consumerist.com - 2/23/2009
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WCVB TV in Boston has an interview with two Circuit City liquidation customers who are out $1,100 after they bought a Samsung LCD TV from Circuit City's liquidation sale — only to find out that...
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thebostonchannel.com - 2/23/2009
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BOSTON -- Liquidation sales promise great deals on
big-ticket items, but as Team 5 Investigates discovered, customers
may change their minds once they get home and open the box. Team 5's Susan Wornick took a look inside Circuit City's close-out sale. ...
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Customers Burned In Circuit City Closeout Sale - As Seen ...
crunchgear.com - 2/19/2009
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crunchgear.com —
While we failed to find much of anything
at the Circuit City liquidation sales, apparently a whole
bunch of other people did. The liquidator overloads are reporting that they managed to sell more than $1 billion of Circuit City’s inventory ...
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More than $1 billion sold at Circuit City fire sales
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Liqui-doh!-tion: Couple buys $1100 shattered TV from Circuit City, all sales final
CrunchGear —
... as possible at as high a price as consumers are willing to pay. Once it’s paid for and out the door, they’ll likely do whatever it takes to keep merchandise from coming back into the store.
If you’re going to shop liquidation sales, it’s probably best to stick to smaller ticket items like software, DVDs, and music – stuff you can’t normally return anyway. Not $1100 TVs that may very well have been mishandled in the back of the store.
[TheBostonChannel.com via Consumerist]
Buying an HDTV From Circuit City Liquidation Is Like Lottery From Hell [Circuit City]
Gizmodo —
... where a family paid $1500 for a busted TV after not being allowed to open the box. Fox reporters there were apparently kicked out of the store for trying to investigate. Odds are, if you do get a TV from Circuit City, it'll be fine—just remember there's just the very real possibility you could wind up losing a thousand bucks with no real recourse. And there won't even be the dude from Let's Make a Deal there to make you feel better. [Boston Channel via Consumerist, Image: Getty]
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Buying an HDTV From Circuity City Liquidation Is Like Lottery From Hell [Circuit City]
Gizmodo —
... where a family paid $1500 for a busted TV after not being allowed to open the box. Fox reporters there were apparently kicked out of the store for trying to investigate. Odds are, if you do get a TV from Circuit City, it'll be fine—just remember there's just the very real possibility you could wind up losing a thousand bucks with no real recourse. And there won't even be the dude from Let's Make a Deal there to make you feel better. [Boston Channel via Consumerist, Image: Getty]
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