Circuit City is Closing, Liquidating

TRUE CIRCUIT CITY STORY: (cue music, poignant but not sad, yesterday, but not forgotten, thoughtless but not really dumb...hell you get the idea)

A friend of mine went in to Circuit City, (he's blind) looking to buy an ipod, or walkman.
A sales lady approched them and this conversation took place.
At the point of explanation of the product, my friend wanted to know about recharging, so he asked:

Do these have an AC adapter?
Sir, what does AC mean to you?

Hmmm...'What does AC mean to you?'

I guess it means that I am never going to buy anything from a company who would hire someone who doesn't know what AC is!!!!!!!!!!!!

This really happened, it's not an epitaph, or an I told you so, it's just a recitation of an event. Perhaps now we know why they went under...poor quality help in a high tech business.

Larry

Stay away, to the eve of each store's actual close. Otherwise you will be taken, big time. Buy a floor model at no more then 15% of the regular selling price.

There was an interesting story in the WSJ tracing the start of their problems to when they fired all the technical sales people and replaced them with minimum wage McDonalds cast offs. This had the effect of killing customer service and destroying employee morale. Who puts any effort into a job when they're cutting your pay and telling you if you don't like it then go get a job at McDonalds? Well, CC is gone and McDonalds is making a profit in this very tough economy; the ultimate irony.

On a side note, the CC near me smells like a locker room. Every time I would walk in, I would be overwhelmed by the smell of BO. In addition to that, most of the items in the weekly flyer were out of stock and they had a no rain check policy. I stopped even attempting to go there about 3-4 months ago because it was a total waste of time.

You make Theaudiotweek's point...
Having traveled the country for THIEL as VP of Sales and Marketing, in an effort to train sales people for dealers, (to THIEL's credit, at no charge to the dealers, something I was charging $1000. per day for) I can tell you that MOST dealers have, and this will come as no surprise, mediocre staff.
I remember distinctly, role playing in one store, and my hand to God, this really happened.
I told the sales person that I wanted to hear the speakers that had been reviewed in Stereophile, showing him the cover photo, which happened to be a pair of CS6s.
He proceeded immediately to try to sell me a turntable. No efforts to switch him back to topic helped. Finally, I asked him if he had the CS6s and he said 'yes', but didn't skip a beat, on with the turntable. I was reminded of the Linn Sondek groupies who, if you came into the store to ask for a drink of water, would try to sell you a turntable, back in the day.
Finally, I went off role and said, "Why are you not demoing this speaker already, as I have asked you to do so at least 5 times?"
This is what audiophiles are up against...this is why the used market is so strong, this is why pricing is questioned with such ferocity, this...is why Circuit City is out of business...GOOD RIDDANCE!!!!! When they fired their only hope for success, the paved the road to failure.

Larry