http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/Jan 16th 2009 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/Jan 16th 2009 10:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/Jan 16th 2009 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/Jan 16th 2009 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/Jan 16th 2009 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/
And then there's always Costco.



But Best Buy is too expensive.

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Yes, even NewEgg does not have BEST prices on some equipment, and not everything is in stock all the time. Still, the real advantage that brick-and-mortar stores have over NewEgg is the absence of restocking fees. I never had a problem returning things to BestBuy and CircuitCity and always had full refund, but NewEgg often charged me a restocking fee when I didn't like some gadget and wanted to return it.

So don't say NewEgg is a panacea.

CircuitCity, on the other hand, had its strength, which for me was a good selection of HDTVs (better than BestBuy's) and better prices on HDTVs. The same applied to consumer video cameras. I am always doing weeks of research before buying something big like a TV or video camera, so trust my words.

Many people were disappointed with the stuff, service and inventory at CircuitCity locations and wish them to go down. Though I agree, some locations are crap, still, the CircuitCity close to my work (Northern Virginia) was very good, and I never had any problems with staff, service or returns.

Not to mention that BlackFriday and Christmas sales at CircuitCity were the best around, excluding only the Microcenter (which is usually super-best in sales).

So I will miss you, CircuitCity, and your great sales. You was a nice alternative to BestBuy (at least for me), and many other shops over there.


P.S. I am glad I did not buy an extended warranty for my last HDTV purchase at CircuitCity.


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This is not just my impression, either - if I remember right, this was announced as a strategy by Newegg. They took losses in order to build a customer base, but it was always their intent to convert that customer base to revenue later.

I suppose you can't blame them - companies are in business to make money. On the other hand, they can't blame customers for looking for the best deal and shopping elsewhere now either.

As for Circuit City, good riddance. This seems to be the cycle with electronics stores - they start out as kind of ratty places with really low prices and salespeople that are pushy but at least know their stuff, and where you go to buy things like antennas and RF modulators and video switchers and then at some point, you notice they also have really good deals on TV's and computers. And that's how they get big, but then they forget why they got big in the first place and they and expand nationwide and they raise prices dramatically, homogenize their stores (standardizing on product you can buy in any department store), fire all their best workers and hire a bunch of lackeys. (This is literally what CC did in the name of saving money.)

Radio Shack's going through the exact same thing right now. And retail is littered with past examples now no longer with us. The Wiz. Two Guys. CompUSA. Egghead. I'm sure I'm forgetting some. All followed the same pattern.

How Best Buy is making a success out of this business model, I have no idea. Hopefully they won't continue to.]]>Jan 16th 2009 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/Jan 16th 2009 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/
CC has a horrible selection of HDTVs, especially compared to BBYs, well thats unless you mean on the lower end TVs because thats what CC always carried.]]>Jan 16th 2009 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/Jan 16th 2009 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/
People usually fail to understand that CircuitCity had different stores with different inventory. Some stores were really good, while the others were not.

I shopped for 1080p HDTV (42" or higher) around Black Friday in 2007. CircuitCity next to my work in Northern VA had more models than three BestBuys around and significantly lower prices. And better sales too. The same applied to lower end TVs.

Another location of CircuitCity about 10 miles away had a significantly smaller inventory on everything, including TVs. And guess what, that shitty location was one of the first to be closed in last November.]]>Jan 16th 2009 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/]]>Jan 16th 2009 2:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/
i heavily rely on them as my PC B&M and have saved me on many last minute occasions and/or jonsing

AND they often have hotter deals than the egg

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Have you ever actually been to Fry's?]]>Jan 16th 2009 7:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/Jan 18th 2009 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/Jan 18th 2009 5:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/As much as I like NewEgg (been using it since before it was cool) it is owned by Best Buy and always has been a Best Buy venture. ]]>Jan 22nd 2009 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/Jan 16th 2009 10:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/Jan 16th 2009 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/Jan 16th 2009 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/Jan 16th 2009 11:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/Jan 16th 2009 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.omahasteaks.com/]]>Jan 16th 2009 12:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/Jan 16th 2009 12:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/
/sarcasm]]>Jan 16th 2009 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.mytechwall.com/?p=244]]>Jan 16th 2009 4:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/Jan 16th 2009 8:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/
cheap and easy. great service, while they're at it. ]]>Jan 17th 2009 1:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/Jan 16th 2009 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/Jan 16th 2009 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/Jan 16th 2009 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/Jan 16th 2009 1:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/Jan 16th 2009 10:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/Jan 16th 2009 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/Jan 16th 2009 11:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/Jan 16th 2009 10:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/Jan 16th 2009 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/Jan 16th 2009 10:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/Jan 16th 2009 10:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/Jan 16th 2009 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/ ]]>Jan 16th 2009 7:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/Jan 16th 2009 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/Jan 16th 2009 10:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/

just messin']]>Jan 16th 2009 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/Jan 16th 2009 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/Jan 16th 2009 11:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/
Actually Fry's isn't, Fry's is a private company, no investors to answer to everything is kept within the Fry family.]]>Jan 16th 2009 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/Jan 16th 2009 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/Jan 18th 2009 5:36PM