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I have been surprised Circuit City has lasted as long as they have. They just didn’t keep with the times and their prices were just out of line. I don’t think I have purchased anything from them in over 5 years. Not that I haven’t looked, they just never had what I needed at a reasonable price. Plus, Internet shopping is where most of my stuff comes from.
In the book Good To Great, Jim Collens profiled Circuit city as a well rounded solid company which had positive momentum. I would real like to hear comments on them now. When I read the book in 2006, many years after it was written, I didn’t see his appeal in the company, and I didn’t see them forging their way forward. They where more hemorrhaging money and looking for a direction to keep afloat. (Actually I have always wished he would write a followup book to show and explain where his profiled companies where and are today.)
Well now they are gone, or leaving anyway, and besides for all of the people who will be jobless I couldn’t be happier.
Adios Circuit City
This is brilliant:
The Downfall of Circuit City, In Convenient Graph Form
Forgot about this annoyance with GoDaddy; any time you change anything on your virtual host you have to wait for it to be processed.
I just added a sub-domain and fifteen minutes later it’s still in a ‘pending’ status. I wonder how long the new virtual web directory will take to complete?
Write a quick blurb and send it off. OK, done.
Yeah, so I have ten free days. I think I have been logged in for a total of one hour. It’s been so long since I have logged in, It’s going to take me a week to get up to speed. There is hours of research to figure out how to apply skill points. Have no idea what my fighting patterns where/are. All my friends lists have been delayed, so I have no clue who is on, and no I don’t remember their names.
In a nutshell, I really don’t give a dame about the free trial and I am glad I could waist it and be some statistic for them. So it goes.
GM is been in the shit for decades, they are just pulling new excusses now
They couldn’t sell cars in the 90’s so they came up with leasing for the masses
Then they had all these used cars sitting around from turning over leases, so that caused the introduction of “Certified” used cars to keep those moving too. This made “Like” new cars to middle America.
Now people are truly broke and hold on to their cars until the government says it’s unfit for the road. They have no choice. They have no money left and nobody is extending them credit.
I really don’t understand it; why in the world has gasoline gone up 35 cents within the last week? Sure you are going to say, because of Ike; but Texas contains 20% of our refining equipment, and there isn’t any shortage of fuel right now. So, you say, because of Ike, there it’s very probable there will be a shortage. Phooey, enough of that one. Gasoline is so important it affects the prices of absolutely every thing else we do in this world (I mean, oil is the worlds currency after all) . Gasoline price should not be based on probabilities, but actualities. The only people benefiting from probabilities is the gas and oil companies. They are having record quarters, quarter after quarter and are still allowed to rape the public, quarter after quarter. It’s not about the price as a whole, it is what it is; what I don’t understand is the wild price increases every time someone farts next to a refining plant. The prices always shoot up wicked fast, but come back down much more cautiously.
What am I missing, can anyone tell me? Why are there mad changes in price when it does nothing to control supply and demand? You can raise the gas to $7 a gallon tomorrow, and I will still have to fill up my vehicle so I can go to work. The transportation companies will still fill there tanks, too. There is no choice in the matter, the fuel necessary and nobody can change that today.
By the way, does the government still give the oil/gas companies tax breaks and other spiffs?
I received an email from Marta today. I am glad for the reponse, but not very thrilled by what it said:
Dear Mr. ……,
Thank you for responding and letting us know you are still unable to
receive calls from Comcast customers. I have forwarded your
communication to our Port Out Escalations Department since they asked
for some examples of telephone numbers that are unable to call
847xxxxxxx. I will update you as soon as hear further word.
Thank you for your continued patience.
Marta
Not very comforting to say the least.
No word at all from Comcast on Day 5. Will they contact me again at all? So much for my daily updates. 🙂 Maybe tomorrow will bring something…
It’s now 1514 CDT and I have not heard from Comcast today. This disturbs me since they said they would keep me in the loop of what they are doing. We will see what happens by the end of the day.
Side note, contact from last issue when the FCC was involved is Kenetta Davis.
Night Update
I received an email this evening from Marta, I have copied it here to share with you:
Dear Mr. ……,
Thank you for contacting the Comcast executive offices regarding your issues and concerns. We are informed your porting and calling issues should be resolved; however, if any Comcast customer are still unable to reach you then we will need specific telephone numbers.
Should you have any questions regarding this communication, please let me know.
Regards,
Marta P. Gardner/ Comcast Executive Customer Care
800-630-2140 ext. 82005/ 2001 York Rd. / Oak Brook , IL 60523
I actually felt a ray of hope and immediately called my father-in-law to have him try and call here. Same story he receives a message that the number is not in service. I wonder if they did anything at all? I wonder when the FCC is going to pick up the case, I don’t remember how long it took them last time, but I don’t believe it was over a week or two.
So now I get to respond to her with a phone number and see what poop they can shovel tomorrow.
This is a good start to the day Marta called at 08?? this morning and said she will be looking into the problem. She confirmed the notes from the last person we worked with that they stated the issue was resolved. I didn’t speak with Marta, my wife did so I didn’t get the last person’s name. Marta did say she would call back to give us an update, today.
What I am trying to figure out is how Marta knows of my past history, but nobody on the support floor has any of this information, not even a summary of it. All that does is cause pain for the clients. I guess the next time this issue comes up I call the Executive Care Office.
Night update
I received a call from Marta and she indicated that the caller id issue has been fixed. Something to do with a taras system never being updated which was part of their old phone system; before digital voice which we where on. Marta said she would email me the information, I have yet to receive that email. Calling one of my friends who uses Comcast’s phone service, my real name actually shows up on caller ID. I don’t remember the last time that actually worked.
Marta didn’t fully understand the calling issue of Comcast customers bein able to call me before I explained it to her. Her response is that they are looking into it and will keep in the loop on their actions.
Stuff From an IT Slug 