[Discussion] Goodbye Local CompUSA Stores

[Carl Gehr]

On Tue, 15 May 2007 14:28:57 -0700 (PDT), Thomas Clayton wrote:

>Dear POSSI:
>
>As I said in my reply about wireless NICs and I 've decided this
>deserves a seperate letter:
>
>I was able to get to my local CompUSA this past weekend - ONLY to find
>out that ALL the local stores have closed! I was checking on WHY I
>hadn't seen ANY of their ad.s in the Chicago Tribune for weeks. The gal
>at the store nect door said that they had been having clearance sales
>FOR weeks and "just" locked up the odoors the prior week!
>:-(   Oh well 

While I hate to see any company fail, my experience with CompUSA makes
it no surprise that they are having problems.

IBM tried to use them as their Employee Sales outlet many years ago.  I
think that lasted less than a year, because they could not even fill an
on-line order correctly and promptly.  In that case, it was preferable
[for me, at least] to may more and be sure I would get what I wanted
and something that would work.

In recent years, I have found MicroCenter personnel more helpful and
knowledgable and even Best Buy or Office Depot [when they have a
retired IT person working there] are usually better alternatives.  I
gave up on CompUSA several years ago.  I guess I was not alone.

Carl