Now that they’re either liquidated or being sold to TigerDirect, it’s getting pretty chillax around CompUSA land. Here are some pictures reader Jon snapped when he went to snag some computer deals. In the left you can see a CompUSA employee whiling away his last remaining hours by playing a first-person-shooter. In the right, you can see the manager of the store talking to his friends and buying tickets for rap concerts. Jon says he stood in the computer section for twenty minutes before anyone helped him. Jon isn’t mad, really, as he got some good deals, “but what an interesting way to close out the store,” he writes on his blog. What was that, something about not with a bang, but a whimper? Full size pics inside.
CompUSA – The Final Days [So Wonderfully Idyllic]
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I understand if the guy wants to be the last one off the Titanic, so he’s getting his money’s worth out of the company before they shutter the store. But instead of Halo, might I suggest pulling up MS Word and polishing off your resume? Or bringing up Illustrator or Photoshop and picking up some marketable skills? Just a thought.
I’ve had the same shoddy service from Comp USA, before they were going out of business. I stood around for about 5 minutes, hopeing someone would assist me, and I see a couple guys in the back joking around, and I think, maybe they’re on break. So I go to the cashier and ask him to ring someone over to me, and he looks over there and says there’s the guys in the department over there, ask them. So I go back and ask them to help me, and they just ignore me as if I didn’t talk. So I went back to the cashier and told him to ring someone because they weren’t going to help me. So he calls the manager and the manager goes over and tells one of them to help me. So one of them finally comes over to begrudeingly answer my questions on a couple of the products (of which he didn’t know anything about it appears as I kept correcting him on the product) until finally I threw my hands up and walked out.
That was the only time I went to Comp USA. Their service was worse than Best Buy, and Best Buy’s customer service sucks on a big popcicle stick.
@Boy Howdy: (leaves your +1 by the closeout section)
I worked at CompUSA stores in OP Kansas and Emeryville CA, both were poorly run but the one in Emeryville (Oakland) was about the worst example of a retail store I’ve ever seen. Met some great people but the management turnover rate was crazy, 3 managers in the 6 months I was there. Thank god it was only a temp thing.
I pretty much buy everything online now, I’d rather wait then deal with the stores bullshit.