Circuit City back in business

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Sat, 23 May 2009 23:41:25 Post Subject: Circuit City back in business

I got an e-mail that Circuit City was back in business online. Didn't know that was coming, or that the brand had been sold... Systemax owns it now! Systemax is Tiger Direct and CompUSA, too if you didn't know. Yikes

They went out of business owing me a few hundred dollars from ads, which sucks. You think that when they declared that they were having problems these ad agencies would say something like "yeah, you guys have to pay cash in advance for ads now". But no they didn't, and they let the little fella like me run the ads and then never paid, or worse deducted what they had paid from later checks to cover "their losses". Bang Head

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

sadly probably not worth any legal action about it Sad

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Sun, 24 May 2009 08:17:20 Post Subject:

Nah - just a drop in the bucket considering what they didn't pay to bigger fish.

I just won't be buying from them, that is for sure!

BeerCheeze · Posted: Mon, 25 May 2009 01:16:34 Post Subject:

It's not really CC. Just like when CompUSA went out, someone else bought the domain name from them (and customer list).

zachig · Rated XXX Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 313

Yeah, I somehow missed you post Jason and posted it also under 'The Marketplace', so feel free to delete it. Wink

Yes, it seems they're now under a new ownership, a SysteMax Company.

I really liked them and I hope they keep providing greal products with good prices.

You also read the 'Re-Launch' announcement here:

http://www.circuitcity.com/sectors/opt-outv2.asp

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Mon, 25 May 2009 07:57:49 Post Subject:

They have an interesting new return policy - Basically it looks like they don't have to take back anything for refund or exchange if they don't want to... And for certain brands there are no returns period!

Good luck with that!

**~*77*~** · Posted: Mon, 25 May 2009 09:03:51 Post Subject:

http://techfragments.com/news/804/Tech/Circuit_City_Re-Opens_Online_But_With_Poor_Return_Policy.html

zachig · Rated XXX Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 313

**fatbastard** · Posted: Mon, 25 May 2009 14:53:00 Post Subject:

Well the prices would have to be freaking great with a return policy like that for me to jump on anything....I wonder if they are even authorized retailer for a lot of those products...if not you can't even rely on a manufacturers warranty.

gbronzer · Rated PG Joined: 19 May 2009 Posts: 22

Seems to me like a scam to take advantage of people who don't realize they went out of business and it's not the same company.