[TriLUG] Circuits are blown

[Steve Litt]

As a former Pacific Stereo employee, I witnessed the demise of Pacific Stereo 
in 1985. The Pacific Stereo salespeople had been replaced by clowns from the 
company running the firesale. Prices on new, in the box equipment were not 
discounted enough to compensate for the "all sales final, no warranty" 
policy. And most of the stuff for sale was picked over, obsolete junk, much 
of it scuffed up and ill used demos. That was when I first became aware 
that "going out of business sales" are a very bad deal.

Since then, I've looked (but not bought) at other liquidation sales, and 
invariably they were every bit as bad as the Pacific Stereo liquidation sale. 
If you want something obsolete, beat up, with no warranty, sold by someone 
knowing little about it, then go to a garage sale where you'll get up to 90% 
off.

SteveT

On Wednesday 21 January 2009 10:14:52 am OlsonE at aosa.army.mil wrote:
> I agree. CompUSA did the same thing.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf Of Lee Fickenscher
> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 9:02 AM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Circuits are blown
>
> This probably goes without saying, but I urge everyone to check actual
> end
> prices before you purchase. I've seen liquidation sales that at 40-50%
> were
> still more expensive than Amazon or Newegg. In fact, IIRC, the last time
> CC
> did a round of liquidations there was a piece on WRAL about it where
> they
> found prices for some items were cheaper in the non-liquidating stores
> (of
> the same chain) than in the liquidating stores.
>
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Metro305 at gmail.com
>
> <metro305 at gmail.com>wrote:
> > 10% off generally and 30% for cables and furniture at Durham
> > location.  Also a madhouse.  I will pick  at the bones in the coming
> > days.
> >
> > Sent from my iPod
> >
> > On Jan 17, 2009, at 5:31 PM, Kevin Flanagan <kevin at flanagannc.net>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > I was at the Triangle Town Center CC, crap. No discount on TVs, but
> > > it's a
> > > madhouse.
> > >
> > > 2009/1/17 Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
> > >
> > >> Why would you want to buy at a liquidation sale? 20% off, as is,
> > >> all sales
> > >> final. What kind of a deal is that? By the time they're 40% off, it
> > >> will be
> > >> nothing but picked over junk.
> > >>
> > >> SteveT
> > >>
> > >> On Saturday 17 January 2009 10:58:49 am Matthew Opoka wrote:
> > >>> Does anyone know if they have started the liquidation in the
> > >>> Triangle?
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Regards,
> > >>>
> > >>> Matthew
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> ----- Original Message ----
> > >>> From: Scott Lambdin <lopaki at gmail.com>
> > >>> To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
> > >>> <trilug at trilug.org>
> > >>> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 6:06:26 PM
> > >>> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Circuits are blown
> > >>>
> > >>> most my circuits are belong to woot.com these days
> > >>>
> > >>> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Shawn Hartsock <hartsock at acm.org>
> > >>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>>> "All my Circuits"
> > >>>> ... are belong to Tiger Direct.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:05 PM,  <OlsonE at aosa.army.mil> wrote:
> > >>>>> Yep. Prepare for the mobbing of stores to get deals that for the
> > >>>>> most
> > >>>>> part will only be luke-warm.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> All your base are belong to Best Buy.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> -----Original Message-----
> > >>>>> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org
>
> [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org]
>
> > >> On
> > >>
> > >>>>> Behalf Of Carl Crider
> > >>>>> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 12:09 PM
> > >>>>> To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
> > >>>>> Subject: [TriLUG] Circuits are blown
> > >>>>>
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