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]

[(Unverified) Posted May 23rd 2009 11:41PM]

Haha, oh yeah.

[neonpolaris Posted May 23rd 2009 11:40PM]

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?

[mabhatter Posted May 24th 2009 2:41AM]

maybe they bought Sharper Image and are using those as "base" prices... not msrp.

[(Unverified) Posted May 23rd 2009 11:41PM]

I can't believe so few people know that Systemax is a trademark of TigerDirect...

[(Unverified) Posted May 24th 2009 2:46AM]

Then dont.

[(Unverified) Posted May 24th 2009 12:33AM]

See, I was expecting some LL Cool J here.

"Don't call it a comeback, I've been here for years."

[Target0362 Posted May 24th 2009 1:50AM]

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

[(Unverified) Posted May 24th 2009 2:54AM]

i dont suppose we can find a store locator button?

[RAMz Posted May 24th 2009 10:14AM]

Nope.

To the average consumer....they will think to themselves "Wait, didn't they go out of business a few months ago?"

[TheWB Posted May 24th 2009 8:27AM]

The site is a clone of TigerDirect, so the deals are the same as Tigers! Nothing special that I see.

[stegdagne Posted May 24th 2009 10:57AM]

overpriced? please!
BestBuy is overpriced!

[msatlas Posted May 24th 2009 11:18AM]

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.

[(Unverified) Posted May 24th 2009 1:45PM]

each product page is almost identical to compusa.com's
- are the 2 sites owned by the same company - systemax?

[(Unverified) Posted May 24th 2009 1:33PM]

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.

[SKIZZZOT Posted May 24th 2009 1:47PM]

OMG THE SITE IS FULL OF BUGA DAmn near crashed my computer !

[(Unverified) Posted May 24th 2009 1:47PM]

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.

[Tendoboy Posted May 24th 2009 2:57PM]

Does this jumps start the stock I lost!

[skullivan Posted May 25th 2009 2:50PM]

"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.

[KurtHuber Posted May 28th 2009 4:33AM]

Finally somewhere to offload those re-furbed DIVX players!