One percent is 5 percent in Circuit City math
A reader of The Consumerist spots a "deal" at a closing-down Circuit City. It evidently hopes you are as bad at math as it is.
Recent Comments
fataltourist on AOL threatens former users wit...
"Who else looked at the image on the flop..."
phisrow on Sony, Lenovo and Acer sued aft...
"@TRNCK: Easier for Solid Oak to sue Sony..."
jayboo on Shooting at Arlington Apple st...
"It's actually a really tough neighborhoo..."
Trnck on Sony, Lenovo and Acer sued aft...
"I don't think the computer manufacturers..."
phisrow on AOL threatens former users wit...
"Oh man. Somebody fucked up really..."
kaiza on Side table made of old LP slee...
"Or more ironically, a giant concealed iP..."
kaiza on Side table made of old LP slee...
"Why is this not a turntable cabinet?..."
kaiza on Guess which one is the robot? ...
"@15 - actually many asians are brought u..."
Steven Leckart on BBQ Tip: Try An Infrared BBQ &...
">Please tell me you were just making a d..."
strider_mt2k on BBQ Tip: Try An Infrared BBQ &...
"Better pry the raw meat up with my finge..."
PaulR on In a land where there is no Ki...
"...there are iRex readers......"
PaulR on BBQ Tip: Try An Infrared BBQ &...
"Doesn't anyone know about 'feeling the b..."
Blue on BBQ Tip: Try An Infrared BBQ &...
"Ads? I see no steenkeeng ads. Maybe beca..."
IamInnocent on Boing Boing Video review: Sigm...
"@ 18 On the Linux metaphor, a naive use..."
kawayama on Side table made of old LP slee...
"can you open it and store things in it?..."
Pantograph on BBQ Tip: Try An Infrared BBQ &...
"Talking appliances are the way of the fu..."
beckett on Side table made of old LP slee...
" ATTENTION: Actually no albums were har..."
Clay on CrunchPad of Singapore...
"Arrington has maintained all along that ..."
Clay on Guess which one is the robot? ...
"I just noticed a simple, objective diffe..."
devophill on Guess which one is the robot? ...
"It's the one who can hold her lips toget..."
the latest
- Drew Friedman: painting of The Monkey Girl
- Tweet (#2470900904)
- Tripping "Terminator" arrested
- Tweet (#2470135386)
- Dead Gnomes: idiotically grinning ghastly garden gnomes
- Reality show gives points to clerics for converting Atheists
- One-ton manta cyclonic feeding frenzy
- Tweet (#2467967701)
- Wear patterns as information leakage from security keypads
- Hitler finds out Michael Jackson has died (Der Untergang remix)
latest episodes
- The Herd, "2020," music video by Mike Daly (buh-bye, 2008!)
- Boing Boing tv faves from 2008: Mark's Tour of Intelligentsia Coffee
- Boing Boing faves from 2008: George Lucas in "The Boba Fett Mystique"
- Boing Boing tv Best of 2008: TCHOcolate Magical Mystery Tour Trilogy
- BBtv Favorites from 2008: TechShop, a Community Tinkering Space
- BBtv .08 retrospective: "Animals," by Minilogue (dir: Kristofer Ström)
- David "Simpsons" Silverman's Holiday cards, and Tuba Carols
- Christmas Cards from a K'iche Maya Pueblo.
- Joel Johnson on the Road to CES: What Do You Want? (BBtv + BB Gadgets)
- Best of BBtv in 2008: Xeni Flies in Zero Gravity
No wonder they can't stay in business.
It's even more ridiculous than that. I (over the weekend)got the same sony TV at sears for 50$ less than Circuit city's "bottom-dollar" price.
Who's writing their obituary? Must be the same guys (or gals)writing their prices.