Circuit City closings begin, lines form, bargains await
By Tim Stevens 
posted January 19th 2009 9:54AM
posted January 19th 2009 9:54AM
posted January 19th 2009 9:54AM
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Went to a Circuit City in Northern VA this Saturday. It was 10% off most things in the store (deducted at the register), CDs and some games were 20%. Nothing on computers or GPS navigation devices. The best deal was on merchandise that was already on sale before the closing. I managed to get a 22 inch Samsung LCD for about 25% off retail.
I plan to go back later on to see if there are any better deals as it gets closer to March.
Like everyone else here, I went on Saturday. Same crappy discounts. I did, however, score a brand new Apple TV for $100. It was marked down to $130 on "clearance" and I was able to get them down another 20% off that. There are a few gems among the crap.
The Circuit City I topped at (Spartanburg, SC) was dimly lit, so I couldn't even see, it smelled like BO throughout, and they had almost nothing. No wonder they are going out of business. Best Buy FTW.
Don't bother going. Everything is discounted from the price marked, which is the original MSRP, as far as I can tell. I thought I'd snag Guitar Hero 3 on the cheap for my trusty old PS2, but it was $50 with a 10% discount!
I wound up stopping in at GameStop and buying a used disc for $25. If I was more patient, I could've gotten a new one on Amazon for $35 with free shipping and no tax.
This is why the brick-and-mortar stores are dying out, they simple cannot compete with online stores and discount outlets!
Every comment I see that reads "Circuit City isn't interested in liquidating the assets", or something along those lines I can do nothing but laugh at.
There is no Circuit City you idiots. The liquidators own everything, Even the fixtures, so if you're pissed don't take it out on us man, y'all didn't want the deals we had going so deal with the liquidators. hahaha. idiots.
no use going there, all over priced items.
Anyone in here bemoaning CCs "high" liquadation prices have no clue. CC is gone (as many had "tried" to point out). The Liquidator that now owns that stock has raised prices back up and then discounted them down slightly (again, as already pointed out). You're a day late and a dollar short. BTW: this is very common in the "liquidation industry". There was even an "expose" a month and a half or so ago. They even compared the "liquidation" inventroies at CCs closing down (at the time, they had a limited number of stores closing) and "regular CCs"... Can still see it on YouTube... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMiBVlXctM8
thank you, someone with a brain.
Thank you for making the obvious point so I didn't have to.
My local Circuit City is almost always empty because they have the highest prices in town and Best Buy is only 2 miles away. They announced a 20% sale so I went in. I did random checks and peeled off the sale price stickers.... the original price sticker was for the exact same price on every item I checked. And you wonder why they're going bankrupt.
already bankrupt, out of business. ass.
i went there yesterday and the sales suck. i asked him are they gettin any more trucks to clear out the warehouse but they said no. and its only 10%. thats nothin. it'll be like comp usa when they went out, no deals to the very last day when theres like 75% off on a phone case that hasnt been around in like 10 years.
i have to say it is nice when people give me the "no wonder you're going out of business" line. Because now, finally, i don't have a job to worry about, it's gonna be gone anyway! So i have the next 30 DAYS to be as rude to everyone as they are to me! lol. I'm still as helpful as i can be to every normal person, but assholes beware... i got "your mom" cutdowns for days and i'm not afraid to use em! :]
you and me both man, and I've ran into several assholes. people just walk in as nasty as possible. so i give them 10 times more. then they had my doing LP today, oh that was so much fun. almost too much. i got a few good laughs today as wee.
I stopped in with my $10 gift card i'd been holding on to. dvd's and music were 20% off REGULAR prices (which are always way too high) so 20% just brought them down to sale prices. Everything else was 10% off. I find better deals at Best Buy. I had a really hard time spending my $10 and ended up settling on compressed air and candy... can you feel my excitement. Good riddance to a mediocre store.
They took all the prices to MSRP and started the discounts from there.
An time that was $220 on Friday was $280 on Saturday, and then %10 off ($252) today.
It will need to be at least 25% off for me to be excited about its price.
I stopped in today as well, just curious if they lowered prices any more. Nope. Although not much of a line anymore to buy, but plenty of people were inside. A few smart people were checking prices online with their phones to see what was really a deal.
What I thought was funny is that they had games 10% off, and two of the games they had a TON of was Hellgate:London and Tabula Rasa. So not only are they a bad deal, but they will sell you games that are defunct and belong in the trash now.
If that mustang is for sale, I'm there.
man, where did i put that gift card
You CC guys seem bitter. Why didn't you go work for best buy? CC has sucked for years and most of their employees were douches. So you chose to work for a shitty company with crunchy ass employees. Its your fault.
Circuit City employee here.
Yeah, the discounts blow. In all honesty, we had better deals on TVs and such when we were STILL CC. Liquidation is working off MSPR minus the associated discounts of 15% off TVs, 30% off furniture and A/V cables, 20% off movies and CDs and the like.
We did, however, do better on both the first and second days of the liquidation sale than we did on Black Friday. and that's not combining the days. each one individually... just shows the psychological power behind the simple idea of "percentage off" even if it's only 10%.
Stick around for the deals but dont hold out too long. Its most likely that the smallest or historically slowest stores will be gone first, and the liquidators will shuffle as much merch to busier stores or off to wholesalers. Once they're down to the wire they'll break out the insane discounts, but I can promise you most of the good stuff will be gone... by then you'll be looking at 70%-80% off steel shelving units lol