Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler R.I.P. Circuit City...

Rick,
To answer for Adrian, HMV is a chain of Canadian stores which sell cd's and dvd's etc.

HMV is a British based company which sells dvds/cds. Didn't know they weren't in the States, thought that would be a given.

Peter, thanks for checking on that for me. I did a cursory review of their page after my first post and did not find that information and had not had time to dig deeper. Your post was unexpected good news. I have had to use that warranty already, and everyone I spoke to used the CC name, so I feared I was just one of those SOL creditors. Glad to get some good news on that front.
Thanks again for the effort.
By the way, my two cents, CC was 10 times better than BB for people like us (i.e., those who care enough about audio/video to actual participate in dedicated discussions). In our area, they had better products, better audition rooms (some is better than none, right?), better informed sales reps, and better layout. But, they stayed in the 90’s. When BB made a newer type of store, CC stayed the same. Shame, I generally tried to buy from there when I had a choice. RIP, and let the age of the BB monoply begin.

Comparing CC (US) and 'The Source' (CC in Canada) sounds like two completely different stores. I don't think The Source makes to much of a dent in the BB/FS machine in Canada. The Source definitely lacks in audio/video equipment by comparison. 2001 Audio Video, Trutone, avu.ca (audio video), Soundsaround (western Can), Telecity...there's a number of smaller chains in Canada than BB/FS. Where they can't necessarily compete with volume they have far less overhead to deal with...a lot of people out there, though, don't realize you can negotiate prices. It's too bad about CC though, I guess this is how capitalism works. Maybe in the future there will only be a handfull of companies left which will dwarf the largest companies around now.

As I was doing errands in town today, I saw some poor sap standing on the side of the road holding a sign indicating 30% off at CC - "Store closing" / "Liquidating" in big letters. I hope whatever they paid him was worth it in the 20 F weather (I know, not cold to you Canadians and Midwest types, but for this area, that's frigid).

Anyway, I checked it out and was disappointed. Some things were 30% off, I guess, but not the good stuff. Only 10% off of cameras, video games, computers. Only 20% off of CDs and DVDs. Presumably this includes Blu-ray.

I picked out a couple of CDs (Jingle Cats 3, Ernest Goes to Jail soundtrack, etc), but the line to check out was twenty people deep, at least, for only two registers that were barely moving. So the liquidators got none of my money today.

Maybe I'll have better luck online?

Wait a few days; that's what I'm going to do (sez the vulture). The discounts will be steeper then, at least judging from when Good Guys tanked.

My brother-in-law managed to snag a Salamander Synergy entertainment unit for under 80 bucks with the Good Guys liquidation. Still in the box, too. Not now, then. . .when he bought it.

Whenever the store closed here several weeks ago the discounts got larger each week, whatever they had left (wasn't much) was almost given away during the last couple of weeks.

Good Guys: Gone for Good.

Here's an interesting timeline of Circuit City, which shuttered its doors at the end of business last night.

Bet they wish they had accepted that $3B buyout a few years ago.