Gravitational Pull: Stay away from Circuit City’s bogus “sale”
D9
· 10 months ago
Think...in a few months you'll be able to get Vista for 100% off!
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MIchael
· 10 months ago
Too true! I did see a few items that were priced well at discount but you are correct that most were priced wayyyy toooo hiiiigh.
Juan
· 10 months ago
You mean a 1 Terabyte hard drive NOT 1 Gb.
typo, oops!
ampressman
· 10 months ago
Right! Thanks. Fixed.
robinson
· 10 months ago
See Pogue's wonderful column about this in the New York Times and the excellent commentary from around the country. Don't hold your breath either for 50%... apparently, the stuff will be distributed and sold elsewhere long before that.
As I mentioned in my post, I knew there were no bargains to be had right away but I assumed they'd be marking things down further by now. And I really didn't expect the degree of rip-off-hood.
TheOtherLarry
· 10 months ago
These bankrupt companies are liquidated by liquidation companies. They do exactly what this article describes - they jack up the prices, then discount the inflated prices. I guess they are hoping that most people won't notice the inflated "sale" price.
I don't think these liquidation companies take into consideration that us tech geeks are usually very savvy about what technology stuff is priced.
I agree - don't buy anything from Circuit City's Going-out-of-business sale!
James katt
· 10 months ago
I looked at the prices.
I can get a better bargain elsewhere - and can return it if unsatisfied. You can't return it from CC's "fire sale".
Circuit City is dying because it generally can't compete against others. This is then no crying matter. It is just the way of the world.
mocanuck
· 10 months ago
Went in first day and found a canon powershot sd790is with the CCity advertised price of $179.99, 10% off. This matched lowest price we could find on pricegrabber, so we bought it. Wife double checked price on iphone while we waited in line. Yesterday, found they had marked everything up to MSRP (the camera was $200+) then applied the discount... so we actually saved $ by buying early. Might be the only time that works out... sure didn't look like they were moving much product.
ampressman
· 10 months ago
Crazy! The price was from the weekly advertising circular? That was the last gasp of the old regime before the liquidators took over. Also, the camera is under $150 on some shopping sites. For example, see http://www.ontimedigital.com/products.asp?produ...
Way more than a two. So we can see that Simpletech is listing the drive o its own site for $133.99 to $167.99, all far below the bogus "list price" at Circuit City and considerably lower than CC's "discount" price.
And the SImpleTech was not the only item with a crazy high price. It's just the only one I took a picture of. I also looked at keyboards, cameras and memory.
Bob
· 10 months ago
Yes, I agree with this. I checked both the prices at the Natick store and the one in Milbury (Rt. 146). Both stores have prices higher than the actual manufacturer's MSRP for nearly all items. I wish someone could take these scum-bags to court and sue them.
Robinson
· 10 months ago
Ah, it wasn't Pogue, but the Washington Post's Pegoraro!
He writes their regular tech column and a help blog Fast Forward. He's now done two blog posts--Google should find it. Or just to the Post's web site!
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typo, oops!
blog by Eric Taub from January 20 at the Times web site.
http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/...
As I mentioned in my post, I knew there were no bargains to be had
right away but I assumed they'd be marking things down further by now.
And I really didn't expect the degree of rip-off-hood.
I don't think these liquidation companies take into consideration that us tech geeks are usually very savvy about what technology stuff is priced.
I agree - don't buy anything from Circuit City's Going-out-of-business sale!
I can get a better bargain elsewhere - and can return it if unsatisfied. You can't return it from CC's "fire sale".
Circuit City is dying because it generally can't compete against others. This is then no crying matter. It is just the way of the world.
the last gasp of the old regime before the liquidators took over.
Also, the camera is under $150 on some shopping sites. For example,
see http://www.ontimedigital.com/products.asp?produ...
(Or perhaps a more reputable source of prices http://www.everyprice.com/item.asp?item_id=2111...)
http://www.simpletech.com/parts/s1000u.htm
drive o its own site for $133.99 to $167.99, all far below the bogus
"list price" at Circuit City and considerably lower than CC's
"discount" price.
And the SImpleTech was not the only item with a crazy high price. It's
just the only one I took a picture of. I also looked at keyboards,
cameras and memory.
He writes their regular tech column and a help blog Fast Forward. He's now done two blog posts--Google should find it. Or just to the Post's web site!
Rob's first column, when he visited a Circuit City in Baileys
Crossing, Va., and chronicles a huge list of rip offs is here
(published jan. 26):
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/...
And a modest follow-up about the discounts increasing on some items is
here (published Jan. 30):
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/...