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Posted: 10/4/2016 12:03:01 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Just finished watching Longmire on my 16 year old 42" Sanyo plasma tv I bought at Circuit City. Easily weighs 80lbs 300+ pounds http://www.laaudiofile.com/images/pro610bg.jpg The Pioneer Elite Plasmas were also nearly 300 lbs. (Not really but they were beasts when it came to hanging them on a wall especially with some of the early full motion tv mounts) Damn near blew out a testicle when we mounted one about 15 ft up above some guys pool table. |
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Posted: 10/4/2016 12:05:57 AM EST
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Shiiiiiittttt.... The Pioneer Elite Plasmas were also nearly 300 lbs. (Not really but they were beasts when it came to hanging them on a wall especially with some of the early full motion tv mounts) Damn near blew out a testicle when we mounted one about 15 ft up above some guys pool table. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Just finished watching Longmire on my 16 year old 42" Sanyo plasma tv I bought at Circuit City. Easily weighs 80lbs 300+ pounds http://www.laaudiofile.com/images/pro610bg.jpg Damn near blew out a testicle when we mounted one about 15 ft up above some guys pool table. Sorry, but you earned that. 
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Posted: 10/4/2016 12:11:35 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I bought lots of thing from SM back in the 1980's. Do you remember the other catalog store called "Best"? they had the buildings with the crazy messed up falling apart appearance. The one in Houston looked like the wall was being knocked down with piles of bricks. Then there was the Federated Electronic stores and then Incredible Universe. Fry's filled the void that Incredible Universe left. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Just down the street from my office there is still a Service Merchandise sign standing proudly. Then there was the Federated Electronic stores and then Incredible Universe. Fry's filled the void that Incredible Universe left. The "Best" stores won a bunch of architecture awards for their store designs. The shopping experience in them was... odd... |
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Posted: 10/4/2016 12:15:57 AM EST
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Posted: 10/4/2016 12:26:36 AM EST
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I'm amazed bestbuy hasn't followed them to be honest. |
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Posted: 10/4/2016 12:28:04 AM EST
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"Poof" and they were gone.
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Posted: 10/4/2016 12:30:23 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I literally walked ~3,400 corporate HQ employees out the front door one at a time. I put the chain on the doors when we were done. I got to escort the execs to Fed court, Carlos Slim meetings and everything else. What a mess. What was it like? We rolled armed 24x7 and responded to some pretty exciting things. People were crying as they were walked out. I'd say about 50% of them had never worked anywhere but CC. It was their life. They were told right up to the end everything was going to be okay. When I showed up at their door with boxes they broke down. We had weekly all-hands meetings where I got to play "watch the waistlines and hands" while standing in front of the CEO. We had to deal with people's spouses showing up after they were let go wanting to "talk to someone in charge." We had massive (and important) things just go missing near the end. It was pretty much what you would expect. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: In!  (led Circuit City's corporate security department at HQ) Did you ride it out til the end? What was the atmosphere like at the corporate HQ I literally walked ~3,400 corporate HQ employees out the front door one at a time. I put the chain on the doors when we were done. I got to escort the execs to Fed court, Carlos Slim meetings and everything else. What a mess. What was it like? We rolled armed 24x7 and responded to some pretty exciting things. People were crying as they were walked out. I'd say about 50% of them had never worked anywhere but CC. It was their life. They were told right up to the end everything was going to be okay. When I showed up at their door with boxes they broke down. We had weekly all-hands meetings where I got to play "watch the waistlines and hands" while standing in front of the CEO. We had to deal with people's spouses showing up after they were let go wanting to "talk to someone in charge." We had massive (and important) things just go missing near the end. It was pretty much what you would expect. I work with the guy who was the last employee associated with MicronPC. He has the best stories. Major corporate shutdowns are crazy. |
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Posted: 10/4/2016 12:36:41 AM EST
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Who here remembers BEST? (Not Best Buy)?
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Posted: 10/4/2016 12:40:38 AM EST
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I sold computers at cc in the late 90s early 00s. Started as a senior in hs, made very good money for working part time. If someone had the drive they could really clean up, seemed like most of the staff was content with making enough to stay employed. It was all about where we were going for lunch, what was going on that night, etc.. most didn't give a shit about sales. We received some very nice discounts, mostly home/car audio.. mark up was pretty significant.. We had a lot of fun there .. can still remember the sales manager taking us new hires into the av room and showing us this scene from Boiler Room to pump us up..  https://youtu.be/w4Pu_JuPILw
When I left they were trying to make changes to compete with bestbuy.. even started to remodel the stores to look like bestbuy, hire hourly employees vs commission, etc.. it didn't work. I stopped going to Circuit City because I was tired of being hounded by sales people. I knew what I wanted before I walked in the door, I didn't need 12 different people coming up to me before I got halfway across the store. I couldn't even browse movies without getting hounded. It was irritating as hell. Car salesmen on President's Day weekend were less irritating than Circuit City salesmen any day of the week. |
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Posted: 10/4/2016 12:51:17 AM EST
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Anyone remember CompUSA? I do. Way overpriced. It was a big chain with small store prices. They put themselves out of business. Here's an example - when they were going out of business they had a BIG sale. You could buy a NeatReceipts scanner for a measly pittance of $240. Funny thing was you could buy it directly from the manufacturer for $200 or wait for a Best Buy sale and get it for $180. Where I lived in NH there was a Best Buy and Circuit City right next to each other (they shared parking lots) and a CompUSA directly across the street. I'd go to all three when I was looking for something but CompUSA didn't even seem to want to compete. They were only good for the real geeky stuff Best Buy didn't sell like SCSI cables but it was still cheaper to go to Micro Center. |
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Posted: 10/4/2016 12:55:02 AM EST
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Best buy has been going down hill for years. The only reason why they are still around is because they are the only giant electronics retailer left. I rarely go in there unless I want to see something in person then usually buy it online cheaper. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I'm amazed bestbuy hasn't followed them to be honest. I bet it's only a matter of time. I can count the number of times I've been in Best Buy the past few years on one hand. And every time the customer service has been horrible. FBB.  Best buy has been going down hill for years. The only reason why they are still around is because they are the only giant electronics retailer left. I rarely go in there unless I want to see something in person then usually buy it online cheaper. Walk them over to the Apple computers and bring up whatever you want to buy online to make them price match. Save on shipping. Win/win
I bought a dash cam at Best Buy and the sales guy did it for me all on his own using his cell phone. He saved me $70! Something tells me he didn't like working there. |
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Posted: 10/4/2016 12:59:20 AM EST
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Service Merchandise occupied a weird niche in the retail world. They had a little bit of everything but it was rarely stuff that they felt like putting out on the shelves to be stolen. It was part furniture store, part jewelry store, part electronics (awesome Garrard brand stuff...lol), and part housewares. My sister worked there for a couple of years and got something like a 50% discount on jewelry. I still have a diamond and sapphire ring I had her buy for me but it isn't the kind of thing anyone would wear now unless you're a Russian gangster or a Croatian pimp. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Just down the street from my office there is still a Service Merchandise sign standing proudly. Then there was the Federated Electronic stores and then Incredible Universe. Fry's filled the void that Incredible Universe left. I always liked the watch counter at Service Merchandise. They always had way more watched than any other place. The rest of the store reminded me of a school fundraiser prize catalog. I remember Best but never went in one. Service Merchandise occupied a weird niche in the retail world. They had a little bit of everything but it was rarely stuff that they felt like putting out on the shelves to be stolen. It was part furniture store, part jewelry store, part electronics (awesome Garrard brand stuff...lol), and part housewares. My sister worked there for a couple of years and got something like a 50% discount on jewelry. I still have a diamond and sapphire ring I had her buy for me but it isn't the kind of thing anyone would wear now unless you're a Russian gangster or a Croatian pimp. SM always reminded me of big Pawn Shops. |
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Posted: 10/4/2016 6:37:23 AM EST
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Developer who owned the property if they leased it? Or, if he is OOB too, then probably "no one" and it is just added to the debit sheet of the county tax rolls. Welcome to urban blight. Best Buy is probably going under next, too, since all they are is a showroom from Amazon. (Go look at what you want at BB, then buy it from Amazon for less money). Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Before the war between Circuit City and Best Buy, Circuit City was the number one electronic store. In only a matter of years, the entire company went under leaving hundreds of stores abandoned. An interesting story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWPLKXPM9Fg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWPLKXPM9Fg
who is paying the taxes pn those??? Developer who owned the property if they leased it? Or, if he is OOB too, then probably "no one" and it is just added to the debit sheet of the county tax rolls. Welcome to urban blight. Best Buy is probably going under next, too, since all they are is a showroom from Amazon. (Go look at what you want at BB, then buy it from Amazon for less money). You're doing it wrong. BB will match the Amazon deal and you can take it home with you same day. Once Amazon started charging tax and matching $, the Amazon advantage went away. |
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Posted: 10/4/2016 6:59:28 AM EST
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The CC near my work was turned into a Golds Gym..
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Posted: 10/4/2016 7:10:10 AM EST
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Probably one of the final nails in their coffin was their horrible Divx DVD idea. You could buy the disk at a reduced price and it would only play for 48 hours after that then it was a shiny coaster. They soaked a lot of money into that idea which was dumb to begin with and was quickly made obsolete by things like netflix.
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Posted: 10/4/2016 7:21:39 AM EST
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Posted: 10/4/2016 7:26:25 AM EST
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I bought my first digital camera from CompUSA; it wasn't a month old and broke. when I tried to take it back they asked if I had bought the extended warranty; I told them no... it isn't a month old and was told too bad so sad o-well. So I told them I would bad mouth them to everyone I knew forever...Fuck them I'm glad they are gone. I bought from brick and mortar so if I had a problem I thought I could deal with it locally. I liked CC and bought a lot of my stereo equipment there and then they fired their senior staff and replaced them with people that didn't know anything...that's when I stopped going. The local Service Merchandise was used as a clearing house for guns and ammo when they were stopping dealing in guns; I bought a Mossberg 500 for $100 otd and 1000's of rounds of Super X .22lr ammo for a little bit of nothing. I still have some of the .22 laying around the pos Mossberg is long gone. |
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Posted: 10/4/2016 7:30:38 AM EST
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Probably one of the final nails in their coffin was their horrible Divx DVD idea. You could buy the disk at a reduced price and it would only play for 48 hours after that then it was a shiny coaster. They soaked a lot of money into that idea which was dumb to begin with and was quickly made obsolete by things like netflix. And yet Divx lives on, I use it all the time and it's great for encoding video. |
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Posted: 10/4/2016 7:30:42 AM EST
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The CC and BB were right next door to each other in Huntsville. I much preferred the CC because of it's layout, deals, and friendlier/knowledgeable staff. I know that isn't the case everywhere but I was really bummed when they went out of business.
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Posted: 10/4/2016 7:30:56 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: And yet Divx lives on, I use it all the time and it's great for encoding video. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Probably one of the final nails in their coffin was their horrible Divx DVD idea. You could buy the disk at a reduced price and it would only play for 48 hours after that then it was a shiny coaster. They soaked a lot of money into that idea which was dumb to begin with and was quickly made obsolete by things like netflix. And yet Divx lives on, I use it all the time and it's great for encoding video. |
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Posted: 10/4/2016 7:32:01 AM EST
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Sure. They were a major advertiser in the old Computer Shopper, when it was two+ inches thick and printed on pulp, about 12"x17" format. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Anyone remember CompUSA? Sure. They were a major advertiser in the old Computer Shopper, when it was two+ inches thick and printed on pulp, about 12"x17" format. computer shopper, now that takes me back |
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Posted: 10/4/2016 7:33:06 AM EST
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Any of you Old Farts remember Leading Edge computer stores?
The Leading Edge Model D was an IBM clone computer first released by Leading Edge Hardware in July 1985. It was initially priced at $1,495 configured with dual 5.25" floppy drives, 256 KB of RAM, and a monochrome monitor. It was manufactured by South Korean conglomerate Daewoo and distributed by Canton, Massachusetts-based Leading Edge. Engineer Stephen Kahng spent about four months designing the Model D at a cost of $200,000. Kahng later became CEO of Macintosh clone maker Power Computing. In August 1986, Leading Edge cut the price of the base model by $200, to $1,295, and increased the base memory of the machine to 512 KB. The Model D was an immediate success, selling 100,000 units in its first year of production. It continued to sell well for several years, until a dispute with its dealers forced Leading Edge into bankruptcy in 1989. link |
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Posted: 10/4/2016 7:43:45 AM EST
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Radio shack and best buy are next
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Posted: 10/4/2016 7:46:45 AM EST
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best still has geek squad, and people apparently still use them the bar I play trivia at used them to install their newest TV. morons somehow broke the input jack off the back of the tv I manage an AV company in Atlanta. You should see how many Best Buy / Geek Squad installations we clean up and make operational. I can only assume the difference is training and es·prit de corps. |
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Posted: 10/4/2016 8:01:06 AM EST
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I didn't make it past his voice intro. Not going to listen to that for almost 15 minutes.
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Posted: 10/4/2016 8:17:32 AM EST
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Just finished watching Longmire on my 16 year old 42" Sanyo plasma tv I bought at Circuit City. Easily weighs 80lbs 300+ pounds http://www.laaudiofile.com/images/pro610bg.jpg Ugh. I used to deliver/install these things and I owned one (73in Mitsubishi diamond series) for a while. 480lbs. Good thing they had wheels on them. Of course that didn't help when someone wanted it in an entertainment center a foot and a half off the ground. 1st generation plasmas helped cover my chiropractor's boat payments. It has gotten so much easier these days. Of course we don't have a 50% margin on LED/LCD/OLED. We make pretty much nothing on tvs anymore. I miss the days of making $5k just on the sale of 1 $10k plasma. |
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Posted: 10/4/2016 8:29:15 AM EST
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Has anybody bought anything at the Hastings going out of business sale? Even at 50% off, most of its crap still costs more than Amazon. I did buy a few movies and books though when they went to 80% off.
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Posted: 10/4/2016 8:31:45 AM EST
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When I got out of the Army in 1995 I went to work for Circuit City and worked for them for almost 6 years during undergrad.
I even transferred stores from PA to TN so I could go to school. I worked Fri-Mon and went to school full time on Tues/Thur with a class every once in a while on a Wed. It was decent money that allowed me to work full time while going to school full time. It was what I needed at the time and was really a shame they ran themselves into the ground. Two things that I think were their downfall was switching from the commissioned to hourly model. No longer did you have folks who really knew the product and tried to make sure you got what you wanted/needed. If you returned something within 30 days Circuit City took back my commission so I wanted to make sure you kept that stuff. Another thing not mentioned in the video was their development of DIVX DVD players with the idea of pay per view DVDs that they were the only show in town for. They paid to develop it, market it, etc and this was just after the whole DVD format wars. Lots of wasted money
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Posted: 10/4/2016 8:34:52 AM EST
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Radio shack and best buy are next Ahh...http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/05/news/companies/radioshack-bankruptcy/index.html |
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Posted: 10/4/2016 9:11:33 AM EST
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I've heard they are good about that but you can buy the same thing at Walmart for 10 bucks. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Went into a BestBuy just recently for the first time in a while because I was looking at washers and dryers and also kind on interested in a radio for the Landcruiser. Saw a decent price on a radio and thought surely I could beat by about $20 online and save the tax money as well. I was wrong. Went home and checked and their price was the best. Obviously that was just one item but still thought it was interesting. I'd always heard of Crutchfield and just figured they'd have the best price but it was $30 more than BB. Is there a go-to site for buying car stereos for the best price? I'll tell you why I buy car audio from Crutchfield, and that's because they give you all the shit you need to install it. For head units, they provide the dashboard adapter kit, the wiring harness that plugs right into the factory wiring, and instructions. The frustration saved is worth far more than saving $20 on a piece of gear. Now, would I buy anything else from them? Eh, probably not. I've heard they are good about that but you can buy the same thing at Walmart for 10 bucks. I never could. They had several kits but only for the most common vehicle models. |
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Posted: 10/4/2016 10:19:15 AM EST
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Any of you Old Farts remember Leading Edge computer stores? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/LeadingEdge_Front_with_keyboard.JPG/220px-LeadingEdge_Front_with_keyboard.JPG The Leading Edge Model D was an IBM clone computer first released by Leading Edge Hardware in July 1985. It was initially priced at $1,495 configured with dual 5.25" floppy drives, 256 KB of RAM, and a monochrome monitor. It was manufactured by South Korean conglomerate Daewoo and distributed by Canton, Massachusetts-based Leading Edge. Engineer Stephen Kahng spent about four months designing the Model D at a cost of $200,000. Kahng later became CEO of Macintosh clone maker Power Computing. In August 1986, Leading Edge cut the price of the base model by $200, to $1,295, and increased the base memory of the machine to 512 KB. The Model D was an immediate success, selling 100,000 units in its first year of production. It continued to sell well for several years, until a dispute with its dealers forced Leading Edge into bankruptcy in 1989. link No shit, my dad got one of those back then! I always wondered what that cost (he would never say, even now, for fear my mom would find out )
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Posted: 10/4/2016 11:08:45 AM EST
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One day, you'll tell your grandchildren about these places that you could visit and handle merchandise before buying them. With the comprehensive reviews that are out there these days (including video), I really only need to handle things like speakers and headphones in person. Everything else? I'd rather not sit in traffic or find parking, know what I mean? |
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Posted: 10/4/2016 11:15:01 AM EST
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Any of you Old Farts remember Leading Edge computer stores? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/LeadingEdge_Front_with_keyboard.JPG/220px-LeadingEdge_Front_with_keyboard.JPG The Leading Edge Model D was an IBM clone computer first released by Leading Edge Hardware in July 1985. It was initially priced at $1,495 configured with dual 5.25" floppy drives, 256 KB of RAM, and a monochrome monitor. It was manufactured by South Korean conglomerate Daewoo and distributed by Canton, Massachusetts-based Leading Edge. Engineer Stephen Kahng spent about four months designing the Model D at a cost of $200,000. Kahng later became CEO of Macintosh clone maker Power Computing. In August 1986, Leading Edge cut the price of the base model by $200, to $1,295, and increased the base memory of the machine to 512 KB. The Model D was an immediate success, selling 100,000 units in its first year of production. It continued to sell well for several years, until a dispute with its dealers forced Leading Edge into bankruptcy in 1989. link My first job was working as a computer tech in a hole in the wall shop in downtown Modesto California, that sold and repaired used computers. I remember working on those. There were still a few floating around by the early to mid 90s. |
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Posted: 10/4/2016 11:21:52 AM EST
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I preferred CC over Best Buy, as you could haggle the price down, especially at the end of the month.
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Posted: 10/4/2016 11:27:40 AM EST
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Who here remembers BEST? (Not Best Buy)? Best Products. We had one in Towson, MD that looked like it was built on an non-level surface. They had a lot of everything, especially stereo equipment. I bought my Ruger 10/22 there in 1980. |
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Posted: 10/4/2016 11:42:59 AM EST
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Umm excuse me. Last week I bought this, and today I saw this. Just opened the paper and there it was.
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Posted: 10/4/2016 11:47:37 AM EST
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Umm excuse me. Last week I bought this, and today I saw this. Just opened the paper and there it was. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epP3jETf8Og&fmt=18 No receipt, no signature, no documentation of any kind. I think we've uncovered the REAL reason Circuit City went under. That little kid may have pulled that little scam THOUSANDS of times. And he wasn't the only one. 
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Posted: 10/4/2016 12:05:45 PM EST
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Circuit City was always expensive but I liked it better then Fail Buy. I liked Nobody beats the Wiz better then both.
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Posted: 10/4/2016 12:15:55 PM EST
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Just down the street from my office there is still a Service Merchandise sign standing proudly. Then there was the Federated Electronic stores and then Incredible Universe. Fry's filled the void that Incredible Universe left. The "Best" stores won a bunch of architecture awards for their store designs. The shopping experience in them was... odd... We had the Jafco stores in Oregon before Best bought them up. The one closest to me in Beaverton eventually turned into the Uwajimaya store. |
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Posted: 10/4/2016 12:17:46 PM EST
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tag for home watchage.
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Posted: 10/4/2016 12:20:00 PM EST
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I will miss all of these big box electronics stores. They were my go-to places any time I wanted to pay $150 for a $2 cable.
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Posted: 10/4/2016 12:21:27 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I will miss all of these big box electronics stores. They were my go-to places any time I wanted to pay $150 for a $2 cable. |
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Posted: 10/4/2016 12:27:08 PM EST
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Frys Electronics is win
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Posted: 10/4/2016 12:30:35 PM EST
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I can't ever find what I want at BestBuy.
If they run a sale on a laptop, they are always out, OR they've already added a "setup package" for $100 where they claim to have removed all the adware. I think the last thing I bought there was a UPS, everything else, I've ordered online or made the drive to microcenter. Not sure I'd wipe my ass with anything at Fry's anymore. They fell really far too. |
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Posted: 10/4/2016 12:43:31 PM EST
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Best Products. We had one in Towson, MD that looked like it was built on an non-level surface. They had a lot of everything, especially stereo equipment. I bought my Ruger 10/22 there in 1980. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Who here remembers BEST? (Not Best Buy)? Best Products. We had one in Towson, MD that looked like it was built on an non-level surface. They had a lot of everything, especially stereo equipment. I bought my Ruger 10/22 there in 1980. I used to ride my bike to that same store when I was a kid. They had lots of great stuff and also a terrific catalog (pre-internet, catalogs were as good as it got). I remember saving for camera equipment and buying it there. One year for Christmas my parents gave me 3 shares of Best Products stock. My first experience with investing. It tripled in price pretty quickly or something crazy like that. I thought I would get rich off of this gift. A few years later the business went bankrupt and my shares became worthless. Best present I ever got from my parents--I learned a hard lesson about money. Here is the store you are talking about--it was quite a thing when it was opened: 
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Posted: 10/4/2016 12:57:23 PM EST
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Local CC here in Bloomington, IL is still vacant, and has all the signage on the building, including the marquee of the little strip mall it is in. i always liked it better than Best Buy, and spent a lot of money there after I got married and was buying A/V stuff for our early home theater... i hated Best Buy back then, and only shop there today as a last resort, gotta have it NOW thing.
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Posted: 10/4/2016 1:55:26 PM EST
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I am pretty sure the one where I used to live became an Aldi grocery store after sitting empty for years and years
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Posted: 10/4/2016 3:09:55 PM EST
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Soon Bass pro will end like this They just bought Cabela's. Hell, they already looked alike anyway, inside and out! BP here has fuck-all for decent ammo. Cabela's is way better. Was, anyway. |
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Posted: 10/4/2016 3:14:01 PM EST
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One day, you'll tell your grandchildren about these places that you could visit and handle merchandise before buying them. With the comprehensive reviews that are out there these days (including video), I really only need to handle things like speakers and headphones in person. Everything else? I'd rather not sit in traffic or find parking, know what I mean? Unless I need it right now I would generally rather shop online. |
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Posted: 10/4/2016 6:31:40 PM EST
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Worked for circuit for almost 10 years. Loved my job and worked all the departments at least once in my time there. Ended up doing most of my work in customer service and warehouse. The actual death nail was removing major appliances and spiffs from the store. I also thought the poor implementation of their website in relation to the brick and mortar store was an issue. I still remember coming in for an all store meeting. Everystore in the company was closed and then telling us half the employees were fired. Mind you they were the most knowledgeable and best salesmen the company had. I knew right then and there the company was doomed. Lasted longer then I expected, but the end result was the same. I miss CC.
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