stock 90% of the time and overstocking crap the other 10% of the time is what killed the stores. As an employee from when the store was publicly owned all the way till the end, I know what turmoil occurred inside. You take a company, make a leadership swap at the very top and leave them leading the same team of idiotic auditors, divisional managers, and regional manager, you get NO change. A CEO can’t start change, something CompUSA now knows. The start change you start with your workforce.
Give them a store to be proud of, not a store with 3 systems for inventory management (IMS, JDA, and OES), non of which are accurate or allow even a manager to order new inventory from a distributer, a POS system bought from a grocery store (IBM POS v. 1993), and such terrible networks that technicians would need to leave computers over night to download windows updates. You don’t leave your stores in the same miserable condition you opened them in; you update them to make them more modern, less warehouse. You don’t bulk stack every item throughout the store, making the store difficult, if not impossible to move around in. You don’t spend your holiday budget buying “Profit Alley” (actual corporate term) items like razor scooters and extension cords in vast bulk, just to waste that profit away come January trying to sell these items out way below cost.
You give them new merchandising ideas, a consistent outlay of the stores that is mapped by what customers WANT; not what will protect items from being stolen You pay employees well and give them training that is meaningful not online selling tutorials put out by computer companies that bash other products. You appreciate them by making sure they get small things like decent food for working holidays, giving proper staffing for sales events (I worked 29 hours straight thanksgiving 05 and 35 thanksgiving 06). Lastly, you focus on making the store an experience from the time a customer walks in the door to when they leave. Ever buy a computer system from a Fry’s? Hell coming from a CompUSA to a Fry’s or even a Best Buy is like going from driving a Yugo to rolling a Cadillac (or maybe a pinto for Best Buy).
CompUSA no longer cared about customers, they cared about doing the bare minimum to make sure employees didn't leave and they almost made profit. We didn't even get this letter last year, we were told personally by our manager, that’s it. CompUSA fell from a decent place when it was no longer responsible for being ethical when they went private. Carlos Slim made a rare error in taking an American retail corporation completely private; thinking being private would give him the control he needed to turn the company around. Sadly in America, greed usually wins when there is no public responsibility. This is shown in the downfall of CompUSA; cut costs, cut pay, screw customers with new policies, break warranty agreement; they did anything they could do to stay in business and under the radar. Finally, it caught up with them. Sadly, it hurts the employees who cared and tried to make their stores better more than anyone else.
Keep in mind that the HR guy who wrote that is likely losing his job too.
You might also keep in mind that there are specialists who make a career out of winding down failing companies, and slimming down companies that aren't performing to expectations. This guy is probably being well-compensated to fire everybody else, and will likely be back at work at a new failing company in a matter of weeks. As somebody who's been through the downsizing machine 2 or 3 times already, I just can't feel as sorry for HR as I do the floor staff.
went to my CUSA just before they went out of business for a part i couldnt wait on. There were probably 30 employees in the store. The only place to check out was at the customer service counter. The line had 15 people standing in it. I dont see how any company could stay in business like that.
It wasn't called "ChumpUSA" for nothing!
Or the even more favorable "COM-poosa". $90/hr to fix yer mouse.
I always liked CompUSSR
My favorite was inCompetentUSA !!!
My favorite was always Comp-Useless
One thing CompUSA did that no others have attempted: They sold unlocked Nokias. The price was crazy high so I don't know if anyone bought them, but there was usually a display & at least an N80 or N91/93 at every store I visited.
This letter, however, is completely pathetic & I would love to hear it read by a Simon Says. It would be just as emotional.
I saw a display with a few unlocked Nokia phones for sale at a Sears the other day.
Sears- now that's a company I like. It's unfortunately that there's no Christmas catalog anymore (that was the happiest time of the year for me until I was 12 or 13), but what they did to help their service employees who have been overseas in Iraq & other countries is commendable (they pay the lost wages of reservists up to 24 months & keep their 401k's going as well- at least they were. I hope times haven't changed).
These phones were not Unlocked. At the time compusa carried them there were no carriers assigned to that phone. CompUSA always geared towards the big spender. Believe it or not there were people that would walk into the store and drop $800 on that phone like it was candy.
Dell sells unlocked Nokia's actually -- http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/category.aspx?c=us&category_id=6752&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd&~ck=anav
Anyone know which stores are closing?
All of them
All of them -- CompUSA is going out of business.
the ones that are somehow, inexplicably, still open.
Certainly gives employees plenty of time to stuff their pockets with merchandise before the store closes.
Why do you think everyone says don't bother going to the liquidation sales? The employees have already snagged all the good stuff :D Or at least have it well-hidden until the discount gets to 80-90% off
I actually went through this same sort of thing years ago when I worked at an electronics store - they closed them all down, gave us a couple months notice. Don't remember seeing anything like this from corporate though. And give the guy some slack - I'm sure most of the employees were told by their store manager, this was just a legal CYA from the corporate office.
well actually i work for this retailer and we were given NO notice at all on the impending closing infact we just hired 10 new employees to get ready for the holiday rush back in the last couple weeks of november.
also we are not allowd to hold any products for any one at all even customers that call and are on there way to the store.
All the stores are closing and as for the letter, I would prefer that than the gushy bullshit I've received in the past when getting laid off.
I'm torn on this. I feel like I'd just glance over the anecdotes and think it was a pathetic attempt to make me feel better. At the same time, leaving it out seems a little harsh but to the point.
That is a lot more than those of us who were working for a Mrs. Field's company 8 years ago. The managers just came in and shut it down during business and said that they were closing and see ya! My district manager was one of the nice ones and gave me a week's notice!
I worked in a bookstore years ago & one day I went in & they were half-packed already. I think if I'd not been scheduled to work that week I probably would have found out my job was gone when I saw a "for rent" sign in the window upon arrival.
It was kind of surreal, but kind of funny looking back on it.
They wanted me to come in the next day and pack up. Needless to say I never showed.
I'll never understood why text in italics became an acceptable alternative to an actual signature.
At least the employees are getting a notice. Layoffs suck, but they can at least look for a new job between now and then.
I'm so pleased to see CompUSA going out of business. It has exemplified all that is wrong with retailers for so long. Thanks to everyone who stopped shopping there!
Not that I have any love for the putzes at CompUSA (they're long gone from ATL), but this is standard language and format for a WARN letter. As a employee communications specialist, I've read (and, sadly, written) many of them, and the format is dictated by the notification requirements of the WARN Act. Because the Act dictates 60 days notice, employees have usually received a previous communication that their office/facility/company is closing. YMMV.
"As a employee communications specialist"
Perhaps as an unemployed communications specialist... Good job with the grammar, sparky!
I are a professional... with a good proofreader
Check the Consumerist for more details on the shutdown of CompUSA. The discounts are hitting now and are currently at 10% for all items, some receiving more. They'll discount the rest soon.
Compoosa is dead, lets get drunk at Jillians in frisco! again actually...like we did last sunday..
If you guys (Jeebus and Bobby) don't think this letter could have been improved upon, you're nothing more than corporate apologists. By starting immediately with the legalese, the letter just screams "we're only sending this to you because the law requires it; if it didn't, you'd have gotten 1 minute notice before we booted you." Why is it that corporations expect loyalty from employees but show absolutely none of it in return? And why is it users like Jeebus and Bobby think that's OK? Do you all LIKE being stepped on and treated like dirt? How did corporations get such status in our eyes that they can do no wrong and employees deserve no consideration at all? Please explain.
Well Kurt, It's a little thing I like to call a paycheck. You see I like to have money, and my kid likes to eat. So, You put up with a certain amount of BS from companies in order to continue to be able to have a life. As far as what the letter should or should not have said, I really don't know what you expect. I mean should they have made sure that the letters had some tear-stains? It's not like the employees didn't know it was coming anyway, and to be honest I don't know what it is that YOU expect of the corporations. These are just people living lives, and being just as unemployed at the end of it all. You guys think that just because someone is in a position that is either A. Corporate or B. Supervisory that suddenly those people stop being human. While in some cases that's certainly true you can't just assume that it's true of everyone who works in an office.
The other thing to remember is that CompUSA has been circling the bowl for a LONG time, and anybody with half a brain knew this was just a matter of time. The letter is a mere formality in a death spasm that has been years in the making.
I know of a company recently that fired a whole office via a 3 line email sent to a group account. It is a cold world out there.
What's the point of a Federal-You-Just -Got-Screwed act if it doesn't require beasts like CompUSA to provide retraining and re-employment services when they bail?
-Also. Why would you want to work for a large retailer these days? I worked in retail back in college and I swore to myself never do that again in any capacity.
Deserved to go out of business! Take that big box distributors!!! Learn to LOVE your customers and your staff!!!
You obviously haven't met their customers.
Last year they closed a number of stores and some wherein my area. BEWARE the mark downs where still higher then I could buy in other stores. Funny about the average Joe buyer I saw shopping there buying the still over priced stuff. If it has a liquidation sign it must be cheap!!!! I when back after a few weeks as they will mark down lower as time goes on and still if I shopped online I could still beat the prices and return the produces if defective or just don't want BUT ALL SALES ARE FINAL at Compusa. Also there was story in my local newspaper at that time where a person bought over 3,500 of stuff and found out the 2 boxes had no produces in them - HE WAS SCREWED NO RECOURSE.
Carrion, my wayward son.
They'll be in pieces when they get done.
Lay your weary head to rest,
but don't come in no more.
NO!
I'd say the key point here is that this really isn't the layoff notice, is it? It's the official, we-have-to-write-you-this-letter-or-you-could-sue notice. So, yeah, it's had its soul sucked out, because that's what lawyers do.
And, of course, you are talking about CompUSA employees getting this letter. It *has* to be pretty basic. Otherwise they'd all be drooling on the HR people while asking, "What does that mean?"
One of those yellow "Have a Nice Day" stickers in the corner would have been a nice touch.
What do you think a layoff letter should look like?
It was professional and timely. Can't ask for more.
they should have included a $50 gift card to best buy.
At least they let people know, Gateway laid my wife and I off the day they told us about it! They also told us up to the day oh no the rumors arent true. So, I think CompUsa did a better job than most!:)
Gateway laid your wife huh?
Surely thats illegal in some way.
Gateway laid your wife huh?
Surely thats illegal in some way.
Actually they were telling us that the rumors weren't true either-- right up to that idiot Roman Ross's late-day emergency conference-call with all of the general store managers. We just chose not to believe the lies they were feeding us.
Shoot, my store found out about it from the Wall Street Journal before we heard it from our general store manager.
"THE RULE" In America 80/20 rule - 20% of the people live the American dream and the the other 80% slave to make that happen. So just make sure your in the 20% zone.
Oh my GOD! Please! Does anybody in this country "slave" at anything? Nobody's making you participate. A lot of people lately are falling victim to this kind of attitude that somebody owes them something, and that putting in an honest days work is somehow "slaving". If you're unhappy in your current situation so something about it. Get educated, go find a better job. Quit whining about the 20%. I'd say a better ratio for you is that probably 20% of the people in this country work for a living, and the other 80% are f-ing off posting to tech-blog comment threads all day (including me). But hey, I'm happy with my position in life. I'm comfortable, my family has a roof, and three meals a day, and I get most of the stuff I want. That's life friends, mediocrity. Learn to be happy with what you have.
Well good for you to be happy with a six package of beer and a big screen tv. The 80% don't have a clue how bad the 20% are screwing them - simply uninformed and happy souls. Please keep on watching main stream media, sports and american idol as the 20% count on that!!!
"puts thousands of people out of jobs"
...dude, it's not like these are people losing their careers. 75% of that workforce is compromised of part-time, computer nerds. people lose jobs at retail stores all the time. hell, they're even getting a convenient 3 months to prepare for losing their jobs.
more people get laid off in the corporate world w/ lifelong careers, and it happens in a much more abrupt, surprising way. we'd all be so receive so much time in advance; who gives a **** about "personal anecdotes" from the HR director?
hell, my roommate used to work at CompUSA- he doesn't give a **** about anything.
so lucky* to receive so much time
I'm right there with you, dude. There's a big difference between some retail gumby register monkey and people who I saw get laid off at Comp with ZERO notice. People who were with the company 12-13 years, and were laid off because after putting in the time and earning raises, etc. they now make "too much" money. If you want to talk about the bullshit games that CompUSA has played with some people this letter doesn't even come close.
Ok here's the poop on this 'Liquidation'. Last time they closed stores they basically sold EVERYTHING (including fixtures) to a liquidator company prior to the announcement. Those in the Dallas area at the time would have noticed many of the same characters and price tags from the Ultimate electronics 'Liquidation' only a few months earlier. Ultimate sold their DFW stores and inventory to the same company. If you meet them, these guys are goons.
The liquidator company decides how long they have to sell, and then they advertise like crazy with commercials and dudes on the street with plackards. Discounts come in steps starting with 10% for the first couple weeks, and maybe getting to 30% nearer to the end. Much of the quality inventory is moved to other sales points and outlets, or stores where the buying frenzy is more heated. They try real hard to hit the 'not so wise to good pricing' crowd and generate hysteria around a 'Liquidation'. This is a real drag, but unfortuately this is how it is going down this time as well. The 'REAL' CompUSA (per say) is likely already out of the equation, tyaken the Liquidator's cash and run. Last time they closed stores you could find liquidator store prices that were higher than advertised prices at the still open stores. All discounting is taken from list price. Of course they buy the stuff for pennies on the dollar.
You can verify this independently by going into the store and flatly asking if the liquidator company rep is currently in the store. Also, look for big yellow/black 10% off signs (with convenient space to change the %) and big square yellow (or sometimes white) price tags with the MSRP and % off. Maybe better to just ask when the last day is and go in nearer to this time to find the really good deals amongst the junk that remains.
I did buy the break room refrigerator last time for $40. There will also be some good deals amongst the A/V and computer cabling and systems used to set up the store sales floor backbone. Good luck and beware.
When I was working for AutoNation, one day they called us all into the conference room and told us not to come back tomorrow. They closed that day; severance pay came later.
My current employer told us last year that the lease on our offices is up in 2010 and they are not renewing. They plan to move all operations to the East Coast by then. In the meantime, here we all are sitting and waiting for "The Day" when they tell us to start looking for work.
So even if a corporation's expected closing is handled well and in a timely manner, it still sucks to be at the receiving end.
When large companies tank, there isn't a lot of holding hands and singing kumbaya.
Corporate is busy trying to steal office equipment and line up a new job.
My favorite layoff was being called to an all hands sales meeting, being told to set up our laptops and then being locked out of that room during a manditory lunch break. I stole two aeron chairs in revenge.
Last time I was laid off, we were in the middle of a work day and a guy showed up from corporate with a set of door locks in his hand. He gave us 15 minutes to gather our personal things and GTFO.
I saw the beginning of the end at this one firm when they sent out a company wide email at 3PM that said "Times are tough blah blah blah... The following people are terminated as of 5PM today:" And then listed all the people. Two of them were right behind me and one just started sobbing on the spot. HR didn't even show up. Lucky them, they got three months severance pay. My independent contractor ass got "Oh, by the way, we're going to need you to coordinate the moving of 50 systems back over to the main office tomorrow and then we won't be needing your services any more, mkay?"
As a former CompUSA employee (Customer Service), I know all too well how crappy CompUSA treats their employees and customers. After leaving there (and not getting employee discounts) I never once walked back into CompUSA and bought something in fear of their return policy and overall customer service. I think that's saying a lot, and I'm glad to see them out of business.
P.S. Each of you will receive a can of compressed air and a 4 pack of floppy disks FREE! in lieu of a severance package.
My COMPUSA horror story:
I bought an extended 2-year replacement plan for my video card. Guess what? They never, ever had it stock again. The only better cards available have been PCIexpress (the card I bought was AGP).
So of course, when the video card failed, I had to select a crummy, slow video card. I'm glad to see them fail @ life.
Not trying to crap in your Cheerios but how is that CompUSA's fault. You got a high end AGP video card and the technology passed you by. It happens. I have no love for CompUSA but don't blame them for ever changing nature of the technology industry. It is your own bad luck. You could have gotten a PCI-E card and used that as an excuse to upgrade your aging system.
Wrong answer
You weren't wronged. The store is obligated to replace the dead video card with a card of equivalent specifications (not equivalent cash value). After 12 months, the card you purchased will likely NOT be on the shelf as video tech changes rapidly. Video card replacements are always going to be to your advantage for that reason alone. If you got a card worse than what you purchased, shame on them and on you.
anyone wanna call Ed Coder at 972-528-4906? maybe you could have your questions answered.
Nice job, asshat. Like the guy needs your harassment.
He seemed like a nice guy. Of course he was less than thrilled when I explained to him that some dick had posted his office number on Engadget. Feel better now?
Hey retard, ever stop to think that reading something is helpful before you post?
How about reading the letter that engadget posted? Cuz if you did you'd notice that engadget didn't blur out his number.
Number one I did read it, and that's why I didn't say "Some dick named Sam posted his number" But YOU specifically commented on it so YOU got the reply. Number two did you ever stop to think that GRAMMAR might be an appropriate thing to learn before you post? Jesus Christ, it's like you're eating paint chips or something.
I live in china so my engrish is chopee.
haha
Then in that case I sincerely apologize.