Rodawakening's Blog

The past few months have been a little painful for me, since Circuit City went out of business. It was my favorite electronics store. Their clearance sale was one of the worst I've ever seen, because the discounts were insulting. Since then I've been purchasing electronics from Costco, Best Buy, and Wal-Mart. Going to Best Buy was a pride swallowing experience because I had a bad experience on Black Friday 2007, that pissed me off to no end. Here's why; I made a purchase to pick-up in store at 5am that day. I get there at 1:30pm to pick-up my stuff. I went to the Customer Service area and handed them my print for pick-up. I'm told Customer Service is closed and they aren't doing in-store pick-up. What...are you serious! I just find this hard to believe, so I find a manager and tell him that, "I have an in store pick-up and is Customer Service really closed?" That SOB says, "Customer Service will be opened at 2:00pm". I smile and say thank you. Then I walked around the store to kill time. As I'm walking around I pick up all the items on my list to help speed up the process, when it's time for me to check-out. 2:00pm rolls around, I go back to Customer Service and again, I'm told that Customer Service is closed, they aren't doing in-store pick-up, and to come back tomorrow. So from that point until a few months ago, Best Buy was dead to me.

Now on to the reason for this post. Circuit City is back! But wait! It's not the same...the layout, it's not nearly as nice as it was before. It's looks familiar to another site. Oh no! The "new" Circuit City is now owned by Systemax. *Dun, dun, duuunnn* It's the same company who bought CompUSA. Basically Systemax buys the once great stores, resurrects them, and jacks up the prices. Since the return of CompUSA, I haven't bought anything from them, because a quick search for the same product will reveal that you'll pay more money there. So far I'm seeing the same thing for Bizarro Circuit City (Superman reference try and keep up). Hopefully things will get better for us technofiles. Maybe Wal-Mart will step-up? Hmmmm!