Circuit City Closing all US operations

[N2Advnture]

Originally Posted by RGD.

Actually I guess I am one of the few who preferred Circuit City over Best Buy.

Nope, I'm with you Ron. Best Buy has nothing but inexperienced kids working there and if you're lucky to find one, it's never "my area" so just getting a secured product to checkout with is impossible.

I can't tell you how many times I went to CC and had nothing but stellar service. At least at mine, they were awesome.

BTW - I could care less about what a store looks like inside but agree that CC's marketing dropped the ball in retaining a large portion of the market share.

[jjirons69]

Wait, me too. My last big purchases were from CC. I bought a full home entertainment setup and my TV from there 3 years ago. I liked the atmosphere in the store, too. Never had a problem at all. Sad to see all those folks without jobs now. Poor management can sink you in a minute.

Originally Posted by N2Advnture

Nope, I'm with you Ron. Best Buy has nothing but inexperienced kids working there and if you're lucky to find one, it's never "my area" so just getting a secured product to checkout with is impossible.

I can't tell you how many times I went to CC and had nothing but stellar service. At least at mine, they were awesome.

BTW - I could care less about what a store looks like inside but agree that CC's marketing dropped the ball in retaining a large portion of the market share.

We were talking about this today and unfortunately its getting harder and harder to get "help" anywhere.
Society as a whole is demanding fast everything at the expense of service.
There are times I just want to walk in, grab the cheapest whatever and go.
Other times I need advice, assistance and good old fashioned customer service.

Chas

[RGD.]

Originally Posted by N2Advnture

I can't tell you how many times I went to CC and had nothing but stellar service. At least at mine, they were awesome.

You know I stopped in right after Christmas to pick up a digital optic cable that I needed. As I walked over in the general direction this kid asked if he could help me - I told him what I needed. He said he would show me where they were. Well they were out of them in the main area where they should be - he didn't give up. He checked another area and then another. He told me if I wanted to wait where I was instead of following him all over - he would keep searching. He took off and eventually found one in the PSII gaming section tucked back up amongst the games. That kid didn't give up at all. To bad he is out of job now.

Most of them would have stopped after not finding them in the main cable section.


Ron

[Drazzil]

I will say this is 50% the economies fault and 50% Circuit Cities fault. Circuit City was the master of "Bait and Switch" advertising. In other words, the sunday advertisements would announce a crop of really great deals in the store, and then in the store they always had "misprint corrections" to their sunday ad's posted a week in advance to avoid actually having to honor these deals.

They also did a restructuring about six months back, firing all their workers who made over $10 dollars an hour. The last time I went into Circuit City I came in looking for a music CD, and in the process of the 17 year old employee finding it for me, he was only too happy to tell me about his ticket for marajuana poessession. I stopped going to Circuit City for anything three years back.

F_ck you Circuit City, may you rot in hell.

[Lucky_Hippo]

I stopped supporting Circuit City 10 years ago when they wanted 17.99 for the same cd I could buy for 13 bucks anywhere else around town.