Hey all, first post on here, Ive been wanting to get a F900bt, but looking obviously for a discount. So i headed to Circuit City today. Well I basically figured most of the stuff liquidators do are all scams. Which turned out to be just that. They had priced the pionner F900bt at a retail price of 1099.00 and "discounted" a whopping 30% off!!! which made it a wonderful 749.00 or so. I was like are you kidding me!!!! You can buy this on ebay for 489.00 with free shipping ! I mean do they think people are just dumb or do they think their yellow out of business signs get people excited! Or wait might be how they "dim" their lights now to make it seem like they can't afford the electricity? Argghh a liquidator price should be way below $700.00.

People were in there though, buying TV's at a "20% discount" (idiots) Even Costco prices are cheaper then Circuit City when it comes to electronics.

i was in there today the price for the 900bt at mine was like 8 something! i walked out because thats all i wanted, but i bought the install kit for my truck (2008 nissan frontier) for 10$ b4 i walked out. Im happy about that it would have been 19.99

Circuit city's already sold it's stock to a liquidator. And from all reports the liquidators first marked up prices then put the "SALE" sign in the windows (they are allowed to do this because eventually it's a sale). Week after week they gradually lower the prices on the items till they are all sold out and eventually hit the 50% off mark or lower.

But by that time there isn't a whole lot of selection, because of the people who got conned by the "SALE" sign's when their prices were 10% over the normal circuit city prices.

Your best bet for a deal is 6ave.com

A buddy of mine works at one and has had to actually tell people not to buy stuff because its a horrible deal. The only good pricing is on accessories and cables, i've been driving to all the local ones looking for the Ipod A/V cable, they had it for $25 but I cant find one still in stock. I buy all my stuff on Amazon, best prices and usually free shipping to your door.

The one by me has like 300-400 Wiis. Its crazy. They must've screwed nintendo and filed right after getting a huge shipment

The best part? ALL SALES FINAL! Yea, CC's so called sale is a big joke. Lol, I was there last week and saw a F700BT for $599.00. It was the display model! No returns of course. I just got mine for $375.00 shipped from 6th Avenue. I saved almost $300.00 after taxes and I don't have to get one that's been fondled by every car audio enthusiast who's walked in there in the last 6 months.

Guys, brains.

The liquidators did not mark up the prices. Every single item in the store is a percentage off of the original CC price. What you all seem to miss out on is the fact that 99% of the time every item in CC is on a sale of some sort, which is why you all think the prices have been jacked. Again, the discounts are off of the ORIGINAL prices, not CC's sales as of the beginning of liquidation. The 900 has always retailed at $1099.99. Due to the Circuit City one price promise I can guarantee this as fact. In fact, just about a month ago they were regularly $1199.99

As for Wiis: The top CC stores in the country got no more than 10 in at a time with a few exceptions. Theres no such thing as a "huge" shipment. Thats why theyre so in demand still. Nintendo does not supply many.

Sorry to disprove your conspiracy theories, but get some information before you start spewing your drivel.

No conspiracy theory in my Wii comment. There is a fricken mountain of them in there and Nintendo will never see payment for them. No mystery there

There's a few deals floating around in the CC madness, I found the Ipod cable for my F700 for $25. The only other things looking decent were the other mobile accessories, they're at 50% off.

well i got my 900 from c city for 110$

well i got my 900 from c city for 110$

WWWHHHAAAAAATTTTTT!?!?!? How??

The price is off msrp, not cc's prices which were rarely msrp but already discounted. So by definition, original price, minus the percentage off. So this may be the same price as cc already had or it may be lower or maybe higher. Depends on pricing before/ after, percentage off and msrp.

So 1099 is msrp of f900bt, - percentage off, there you go. Point is, they didn't jack prices up higher then msrp aka screwing you over, its just that cc pricing was already below msrp typically. Which basically says cc wasn't making allt aht much money, and this is also why accessories seem like such adeal, taht was their money makers, I remember working there, the discount you received as an employee was applied cost, so printer cables ( yes it was long time ago) were say 30 bucks, at cost it was 5. So this is where they made up for making 5 dollars on a computer, and giving the sales guy (who was on commision) 60 dollars for the sale.

Just to clarify my point, CC went under for a reason, and the discounts or lack there of now, is simply people selling hte stuff off trying to make as much money as possible vs selling stuff for little or zero profit.

I felt sorry for myself going to cc already, every store i ever been to looked the same, dull dingy, dirty, depressing, no help, low moral, no customers, cars in the parking lot were mostly employees, sort of reminds me of kmart.

CC deserved their fate, I put two yeras of my life into them when I was a teenager, they were dead then just the same and that was at their peak (late 90's)

BB should gain some additoinal business for this, so thats good I guess. That's where I shop for those must have right now moments, if not then its off to newegg.

Just to clarify my point, CC went under for a reason, and the discounts or lack there of now, is simply people selling hte stuff off trying to make as much money as possible vs selling stuff for little or zero profit.

 

I felt sorry for myself going to cc already, every store i ever been to looked the same, dull dingy, dirty, depressing, no help, low moral, no customers, cars in the parking lot were mostly employees, sort of reminds me of kmart.

 

CC deserved their fate, I put two yeras of my life into them when I was a teenager, they were dead then just the same and that was at their peak (late 90's)

 

BB should gain some additoinal business for this, so thats good I guess. That's where I shop for those must have right now moments, if not then its off to newegg.

I tried saying the same but in response I got called an idiot in another thread

well i got my 900 from c city for 110$

 

WWWHHHAAAAAATTTTTT!?!?!? How??

i was the install supervisor, i got a few of them along with many amps and other pioneer indashs. my store was one of the first 150 to close

now i just have one problem my unit now is booting up then shutting off it seems right when it should switch screens from boot up.. i really dont want to send mine back but if i have to then ohh well ill pop in a new indash

The reason CC went under is the very top management was selfish and greedy. There is no other reason. This is fact. Had they closed the stores that were closed in November back when they first knew they couldnt hold on to them (3 years ago), the company would not be in this situation. Any stores that were unpleasant in appearance were lower volume stores that would have received additional funding re-allocated from the closed stores and would be as nice inside as the top selling stores. If anyone has been in the sole RI store, they would know what I mean.

As for BB, every negative thing you claim is a standard of CC is actually a BB standard across every location. Yes, the lower CC stores (such as those useless 150) suffer from those characteristics, but the quality stores never did. Also, BB is in no better condition than CC was in November. Theyre about to go under as well unless they stop overcharging and stop making customers walk out due to complete lack of sales staff knowledge.

These are not opinions, but rather facts as compiled from various industry insiders, myself included.

Also, to wish bad upon 34000 persons is a real nice thing for you to do, regardless of your impression of the company.

Oh no, not the BB CC debate again

Oh no, not the BB CC debate again

naaah... Pox on both their houses.

The reason CC went under is the very top management was selfish and greedy. There is no other reason. This is fact. Had they closed the stores that were closed in November back when they first knew they couldnt hold on to them (3 years ago), the company would not be in this situation. Any stores that were unpleasant in appearance were lower volume stores that would have received additional funding re-allocated from the closed stores and would be as nice inside as the top selling stores. If anyone has been in the sole RI store, they would know what I mean.

 

As for BB, every negative thing you claim is a standard of CC is actually a BB standard across every location. Yes, the lower CC stores (such as those useless 150) suffer from those characteristics, but the quality stores never did. Also, BB is in no better condition than CC was in November. Theyre about to go under as well unless they stop overcharging and stop making customers walk out due to complete lack of sales staff knowledge.

 

These are not opinions, but rather facts as compiled from various industry insiders, myself included.

 

Also, to wish bad upon 34000 persons is a real nice thing for you to do, regardless of your impression of the company.

Bottom line... You're out of your mind and you clearly don't know what you're talking about.

Best Buy and Circuit City have VERY different business models and they always have and that is precisely why CC is SOL and BB is BAU (Business as usual).

The store in our town is KILLING it right now in the middle of a supposed economic downturn... why, because they understand how to do business.... CC forgot that LONG ago.

Ugh..

How many CC's closed down? Was it 150 or around that number?

Now how many BB's closed down?

You can say it was the top management's greed that brought the franchise to its knees, but in the end, it comes down to the employees. The employess are the ones who have to know, and sell the product to the customer. Had there been better customer service and less idiots being hired (Please know that I am not stereotyping current and former CC employees as idiots) the company would still have a leg to stand on. Don't misunderstand, I think it's horrible that all those workers lost their job, but that's just my 2 cents on this debate.

I have to ask, is there really this rivalry between BB and CC employees? It's like the fricken Yankees and Red Sox

Isn't it about to be like 700 closed? Ouch

Ugh..

 

How many CC's closed down? Was it 150 or around that number?

Now how many BB's closed down?

 

BB versus CC? Lol, it's like the Ford versus Chevy argument. I bought a Nissan.

i guess its only for the hardcore bb cc employees. a lot of my good friends work at cc and i work at best buy and i dont care. but its funny how some people get all worked up at my store over circuit city across the street. i just laugh at them and figure they have nothing better to do.

my friend at cc told me that at his cc the "liquidation" prices are still no better what they were discounting before. they have 14 700bt radios and theyre going for like 570 or so. nowhere near the price that 6ave had them for.

I wonder if there is a forum where people argue Starbucks vs. Seattle's Best

Wow. The comments are flying about CC. I still work at a CC and I can tell you that CC never did raise any prices. They did all go to MSRP, then discounted it. SOOOOOOO, its not a deal, but do people really care? People are sooooo into "SALE". our store was given 8 Distribution trucks from Tampa and 2.3 million in additional inventory to run us out. We have very few items left. We sold more inventory at MSRP the weekend we "closed" than we did black Friday. Black Friday was good deals on good merchandise. We had our 900bt for 749 with free install. compared to now at $1099.99 with $180 install + parts. SOOOOOO, we sold not one on black Friday, but 4 since we started our closing sale. So im not sure CC is the bad guy. I will have to say after 16 years as a 12volt installer, and district board tech, and the old SNI, when CC decided to copy BBY and fired all the good sales people and drop commission, it was all down hill from there. As we speak, the company is dividing out the reminding 2.3 million to the 16 board members, and their gift to me was "here is your 60 day notice. stand around and sell stuff."

But thats the way of the world, I say good by to my only source of income, my 40,000 fellow employees, and what about the Verizon people in the CC stores? All of ours got laid off. What about the the stabilization of pricing in our market? And people just complain that CC people now are not helpful? When all we hear is "when are your prices dropping because I want that Sony 52" XBR6 for $50.00".

Its hard for regular store fronts to compeat with Internet retailers. BBY is at least being smart and laying off it upper lever management. 4000 people at BBY just got cut.

In this day and age, its all about the money and only the strong survive. CC proved it is not strong and is dead. Its sad but thats what it takes to make progress. Another retailer will come along and run BBY down if they are not careful.

But we did have 3 new Z2's we sold for $425 the few weeks before we went under. funny how that works

BB versus CC? Lol, it's like the Ford versus Chevy argument. I bought a Nissan.

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!