Systemax relaunches Circuit City's website, this time with feeling

After shelling out some $6.5 million, you had to know that Systemax planned on doing something with Circuit City's trademarks and internet domain names. As of today, CircuitCity.com is back and better than ever, carrying on the legacy of a name that became synonymous with overpriced consumer electronics for nearly six decades. Of course, this doesn't mean that any Circuit City retail stores will be re-opening, but at least the brand is living on in the world wide web. The wonders of the internet: I Can Has Cheezburger?, Twitter and the continuation of an icon that would otherwise be six feet underground.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

[digitallysick @ May 23rd 2009 5:58PM]

I got an email from them offering $3.00 for a 4gb usb flash drive and some other deals, not bad so far

[GBeatzRecrds @ May 23rd 2009 6:01PM]

will they come down to Newegg level prices? Hopefully

[sacapuntas @ May 23rd 2009 6:08PM]

Only if Best Buy does.... (aka when hell freezes over...)

[vdex34 @ May 23rd 2009 6:38PM]

I expect something more similar to CompUSA, so don't get your hopes up. :(

[AndrewNoNumbers @ May 23rd 2009 8:12PM]

Yall know that TigerDirect, CompUSA, and now Circuit City are all run by the same Systemax. So all the sites are just mirrors of the original TigerDirect but with a makeover. They have the same inventory but different sale items.

[yourenzyme @ May 23rd 2009 11:03PM]

Or go into best buy. Show them the price on New Egg, attempt to price match. More likely than not you'll get it. In this "economic armageddon" Best Buy is beginning to price match a lot of online retailers. I've been doing price matches on amazon and newegg shit at my local best buy for a few weeks now. All you gotta do is ask. Same rules apply, it has to be the same model and all that junk. Even if its not the same thing, they're usually good about working with you to get the price somewhat resonable

[Luke @ May 23rd 2009 6:03PM]

Taking a look at the prices... They are not good at all for a online retailer.

[gamedude420 @ May 23rd 2009 6:04PM]

tiger direct, comp usa, and circuit city are all the same site, owned by same company, just different page layout/logo

[Josh Ladella @ May 23rd 2009 7:41PM]

Don't forget Micro Center.

Oh wait, everyone always forgets Micro Center.

[Cosmo @ May 23rd 2009 8:19PM]

Microcenter just needs to open more stores across the U.S. They have some great deals like having the Core i7 right now for $199.99 a few times and normally $229.99, but they are in-store only so a lot of people miss out. I also snagged an Antec 1200 case from them in early February during their components sale for only $129.99! : D

[Obi-Habby @ May 24th 2009 12:21PM]

I do miss living next to the MicroCenter in Chicago. Great store and the cheapest CAT5 I have ever found. That said I do like the Tigerdirect store in Schaumburg too, but no where near as much as MicroCenter

[Isaac @ May 23rd 2009 6:11PM]

Like Circuit City or not, that is a very nice website.

[Charles @ May 24th 2009 9:53AM]

It may looks the same, but it is different. Notice that the website is built using old ASP technology. Somebody should sql inject this new site. :)

[Tim Shundo @ May 23rd 2009 7:45PM]

Actually, it's pretty horrendous. Very 2005. :P

[CaptSaltyJack @ May 23rd 2009 7:52PM]

Yeah as a pro web designer, I can second that: the site is horrible. Very nasty cluttery look to it. JESUS, my eyes!

[finite_loop @ May 23rd 2009 8:11PM]

its not NICE, just better than before

[CraigJ @ May 23rd 2009 11:30PM]

looks like crap.

listen up corporate web drones, and repeat after me "more is NOT better"

[lordmorgul @ May 24th 2009 3:06PM]

Typical copy/paste from previous websites. This site has so many premade garbage elements on it I cannot imagine it took more than 3 days to get put together and tested.

[Mr. Ford @ May 24th 2009 4:40PM]

It looks like they tried to mimic the old CC website, but they failed miserably.

[Maeztro @ May 23rd 2009 6:13PM]

I know we all

[jon arnason @ May 23rd 2009 6:16PM]

I hope this time they have better prices. From what I see so far, it's about the same as before. Like the other comments, it's not likely to be much better while Best Buy has the some of the highest prices out there. Of course they don't have brick & mortar stores anymore, so they should be able to compete with Newegg and even Amazon, or die a slow death.

Jon,

[Danny @ May 23rd 2009 6:29PM]

this

[Epsilon-Not @ May 23rd 2009 6:17PM]

Hm, is this the future? No brand will ever die, it will just live on in some dark dank corner of the internet...

[Zach @ May 23rd 2009 6:23PM]

With feeling?

[Fred @ May 23rd 2009 6:28PM]

YAY!?

[Sameer Surampalli @ May 23rd 2009 6:33PM]

Oh, that's deceiving. I went to a website that I thought remotely resembled the old CC.com until I dove in... it just looks like TigerDirect... sigh.

[MohammadAG @ May 23rd 2009 6:33PM]

I can haz cheeseburger now?

[DWells55 @ May 23rd 2009 7:18PM]

Gotta love that site for butchering a great meme and then proceeding to make huge profits off of it.

[The Gangsta! @ May 23rd 2009 6:35PM]

This is like what happened to Tower Records. Even though they closed down, their website is still up and you can buy stuff from there today.

[Brian @ May 23rd 2009 6:42PM]

Not one reference to CompUSA? Strange.

[royceco @ May 23rd 2009 6:58PM]

I don't know if my memory is lying. But, I remember their prices being competitive with online retailers. (One you adjust for shipping.) I have purchased alot of stuff from them over the years. Typically large items that online retailers would rape you on shipping with.

[James @ May 23rd 2009 6:59PM]

lol, it's almost exactly the same as CompUSA's site which is also based off of TigerDiect's site...

Try this...click on a link to a product...add that item to your cart...the next page should be a confirmation that the item has been added. In your address bar, change "circuitcity" to "compusa" or "tigerdirect" (without quotes of corse).

[Paul Corlatan @ May 23rd 2009 7:10PM]

i love how when browsing thru products the "Top 10 searches" list on the right shows 12 'searches' instead of 10

[Alex @ May 24th 2009 10:13AM]

Look closer, your wrong.

[Christian Walters @ May 23rd 2009 7:10PM]

WRONG ENGADGET! It should say-"I can haz cheezburger nao?"

[ED @ May 24th 2009 5:16AM]

Invisible "nao"!

[a.glorfindel11 @ May 23rd 2009 7:36PM]

Well its exactly like tigerdirect.com and compusa.com

[William @ May 23rd 2009 7:38PM]

Its the exact same as CompUSA.com and TigerDirect.com

Same owner, same products, same prices. Just a different portal to see them.

[trevor @ May 23rd 2009 7:39PM]

im buying something off the site. just to commemorate.

[Randall Lind @ May 23rd 2009 8:58PM]

three sites selling all the same crap.

[digitallysick @ May 23rd 2009 9:12PM]

Tigerdirect has the worst layout ever, I don't even shop there because of how they have things setup. A bunch of computer parts in a pile with a big price tag like its a used auto lot

[Valicore @ May 23rd 2009 11:02PM]

Exactly - I look at their fricken' site and get a headache, they should realize they'd get more customers if they paid a bit more for web design.

[chrisgonzales @ May 24th 2009 1:54AM]

Them, and Fry;s website are bad.

[Rob @ May 23rd 2009 9:15PM]

"Lipstick on a pig."

[Stephen @ May 23rd 2009 9:37PM]

I actually like this, its the same stuff as compusa.com but because there is an actual compusa store in my state i have to pay sales tax, being that there are no Circuit City's anywhere I can buy the same stuff on circuitycity.com and pay no sales tax...

[qwerty613 @ May 23rd 2009 9:43PM]

When Circuit City closed, I got an 80 GB PS3 for $320 plus tax. Not a bad deal.

[cherylmikela @ May 23rd 2009 10:54PM]

When the local store closed I tried to buy a camera. All the keys that secured the display models magically disappeared. I checked back for a couple of weeks but they were never found. Still looking for a camera.

[Ht0wn B0i @ May 23rd 2009 10:23PM]

same with tigerdirect, compusa.....and now circuitcity? what's the point?......they all the same. just the name and layout that is different.

same warehouse, same shipping cost, same tax charges, same owner, same products, same price........they just duplicate the site with different name.

pointless! i shop at tigerdirect once and never buy again.....

still can't compete with newegg and buy.com

[chrisgonzales @ May 24th 2009 1:52AM]

agreed. One store is all they need.

[Jinto @ May 23rd 2009 10:50PM]

As for the quote, please change it to:

"OH, HAI
WE BACK"