CompUSA recently announced that they were closing a bunch of their stores. I heard on the radio that 4 of them would be in the Bay Area, and of course the Pleasanton store (closest to me) was one of them. Now, I don't shop at CompUSA very often because they price things way to high in comparison to Fry's and Newegg, but its nice if they have a decent sale going on, or if you need something in a jam and don't want to wait for shipping.
Last night I stopped in to see if I could pick up an Nvidia card on the cheap, and wouldn't you know it, they were putting up all of their going out of business prices. I went into the store almost sure that I would find what I was looking for and maybe something extra. Of course, I walked out of the store empty handed.
There's a sad irony in the fact that even while trying to liquidate their merchandise, they still managed to be way over priced. The most they were giving in sale was 20% off. Of course this was in all of the crap that they probably have a horribly high mark-up on. You know, iPod accessories, cables, and some Apple peripherals. However, all of the good stuff, like computers and TVs were only marked down 5% - not even enough to offset the CA sales tax! Video cards and some networking gear were marked down 10%, but even then that didn't really make the prices any more competitive than Frys.
David mentioned something about people picking up MacBooks for $700, but if that's the true, its certainly not happening here because I would have picked up one in a heart beat.
Oh well, the 20 minute drive to Fry's isn't that bad.
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