Add Circuit City To The List Of Stores We Have Said Goodbye To Recently

Friday, January 16th, 2009

After months of desperately trying to find a private buyer for it’s pathetic business, Circuit City has finally given in and decided to close all of its remaining 567 retail stores and liquidate its inventory.  It really isn’t all too surprising, figuring that the company not only failed in its attempt to get the DIVX [...]

Best Buy & Geek Squad: Two Big Thumbs Down

Monday, December 15th, 2008

A few weeks ago I wrote a post entitled Yet Another Example of a Great Deal Without Fighting Crowds in which I spoke of how a friend of mine saved almost 50% on a new television with delivery, installation, haul-away, rewards, etc. via a Black Friday special at Best Buy.  As it turns out, the [...]

Yet Another Example of a Great Deal Without Fighting Crowds

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

A friend of mine had her television go dead on her last week, and tried everything to diagnose the problem: unhooking all of the peripheral components, wiring the cable directly into the television, unplugging the unit from the outlet completely for a few hours all to no avail.  She called a licensed repairman to come out and try [...]


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