Circuit City is a Joke II

[maseman]

I posted this on Thursday (Thanksgiving Morning) about my attempt to buy a TV on sale a Circuit City via the web.

>>Has this ever happened to my fellow DUers?

They put an item on Black Friday sale. (In this case a 50" Samsung TV.) You go online to buy it and the store in your area doesn't have any in stock therefore you cannot buy it.

I checked about 25 other stores and gee fucking whizz they are all out of stock also. I smell a big scam here. HERE's our great sale but we don't have any TVs left. How much do you want to bet that the nano-second they come off sale there will be plenty of the same TV ready for purchase. Anyone else run into this?<<

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2329591&mesg_id=2329591


I wanted to post this as an update. It is now Black Friday at 7:53AM. I tried at Midnight (technically Friday) and no such luck. I was up at 5AM and went online and no such luck. Says the store still does not have the model I want in stock. I hopped into the old fashioned automobile and went to Circuit City at 6AM. SOlD OUT! Whatta you know.

CLASSIC BAIT and SWITCH! FOr the people who responded in the other thread about not being able to buy online the day before a sale or that the store is closed on Thanksgiving...it is a computer. Who cares if the store is closed. Second, it was advertised online as a sale. When you click "Add to cart" it shows the sale price, the amount saved, etc. If it isn't on sale yet then it shouldn't say sale price.

Circuit City BLOWS. Maybe other stores do the same thing but I wasted my F-ing time dicking around with this and am pissed. Fuck the TV. I'll stick with my 32 inch and screw the economy.