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Regarding the extended warranties....

"I purchased an extended warranty (Circuit City Advantage Plan). Will that still be honored?
Yes, absolutely. Our Advantage Plan service is handled through dedicated service companies not affiliated with Circuit City, ensuring that there will be no disruption in your ability to get service for your covered products."

from here

That seems to be from the FAQ from when they announced that they were closing some of the stores, back in November. But I have to think that if the service company wasn't affiliated with CC then, it still isn't affiliated with CC now.

I heard they were going down in Nov.
What surprised me was that Ricardo Pliego, whose Grupo Salinas owns a chain of electronics stores in Latin America and Mexican broadcast channel TV Azteca, among other properties, bought 5.3 million shares Nov. 12 for 22 cents per share (for a total of $1.1 million), 19.8 million shares Nov. 13 for 24 cents ($4.7 million), and 5.2 million shares Nov. 14 for 26 cents ($1.3 million), according to regulatory filings.
That makes him the majority stock holder, nothing has been said on his plans though.

The CC here in Vero Beach shut it's doors several weeks ago, I believe they made the announcement sometime in November. My biggest complaint was that shopping for a CD was likened to a free for all, while our BB has their Cd's shelved in alphabetical order the CC store seemed like they just threw them onto the shelves in whatever order ... I couldn't never find a thing.

Both CC and BB music selections are horrendous.

I highly doubt it since it was RS that sold all of those stores to CC to cut their own costs. I just hope RS will find their way back up here otherwise we are left paying way too much for small electronic adapters and such from BB or FS, some of that stuff just isn't avaialble anywhere else up here, at least not right away, there is always online but you have to wait for the shipping.

Rick:
LOL... I was just saying the same thing to Joyce... I NEVER shop for discs at CC because they never seemed to be in an order that I could figure out!

HMV seems quite good for dvds/cds, i find in the last year they've gotten more competitive with BB, FS and the Walmarts of the world. It helps to know specific prices though, even within the same stores you'll find different prices on the same disc sometimes (they have diff bar coding, but otherwise the same) perhaps due to promos or something. Amazon is pretty good stateside but hardly comparable here. Dvds/cds should in fact, be considerably cheaper...they cost so little to make. Probably all the middlemen they go through....

Adrian, what is HMV?

That's shame but CC never did do well here. What is a shame is a record store that was in buissness for over 30 years went under due to the competition (Best Buy). Luckily there is a nice little store 20 miles from here that can get almost anything you would want. They also have a pretty good in stock inventory to choose from.

Our CC was less than a block away in the same mall complex and BB always blew them out of the water, over the years CC has really slowed down on their very pushy sales folks but by then I believe it was too late, BB had all of the business.

I did notice a trip or two back into our BB a pushy sales idiot noticed my Nextel phone on my clip and came right up to me and started yapping about how I needed to get rid of it and go with Verizon, I had to be rude to him to get him to shut up and quit following me around ... I hate that crap.

Check out CircuitCity.com today, they completely took down the store and replaced it with a static page of FAQ's. That was quick.

According to their website today, the Canadian stores are a separate business entity that will continue to exist. For how long, who knows.

And the new FAQ page also confirms that extended warranties are serviced by a different company, and therefore they will remain valid.