Circuit City closing 19 stores!

[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.

[B]

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.  :?

[emmy]

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...

[LimeTwister]

at least freedom's on the march, eh?

[Vultch]

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.

[BWilli]

didn't know that, but then again, i really never go to the store...i prefer Best Buy

[Will]

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!

[LimeTwister]

thanks for the list, kev!

mine isn't closing...woot!.

[Will]

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

[keith]

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

[zurielshimon]

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.

[jessica73]

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:

[zurielshimon]

If it was something that I suspected Wal-Mart might have, I'd always go by there first anyway.