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All Your Circuit City Questions Answered
Gearlog —
... see if there would be any crazy online deals, when instead, up popped a helpful FAQ page with details on the grim liquidation proceedings.
For example, yes, those gift cards you got for Christmas will be honored (a truly noble move for a Chapter-11 company). Yes, your extended warranties are still good. The company will offer HDTV home installations, but not car audio installations, during the liquidation sale.
These and many more helpful answers are to be found at circuitcity.com/closed.
Circuit City is kaput; announces U.S. liquidation, doles out 34,000 pink slips
MacDailyNews —
... at the discretion of the liquidator. Prices are non-negotiable and all adjustments must be approved by the liquidator's on-site managers. Consistent with federal labor laws, Circuit City associates are receiving 60-days notice of the termination of their employment. Those who stay on to help with the liquidation, of course, will receive pay and benefits. Those who are dismissed earlier will be receiving pay and benefits for the 60-day period beginning January 16, 2009. More info: here . MacDailyNews Take: Our hearts go out to the helpless employees, but the fact is that ...
Circuit City Says Farewell
Gizmos for Geeks —
... that was a premium to their then valuation back in April, Circuit City has fallen on harder times and announced January 16th, 2009 on their website that Circuit is going out of business. This affects 567 stores across the US and will result in 34,000 jobs lost. Canadian Circuit City stores will remain in operation. ...
Circuit City’s website turns into a FAQ page
Krunker —
... Consumers part of Circuit City Advantage Protection Plan are not affected by the liquidation. The plans are backed by third party independent companies and are not impacted by the closing of Circuit City
All sale prices are at the discretion of the liquidators
Purchased made up to two weeks before Jan.16th can be returned for exchanges or refunds. All sales on or after Jan. 17th are final
Goodbye Circuit City.. it was good knowing ya.
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Circuit City Mania: Shoppers Rush Liquidation Events (CC)
Silicon Alley Insider —
... Starting yesterday, bankrupt Circuit City (CC) began liquidating its inventory at all 567 of its U.S. stores, with the goal of selling out everything by the end of March. ...
Warn your friends: Circuit City liquidation is no deal
Boing Boing Gadgets —
... More interestingly, they won't sell display models, even of out-of-stock items. The store seemed well-staffed. Perhaps they're still hoping for a white knight to come in and fix everything, despite the "Everyone's fired!" note that replaced the CIrcuitcity.com site over the weekend. ...
Long lines, few bargains as Circuit City fire sale begins
Yahoo! Tech Advisors —
... a 30-percent sticker-price shave. (And remember, liquidation items are often marked up before discounts are applied.) Circuit City—which has handed over operation of its remaining stores to four liquidation companies—expects the sales to continue until about March or so, and as ZDNet's Larry Dignan suggests, the real bargains might not emerge until the very end. Meanwhile … what about extended warranties and gift cards? Well, Circuit City's shopping home page was replaced with a lengthy liquidation F.A.Q. over the weekend, complete with all the details. In a nutshell: ...
Circuit City Liquidation FAQ: Gift Cards, Warranties and Repairs [Circuit City]
Gizmodo —
... we're making no changes to our Circuit City Advantage Protection Plans®. Coverage is national and purchases will still be protected just as they always were." (and see extended warranty note above) What About Circuit City Is Fixing My Computer? " [Computer] services already underway at the liquidation stores will be completed promptly, but no additional jobs will be accepted at these stores." For more Circuit City closing factoids, hit the link. [Circuit City]
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Was Circuit City's Website Pulled Because The Deals Were Too Good? [Liquidations]
Consumerist —
... 's website, you've no doubt noticed that the website no longer exists. HDGuru grabbed some prices from the site before it was taken down and they say that the regular website deals were better than the 10% off being offered at a doomed Circuit City in Massapequa, NY. From HDGuru: The HD Guru priced five HDTVs at its closeout store in Massapequa, NY. Comparing the original and 10% off closeout prices with prices listed at Circuitcity.com revealed the “current” pre-closeout price written on the price tags was actually $200 to $400 higher than the “real” current selling ...
Tech Layoffs Come Back With a Vengeance: 80,000 In January, Approaching 200,000 Total
TechCrunch —
... San Francisco, CA
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CompUSA makes light of Circuit city closure
Betanews —
Systemax Inc, the company which owns TigerDirect, purchased nearly defunct computer retailer CompUSA's remaining assets at the beginning of the month. The acquisition swept up the remaining CompUSA stores (around 16 of the formerly 104) and the ever-important brand name into Systemax's portfolio.
However ironically, CompUSA this morning issued a press release offering shopping tips "in light of recent big box electronics store closings," which cautioned consumers not to succumb to the pressure of buying from "disorganized sales" because of their closeout prices. ...
Good-bye Circuit City – it was nice knowing ya
The Inquisitr » Technology —
... Well it’s happened folks – the closed sign is up for good. This is what you will see should you decide to say your good-byes at the Circuit City web site ...
Circuit City to Be Resurrected Online
WebProNews Feed —
Early this year, Circuit City announced that it was closing all of its stores after being in business for 60 years. Gizmodo is pointing to a screenshot from Circuit City's website now, however, suggesting that the company will be back in online form.
As you can see, the site is not operational at the moment, but will be soon. How will it do though if it does re-open though? The brick and mortar version of Circuit City obviously couldn't cut the mustard any longer, but the company's online presence was on something of a ...
Will Circuit City Live on Online?
Maximum PC all RSS Feed —
Anyone miss Circuit City yet? For those of you that do, you may be in luck. Sort of. While the bankrupt electronics chain won't be making a brick and mortar comeback anytime soon, it appears Circuit City has some kind of future planned online. Going to Circuit City's website now reads:
"CircuitCity.com is also temporarily closed, although we anticipate the website will reopen in the coming weeks. Please check back for updates."
What exactly the former chain has planned so far remains a mystery. News site TGDaily notes that ...
Circuit City volverá en algunas semanas
Gizmología —
... Hace un tiempo Circuit City, una de las empresas más famosas de venta de hardware tanto a través de la red como a través de sus locales, cerró sus puertas dejando a 30 mil empleados en la calle. Pero ahora hay un anuncio a través de su web oficial que ...
Circuit City and Systemax are talking
Krunker —
... (yes that Systemax – the same company that gobbled up CompUSA after it went belly up.. but more on that in a sec) and has entered into a “stalking horse agreement” with the company to purchase some of Circuit City’s assets including the brand name and the online website. If the agreement goes through, Systemax would provide a portion of the website revenues to Circuit City for two and a half years. ...
Retailers face new hurdles in their exodus to the Internet
Betanews —
... Circuit City -- During 60-year old consumer electronics retailer Circuit City's liquidation, former competitor CompUSA ...
