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Title: Circuit City closing 19 stores!
Post by: zurielshimon on February 18, 2005, 08:51:04 am: I'm sure many of you have already caught the story. Apparently some of the markets where Circuit City has stores aren't strong enuff to support them, so they're going out of business. That works out well for me because in less than an hour and a half, their going out of business sale starts and I already have picked out the DV camera I'm going to be pilng on to.
Title: Re: Circuit City closing 19 stores!
Post by: B on February 18, 2005, 08:56:49 am: Quote from: "zurielshimon"
I'm sure many of you have already caught the story. Apparently some of the markets where Circuit City has stores aren't strong enuff to support them, so they're going out of business. That works out well for me because in less than an hour and a half, their going out of business sale starts and I already have picked out the DV camera I'm going to be pilng on to.

Yeah, I saw they were closing the only one relatively close to me, and thus I was sad. Although I am a Best Buy junkie myself, it is always nice to have some competition. :?
Title: Circuit City closing 19 stores!
Post by: emmy on February 18, 2005, 09:01:30 am: I hadn't known. Circuit City is another one of those things I've been in like only once. Though there are more of them around here than Best Buys I think...
Title: Circuit City closing 19 stores!
Post by: LimeTwister on February 18, 2005, 09:35:47 am: :(

at least freedom's on the march, eh?
Title: Circuit City closing 19 stores!
Post by: Vultch on February 18, 2005, 10:15:43 am: The closed the one that was close to me like a year ago. There's another about 20min away that I go to now when Best Buy isnt possible. At least that one isnt closing. Here's the list from the CC site:

Store Closing List

Store Name Address City, State

Bloomington 2520 East 3rd St. Bloomington, Ind.
West 38th Street 3670 Moller Road Indianapolis, Ind.
Evergreen Plaza 9600 S Western Ave. Evergreen Park, Ill.
Randhurst 999 North Elmhurst Road Mount Prospect, Ill.
Old Orchard 4831 Golf Road Skokie, Ill.
Wichita East 8405 E. Kellogg Drive Wichita, Kan.
Pontiac 550 N. Telegraph Road Detroit, Mich.
Lansing East 2655 E Grand River Ave. East Lansing, Mich.
Southfield 28556 Telegraph Road Southfield, Mich.
Traverse City 3123 South Airport Road Traverse City, Mich.
Westland 4030 West Broad St. Columbus, Ohio
Olmsted 27250 Lorain Road North Olmsted, Ohio
North Randall 21639 Miles Road North Randall, Ohio
Parmatown 8009 Day Drive Parma, Ohio
Jackson 1938 Emporium Drive Jackson, Tenn.
Katy Freeway 1045 Katy Freeway Houston, Texas
Lufkin 4600 S Medford Drive Lufkin, Texas
Lynchburg 3700 Candlers Mountain Road Lynchburg, Va.
Northridge 8173 West Brown Deer Road Milwaukee, Wis.
Title: Circuit City closing 19 stores!
Post by: BWilli on February 18, 2005, 10:25:03 am: didn't know that, but then again, i really never go to the store...i prefer Best Buy
Title: Circuit City closing 19 stores!
Post by: Will on February 18, 2005, 11:28:30 am: Pfft. Good riddance. That's what they get for trying to screw the customer all the time. Death to those who have those crappy mail-in rebates that never go through!
Title: Circuit City closing 19 stores!
Post by: LimeTwister on February 18, 2005, 11:38:29 am: thanks for the list, kev!

mine isn't closing...woot!.
Title: Circuit City closing 19 stores!
Post by: Will on February 18, 2005, 12:25:29 pm: Oh yeah.. one more thing. Good riddance to consumer electronics. Everything these days is cheap and disposable. Our VCR broke recently and I can't even find schematics for the sucker. Who really cares, though? All these overseas corporations care about are immediate profits. To hell with long term prospects. But then again... it's not restricted to Asian companies. HP screwed itself over by closing R&D labs that were having a small slump after being immensly profitable for 40 or so years.

/disgusted
Title: Circuit City closing 19 stores!
Post by: keith on February 18, 2005, 04:58:22 pm: Quote from: "em one twenty-five boy"
Pfft. Good riddance. That's what they get for trying to screw the customer all the time. Death to those who have those crappy mail-in rebates that never go through!
lmao
Title: Circuit City closing 19 stores!
Post by: zurielshimon on February 21, 2005, 11:03:07 am: That so-called "sale" was a grave disappointment. Almost all of their close-box merchandise had been trucked out to other stores and distribution centres and all that were left were displays, open-box, and incomplete items. Fortunately, I found a digital video camera of the series I wanted at a decent value. I had been looking at a Panasonic PV-GS9, but here I found a display model GS12, a step up in the series that also includes the 14 and 15. Missing was the 1¼-hour battery, but included were the other accessories this model should come with (power cord, charger, hand strap, instruction manual, AV cable) as well as some items they tossed in are included only with the GS15 (IR remote control with battery, 8MB SD still image card). Original price for the PV-GS12 is $399. Their price (as it was) was $310 - not bad, considering that I bought a 2½-hour battery for $49 across town. Go to other shops and add a couple of Mini DV cassettes for $11, a 1394 DV-to-PC cable for about $7, and a 100-count spindle of CD-Rs for $11.99 after rebate, and I have a complete studio for still less than the original price for the camera by itself.

My overall shopping experience at Circuit City wasn't mut's nuts, and the sales people were dodgy to say the least, but I believe I got what I wanted out of the deal.
Title: Circuit City closing 19 stores!
Post by: jessica73 on February 24, 2005, 05:41:52 pm: Who cares? Circuit City was almost aways over priced compared to Best Buy, but then again, it was nowhere near the ripoff level of Media Play. :evil:
Title: Circuit City closing 19 stores!
Post by: zurielshimon on February 25, 2005, 07:13:20 am: If it was something that I suspected Wal-Mart might have, I'd always go by there first anyway.