Circuit City
Stores, false advertising, selling practices, CEO Philip J. Schoonover, Better Business Bureau, bbb.org, Virginia Attorney General, oag. State. Va.Us

On Tuesday, January 30th in my home delivered newspaper was a Circuit City advertising 8-page flyer from Circuit City. Looking at the front as bold as can be (there are only 2 items listed) was a laptop computer with the features I have been looking for to buy, one for my wife and another one for my son Anthony who will be starting college in September.

I went to my local Circuit City store at 7001 Sunrise Highway, Holbrook, NY 11741 to purchase two of these laptops at $649.99, price quoted in advertising flyer. I walked to the Computer dept.; ask for assistants in locating two of these laptops in the flyer. The salesman looked for about 5 minutes, then was gone for another 15 minutes.

When he came back he told me that was a misprint. The price is $849.99. I told him I want the laptops for $649.99 the price quoted in the flyer. He refused. I asked for the store manager (Najee). I was told he was in a meeting there in the store and couldn't come see me and that they are not responsible for advertising misprints.

I again asked for the store manager and was told he was home now. I then asked for whoever was acting manager presently. After another 15 minutes Andrew came to see me. He told me the same thing about misprints. He said he would give me $50.00 off another computer. I told him I want to buy two of the ones in the flyer for the price quoted at $649.99. He refused to sell it to me.

I have contacted CEO Philip J. Schoonover who doesn't return my calls but has his supposedly Executive Assistant Mr. Dagenhart called me to tell me that Circuit City is only standing behind the $50.00 off offer given to me at the store. I feel I should be given the offer stated in the advertising flyer.

Also speaking to Circuit City's consumer service people I was given case number 547209. Are large corporations allowed to lure consumers into their store with false advertising and should consumers have to deal with these horrible selling practices?

My objective: To purchase the two laptops for the price quoted in the advertising flyer of $649.99 each. Toshiba Satellite Notebook features Intel Centrino Duo Mobile Technology, Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T5200. Windows Vista Premium Edition, Intel Pro/Wireless 802.11 a/b/g Lan, Burns and plays DVD's & CD's, 1024MB DDR2 memory. 160GB hard drive, 5x1 media reader for fast, easy file transfers. These features are on the Toshiba model number A135S4467

Company: Circuit City
Country: USA
State: Virginia
City: Richmond
Address: 9950 Mayland Drive
Phone: 8045274000

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