Possible [H]ot Deals: CompUSA store closings (Part 2)

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I particularly don't believe the good sales will be now but after the 25th. Remember, for the most part, there are most dumb consumers than smart consumers and they are banking on that.

By now, everyone and their mother have heard about CU going under so, the first thing they assume is... PRICES WILL BE CHEAPER THAN EVER and they will just flock the place, buy what they need for xmas expecting to save chunks of money. some of them won't even know that they were taken for a big ride, some of them will but it will be to late as ALL SALES ARE FINAL.

Sadly, for us, the good stuff might be taken by then but I am still going to go browse the place to see if I can find something that I really don't need but it is to cheap to pass up! :D
 
Sorry for the double or triple post guys, the site seemed terribly slowed and I didn't know if it was working or not so, of course, I decided to hit the submit button a few times to see if it was really working... :D
 
bluehaze013 said:
Just came back from CompUSA not much to speak of. They did have a few 8800GT in stock for 299.00. I took one to the register and asked if they would pricematch BestBuy for 237.99 (Same card) and they said "No!" I said no wonder you guys are going out of business and left LOL Seriously this store has always been a joke, shady return policies, overpriced items...It was only a matter of time before they were forced to go out of business.


I also noticed WD My Books 500gb for 169.99 after "10%0ff" went accross the street to Best Buy and they were 129.99. Went to Circuit City same price 129.99 LOL Good bye and good riddance CompUSA!
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QFT!
I remember looking at 6800GTs there quite a bit back. It was actually quiet hilarious. The 6800GTs were selling for like $300-$400 (I don't remember). Right next to them, a bunch of Nvidia 5900XTs were selling for "Managers Special: $500." WTF? They are hoping some noob parents go in and see the managers special and pay $500 for a last generation card when the current generation was at least $100 cheaper.

Won't miss CompUSA.
 
thats why bible say : don't die coz your own fool / lack of knowledge.

yeah yeah...
lucky who share information and knowledge here.
and lucky who read this... so won't get BITE by 500$ for 5900xt that doesn't worth for 50$ :D
 
FYI- the Compusa by me just marked everthing in the store down 5-30% All sales final. Video cards, monitors and memory were marked 10% off. CPUs, motherboards, cases and power supplies were 20%. Video games and consoles were 10% Anything Apple was only 5%

They had about 6-9500 phenoms in stock for $230.00 They just got them in last week. It was tempting- I think I'm going to wait and see how low they go. The guy told me they are not honoring any deals on their website.

Scott
 
YES! Fry are you listening?

I would have bought those $200 C2Q during black friday if there are Fry near me. Too bad the closest is 4 hr away.

Back to the compusa discussion...I went to local store past Monday after hearing they are closing, and they suddenly did not have C2Q anymore - they had 5-6 of them on displayed on Saturday. I think I know what happened...not cool...

annaconda said:
I would love if Fry comes to these stores.
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annaconda said:
I would love if Fry comes to these stores.
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Unless CompUSAs have grown, a Frys wouldn't fit in one. I'm not sure if Frys would fit in 2 typical CompUSAs.

Regardless, I don't see Frys expanding very quickly. Seems like most stores are in cities with high concentrations of tech workers. Given that there's only 34 stores, I don't see them growing very quickly. Geeks love Frys. Most of the population finds them intimidating.

Not sure what the population is like there, but if it's big enough, I'd think Research Triangle NC would be a good location. I'd say the N.E., but I suspect real estate is prohibitively expensive for stores as big as frys.
 
I visited my store in Clearwater Florida and there were the same 5%, 10%, and 20% "sales". Of course they did mark everything up to full MSRP and then some before taking the % off.
If the closed by Christmas post above is true, those deals just might get better quickly!!

Please do all your friends and relatives a favor and tell them NOT to go there unless they know what real prices are or can check them on the spot! I helped two people yesterday save themselves from paying too much. One guy was looking for a small size internal hard drive. the cheapest drive they had in stock was a 250GB for 99.00. I told him to go online or to best buy/staples, etc. Even teh retail stores have sub 70.00 drives this time of year. Another guy was about to pay WAY too much for a video card I know is much cheaper at Best Buy right now. (He didn't want to shop online)
 
Anyone have any idea who will step in and replace COMPUSA is the Philly Area.... i am hoping FRY's moves in... we have nothing here but BEST BUY and they SUCK!!!!!

How can a major US city not have a Computer super store?

I mean I mostly order online for my needs... however there are times when I need something now and i would pay a little extra at COMP USA for the item.
 
Well I decided to visit my local Jacksonville Florida store last nite.

Everything marked 5-15% off, and still a ton of things in stock. The only things raided were videocards(a few GTX's and 3870's avail) and hard drives (500g's no where to be found, but 750,1tb were), Had a stack of cases out like 10 cosmos cases and a ton of others

Im gonna sharpshoot a little, 2 stores near me less then 10miles apart.
Im going everyday(or every other ) to check markdowns..

As I see markdowns Ill post
 
I went to the Store and talked to the lady she was posting prices on the cases. She said the stores will close by the end of December or mid January the most.
 
I don't think it's possible for CU to close by X-mas unless they literally give everything away (which I seriously doubt Gordon Bros. will do). It took them about 6 weeks to close the 1st half of stores about a half year ago. Late Jan. into Feb. is a more realistic closeout date.
 
bluehaze013 said:
Just came back from CompUSA not much to speak of. They did have a few 8800GT in stock for 299.00. I took one to the register and asked if they would pricematch BestBuy for 237.99 (Same card) and they said "No!" I said no wonder you guys are going out of business and left LOL Seriously this store has always been a joke, shady return policies, overpriced items...It was only a matter of time before they were forced to go out of business.
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Do you think that was helpful at all to the employee. What a great human being you are. You berated a person who has absolutely no control over the pricing. Not to mention that they have been given that lovely termination e-mail as a Christmas present. Customers like you made me hate working in retail. You would rather take your hostilities for the company out on the lowly store employees, who have NO POWER, instead of taking the time to write the corporate offices. You ever think that the employees are just there trying to make a living, just like you at your job.

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I went into the local store and asked if I could put my own price on any of the products and luckily the girl I spoke with told me they couldn't and told me that a guy went in earlier than I did and tried the same thing. However, after he tried it the manager apparently chewed him out for trying that. I guess nerves are very touchy at this time of the... "release process". :)
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They are getting asked that question by everyone that comes through the door. Think about it, it is a tense situation. They have been sacked right before the holidays, and now every cheap vulture on the planet has come to pick their bones.

darktiger said:
Yeah I was disapointed. Seems like they marked everything back up to MSRP and then added the 10% discount..
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Anything that the store may have marked down to get rid of is going back to what the price is in the system. Gordon Brothers is trying to make as much money off the uninformed masses as they can. Don't take the mark ups out on the employees, they have no control over this. When I worked the last round of store closing the old games that I had marked down to get rid of went back up to their retail pricing. I was not happy considering that they were barely selling at the 60-75% that I had marked them. Gives you an idea of the quality of games I was dealing with at the time. I am so happy that I don't have to deal with GB any more.
 
beowulf7 said:
I don't think it's possible for CU to close by X-mas unless they literally give everything away (which I seriously doubt Gordon Bros. will do). It took them about 6 weeks to close the 1st half of stores about a half year ago. Late Jan. into Feb. is a more realistic closeout date.
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They could be closing some of the lower volume stores and shipping the inventory to the higher volume stores. Some cities have multiple compusa stores why not close down all but 1 in december and keep a single one open instead to move the rest of the inventory?

Really it would make more sense to do it this way. Why continue to pay employees to keep stores open that wont move thier stuff?

Or maybe they worked out a deal with a third party to unload all excess product. Sure makes more sense to sell the remainder in one shot to a single company than to drag out sales and end up with the inevitable leftovers.
 
saintrobyn said:
Do you think that was helpful at all to the employee. What a great human being you are. You berated a person who has absolutely no control over the pricing. Not to mention that they have been given that lovely termination e-mail as a Christmas present. Customers like you made me hate working in retail. You would rather take your hostilities for the company out on the lowly store employees, who have NO POWER, instead of taking the time to write the corporate offices. You ever think that the employees are just there trying to make a living, just like you at your job.
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While I'm not sticking up for bluehaze013, when he asked about price match, perhaps he thought the "No!" the employee told him had an antagonistic tone to it. :confused: I agree that in general, customers should not be upset at the CU employees or manager b/c they have no control over it.

pfunkman, it makes sense if they tried to consolidate some stores so that a city only has one instead of multiple stores. I agree w/ that. But I don't think they'd be able to sell everything in less than 2 weeks w/o giving the stuff away (i.e. way below cost) or moving products to another store (consolidation part we mentioned).
 
beowulf7 said:
pfunkman, it makes sense if they tried to consolidate some stores so that a city only has one instead of multiple stores. I agree w/ that. But I don't think they'd be able to sell everything in less than 2 weeks w/o giving the stuff away (i.e. way below cost) or moving products to another store (consolidation part we mentioned).
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The idea of liquidation is to get rid of inventory quickly to recover as much money as possible and that sometimes means selling below cost. The inventory is already paid for so getting rid of alot of stuff below cost is a hell of alot better than not selling it at all.
 
pfunkman said:
The idea of liquidation is to get rid of inventory quickly to recover as much money as possible and that sometimes means selling below cost. The inventory is already paid for so getting rid of alot of stuff below cost is a hell of alot better than not selling it at all.
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They did a lot of moving things around during the last round of liquidations, although at that time they were shifting items to stores that were still open so that they did not have to sell high ticket items at a deep discount.
 
Hmm looks like I am just a "vulture looking to pick the bones clean".

I called the local store today, he confirmed the going out of buisiness, confirmed the clearance had started. He told me that all products were "10-20% off" which, to me, doesn't sound like much of a deal. Maybe I'll wait, but it kinda makes me want to go take a peek. The deals won't last forever. The lower the prices get, the more things will get snapped up.
 
beowulf7 said:
While I'm not sticking up for bluehaze013, when he asked about price match, perhaps he thought the "No!" the employee told him had an antagonistic tone to it. :confused: I agree that in general, customers should not be upset at the CU employees or manager b/c they have no control over it.
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I can completely understand how it would be an antagonizing no. I have the unique perspective of looking at it from a customer perspective, a former retail employee perspective, and a former CompUSA employee who went through the previous liquidation perspective. After the first day of politely having to tell customers that you have no power to change the prices, you get sick of the question. While I did my absolute best to make sure I didn't lose it on a customer, I know that by the end of it I was a little short with some. Like most of the employees currently at CompUSA I was more worried about what I was going to do once the job was gone and I really didn't care if the customers got that extra dollar or two off their products.
 
Just stopped by the Fairlawn, Ohio CompUSA. 10-30% of on everything. Two specific things I did the math on, both after tax:

Gigabyte 3D Aurora 570 - $145
Retail G0 Q6600 - $264

So there are good deals to be had. I noticed many of the hard drive had already been bought up, looked there were some good deals there. I didn't have the money on me earlier, so I may head back this evening for the Q6600.
 
VGplay said:
Just stopped by the Fairlawn, Ohio CompUSA. 10-30% of on everything. Two specific things I did the math on, both after tax:

Gigabyte 3D Aurora 570 - $145
Retail G0 Q6600 - $260

So there are good deals to be had. I noticed many of the hard drive had already been bought up, looked there were some good deals there. I didn't have the money on me earlier, so I may head back this evening for the Q6600.
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I calculated the same about the Q6600s at mine. However, my store appeared to have G6 revisions. Was I reading wrong?
 
VGplay said:
Just stopped by the Fairlawn, Ohio CompUSA. 10-30% of on everything. Two specific things I did the math on, both after tax:

Gigabyte 3D Aurora 570 - $145
Retail G0 Q6600 - $260

So there are good deals to be had. I noticed many of the hard drive had already been bought up, looked there were some good deals there. I didn't have the money on me earlier, so I may head back this evening for the Q6600.
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Those deals are not bad at all but its not enough to motivate my lazy ass to go.

If i where you i would hide that Q6600 somewhere really good and wait to see if it gos down in price more:p
 
pfunkman said:
The idea of liquidation is to get rid of inventory quickly to recover as much money as possible and that sometimes means selling below cost. The inventory is already paid for so getting rid of alot of stuff below cost is a hell of alot better than not selling it at all.
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GB would basically have to look at each store and determine the cost/revenue benefit and trade off on closing early at a steep(er) loss vs. leaving the stores open a little longer and try to milk some more revenue (but thus maintaining operating expenses).

saintrobyn said:
I can completely understand how it would be an antagonizing no. I have the unique perspective of looking at it from a customer perspective, a former retail employee perspective, and a former CompUSA employee who went through the previous liquidation perspective. After the first day of politely having to tell customers that you have no power to change the prices, you get sick of the question. While I did my absolute best to make sure I didn't lose it on a customer, I know that by the end of it I was a little short with some. Like most of the employees currently at CompUSA I was more worried about what I was going to do once the job was gone and I really didn't care if the customers got that extra dollar or two off their products.
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Yes, you do have that unique perspective of employee (who went through the process the first time around) and as a customer. While I've never worked in the retail business, I can imagine that answering the same questions day in and day out and get tiresome really fast. : \
 
Aelfgeft said:
I calculated the same about the Q6600s at mine. However, my store appeared to have G6 revisions. Was I reading wrong?
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I asked to look at the box and SLACR was in the production code. Don't think hiding it would work very well because they keep it behind the counter ;). Though I would like to wait a week for it to maybe drop to around $250, but I doubt it will last that long.
 
I saw an Asus P5K Deluxe Wifi/AP motherboard for $200 with the 20% off. That is like $10 lower than newegg.

However I saw a Gigabye GA-P35C-DS3R for $152 with the 20% off. Newegg has it for $130.

So it seems like it's a hite or miss
 
saintrobyn said:
I can completely understand how it would be an antagonizing no. I have the unique perspective of looking at it from a customer perspective, a former retail employee perspective, and a former CompUSA employee who went through the previous liquidation perspective. After the first day of politely having to tell customers that you have no power to change the prices, you get sick of the question. While I did my absolute best to make sure I didn't lose it on a customer, I know that by the end of it I was a little short with some. Like most of the employees currently at CompUSA I was more worried about what I was going to do once the job was gone and I really didn't care if the customers got that extra dollar or two off their products.
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With your unique experience you should also know that working retail is a choice and those tiresome questions come with the territory. None of this should come as a surprise to any cashier. I'm not defending the actions of a customer, but if you work at the zoo, you will step in crap from time to time.
 
annaconda said:
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Hey, Quit picking on Annaconda. The link he posted does mention in user comments someone personally asking a store employee and they had been told that store would be closed after Christmas.

it looks like based on that and the letter we all saw posted that different stores will close at different times. No need to get hostile on anyone who is trying to help.

As has been stated previously, Annaconda is a helpful person in these forums, please don't ruin that :)
 
Alchemic said:
With your unique experience you should also know that working retail is a choice and those tiresome questions come with the territory. None of this should come as a surprise to any cashier. I'm not defending the actions of a customer, but if you work at the zoo, you will step in crap from time to time.
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The choice that I knew was that it was a better paycheck then flipping burgers. I also know that when my job was not in it's death throws, I would have been a little more courteous when answering the same question day in and day out. Answering the same question from someone who just stood there and heard me give the "I can not change prices" answer to the guy next to him, can be tedious.

I really hate the "retail is a choice" argument. It basically says that the customer has a right to be a jerk because the cashier chose to be there. The choice the the cashier had was paying job or no job, pretty easy choice.
 
saintrobyn said:
Do you think that was helpful at all to the employee. What a great human being you are. You berated a person who has absolutely no control over the pricing. Not to mention that they have been given that lovely termination e-mail as a Christmas present. Customers like you made me hate working in retail. You would rather take your hostilities for the company out on the lowly store employees, who have NO POWER, instead of taking the time to write the corporate offices. You ever think that the employees are just there trying to make a living, just like you at your job.
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If the employee was at all helpful to me with something so easy as saying no, sorry we dont instead of being snide and berating me for asking a simple question perhaps I would have been a bit more pleasant. I mean seriously how hard is it to just say 4 words?

I understand some of the employees might be rather upset because they have just lost thier jobs but that is no excuse to be snide and rude with customers over such a simple question. It is not the customers fault they are losing their jobs and perhaps if they were a bit more pleasent and actually helped customers they might not have ended up in this predicament to begin with. I am not sure about your CUSA but the one by my house has always been a last stop only go there if I absolutely have to and I still dread it because of the rudeness of the employees and the shady return policies they have employed in the past. I am not surprised in the least bit they they are going out of business. The only surprise is that they managed to stay in business as long as they have.

Cheers
 
bluehaze013 said:
I am not sure about your CUSA but the one by my house has always been a last stop only go there if I absolutely have to and I still dread it because of the rudeness of the employees and the shady return policies they have employed in the past.
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Think about what you just said. Of the two things that you are complaining about, the employee only has the ability to fix one of them. The employees can not change the return policy, they just have to enforce it or lose their job. As for the rudeness, that is the manager's fault. I was a sales manager at my store and when I caught my employees being rude to a customer I would verbally knock the crap out of that employee and remind him or her that it is ultimately the customer who paid us.
 
saintrobyn said:
Think about what you just said. Of the two things that you are complaining about, the employee only has the ability to fix one of them. The employees can not change the return policy, they just have to enforce it or lose their job. As for the rudeness, that is the manager's fault. I was a sales manager at my store and when I caught my employees being rude to a customer I would verbally knock the crap out of that employee and remind him or her that it is ultimately the customer who paid us.
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Well the only time i had to return something to compUSA the employees are what made it difficult.

I had bought something there (forgot what it was) and lost my reciept and was trying to return it the day after i bought it. The guy just kept telling me i couldnt prove i bought it recently so for all he knows its outside of the return period. I had him pull out some reciept paper (Their return terms are on the back) and pointed out to him where it said returns can be made without a reciept (For store credit i believe but thats all i wanted) within XX days and he just kept saying "I know our terms but without the reciept you cant prove you bought it less than XX days ago". I even got the employee i was talking to who happened to ring me up and he vouched for me but this idiot wouldnt budge. 20 minutes i argued with this guy :mad: The whole time the other guy was trying to tell this guy how to do a return without a reciept but he just wouldnt listen to anyone.

In the end i had to get a manager and he chewed the guys ass right there in front of me and my wife. It took the manager 2 minutes to look up my purchase and reprint a reciept.

I was pissed.
 
saintrobyn said:
Think about what you just said. Of the two things that you are complaining about, the employee only has the ability to fix one of them. The employees can not change the return policy, they just have to enforce it or lose their job. As for the rudeness, that is the manager's fault. I was a sales manager at my store and when I caught my employees being rude to a customer I would verbally knock the crap out of that employee and remind him or her that it is ultimately the customer who paid us.
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So it's ok for you to berate rude employees but not for me? :confused:
 
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