Circuit City is dead. Long live Circuit City! Circuitcity.com is already about to relaunch. They’ll let everyone know via Twitter when they open. No word whether they will actually be distinguishable from TigerDirect.
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Come on, is this for real? I remember a fairly small hardware company here in Sweden. They closed last year, two months later, they were back in action like nothing had ever happened.
I have a bad feeling about this.
@Slottsherre: Really? CompUSA is doing great. No reason why Circuit City can’t also follow along. Nothing really surprising here folks, stop acting like it’s some big deal. This is quite literally an “Under new management” scenario.
Btw, “world class costumer service”? Wasn’t that one of CC’s biggest problems? So ironic.
They shouldn’t have buried it in that old Indian burial ground. The Wichikaw Indians stopped using it when the ground went sour. Sometimes… Dead is better.
It’s a zombie, now. Expect word from the Boston PD soon enough.
CompUSA did the exact same thing. Went out of business & about 3 months later, were resurrected online under TigerDirect. It’s cheaper, smaller group of employees & you only need a webmaster to update the sales & inventory.
I expected it because the store died, but not the name. I can’t wait to see what they bring to the web.
I don’t get it. Is Circuit City supposed to compete with CompUSA even though they are both owned by and/or fronts for Tiger Direct? Maybe if they keep them geographically separate it won’t matter, but these stores used to compete back in the day (mostly before Best Buy).
Is it really all that ironic that a company with a poor history of customer service is reviving two companies that failed largely due to poor customer service (and questionably legal rebate tactics).
@ICherub: CC, CUSA, and TD are all actually fronts for systemmax, who makes TONS of off brands PCs.
@ICherub: Futureshop and Best Buy compete here in Canada. Like…with stores right next to each other.
lol @ the sudden transition @ the end:
“HERE’S WHAT’S HAPPENING…..” im phillip…thank you for coming…
Hmm, I’m on TigerDirect and CompUSA’s emailing lists, because I’ve bought stuff from both. Since I’ve bought stuff from CC too, I guess I can expect to get three identical emails trying to sell me refurbished Acer netbooks, one from each store brand.
In my mail today-a rebate check from over a year ago. Should I cash it?
Does that mean the extended warranty on my lcd tv is good again?
@turkeyspam:
It probably never stopped being good – I’m pretty sure CC warranties were through a 3rd party warranty/insurance co.