CircuitCity.com resurrected

By on May 23, 2009 at 11:35 AM
Retail May 23, 2009

Circuit City closed its doors earlier this year following a last ditch effort to stay afloat that just didn’t pan out. Some, such as the 35,000 or so people left without a job, were pretty sad to see the company go — there isn’t much competition these days as far as brick and mortar electronics mega retailers go. While Circuit City’s physical locations have all been retired at this point, their spirit lives on in the newly revived CircuitCity.com. Earlier this week, Systemax completed a deal to purchase various Circuit City assets and the company wasted no time in relaunching the website, which is now live and boasting lower prices, a wider selection, faster shipping and 24/7 customer service. Cool. Systemax also owns TigerDirect and CompUSA (which it acquired last year) so consumer electronics is clearly nothing new for the company. Anyone happy to see CC back in action, at least to some extent?

[Via Gizmodo]

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  • McHale

    Now I know who to blame for screwing up Tiger Direct. They had pretty good prices until about a year or so ago… now I know why.

    MUST AVOID CIRCUIT CITY WEBSITE

    In fact, any website that Systemax is involved with is off of my shopping selection.

    -Mc

  • G1orLX

    This is wierd. I wonder if they’ll try to re-open eventually.

  • Nerdherder

    @ thesvtautox

    You’re a jerk, get over yourself and please, actually contribute something useful to this blog.

    Here is a link to an example of your kind;

    http://tech.msn.com/products/slideshow.aspx?cp-documentid=19445651&imageindex=9

  • VZWGuy

    I’m a former Circuit City employee and one of the lucky few that was able to find a job before my store closed so let me explain a few things. Circuit City was all about equiping their associates with the product knowledge so they could help fit the customer with the gadget to fit the customers needs. As far as everyone that worked for Circuit City being assholes I take great offence to that statement. Sure Circuit City was not perfect if it was I would still be employed there, I can tell you that one of their problems that helped lead to their demise was when they took away the commission aspect of the job they took away any motivation to sell the products that made the company money. Just about everyone of the people I worked with had the highest level of integrity and the few that did not have the same level of integrity did not last long with the company. Of course I can only speak for my location and of course there were a few bad apples but for the most part everyone that I had the pleasure of working with was their to do thier best.

    To those who stuck it out to the end with the company hold your head up high you did your best to help a struggling company and to those customers that were loyal to the end I thank you to.

  • JB

    I used to work with Circuit City back several years ago. If it weren’t for them I wouldn’t be where I am today. Coincidentally I went to Compusa (both companies went out of business – go figure) because they started to do home theater and I was prospected and payed a lot more. Either way I liked circuit city. But you can’t please everyone, as evidence in this blog.

  • rusty

    why are you commenting if you don’t care obviously you just wanted to say you were first and then point out you don’t care about the article get the fuck out of here and go kill yourself

  • IAMGOD

    I agree with posters commented that CC is rebrand from tigerdirect.com without doubt..

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