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The old Circuit City may have been dead and buried, but new ownership may help relaunch the once popular electronics retailer.  Systemax has acquired the company and has already reopened the Circuit City.com website.  The company purchased the e-commerce site for $6.5 million back in April.  Systemax owns Tiger Direct… Continue Reading »

Valentine’s Day, a holiday where we spend time with loved ones, and take them out to fancy dinners.  If your partner enjoys electronics, then hopefully you bought them something that they enjoy.  If the economy has prevented you from getting your partner something special, hopefully you can save a little… Continue Reading »

The 12th annual Build Your Own PC Race for Charity hosted by TigerDirect, CompUSA, AMD and Systemax is set to take place again from 5:30 - 8:00 p.m. on January 8, 2009 at the Wynn Hotel.  In case you aren’t familiar with this charity event, basically 30 tech journalists/companies work… Continue Reading »

While the price drop does not seem to be available at every online retailer, at least one, namely CompUSA has dropped the price of the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet down to just $299.99. Currently listed as in stock and available the discounted price comes after an instant savings of $100.… Continue Reading »

As if the CompUSA saga has not been dragged out enough. The stores were being closed, then some were snapped up by Tiger Direct and now we are learning that yet another big-box retail giant will be assuming some of the remaining locations. Reports are claiming that Best Buy has… Continue Reading »

Everyones favorite love-to-hate retail chain is now celebrating their grand re-opening with 15 current locations and a new one to top it off. While 13 of those are located in Florida, Texas and Puerto Rico will also share in the joy of everything that CompUSA has been lacking to offer… Continue Reading »

The latest HD DVD deal is courtesy of CompUSA and for just $89.99 you can grab a Toshiba HD-A3 player along with 7 movies. While CompUSA seems nice enough to let customers know that these players are basically a dead format I can imagine that other retailers will not be… Continue Reading »

The whole situation still makes me a little nervous about just how nice the shopping experience will be, but there is a slight bit of good news for CompUSA fans. Those 16 retail store locations that we mentioned the other day, they are going to be retaining the CompUSA name.… Continue Reading »

TigerDirect has completed the purchase of 16 of the CompUSA retail locations as well as the inventory and website. According to a statement from TigerDirect, the “best CompUSA retail stores” will be integrated within a few weeks. According to a tipster over on the Consumerist the locations will include the… Continue Reading »

Just last week we saw the announcement about CompUSA closing their doors and now they have a “tentative” schedule for liquidation that has been leaked. The schedule was leaked to The Consumerist by a CompUSA repair tech, who we can only imagine was bitter about his upcoming lack of employment.… Continue Reading »