CompUSA to Shut Down After Holidays

Onkel Neal · 12-08-07, 08:40 PM

CompUSA, the computer retailer that Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim owned since 2000, will shut its doors after 23 years, succumbing to competition from Best Buy Co. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Restructuring firm Gordon Brothers Group LLC bought the chain for an undisclosed sum and will sell or close its 103 stores after the U.S. holidays, CompUSA said yesterday. The 67- year-old Slim, Latin America's richest man, failed to turn around CompUSA after investing more than $1.5 billion in the chain over eight years.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...zTY&refer=home

JSLTIGER · 12-08-07, 08:49 PM

Sorry to see them go...they usually had much better machines than other retailers and at reasonable prices. On the bright side however, there should be some fairly decent deals out there.

Torplexed · 12-08-07, 09:04 PM

The CompUSA I used to frequent (I bought SH2 and 3 there) shut down last summer. Was sad to see it go. Sure enough the probable culprit, a Best Buy was just two stores away in the same strip mall.

Drebbel · 12-09-07, 04:39 AM

I noticed that compared to TigerDirect their prices where not really impressive.

GunnerGreg · 12-09-07, 11:15 AM

My biggest problem is that my last positive customer experience at a CompUSA store was about 10 years ago in Houston, TX.

The store I went to in the Washington, DC area tried to pull a "bait-and-switch" on me TWICE, once tried to prevent me from leaving the store without submitting to a search (I hadn't bought anything because they were sold out of something I NEEDED, and no, I didn't set off the electronic monitoring thing at the door, and no they weren't polite about it.

I actually went out of my way to go to the local CompUSA here in Little Rock, AR BECAUSE I felt sorry for them. I figured the employees probably didn't get told first, the investors did, and the employees found out about it by hearing it through the media, just like I did. By the time I left, I had been so poorly treated and was so mad that I stopped the manager and told him that he and his employees were getting what they deserved.

FIREWALL · 01-22-08, 03:19 PM

No warning here. One day two were open here and next day closed. No chance to get any good deals.

01-22-08, 04:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JSLTIGER

Sorry to see them go...they usually had much better machines than other retailers and at reasonable prices. On the bright side however, there should be some fairly decent deals out there.

Got one near me, right across the street from Best Buy.
I took a friend there some time back to purchase a cell phone (her first).

The kid (obviously a refugee from high school) barely knew the phone, barely
knew any of the plans for the phone, barely knew about what features it had,
barely knew anything about the other phones at his counter.

CompUSA used to be populated by geeks, fully knowledgeable about anything
that delt with computers. Now, no such luck. They're all over at the Geek Squad.

12-08-07, 08:40 PM	#1
Onkel Neal Born to Run Silent Join Date: Jan 1997 Location: Cougar Trap, Texas Posts: 21,284 Downloads: 534 Uploads: 224	CompUSA to Shut Down After Holidays CompUSA, the computer retailer that Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim owned since 2000, will shut its doors after 23 years, succumbing to competition from Best Buy Co. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Restructuring firm Gordon Brothers Group LLC bought the chain for an undisclosed sum and will sell or close its 103 stores after the U.S. holidays, CompUSA said yesterday. The 67- year-old Slim, Latin America's richest man, failed to turn around CompUSA after investing more than $1.5 billion in the chain over eight years. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...zTY&refer=home __________________ SUBSIM - 26 Years on the Web

12-08-07, 08:49 PM	#2
JSLTIGER The Old Man Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Parkland, FL, USA Posts: 1,437 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Sorry to see them go...they usually had much better machines than other retailers and at reasonable prices. On the bright side however, there should be some fairly decent deals out there. __________________ Thor: Intel Core i7 4770K\|ASUS Z87Pro\|32GB DDR3 RAM\|11GB EVGA GeForce RTX 2080Ti Black\|256GB Crucial M4 SSD+2TB WD HDD\|4X LG BD-RE\|32" Acer Predator Z321QU 165Hz G-Sync (2540x1440)\|Logitech Z-323 2.1 Sound\|Win 10 Pro Explorer (MSI GL63 8RE-629 Laptop): Intel Core i7 8750H\|16GB DDR4 RAM\|6GB GeForce GTX 1060\|128GB SSD+1TB HDD\|15.6" Widescreen (1920x1080)\|Logitech R-20 2.1 Sound\|Win 10 Home

12-08-07, 09:04 PM	#3
Torplexed Let's Sink Sumptin' ! Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 5,823 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	The CompUSA I used to frequent (I bought SH2 and 3 there) shut down last summer. Was sad to see it go. Sure enough the probable culprit, a Best Buy was just two stores away in the same strip mall. __________________ --Mobilis in Mobili--

01-22-08, 03:19 PM	#6
FIREWALL Eternal Patrol Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: CATALINA IS. SO . CAL USA Posts: 10,108 Downloads: 511 Uploads: 0	No warning here. One day two were open here and next day closed. No chance to get any good deals. __________________ RIP FIREWALL I Play GWX. Silent Hunter Who ???

12-09-07, 04:39 AM	#4
Drebbel Dutch Sea Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Almost at periscope death ! Posts: 1,665 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	I noticed that compared to TigerDirect their prices where not really impressive.

12-09-07, 11:15 AM	#5
GunnerGreg Watch Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 20 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	My biggest problem is that my last positive customer experience at a CompUSA store was about 10 years ago in Houston, TX. The store I went to in the Washington, DC area tried to pull a "bait-and-switch" on me TWICE, once tried to prevent me from leaving the store without submitting to a search (I hadn't bought anything because they were sold out of something I NEEDED, and no, I didn't set off the electronic monitoring thing at the door, and no they weren't polite about it. I actually went out of my way to go to the local CompUSA here in Little Rock, AR BECAUSE I felt sorry for them. I figured the employees probably didn't get told first, the investors did, and the employees found out about it by hearing it through the media, just like I did. By the time I left, I had been so poorly treated and was so mad that I stopped the manager and told him that he and his employees were getting what they deserved.