The Boycott Circuit City Thread

[quote name='guyinga']
The truth is no one will buy a PS3. Period. Until it is across the board below $300. I'm wondering if Sony threatened action against CC and CC in their infinite wisdom thought suing the very consumers giving them money was a great idea.[/QUOTE]Stealth troll.

People are buying a PS3. I bought a PS3 and there are other CAG Members who have. There are people here who bought a PS3 today here. So no one is buying one eh. :roll:

If Sony was behind this, Best Buy and Target would be mentioned too, but they aren't. CC is the one who tends to pull games off the shelves when people at CAG hear about their sales. They are also the ones who seem to have a grudge against CAG because we refuse to pay their ridiculous prices on most games and will only buy when they put out a clearance (which I'm glad CAG Members do, since CC overprices a lot of stuff).

CC has been going downhill anyway, so I don't really buy many games from them. I'm even starting to like EB/Gamestop more than them.
 
CAG has been good to me. Even though it won’t be convenient for me, I'll not only be boycotting Circuit City until this is resolved, I will be recommending other options to everyone I know that is thinking of shopping there.

The amount of money CC loses from my no longer being a patron may be negligible but the propaganda I spread to everyone I know will likely have quite a substantial impact this coming holiday season.
 
Co-Sign. They're not going to see my money until speedy is off the hook. I'll be pricematching all of their sales at bestbuy.
 
I assume that some of you have noticed the abundance of CC ads on this site. Assuming Cheapy stays strong (fight the power!) I still don't see that changing. The divisions of CC corporate are the definition of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing.
 
I dont know, I'm not big on banning places. I'll probably go grab a TV on Sunday with my 10% coupon I got from my 'moving package' from USPS.
 
[quote name='blackjaw']I dont know, I'm not big on banning places. I'll probably go grab a TV on Sunday with my 10% coupon I got from my 'moving package' from USPS.[/quote]Best Buy coupons just arrived in the maile today, use the 10/12% coupon from that.
 
Just an availability FYI:

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The easiest way to spread info through the "Internets" is to create websites, and post on sites such as Myspace & Facebook. Also, someone should create a press release suitable for sending to media outlets.
 
The .com registered above is domain parked. Often businesses will buy up all domains that may show degradation in their company names in advance, park them, so nobody else can use them.
 
[quote name='THoward7382']So a company is suing trying to protect their best interests and you all boycott them? lol

Imagine if you were them and always having a certain individual leak all the secrets.[/QUOTE]

Please explain what "secrets" he is leaking? It's not like he put the recipe for Coke on the internet.

I'm guessing this is Sony putting pressure on Circuit City to get this info., but I don't know that.

Hopefully Cheapy can avoid having to turn over any info. on Speedy or any other CAG.
 
I'll simply make one final note on my end. No, I'm not going to boycott CC. They DO have decent deals on a weekly basis and awesome clearances. Yes, as a company, they're quite bad. They can't run it for shit. This is not really new. The only reason everyone seems to be doing so is simply to jump in the bandwagon just because Speedy's in trouble.

As some mentioned before, the is definately likely to be the work of Sony. They had no problem throwing lawsuits around over the smallest of things. Remember when Lik-Sang was sued over selling import PSPs to Europe even though they gave out free European plugs? No one boycotted Sony there. We have a gaming retail chain that shits all over its customers AND employees on a DAILY basis. No one's boycotting them.

To be completely I honest, I think this will hardly have any effect on CC.
 
I dont care for them in anycase but cag has like 100 more reasons to boycott gamestop yet we dont?

lets see speedy vs all the members here who have had tons of trouble with gamestop hmm choices?

I already avoid them both as it is.
 
[quote name='FunkyDoRight']Dear god. Miss all the CC Clearence and sales. Hell no.[/quote]

You shouldn't be considered a CAG then. You're new anyway and I'm sure most would be happy if you left.

CAGs stick up for each other. Speedy and Cheapy are our brothers in arms. I for one am all for this boycott and would say that Cheapy should contact the other bargain/deal sites to have them get in on this as well. Spread the word through the internet and send a message to the "mainstream media".
 
Meh, I almost always PM stuff @ BB (for reward zone) anyways. I rarely buy stuff directly from CC anymore, especially since cc.com started screwing me over in shipping.
 
[quote name='Tsukento']
To be completely I honest, I think this will hardly have any effect on CC.[/quote]

I agree with your other sentiments in this post that this is probably Sony's doing, but CC is just as guilty as a coconspirator. I don't buy Sony anymore - no matter what it is - and will not be shopping at CC in the interum (sp) until either CAG, DVDTalk, and Speedy are exonerated of any charges or it just blows over.

To address your post that this will not have any effect on CC, I would beg to differ. CC's stock has been in the toilet for sometime now. They simply cannot compete against the onslaught that BB and Walmart have on them and when a Fry's moves into their area you can practically stick a fork in them as they're pretty much finished.

Circuit City's stock is valued at 11.35

Best Buy's stock is valued at 45.09

Pretty HUGE difference in stock evaluation there. If you get the internet's might - a few bloggers, some myspaces/facebookers, the bargain sites - then you've got quite an onslaught there. 100,000 CAGs not reading their ads and going elsewhere will be a huge dent to their overall bottom line and you'll see their stock drop even more.

Let's spread the word and send this out to all the mags and get kotaku on board. They have a pretty large readership (much of which consists of CAGs) there.
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This has gotten onto 1up.com. Hopefully it makes it into the upcoming EGM:

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3161875

Interesting message left on the 1up article:

http://www.1up.com/media?id=2417820 By Sony and Microsoft Author: Se7enwolfman, 08/10/2007 Actually Circuit City is only going after these guys because Sony AND microsoft is telling them to. Sony had threatened to pull all support from Circuit City if they did not take action againest me aka Se7enwolf and Speedy for posting that stuff. Sony had me fired and now they are going to be taking legal action againest Speedy and even other gaming sites who do post leaked information which includes possiblity of 1up and even joystiq.com.

Best Buy, Target and Wal-mart are also joining in on the fight.

Supposably Sony lost major amounts of money do the leaked PS3 price cut and made their drop the price a week early. The guy who interviewed me about the leaks said "Sony is wanting someones head on a stick for this." But because I wasn't the original one to post it, i wont be getting legal actions againest me.

This is probably the only fight you will see major retailers and rival companies working together.
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All of the articles, gaming publications, etc. that are helping the CAG and speedy cause should be updated in the original post. Perhaps our main man Linkin or one of the other mods could do that.
 
Interesting message left on the 1up article:

By Sony and Microsoft Author: Se7enwolfman, 08/10/2007 Actually Circuit City is only going after these guys because Sony AND microsoft is telling them to. Sony had threatened to pull all support from Circuit City if they did not take action againest me aka Se7enwolf and Speedy for posting that stuff. Sony had me fired and now they are going to be taking legal action againest Speedy and even other gaming sites who do post leaked information which includes possiblity of 1up and even joystiq.com.

Best Buy, Target and Wal-mart are also joining in on the fight.

Supposably Sony lost major amounts of money do the leaked PS3 price cut and made their drop the price a week early. The guy who interviewed me about the leaks said "Sony is wanting someones head on a stick for this." But because I wasn't the original one to post it, i wont be getting legal actions againest me.

This is probably the only fight you will see major retailers and rival companies working together.
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[quote name='chodax']I just bought that Olivia 27" TV! yay!

I mean boycott Circuit City! yay![/quote]
Olivia's are cheapest at Sam's Club or Costco anyway:roll:
 
It's funny, just this afternoon I swore that I wasn't going to shop there any more. Not because of this, I hadn't read about it yet, but because I've had a series of crappy experiences this week while trying to buy Civ IV: Beyond the Sword (CC has it on sale for $14.99). Circuit City always gives me problems, and it's just not worth the aggrevation any more.
 
Meh I never shop there anyway because there isn't one close but now I know not to even bother if I do pass one, rather just go to best buy or something.
 
[quote name='chodax']No membership :([/quote]

Well then you still should have PMed. The Decatur, Maryland, and Stephanie stores all suck. They're putrid stores where to find merchandise is a pain and where no employee knows anything and takes for anything to come out from the back.
 
Sign # 503 that Circuit City sucks and deserves to go out of business:

It is frequently easier to get the deals that they specifically advertise in their weekly papers by price-matching them in other stores than actually walking into a CC and ringing up said deal at one of their registers.
 
[quote name='Tsukento']Yeah! Nevermind those games like Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin being sold at $16.96! Nevermind the Wii and DS games that are sold $10 off at release! Those CERTAINLY aren't deals! :roll:[/quote]I wasn't talking about the games dummy. And yes I know this is cheapassGAMER
 
[quote name='hiccupleftovers']Well then you still should have PMed. The Decatur, Maryland, and Stephanie stores all suck. They're putrid stores where to find merchandise is a pain and where no employee knows anything and takes for anything to come out from the back.[/quote]

I'll see if I can PM then, and I've head some good experiences with the Stephanie store, and got some good deals when the Eastern store was still around.
 
[quote name='hiccupleftovers']
CAGs stick up for each other. Speedy and Cheapy are our brothers in arms. [/quote] :applause:This is why i'm down with the boycott. If you stand for nothing you will fall for everything.
 
From what I've read it seems like instead of boycotting CC we should be encouraging people to shop there. Now before you flame me hear me out...

All of the major retailers actually LOSE money on those deal items in hopes of increasing traffic and suckering people into buying the profitable items such as services and warranties. If we were to shop there and ONLY buy the cheap ass sale items it seems like to me that would do more harm to them.

Remember we're the type of shoppers they hate the most because we only buy the really cheap "loss" items.


That's the only reason I ever shopped there. I've bought a total of 3 things there in the last year. NCAA Football 08 for the PS3(only because for some unknown reason none of the Wal-Marts had it on launch day and for the $10 gift card), 2 clearance copies of Lumines, and a clearance copy of MGS-PO.
 
To those reading, sorry for the trolling about Sony/PS3. I felt that way because every time I go into big box retailers, I see PS3's everywhere and gathering dust yet people asking about the Wii/purchasing Wii's. My only conclusion is either the system is overpriced, no one wants anything by Sony, or people are too broke to buy video games.

Anyone notice that Circuit City has banner ads on this site and laughing at the stupidity of it all?

I think the case has no merit because I don't think CC will be able to prove a loss of revenue or business. And does CC just not understand how the internet works? It's like they expect/assume internet users are scammers.
 
[quote name='Rocko']Because you can't get Sony exclusives anywhere else. It's easier to take a stand when you don't give anything up. ;)[/quote]
I for one will boycott Sony and CC :)
 
For all of those that want a a boycottcircuitcity.info domain, I can get one for free on another site...I just need a couple more points and I get a free .info site for a year..just post here if you're interested.

btw someone wanna give me a save speedy and cag avatar? :D
 
[quote name='hiccupleftovers']You shouldn't be considered a CAG then. You're new anyway and I'm sure most would be happy if you left.

CAGs stick up for each other. Speedy and Cheapy are our brothers in arms. I for one am all for this boycott and would say that Cheapy should contact the other bargain/deal sites to have them get in on this as well. Spread the word through the internet and send a message to the "mainstream media".[/QUOTE]

Right on. I'm shocked at the people who are like "eff that! gotta get my cheap game on!" like there's not dozens of other places with sales and clearances and like this issue doesn't matter.

CC vs. speedy strikes at the very heart of what we're all doing here. If we all don't have a swift, united reaction and financial impact on CC to make them re-think, they and other companies will continue with these types of B.S. legal actions against sites like CAG.

All I'm saying is don't undermine your own interests and show some solidarity with a guy who has probably saved you a lot of cash. Viva speedy!
 
How exactly did it lose them money is what I'm trying to figure out. Did Sony really expect that many more people to buy the PS3 a few weeks before the price drop? It sucks to have it leaked but I personally know of a lot more people that are interested in it now after all the talk of the price drop versus before.
 
The only time I will ever shop at CC again is to purposely make them take a big loss (i.e. price match a huge error on a flyer) or exploit their $20 gift card promo on some new release titles. Other than that, my business is moving to BB.
 
I'm seeing this argument alot but I really don't agree with the logic in it. Most of these stores have price protection if the console was purchased shortly before the price dropped.

If I heard news that the console was dropping its price and waited, that means I purchased the console. If I didn't wait and purchased the console, I would be refunded the difference. Either way I'm paying the same. How is me paying for a console later for the exact same amount of money as I would earlier considered a loss? Unless they are banking on people that won't seek price protection, which is pretty shady and gets no sympathy from me for any company that expects that (ie. rebates).

Also, if the other major retailers are considering jumping on board with CC, then all the more reason to send the message that if they do, they too may lose bussiness.



By Sony and Microsoft Author: Se7enwolfman, 08/10/2007 Actually Circuit City is only going after these guys because Sony AND microsoft is telling them to. Sony had threatened to pull all support from Circuit City if they did not take action againest me aka Se7enwolf and Speedy for posting that stuff. Sony had me fired and now they are going to be taking legal action againest Speedy and even other gaming sites who do post leaked information which includes possiblity of 1up and even joystiq.com.

Best Buy, Target and Wal-mart are also joining in on the fight.

Supposably Sony lost major amounts of money do the leaked PS3 price cut and made their drop the price a week early. The guy who interviewed me about the leaks said "Sony is wanting someones head on a stick for this." But because I wasn't the original one to post it, i wont be getting legal actions againest me.

This is probably the only fight you will see major retailers and rival companies working together.
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Signed

This will be a bit hit for me financially, I have made probably about $5000 off of CC this year. It will not be easy to resist, but I will no longer shop there until this mess is resolved.
 
You know, I don't think we should boycott. I think we should make their costs go up. I'll post more on this avenue when I get a few minutes.
 
It's funny that all this anger is aimed at the retailers and people are not seeing the big picture that the major Game companies are using the retailers to do the dirty work for them..

They lost money, so they go to the retailers and threaten them so the retailers are left to do the work and look like the bad guys...

Boycott Sony and Microsoft
 
Quote:
http://www.1up.com/media?id=2417820By Sony and Microsoft Author: Se7enwolfman, 08/10/2007 Actually Circuit City is only going after these guys because Sony AND microsoft is telling them to. Sony had threatened to pull all support from Circuit City if they did not take action againest me aka Se7enwolf and Speedy for posting that stuff. Sony had me fired and now they are going to be taking legal action againest Speedy and even other gaming sites who do post leaked information which includes possiblity of 1up and even joystiq.com.

Best Buy, Target and Wal-mart are also joining in on the fight.

Supposably Sony lost major amounts of money do the leaked PS3 price cut and made their drop the price a week early. The guy who interviewed me about the leaks said "Sony is wanting someones head on a stick for this." But because I wasn't the original one to post it, i wont be getting legal actions againest me.

This is probably the only fight you will see major retailers and rival companies working together.



UMMMMMM how does sony figure they lost money on the ps3 price drop news. There is no way to prove that BILLY wasnt going to go buy a ps3 for 599 but instead cause of the leak they were forced to drop it to 499


hey sony if you really want to #$#$#$ over your base who got the systems at 499 Put something in the new 599 system that isnt in the older ps3 systems and then see how many people buy your shit

the price leak didnt hurt sony one bit cause you know about every 2 years a price drop happens at E3 so $#$# sony
 
i know that copyright is at the heart of the issue. these stores are protecting what is theirs, i can't fault that. this happened in previous years with fw and probably sd with the black friday ads. i believe they sorta got around this b/c they stopped posting pics, which is what was stated as being copyrighted along with the order of items, not the information. a list of items and prices is made, usually alphabetically, and not in the order of the ad.

cheapy, et al, should contact fw and sd to see what became of their issues.

this is just supposition and a suggestion.
 
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