Systemax relaunches Circuit City's website, this time with feeling
By Darren Murph 
posted May 23rd 2009 5:56PM
posted May 23rd 2009 5:56PM
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I got an email from them offering $3.00 for a 4gb usb flash drive and some other deals, not bad so far
will they come down to Newegg level prices? Hopefully
Only if Best Buy does.... (aka when hell freezes over...)
I expect something more similar to CompUSA, so don't get your hopes up. :(
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.
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
Taking a look at the prices... They are not good at all for a online retailer.
tiger direct, comp usa, and circuit city are all the same site, owned by same company, just different page layout/logo
Don't forget Micro Center.
Oh wait, everyone always forgets Micro Center.
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
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
Like Circuit City or not, that is a very nice website.
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. :)
Actually, it's pretty horrendous. Very 2005. :P
Yeah as a pro web designer, I can second that: the site is horrible. Very nasty cluttery look to it. JESUS, my eyes!
its not NICE, just better than before
looks like crap.
listen up corporate web drones, and repeat after me "more is NOT better"
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.
It looks like they tried to mimic the old CC website, but they failed miserably.
I know we all
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,
this
Hm, is this the future? No brand will ever die, it will just live on in some dark dank corner of the internet...
With feeling?
YAY!?
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.
I can haz cheeseburger now?
Gotta love that site for butchering a great meme and then proceeding to make huge profits off of it.
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.
Not one reference to CompUSA? Strange.
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.
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).
i love how when browsing thru products the "Top 10 searches" list on the right shows 12 'searches' instead of 10
Look closer, your wrong.
WRONG ENGADGET! It should say-"I can haz cheezburger nao?"
Invisible "nao"!
Well its exactly like tigerdirect.com and compusa.com
Its the exact same as CompUSA.com and TigerDirect.com
Same owner, same products, same prices. Just a different portal to see them.
im buying something off the site. just to commemorate.
three sites selling all the same crap.
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
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.
Them, and Fry;s website are bad.
"Lipstick on a pig."
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...
When Circuit City closed, I got an 80 GB PS3 for $320 plus tax. Not a bad deal.
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.
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
agreed. One store is all they need.
As for the quote, please change it to:
"OH, HAI
WE BACK"
Haha, oh yeah.
You gotta love their pricing schemes. Everything is supposedly marked down from a higher original price. Even the Wii console, which is marked down from 299.99 to 249.99. This is the basic Wii, not some bundle with something else. When was this ever more than 249.99 Retail?
maybe they bought Sharper Image and are using those as "base" prices... not msrp.
I can't believe so few people know that Systemax is a trademark of TigerDirect...
Then dont.
See, I was expecting some LL Cool J here.
"Don't call it a comeback, I've been here for years."
Now for idiots who will think CC never died and it si the same as it always was...
they are worse them Mcdonalds Dollor Menu freaks.
I WANT MY FREAKEN DOLLOR MENU, OR I'LL THROW A FIT
i dont suppose we can find a store locator button?
Nope.
To the average consumer....they will think to themselves "Wait, didn't they go out of business a few months ago?"
The site is a clone of TigerDirect, so the deals are the same as Tigers! Nothing special that I see.
overpriced? please!
BestBuy is overpriced!
Seems like Systemax figures there are enough people who haven't heard of Tiger Direct but are still searching for CompUSA and/or Circuit City, so for relatively little cost they get all those people to buy stuff from them instead of never surfing over to Tiger Direct.
each product page is almost identical to compusa.com's
- are the 2 sites owned by the same company - systemax?
http://techfragments.com/news/804/Tech/Circuit_City_Re-Opens_Online_But_With_Poor_Return_Policy.html indicates some major issues with the new relaunched CC. One being, unable to return ANY products by HP, Compaq, Epson, and many other brands.. no thanks, I'll stick with NewEgg.
OMG THE SITE IS FULL OF BUGA DAmn near crashed my computer !
Honestly, I miss Circuit City. The Best Buys here in Milwaukee are always overcrowded, and they never have anything in stock. Plus, Circuit City's prices were always cheaper.
The new Circuit City website is probably going to sell the exact same things as TigerDirect and CompUSA, since they are all under Systemax.
Does this jumps start the stock I lost!
"carrying on the legacy of a name that became synonymous with overpriced consumer electronics for nearly six decades"
I was never overly fond of Circuit City but I certainly wouldn't say they were overpriced. Their store layout sucked and their employees were nowhere near as helpful as Best Buy's but I bought many a CE product there over the years because they were cheaper than anyone else. My HDTV, 2 DVD players, a CD player, a portable MD recorder, a PC, a couple cell phones and god knows what else all came from Circuit City. As much as I enjoy browsing through Best Buy I hardly ever buy anything major there.
Plus, I was always getting free $24 gift cards because their in-store pickup thing NEVER worked.
Finally somewhere to offload those re-furbed DIVX players!