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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
All sales were final and no exceptions. You couldn't even inspect the merchandise by opening the box.
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That's why you open the box
before you buy it. They don't have to know. When a company is trying to rip me off, I have no qualms about obtaining the information I need to defend myself.
I picked up a Wi-Fi finder for half price (about 30% less than at other stores), a pair of rechargeable Wii controller batteries (there were so many they got down to dirt cheap), some odds and ends of cables out of the store fixture box, and a couple of very nice 50 cent folding umbrellas, if you don't mind your umbrellas saying Circuit City on them. Great to throw in the back of the car for when you find yourself in an unexpected rainstorm and you're stuck parking somewhere out in the gods. But you
really had to be careful, and you had to want things that they either had a massive pile of (probably brought in for the purpose) or nobody else wanted.
The Discovery Channel store closeout was where I really made bank; I got some Brother P-Touch label tapes incredibly cheap, about 80% off ... I'm still using those, and I will be for years. That's just for the tapes; the labelmaker and very nice case included with them were effectively free. And then there was the Pfalzgraff outlet store that closed ... half-price half-price dishes, so we filled in some gaps in our set that we've been accumulating from yard sales and eBay.
But you
really have to know what you're buying. Too many people get "sale fever" and feel like they have to buy something, anything, just because it's there. Liquidation companies count on them.