I found out through a few friends that the Circuit City here in Tulsa is doing the exactly the same thing as CompUSA.
/fail
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typically those hack and slash companies really just have strong marketing departments and stingy accountants. They sell whatever they can at some price that generates profit and the rest gets sold to middlemen in overstock clearing markets that sell to stores like TJ-Max, Overstock.com, crappy websites you find on froogle, and big lots. The Circuit City stuff is probably going to be sold at auction to middlemen and big companies after they can't sell it to the public for about the same price you'd be paying today if you walked in... 5-10% off. You're best chance is to try and haggle that a product is broken or crappy or whatever. There's a chance (a small one) but a chance you can social engineer a manager into giving you 20%. Maybe 50% if you can argue that you thought it was 50% from improper labeling. Those people don't care because they're all losing their jobs and they hate Circuit City. Wouldn't you? So you'd have to be a real jerk to give them a hard time to get a few more % off but there's a possibility it'll work. The people who price the products want money and they're absolutely mechanical. I doubt anything could be done to work them over.
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If you want to get the
computer stuff that didn't sell at CompUSA or Circuit City then come with me to the first Saturday show in Dallas when it warms up a bit.
http://www.sidewalksale.com/index.html, or third saturday here in Tulsa (lots of the same vendors),
http://www.computershowok.com/. The vendors at these places buy from warehouse overstock, cheap china ripoffs, expired leases, and company retired product, and yes regional clearances and closure auctions. So, there you might be able to get a deal, and most times you can haggle. But please know what you're buying or you will be had. Ex. Don't by a graphics card with Nvidia misspelled on the box.