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Circuit City Going Out Of Style: U Shoppin'?
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Has anyone been by a Circuit City lately? I went tonight to maybe find something for my wife to pick out for her birthday, but the store is almost picked clean. A sign in the window said they have 10 days left, but the majority of items are only 40% or 30% discounted.
I did pick up Mass Effect for $13 and L4D for $34, a couple of Blu-rays for $15, and some CDs for $8, so I guess it wasn't a total loss. Too bad their home surrounds and TVs, you know, the stuff worth going after, are still in the $300s.
How are the people that are still working there taking it? Stashing away any things you'd want to pick up on the last day when everything has got to be gone?
I did pick up Mass Effect for $13 and L4D for $34, a couple of Blu-rays for $15, and some CDs for $8, so I guess it wasn't a total loss. Too bad their home surrounds and TVs, you know, the stuff worth going after, are still in the $300s.
How are the people that are still working there taking it? Stashing away any things you'd want to pick up on the last day when everything has got to be gone?
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Rather crowded at mine, but that because most of the junk was packed into a few small sections. Maybe some places will leave stuff spread out but who knows. It's at least worth a look to see if there's any hidden treasures. I mean, come on, Mass Effect for $13. It's gotta be worth that, right?
I went to the one at Concord Mills in North Carolina yesterday, it wasn't too crowded but I didn't see anything that was so cheap it was a must buy.
Yeah all the sale prices are based off the MSRP, not the usual deal prices you see at Best Buy.
This is only a worry if the cards in question have the scrape off section to reveal the code. If it's a paper pull-tab, then they're already active.
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What happens when stores go out of business is a separate liquidation company handles the closing sales. What occurs then is that all prices are set by the liquidator which is very often higher than the original stores price for the same item. You may see familiar employees still in the store because the liquidators have hired them for the liquidation sale to put any previous customers at ease. Sometimes, you can peel back the current price tag and see the previously lower price underneath.
I would warn anyone to be careful shopping at going out of business sales; prices are often worse than other retailers until you get past the 25% off deals. Even then it may be more expensive. That said, you can still find the odd good deal there before things get heavily marked off, but you definitely want to do your research first on items you may wish to buy.
So I'm happy, I rented it when it came out, said I would buy it for 20, and it was cheap enough that I got mine, and one to give to a buddy for some on demand co-op
This is all true. Of course even non-liquidators pull the same trick of raising prices before discounting.
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So if you are easily swayed by 5 or 10 dollars, then have a blast!
I mean, I'm talking 50% discounts at the least.
I guess if I'm going to buy a super expensive item, then yeah. 25% the price of an HDTV sounds mighty good. Too bad I'm not buying anything close to that. Ah well.
Someone I know went out to snag a copy of Left 4 Dead when they started liquidation sales, and she found it for 69.99 dollars. For the PC version. Which retails at fifty bucks.
Dead fucking serious.
A few days later, they were cleaning out the back storage and a buddy of mine (who is a manager there) was letting me stand around and watch them unload all the stuff. Most of it was various CD's, movies, and cords that just got misplaced in the warehouse.
Then out rolled a clean, white box with the word Wii on it.
I think you might have just explained why CC went bankrupt.
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I use to love CC. I remember they broke street date for Halo 2 PC and I picked that up. And I also got free MS points when I bought Guitar Hero 2 for the 360 there.
Circuit City doesn't exist anymore. The name and all of the products were sold to liquidators, who in turn are in charge of getting rid of all the crap in the store.
So what they do is raise prices to the MSRP and then take discounts off of it. So, just because it says "discount" doesn't mean it's cheap.
Blaming Circuit City for the liquidators raising prices and then saying "This is why they went out of business" is pointing the finger at the wrong person.
Video game accessories seem to be 30% as a standard across stores. Problem is that by now, most worthwhile accessories have been picked clean. My store had very few Xbox 360 accessories (and actually had Wii accessories, controller sleeves and cheap stuff, in their place). The only Xbox 360 accessory I recall seeing was a single Xbox Live Vision Cam.
As far as games go, there are some deals here and there, but they will be difficult to find. I went in to spend off a gift card I had, intending on buying Burnout Paradise ($20 before liquidation and at most stores). I was disappointed to see a $29.99 price tag on the game, but figured I'd go ahead and pay the extra ten just to get rid of the card. When it ran through the scanner, though, it actually rang up as $14.99, so I consider that to be a pretty good deal.
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This is a joke right? Best Buy is like the king of MSRP. They often advertise prices in their sale ads that actually aren't sales and are just the MSRP. They have some good sales every once in a while, but the vast majority of the time, its not worth buying something at Best Buy since you can get it cheaper elsewhere.
One thing that got me thinking was when I was checking out and they told me my total I said "That's not too bad." the girl said "Wow I wish more customers were like you."
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Because in some stores, the math says you'll pay less at the normal price somewhere else.
People are stupid.
Uhh yeah, I guess some people could consider sarcasm a joke.
This was not an isolated incident. Looking around the store, all of the clearance deals had giant signs declaring how they were "30% OFF!" yet somehow priced significantly higher than before the clearance. I guess the MSRP explains it, but still really lame.
Sarcasm doesn't always come across very well over the internet.
Yeah, I'm kind of an asshole. But I'm an asshole who made a quick $20 and got a free wireless controller.
You might want to go today, depending on the location of your store. Mine was sold out a week ago of everything but HDMI cords and a charging station.
People are stupid yes, but let's not pretend the liquidators aren't being manipulative and opportunistic here. There is clearly a deliberate and desceptive motive involved in marking your products up to full price, and then marking everything down to 90% so you can claim everything is on sale.
edit - no spectacular deals, they had a few copies of too human which rung up as 27.99 after the discount, about $10 more than i want to spend for it.
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Yeah, the CC near my office had the GH version of Burnout Paradise for $19.99, not including the 25% discount, which was really a no-brainer for me. I'm sure I could have hunted down a slightly better deal for it online, but there's something to be said for instant gratification and no other game store in the area, indie or chain, tends to sell new games for much less than MSRP.
Now that their discount on videogames and Blu-Rays is 20% or more, there are some actual deals to be had.
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