Hey fellow northern VA CAG's!
stores closing in NORTHERN VA are
Alexandria
Fairfax (ITDEFX) (Hoffgod)
Vienna (GenDV138)
Woodbridge (FRAUD_WHATS_THAT)
Week 1:
Fairfax
Up to 20% off store wide. 10% software, including video games. 10% system hardware (wii), 20% PC parts (the sign indicated motherboards and CPUS! but not much on the shelf), 10% off mice and keyboards, 5% off desktop/notebook systems, 10% desktop/notebook memory, 10% off blank media, 10% off LCD tv's, 10% off monitors, 10% off cameras and accessories.
Week 2: March 5-10 *NEW PERCENTAGE INCREASE* 3-8-07 Up to 30% off
ok, most stuff is still at 10%, such as software. No more Wii units or PS3's at this location. Employee reports 12 Premium 360's in stock.
The following are up in percentage
Tech parts 30%
dvd movies 20%
projector screens, NOT PROJECTORS 30%
books 20%
laptop docking stations 20%
networking 15% hmm.... time to go wireless?
Slingbox ? 20%
CPU Power Supplies 30%
CELL PHONES 30%
cables and flat panel accessories 30%
GenDV138 reports the same at the Vienna/TC Store.
Week 2: March 11-17
Fairfax Store
Nothing really changed. Software has increased to 15% off.. Strategy guides are now 30% off!
PC parts (motherboards/CPU) now 30% off
Week 3: March 18-24th
Fairfax Store
Same old same old. Strategy Guides NOW 40% off
Hard drives and most pc game titles are starting to fly off the shelf ! Looks like some fool returned CNC: Generals Zero Hour expansion from BEST BUY, Compusa took it back and put THERE TAG over the BB tag! so if your looking for the zero hour expansion, well its now under 3 bucks! Store employee reports that the store will close within 40 days!
I picked up a few strategy guides for forty some cents! Anyways not much worth buying this week.
Week 4: March 25-31th
Fairfax Store
Same shit again! However they are starting to sell USED cables and hooks. Component cables (used) about 10 bucks (but they are like 12 feet?) Software has been relocated to where the PDA stuff use to be. Apple stuff looks gone.
I got a few items run up, including the guide to bf2142. The book price was 16.99, but it was tagged 19.99! WTF!??!?! It ranged up 19.99 (minus 40% off) so I told the black girl (the only black girl who works at that store) that the printed manufacturer price was 16.99 and she said that's wrong and that the higher TAGGED price (19.99) is correct. So I said screw it and walked out. This is a very bad indication that major percentage increases to major items won't occur til the last 2 weeks. All crappy stuff (small items) will go higher first.
Week 5: April 1st-April 7th
Fairfax Store
Seems like those 10 dollar used cables are gone. PC Game Software seems to be almost non-existent. Plenty of copies of King Kong, CoH. They started putting out used office furniture at ridiculous prices. I can't believe they are trying to sell a used chair that is filthy, with what looks like someone left some dump stains on the chairs while surfing for porn all for 60 bucks!! The desks look decent but too high priced as you will need to put some work into cleaning it. They are starting to sell CompUSA baskets for 5 bucks and the register lights for 40 (wtf is going to buy that?!?!)
There seems to be a good stock of stuff, including video games. The store is getting messy. I ranged up BF2142 again and once again it ranged up 19.99 over its Publisher printed price of 16.99! When I asked about it, the cashier said "Sometimes CompUSA will charge MORE over the MSRP!" Isn't there a law out there that says you can't charge over the MSRP?
Percentages seem to be the same again.
Week 7: April 22rd-28th
Thanks to hostyl1 for the update
Fair Oaks (Fairfax): Games and accessories 25% off. Sign says its the last 14 days. They had a handfull of PSP premium packs.
Potomac Mills (Woodbridge): Games and accessories 25% off. Still some Oblivions and Crackdowns left.
Tysons Corner (Vienna): Games and accessorices 25% off. Not a great selection. There was one 12 +1 Live membership as off Friday.
Landmark (Alexandria): 25% off as well but it's pretty much wrap for console games. Some PC games left, but nothing that stood out.
happy hunting!
Week 9: April 22-28 (sorry I skipped Week 8)
Fairlakes:30-60% off
About 60% of the store is gone! Looked around the store, really not much left. Stragetgy guides are 60% off but not really worth anything. My BF2142 guide that I have been fighting for is gone
I was ALMOST sold a Warcraft 3 WITHOUT the GAME The cashier (who I forget his name, but you will reconize him because he's old, has an accient and he has deformed hands. Anyways this guy was litterally trying to defend that the box wasn't the game, but in fact a *game card*, yet when I saw the security seal ripped opened, I showed him by opening it up and dumping every thing on the counter and all that fell out was the instruction books. NO CD!!! Then he took it to a manager who just didn't give a 
and then said wait someone might be able to find one for me, but I didn't care. I said skip it.
I wanted several things rung up to see how much I got off. I had Catz (for my girlfriend) , Scarface, SCA Guide, and a game called Malestrom. Malestrom and Scarface came up to a price that didn't warrent purchase but the SCA Guide and Catz was an acceptible price to buy, so I told him to take off Malestrom and Scarface. The final total came to 27.xx and doing some quick math in my head, I told him that's impossible for Catz (11.xx) and SCA guide (9.xx) to come to 27.XX!!! I told him to just void the transition and start over from scratch and he started arguing with me saying it was the price , he's not lying, the computer isn't lying and so on. I got a little pissed and mummbled no wonder you guys are going out of business. Not only did he heard me, but he said I don't care you can talk to the manager, you can write a letter to the company (like they would care) and so on. So I got even more pissed and told him, you know what I am going to do you a favor and snatched the stuff from his hands and counter and took it to the other register at Customer Service. The manager there said it would be quicker to go to the other guy (the guy I just dealt with) and I told him no because he was giving me so many problems and so on. The new cashier I was dealing with run up Catz and SC: DA guide and the total came to 20.xx!!! The amount I suspected was correct from the start.
The manager confirmed that the last May 7th AND a Micheal's store will be put into it's place. WTF!?!!? The nearest Micheals is about 3 miles away!! Plus the fact that there is a craft store two stores down from that compusa.
Fixtures were 50% for one day only yesterday (april 26) but most of it was junk. Most processors and motherboards are gone. All but a handful of printers are gone. Seems that display cameras (the high end ones) are all that's left with the exception of a few smaller lens camera still in the box.
The store is really messy.
WoW expansion is manager special tagged for 19.99$... plenty of them..but I think it's 19.99 in most places anywhere.
Most PC games and software is GONE. Unless you want lots of CoV/CoH, King Kong. Movies are 40% off but not much left except shitty movies.
I am assuming all xbox, ps2/ps3, wii's, ds, cubes systems are GONE by now. Plenty of games at 30% off though. Accessories are 30% off.
Less then a dozen customers were in the store that day. I don't expect anything to go above 70% before May 7th.
FINAL WEEK
Ok from most reports 80% of the store is now gone
Game selections are shitty but at 50-60% off.
Some fatwallet assclowns came in Monday night and BOUGHT ALL VERSIONS OF VISTA using 2000 dollars in cash...WTF?!?!?!!?
Now that's crazy man. This isn't a 360 craze, but a Vista Craze!
Anyways picked up a few things at 50-60% off
Star Wars: Leathal Alliance DS (Last one on shelf yay!)
another DS game
Scarface
60 Pack hp printer 4x5 paper
Some guy got really, really lucky buying a 42 LG tv display model (working). It listed for 1200 bucks, but for some reason after they hit total, it came to 690? instead of 900 bucks. From what I over heard one of the managers was saying someone in the store put in the sku wrong in the system so basically he was getting the tv for 50% off!!! The transaction was taking over 20 minutes. I left before it could be done, but my guess is that with only a few days left, the management MIGHT have given it to him. wow a 42 inch LG widescreen tv for 600 bucks.
Hope everyone here got what they wanted during the final days from this shitty overpriced store closeout. After monday I am calling up CompUSA credit card and cancel it then cutting it up. Thank's to fellow cags for reporting in and helping out.
stores closing in NORTHERN VA are
Alexandria
Fairfax (ITDEFX) (Hoffgod)
Vienna (GenDV138)
Woodbridge (FRAUD_WHATS_THAT)
Week 1:
Fairfax
Up to 20% off store wide. 10% software, including video games. 10% system hardware (wii), 20% PC parts (the sign indicated motherboards and CPUS! but not much on the shelf), 10% off mice and keyboards, 5% off desktop/notebook systems, 10% desktop/notebook memory, 10% off blank media, 10% off LCD tv's, 10% off monitors, 10% off cameras and accessories.
Week 2: March 5-10 *NEW PERCENTAGE INCREASE* 3-8-07 Up to 30% off
ok, most stuff is still at 10%, such as software. No more Wii units or PS3's at this location. Employee reports 12 Premium 360's in stock.
The following are up in percentage
Tech parts 30%
dvd movies 20%
projector screens, NOT PROJECTORS 30%
books 20%
laptop docking stations 20%
networking 15% hmm.... time to go wireless?
Slingbox ? 20%
CPU Power Supplies 30%
CELL PHONES 30%
cables and flat panel accessories 30%
GenDV138 reports the same at the Vienna/TC Store.
Week 2: March 11-17
Fairfax Store
Nothing really changed. Software has increased to 15% off.. Strategy guides are now 30% off!
PC parts (motherboards/CPU) now 30% off
Week 3: March 18-24th
Fairfax Store
Same old same old. Strategy Guides NOW 40% off
Hard drives and most pc game titles are starting to fly off the shelf ! Looks like some fool returned CNC: Generals Zero Hour expansion from BEST BUY, Compusa took it back and put THERE TAG over the BB tag! so if your looking for the zero hour expansion, well its now under 3 bucks! Store employee reports that the store will close within 40 days!
I picked up a few strategy guides for forty some cents! Anyways not much worth buying this week.
Week 4: March 25-31th
Fairfax Store
Same shit again! However they are starting to sell USED cables and hooks. Component cables (used) about 10 bucks (but they are like 12 feet?) Software has been relocated to where the PDA stuff use to be. Apple stuff looks gone.
I got a few items run up, including the guide to bf2142. The book price was 16.99, but it was tagged 19.99! WTF!??!?! It ranged up 19.99 (minus 40% off) so I told the black girl (the only black girl who works at that store) that the printed manufacturer price was 16.99 and she said that's wrong and that the higher TAGGED price (19.99) is correct. So I said screw it and walked out. This is a very bad indication that major percentage increases to major items won't occur til the last 2 weeks. All crappy stuff (small items) will go higher first.
Week 5: April 1st-April 7th
Fairfax Store
Seems like those 10 dollar used cables are gone. PC Game Software seems to be almost non-existent. Plenty of copies of King Kong, CoH. They started putting out used office furniture at ridiculous prices. I can't believe they are trying to sell a used chair that is filthy, with what looks like someone left some dump stains on the chairs while surfing for porn all for 60 bucks!! The desks look decent but too high priced as you will need to put some work into cleaning it. They are starting to sell CompUSA baskets for 5 bucks and the register lights for 40 (wtf is going to buy that?!?!)
There seems to be a good stock of stuff, including video games. The store is getting messy. I ranged up BF2142 again and once again it ranged up 19.99 over its Publisher printed price of 16.99! When I asked about it, the cashier said "Sometimes CompUSA will charge MORE over the MSRP!" Isn't there a law out there that says you can't charge over the MSRP?
Percentages seem to be the same again.
Week 7: April 22rd-28th
Thanks to hostyl1 for the update
Fair Oaks (Fairfax): Games and accessories 25% off. Sign says its the last 14 days. They had a handfull of PSP premium packs.
Potomac Mills (Woodbridge): Games and accessories 25% off. Still some Oblivions and Crackdowns left.
Tysons Corner (Vienna): Games and accessorices 25% off. Not a great selection. There was one 12 +1 Live membership as off Friday.
Landmark (Alexandria): 25% off as well but it's pretty much wrap for console games. Some PC games left, but nothing that stood out.
happy hunting!
Week 9: April 22-28 (sorry I skipped Week 8)
Fairlakes:30-60% off
About 60% of the store is gone! Looked around the store, really not much left. Stragetgy guides are 60% off but not really worth anything. My BF2142 guide that I have been fighting for is gone
I was ALMOST sold a Warcraft 3 WITHOUT the GAME
The cashier (who I forget his name, but you will reconize him because he's old, has an accient and he has deformed hands. Anyways this guy was litterally trying to defend that the box wasn't the game, but in fact a *game card*, yet when I saw the security seal ripped opened, I showed him by opening it up and dumping every thing on the counter and all that fell out was the instruction books. NO CD!!! Then he took it to a manager who just didn't give a and then said wait someone might be able to find one for me, but I didn't care. I said skip it.I wanted several things rung up to see how much I got off. I had Catz (for my girlfriend) , Scarface, SC
A Guide, and a game called Malestrom. Malestrom and Scarface came up to a price that didn't warrent purchase but the SCA Guide and Catz was an acceptible price to buy, so I told him to take off Malestrom and Scarface. The final total came to 27.xx and doing some quick math in my head, I told him that's impossible for Catz (11.xx) and SCA guide (9.xx) to come to 27.XX!!! I told him to just void the transition and start over from scratch and he started arguing with me saying it was the price , he's not lying, the computer isn't lying and so on. I got a little pissed and mummbled no wonder you guys are going out of business. Not only did he heard me, but he said I don't care you can talk to the manager, you can write a letter to the company (like they would care) and so on. So I got even more pissed and told him, you know what I am going to do you a favor and snatched the stuff from his hands and counter and took it to the other register at Customer Service. The manager there said it would be quicker to go to the other guy (the guy I just dealt with) and I told him no because he was giving me so many problems and so on. The new cashier I was dealing with run up Catz and SC: DA guide and the total came to 20.xx!!! The amount I suspected was correct from the start. The manager confirmed that the last May 7th AND a Micheal's store will be put into it's place. WTF!?!!? The nearest Micheals is about 3 miles away!! Plus the fact that there is a craft store two stores down from that compusa.
Fixtures were 50% for one day only yesterday (april 26) but most of it was junk. Most processors and motherboards are gone. All but a handful of printers are gone. Seems that display cameras (the high end ones) are all that's left with the exception of a few smaller lens camera still in the box.
The store is really messy.
WoW expansion is manager special tagged for 19.99$... plenty of them..but I think it's 19.99 in most places anywhere.
Most PC games and software is GONE. Unless you want lots of CoV/CoH, King Kong. Movies are 40% off but not much left except shitty movies.
I am assuming all xbox, ps2/ps3, wii's, ds, cubes systems are GONE by now. Plenty of games at 30% off though. Accessories are 30% off.
Less then a dozen customers were in the store that day. I don't expect anything to go above 70% before May 7th.
FINAL WEEK
Ok from most reports 80% of the store is now gone
Game selections are shitty but at 50-60% off.
Some fatwallet assclowns came in Monday night and BOUGHT ALL VERSIONS OF VISTA using 2000 dollars in cash...WTF?!?!?!!?
Now that's crazy man. This isn't a 360 craze, but a Vista Craze!
Anyways picked up a few things at 50-60% off
Star Wars: Leathal Alliance DS (Last one on shelf yay!)
another DS game
Scarface
60 Pack hp printer 4x5 paper
Some guy got really, really lucky buying a 42 LG tv display model (working). It listed for 1200 bucks, but for some reason after they hit total, it came to 690? instead of 900 bucks. From what I over heard one of the managers was saying someone in the store put in the sku wrong in the system so basically he was getting the tv for 50% off!!! The transaction was taking over 20 minutes. I left before it could be done, but my guess is that with only a few days left, the management MIGHT have given it to him. wow a 42 inch LG widescreen tv for 600 bucks.
Hope everyone here got what they wanted during the final days from this shitty overpriced store closeout. After monday I am calling up CompUSA credit card and cancel it then cutting it up. Thank's to fellow cags for reporting in and helping out.
