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- KingGorilla, on 02/24/2009, -0/+368When they said Tales of Horror I was expecting more than one
- Hetman, on 02/23/2009, -5/+299Danny is a dick. That is all this proves. I hope you are out there danny and I hope you realize how big of a deuchbag you are.
- J0hnnyBlaze, on 02/24/2009, -0/+238try blowing on it.
- techobo, on 02/24/2009, -16/+217Danny accidentally your game disc.
- inactive, on 02/24/2009, -7/+202Ich bin ein deutschebag
- Lucas123, on 02/23/2009, -1/+172I avoid "going out of business sales" like the plague. Unless it's a small, family-owned store, these chain-store liquidation sales are ripoffs. First, they hike the prices waaay up, and then when all that's left is junk, they slap on the basement prices.
- m1nist3r, on 02/24/2009, -0/+120I saw something similar on the news the other night.
This person purchased a television from Circuit City. They understood the "all sales were final" and figured if they had a problem with the television it would be covered under the manufactures warranty.
When they got home and took the TV out of the box they discovered the screen was shattered and this of course was not covered by the manufacturer.
A good tip to keep in mind is if you buy something were the 'sale is final' use a credit card. They usually offer some type of 'Danny Protection'. - apologeticus, on 02/24/2009, -2/+122and a douche bag, too.
- fribhey, on 02/24/2009, -0/+109i was expecting at least ONE tale of horror. losing $7.50 is not a tale of horror.
- merreborn, on 02/24/2009, -0/+102If they won't let you open the box, tell 'em some other sucker can buy their broken *****, and walk out.
- obliviousfool, on 02/24/2009, -4/+103Or, you know, ask to open the box and look at what you are buying.
- gemlarin, on 02/24/2009, -0/+83A little banana peal and that should rub right out.
Also, all sales final only applies to products that perform as advertised. You cant put candy corn in a router box and sell it as a working router and still stand behind the all sales final sign. In this case, the 7.50 or whatever is not really worth filing a suit in small claims court, but you can actually sue the liquidator in a situation like this. I did it to Media Play when they liquidated the local store after they sold me a used DVD player as new, which was broken right out of the box. I sued the liquidator, who failed to show in court. I won and sent the a copy of the judgment. Received a check for the cost of the sale in the mail a few weeks later. - superfusion, on 02/24/2009, -0/+79Dude, that's a crime. You may not be able to return it, but you can charge them with taking your money and giving you the equivalent of a box full of bricks in return.
Just because a company says it has a policy doesn't mean that it matters any more than your policy; and certainly less so than the law. - donkevin, on 02/24/2009, -1/+75He's a bag of Germans.
- inactive, on 02/24/2009, -2/+66"All sales are final." Dude even admitted that he saw the sign.
These sales are meant to push out every piece of crap, defective, broken item they find/sweep up. Avoid them. - twiztidsinz, on 02/24/2009, -2/+62only part of it.. not the whole thing
- lohphat, on 02/24/2009, -1/+58"All sales are final" disclaimers do not absolve the seller committing fraud. The buyer had every expectation that the item was functional unless it was marked as used or defective. Buying "seconds" or "stressed" merchandise must carry a warning.
The solution would have been to return to the store with a police officer as a crime had been committed. - chaosblade77, on 02/23/2009, -0/+56When the CompUSA here closed, the prices were ridiculous. Almost $90 for a 6 ft DVI cable? What the hell?
I wouldn't buy anything in a liquidation/going out of business sale unless I price check it at other stores beforehand. - CrashOverdigg, on 02/24/2009, -2/+52Dug up for 'sadpaper'...that paper always gets to me..
- sexybobo, on 02/24/2009, -2/+52@fugeelama
***** what the store will "let" you do rip open the top of the box look at the merchandise if it looks good take it to counter if it doesn't dont buy it. - Aphasia, on 02/24/2009, -0/+46Working for Circuit City since the holiday season, i can tell you firsthand that we used to have much better prices when we had stuff on sale than a lot of the stuff is priced at now. The only stuff that was really worth it was the car audio stuff (which us employees still used to get for cheaper because we could buy it wholesale from the same place our store got it), the games, and music / movies. My store right now is sitting with 50% off of games, movies, and music. Naturally all the good stuff is long gone, but still, 50% off of Blu-Rays and games isnt bad, considering there was still decent stuff left when it first dropped to 50. Everything else you can probably find better prices if it's on sale someplace else, and it's at the point where all the employees at our store have just started telling customers that. Laptops and Desktop PCs at our store are still sitting at just 10% off. And chances are it's not going to drop much lower than that, if at all. Anything we dont sell the liquidators will just end up sending back to the manufacturer anyway and getting some money for them, and with how little the profit margin on them is for them, they're in no rush to drop the prices.
The whole disc thing is ***** up. I didnt work there long enough to find out how the whole used game thing we had there worked, but either way, that's just unacceptable. Someone shouldve caught that before we took it back. More than likely that was just an employee being lazy.
Also, if you click in the link to the first article where they were comparing game prices in the very beginning, chances are a lot of those prices were wrong. I picked up a copy of Dark Messiah for the PC just a coupe days ago marked at $50 that rang up for just over $2 after tax. This was the same way with a lot of the games, though normally not by that large of a margin. - abol684, on 02/24/2009, -2/+42well duh.
- twertyto, on 02/24/2009, -2/+40I don't know what story you read dude. The disc was scratched by Danny AND put through the shedder.
- brook011, on 02/24/2009, -5/+43I have worked at Circuit City for six years, and they couldn't make it anymore obvious -- ALL SALES FINAL. Its everywhere. Open the god damned package before you leave. There are tables at the front of every store to check it. It's returnable if you check it in store and find it defective.
- inactive, on 02/24/2009, -0/+38It was Danny. He's the Emmanuel Goldstein of the gaming world.
- GreenMushroom16, on 02/24/2009, -1/+36As Danny finished the game 2 years ago, he began to feel strange, as if evil was going through his veins. He began to feel weaker, sick.. and hungry. It was then that Danny realized his horrible faith, as the last drops of blood went by his brain his only sign to give out to the world was by engraving his name on the game itself.... and then it was too late. The bite taken on the cd wasn't the last one he ever took... unfortunately, his family aren't from this world anymore to tell us about it. The End.
- RealmDown, on 02/24/2009, -0/+30CompUSA was the first store (that I remember) that started the "you are guilty until you show your receipt" naziism as you left the store. The only company that I was delighted to see fail.
- moose26, on 02/24/2009, -1/+31When I was at Circuit City browsing some of their supposed deal PC tower open box buys for $999 I just laughed. Some guy next to me said he was prolly gonna buy one of the machines. I looked at the one he was thinking of then I smelt something odd... that smell of burnt circuits. We pop open the side of the PC case with permission by a sales person to pretend to see if it had PCI-e slots and we saw a burn mark on the motherboard and black soot and a potent odor coming from the power supply.
My bets are the motherboard was fried and nobody did a quality check on this unit before putting up for sale. The guy walked out and they lost a potential sale due to their own fault. - jpop, on 02/24/2009, -0/+30For "going out of business" and "all sales are final situations", you always shop around to know the price of things you want, and you always open and look at the object before finishing the deal. Otherwise you are going to be screwed.
- HowitZer25, on 02/24/2009, -2/+30Yes.
- pagit, on 02/24/2009, -2/+29meh, a little candle wax, sadpaper, and windex should get that baby working
- Alli3388, on 02/24/2009, -2/+28I think Danny was an employee who was getting laid off.
- JeffDUpp, on 02/24/2009, -1/+25No way you could buy a box of bricks for $7.50
- cawpin, on 02/24/2009, -3/+27It sounds to me like John is a ***** idiot. "All sales are final" is fine but they still are required to give what is being offered. They had a game on the shelf being sold as new when it quite obviously wasn't. That is illegal.
- cowboy86, on 02/24/2009, -2/+25Just common Circuit City practices here people, nothing to see.
- protodon, on 02/24/2009, -0/+23I went in CC to check out the liquidation. I walked out with nothing, just like I always had when I went there. Turn out, liquidation sales and magic aren't the same.
- shekki, on 02/24/2009, -2/+25I don't think that was an accident
- Darunium, on 02/25/2009, -0/+22Where is this candy corn router you speak of and how could I procure it?
- inactive, on 02/24/2009, -4/+26Uhhh...
Sorry that was me.
I had to wipe my ass with a copy of "Resident Evil 4"
Its cool
I repackaged it and marked it down another 20% - kingmanic, on 02/24/2009, -0/+22@Aphasia: According to many accounts the store will not let you open the merchandise before the sale and after the sale returns are void as no returns are allowed. It bypasses state consumer protection laws because it's a federal bankruptcy sale.
It's retarded. Just dont' buy any merchandise from these type of sales. The deals have been noted to suck. The shops are crowded and the policies are asinine. - scitz0frenic, on 02/24/2009, -0/+21I ran into someone when I was leaving and they were going in complaining about buying software and got home to find no disc inside at all.
- fognozzle, on 02/24/2009, -1/+22I'd still return it.
- Narcism, on 02/24/2009, -4/+25deutsche bag?
- doctechnical, on 02/24/2009, -0/+20I've had pretty good experiences at "crash and burn" sales, but you have to know what you're doing. Personally I think this "John" is a bit of a whiner - dude, you bought a pig in a poke for $7.50 and you got burned. Consider this a cheap lesson in the Real World. Next time look in the box fer crissake.
My best deal happened some years ago, another big box store (the name of which is buried in the sands of time) was having a similar burnt-ends and remnants sale, I went in and saw a Casio DH-100 (that's an electronic saxophone with MIDI out, it can be used as a wind controller which is what had me drooling), no box, no docs, with a "$10 AS IS" sticker on it. Problems: battery cover was missing, a couple of the screws that held the keys in place also gone. I put it down, kept walking. Other end of the store, I see it's orphan twin, also "$10 AS IS". It's got a battery cover, it's missing a couple of key screws too but in different places. So I bought both and had enough good parts to put together a nice working wind controller / noise maker for twenty bucks. Considering they go on eBay for $100+, not a bad investment. - mysedai, on 02/24/2009, -0/+20I've also never known a Heather that wasn't a psycho bitch.
- oxdeltaxo, on 02/24/2009, -1/+21Jesus whatever happened to opening something before you bought it? If it was 7.50, at a going out of business sale, I'd crack open the case to check if there even was a disc to begin with.
- meed, on 02/24/2009, -1/+20When compusa went out of business I bought a copy of BF2 on the cheap so I could replace my play disc that was stolen at a lan party. Well I got the version that has special forces bundled with it (my previous copy was bought on release day years ago) , but it has two disc 2's and no disc 3.... After the last clean install I couldn't install the frigging game without borrowing someone's game disc (or pirating).
that reminds me ***** you EA and your no disc replacement policy. You lost a customer for life. And I mean it. - Goochman, on 02/24/2009, -0/+19Remember - Circuit City isnt a business anymore. What you have in the stores is mostly left over CC merchandise but the Liquidators can pump in whatever other crap they have.
Carpet stores are notorious for this - open for 12 months and then have an 8 month going out of business sale. They sell 10x more product during the 'closing sale' then they ever did - bringing in new merchandise every other week.
Id be surprised if the prices were at or below what Walmart sells this stuff for. - pika2000, on 02/24/2009, -2/+20How did "Danny" manage to even return that in the first place? Pretty much any stores that I know won't accept returns for opened video games, unless "Danny" is actually an employee there and sneaked that thing in.
- Barr08, on 02/24/2009, -4/+22great. now it's engraved, shredded AND covered in spit...
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