Compusa Is Going Out Of Business!

Similar to when other businesses close, Compusa has pretty much everything on sale. http://consumerist.com/consumer/exclusives/leaks-compusas-going+out+of-business-discount-list-332890.php I have read in some websites that most things are 10% at the begining of the sale but they should drop week by week.

 

Already been posted. But yeah, those deals should be good. Win/win for the consumer
And about them closing, I'll say again, "ha ha".



I should include that in my sig.

 

FUNNY! Cause I pretty much live on this forum and I've never seen a thread with this subject, but I could be wrong.

 

It definitely sux that CompUSA is closings! I mean who else sells anywhere near the amount and variety of tech equipment that they have in stock?

 

Fry's Electronics

They had a single comp usa store close near where i live like 6 months ago and they did the same thing(each week increasing the percentage off). It was crazy at the end I was buying items in bulk for a buck or two each and selling them on ebay and craigslist.

 

interesting. do the computers go on sale also? more things to waste money on

 

in the first post of this thread there is a link for a list of what products are on discount and how much of a discount.

 

items were going fast at the store closing i witnessed. Near the end there was 75% off but there was also slim pickings

 

Funny, I remember the time back in 1994 when the opened a store in Portland, OR, next to a then existing "Computer City" store. CompUSA said "We'll kick their butt!". Well, looks like someone else also kicked CompUSA's butt!

For long, I have turned to Best Buy for all my geek needs.

 

CompUSA had the greatest deals with $5 wireless routers and constant free software offers (like norton 360 and norton antivirus and norton ghost)
They also usually had lots of heavily discounted stuff, and they were the only store i know which had a wide variety of cases and other homebuild computer parts

 

I mentioned it on the vista anytime upgrade CD thread to alert those that if they wanted to buy that from Compusa they better do it soon. Compusa will also close its online business which would affect the 5 dollar vista anytime disc offer.

But this is the first thread I have seen that mentioned the closing in the thread title. I personally am glad these guys are going away. The customer support was horrible and allot of the compusa branded electronic components like USB 2 cards, etc.. were DOA and had electronic failures. They even told me they were cheap and not even final tested in some cases. They had 90 day compusa warranties on their Compusa branded devices but if you tried to hold them to it they would tell you they did not make it and to call the manufacturer. All the compusa branded stuff only had addresses and info pointing to compusa and nobody else. If you ask them who the hell made it they would not tell you.. I had to call corporate office to make my local store honor their written warranties. I remember one CSR at corporate office tell me it was common that people would complain that local stores would not honor the 90 day written warranties. The other widespread complaint was it was almost impossible to get sales peoples help. The billionaire from mexico that owned compusa said it was due to bad management. That is an understatement.

 

Microsoft has the disc for sale also. I dont remember how much they sell it for though. I got mine from a friends Acer laptop purchase.

 

Was it only until recently that they started selling them? I called in a couple months ago and asked if they sold them and they said no.

 

I got my laptop in september and thats when I started looking for one of those discs. I found them on the website. You must have just been talking to somebody that didn't know ish.

 

I was thinking the guy was an idiot too, but I didn't bother to pursue it because I ended up downloading an ISO image of the installation disk. I even asked him what happens if a person loses their installation disks, what can they do? He didn't even have an answer for that except borrow from a friend or buy them again.

 

for future reference i guess, on my notebook you goto the control panel, system and maintenance tab and windows anytime upgrade option is towards the bottom. it redirects you to microsoft's site where i guess you can buy it and download.
there are also people that have copies set up on servers to download (free)

 

i checked out compusa's site and everything i would consider buying is already gone

 

Antec notebook cooler: CompUsa-$45..Staples-$20

 

I hope CompUSA will honor the $150 rebate for dv2620us notebook I bought from them on November 10. I have not yet received the check even though I got an email saying that my rebate was approved.

 

You might want to call the corporate offices and push that one through. I remember something like that happened to me with a memory rebate.. company went out of business.. but I had the corporate office cut me a check before they went out of business.. There was a class action lawsuit over it and most people never got anything since the big creditors like banks.. etc.. usually get whats left. Generally consumers get left out on a deal like this. This case might be different since a company bought out Compusa for the sole purpose of selling off the assets. I don't know if Compusa had any debts being the owner put over 400 million into the sinking ship.

Better give them a call being they are stated to seize operations after the holiday.