Circuit City – Going out of Business Sale
As many of you know, Circuit City announced on Friday that they will be going out of business, and closing all of their remaining stores. While I do not normally run to a store that just announces that they are going out of business, I realized I had better go soon since I had gotten a gift card from them back in September when I ordered something online, and Circuit City took more than 24 min to give me my item. I didn’t want to take the chance of losing “free money” by waiting for Circuit City to have great prices, so I went on Saturday, hoping to get something for free.
First off, I was surprised at how crowded the stores were! The liquidators hadn’t even gotten there yet, as the prices were about “normal” for them. They weren’t marked over with higher prices yet. (What normally happens when a store goes out of business is a liquidator takes over, and all prices get marked up, and from that point they say everything in the store is x% off, and mark it down from that higher price.)
What was even better news for me, was that certain sections were already at a discount. All CD’s and DVDs were at 20% off. While many of their DVDs are higher than other stores, a good portion are at the same price, such as Disney DVDs. I had planned on getting 2 DVDs before the end of January – The Little Mermaid Platinum Edition, and the Peter Pan Platinum Edition, since both go back “in the vault” at the end of the month. The regular price of these DVDs at most stores is $19.99, so I had been waiting hoping to find them on sale somewhere. Well, I was lucky that Circuit City had them for $19.99 each, meaning that after the 20% off, they were only $16.00 each. Since I had a $24 gift card, that made the deal even better for me.
Other then that, nothing had been changed, although I’m sure if I go back in the store this week (which I won’t) the prices will be higher, not lower. Going out of Business sales end up working better for the stores than for the customer in my opinion. Everyone knows that by the time the items is 75% off, there is nothing left in the store…so people buy everything up when the items are only discounted a little.
I’m just sad that Circuit City is leaving, because there goes almost all of the competition in our area. First CompUSA left, and now Circuit City. Why would Best Buy try to compete now? If you want electronics – and a good selection, you’ll probably go there since in many places you don’t have another option.
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January 23rd, 2009 at 5:45 pm
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