CompUSA...
 

Yesterday: 229 stores
Today: 100 stores.

They won't have any stores left in many states. All stores in Chicago are gone.

FWIW; when they close they usually have many good deals for us travelers, at the closing store near me all notebook accessories are 50% off (including chargers, batteries and airline chargers). Cellphones are now 40% off. Slingboxes are 30% off, making the Sling AV just $124.

Is there a link to a list of store closings? Wondering if my local store is going to have some deals. :D

They'll start at 10% off most things, with 20% off the junk items like ipod accessories. After 5-6 days most products (except notebooks/desktops/monitors) will move to 20% and iPod accessories, notebook accessories etc... will go to 30%. Networking will be 20%.

After 10 days most products will be 30% off (except desktops/notebooks) but by then all the "cool" stuff will be gone.

Comp USA is a store that I haven't frequented in years and wouldn't. No loss.

I agree. Poorly trained, uninterested staff, bad inventory management and bad prices.

I believe the way to find out whether your store is closing is to go to compusa.com and check the store locator. If it still shows as a valid location, then it's staying open. If it's gone, then it's closing.

Mike

I always found the staff at CompUSA to be better than the sales people at say Circuity City or (shudder) Best Buy.

Yeah, just terrible really. I've called it CrapUSA for years.

I checked this yesterday. The store closest to me is no longer listed so I went last night to see if there were any deals. They are still hiring, and there is no indication the store may close.

I checked here in Cleveland area Monday night and it looked like business as usual, even though they are no longer listed on the website. I wonder when their clearance sales will happen.

All of the Colorado stores are still around, except for one on the west side of town. It's too far away for me to bother to visit.

They were competent enough to ring my purchases (and pricematch competitor ads without much hassle), so I can't complain about their customer service too much.

I was going to post about this yesterday, but I debated on whether this was truly forum-related.

LOL!

That's about right!

funny, the store at hillsdale mall in San Mateo, is no longer listed, I was just going to pick something up. I might head there tonite and see if there are any deals.

i found the courses at compusa to be a reasonalbe value. last week, I could not understand why I could not find courses listed at many of the nearby compusa stores.

First they kill off The Good Guys brand and now they halve themselves...

What a really lousy company, although, anyone who can't compete with crap operations like BestBuy and Circuit City probably should go the way of the dinosaur.

Kinda surprised they didn't go the way Egghead went years ago. Oh well one less place to price match with(DARN)

Do the "fire" sales begin today? Tomorrow?

It looks like my local CompUSA is no longer listed on the website, so I might have to pay them a visit.

I liked that store, too. :(

I was surprised to find the store nearest me is 98 miles away; Bakersfield!!! I couldn't believe it as there are none left in L.A.

The stores are still there; I just called mine in Louisville. They didn't have any info on future sales though...

I think the one across from Fox Hills Mall survived.

Oh well, Fry's is better, not by much, but better. ;)

I read a couple of posts on other websites that the sale started this morning, while others saying that the prices have remained the same, just that now everything is non-returnable, and the sale prices will start in 30-60 days. Not sure why anyone would shop there if the prices are normal and you can't return anything. I will be stopping by my local store (that is no longer listed on the website) to check it out.

Would you mind sharing the websites?

I'd like to see if I can suss out that perfect time to be at CompUSA: just when the prices plummet and not a moment before. ;)

What happened?

I got ripped off around 2K with rebates... but since then mastered them...

They had some awesome deals on Black Friday...

Oh well...

Still have a store in ANC... but not there all the time...

There is a big thread at the TiVo forum, but you need to be a registered user to see it (free to regisiter)

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb...d.php?t=342508

I can't remember where I read some other posts, but will look around for them.

The stores have been sold to a liquidator, but given the size of the sale I don't think they'll be able to get them all into liqudation mode that fast. I'm guessing it'll depend on leases of buildings, and how soon they have to be out of there.

Here are some of the deals I think may be of interest for Flyertalkers (at my local Cusa after 10 days of sales)

Slingbox AV: $120
Plantronics Discovery 640 headset: $57
APC external battery pack (for most notebooks, adds around 8 hours): $59
Kensington AC/DC/AIR charger (for notebooks, mp3, etc...): $43
Belkin Highspeed Expresscard docking station: $100
T-Mobile DASH: $190 (no activation required)
Cingular Blackjack: $220 (no activation required)
TomTom ONE: $224
Magellan 2000: $223

Of course, these deals won't be the same everywhere so YMMV.

Reuters story
http://www.reuters.com/article/bonds...24379720070228

Looks like these are the ones staying open
http://www.compusa.com/locations/store.asp

Search slickdeals.net for "CompUSA". More threads than you'll care to read about this.

No loss in the Chicago area. I quit shopping there years ago when sale items weren't available on Sunday when the sales hit and they have a no raincheck policy.

Yup. Ones by me when I was back were closing in Oak Brook IL and Naperville IL. I got a bunch of stuff 50% off.
Got those emergency batteries for my cell phone for about $3 each. Got some laptop accessories and power tips for cheap. Good sale for me, but bad for the store. Plus now I got nowhere close to by the Bawls at :(

Is this the one on Chicago Ave and Rush St in Chicago?

Skokie.

The ones downtown only just closed, so they won't have deals like this for a week or so.

All Alabama and Georgia stores to close except Augusta. :td:

Wow -- according to the list above they are closing both locations in Paramus, NJ.

Yep. After I saw this thread yesterday I stopped in (Rte17N) and spoke with one of the salespeople and he confirmed it. Oddly enough he said that particular location had the best sales performance.

They are only offering 5% off right now but of course it will increase soon.

I guess they're closing the entire set of SoCal stores; according to Yahoo! Maps, there used to be 19 within 50mi of me.

Store near PDX closing
 

The store closest to PDX is no longer listed as an active store. It's just off Airport Wy just east of I-205 near the Home Depot for anyone passing through.. After all, Oregon doesn't have sales tax.

I'm probably naive on this, but does it cost THAT much to inventory and move merchandise? In my case, my local CU store is closing, the next closest ones are 12 miles and 44 miles. Wouldn't it be cheaper to move transfer all the merchandise to those stores (or back to a central warehouse for redistribution) and close the stores immediately, than to have the store potentially open for months with ever-increasing discounts?

Jeff

The chain had 150 MILLION in unsellable inventory. And if you check them out you'll see that a lot of the stuff they are discounting really isn't stuff you'd want them to move into your store; 1000's of crap ipod accessories, old sat radios, old bluetooth stuff, 2 year old phones etc...

Stuff that would be perfect for Wootoffs. :D