Well Since Circuit city only has like 10 days left near me till They closed I went up there to see what I could get. Ofcourse near the back they have about video game store displays for xbox360, ps3, psp, Rockband, ps2. Just wondering if anybodys tried getting any store displays for any circuit citys and succedded? I had a real long talk with the manager and I almost was able to get all of them for free but after he had a talk with a friend on the phone he decided it was a bad idea and I walked out the store empty handed :[ Anybody had any luck? Not only with store displays but anything else in general?
Try going back another day and hope that you can find a different manager, maybe he/she will let you take them. other than that, wait until they close for good and go dumpster diving:icon_bigg
The manager told me that They were planning on giving them to a employee but he told The store he didnt want them anymore so they contacted The vender to be retrieved. pretty gay hopefully i can snag them tommorrow or the next day. I wouldnt know what to do with 5 store displays in my room.
I still have the xbox display that I got when I worked there. Microsoft told us to destroy them and the store manager gave it to me if I would just get it out of the warehouse as it was incredibly heavy. Yes the Vendor's do own them, some will take them, others will not care what happens to them. The only people that I can remember coming to get a display was Oakley, and Nintendo. Nintendo were the most stringent. They would send a rep in once per month and she wouldn't even let anyone have the demo discs.
strange, when i worked at Hollywood Video ( which had a Game Crazy store built into it) they didnt care what we did with standups and demos. I still have Mario Strikers, Mario Sunshine, Metroid Prime 2 and Metroid Prime Hunters standups that i got while working there. The only exceptions were a couple of occasions where their store manager would use the standup as a prize for a tournament, or would raffle them off to customers that purcased their MVP discount card. EDIT: My whole point here is that maybe that particular rep that you dealt with was really by the book, or maybe our rep was just a slacker:icon_bigg EDIT2: Wow im retarded, its a Metroid Prime 2 standup, not a Prime Pinball standup.
The pods with demonstration units are owned by the vendor and you have an agreement with them. Perhaps the same might go for heavier, expensive 'furniture' (shelves etc.). That said, metal shelving is usually bought by the retailer (as an example, we had to buy £200 worth of Zalman stock in order to get a sturdy metal stand for a nominal £1). Anything cardboard is free promo stuff given away by the distributor and therefore the store can do what it wants with it.
Normally true but when an entire chain goes under than anything goes. Everybody is out of a job so nobody cares. I would really like to see a report on how much stuff has gotten "lost" since Circuit City announced they were done for good.
