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OH NO! Geeks is gone!!

Aug 5, 2013 1:34AM PDT
Geeks

I have used them a lot over the years and they've always had the best prices, although not the best stuff recently. I wondered about how behind they were getting on the timeliness of some stock, starting to look more like a refurber instead of what they'd been in the years before by selling "new older stock". I've built a number of computers using supplies from them over the years, including the first new build I ever did. They always kept orders a customer had done from as long as a decade before available to be looked at again online if desired. Sad goodbye.

"Geeks.com Ordering Is Being Turned Off...

After 17 years of service, almost half a billion dollars'
worth of computer products put in the hands of loyal Geeks worldwide,
jobs for hundreds of people and support for their family members. That
is what Geeks.com meant to us and the people who worked here. Words
cannot express our gratitude for the relationships and customers we have
developed.
But all good things come to an end.
As of today, Friday, August 2nd, 2013, we are turning off ordering on
Geeks.com. We will cease to sell and ship products immediately."

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Damn Bernanke and his policies!
Aug 5, 2013 2:17AM PDT
"There are many why's... The e-commerce landscape, as well as the consumer electronics market, has changed dramatically with intense competition and a 1000lb gorilla (do we really need to say who) competitor that can lose millions of dollars to buy customers and suck up inventory. They can lose money with impunity, supported by the stock market. We cannot. "

That 1000 pound Gorilla is Amazon. Bernanke gives huge amounts of funny money at free interest to banks who then only lend it at very low rates to the richest and biggest organizations, and then some of them like Amazon are able with all that money to "pass it on to the consumer" but really aimed at driving all the smaller businesses which are the foundation of America into bankruptcy or decline. This is Bernanke's vision for America, not just a lot of huge business structures but other than service industry ONLY huge business structures.

I sure wish Congress would rein in the Federal Reserve. They need to give them bottom and top interest rates allowed and if they can't do their "thing" in that defined range, then Congress has to take all the blame. This country is rotting at the economic foundation while Bernanke, the banks, the stock market has a giant party on money we all will have to pay back in higher taxes one day, or face the "secret" taxation of inflation, eventually. We have a "Tulip" stock market right now, but it won't last and then it will all start to fall apart.

Interest rates that are too low, and especially when most of that is lent to the rich, makes everyone else even poorer, robs those with savings trying to live on interest earned incomes such as the seniors, puts down smaller businesses who can't compete against the free money party going on at the top. In this economy it's get big or die.

Is it the "Walmart effect"? Maybe, but they at least did it during some of the hardest economic times. This is the "Bernanke Effect" going on today, and the pigs are at the trough, slopping it up, while the smaller ones are pushed out of the way, or manage to grab some of the crumbs.
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Sad to see them go.
Aug 5, 2013 2:59AM PDT

The company is just a few miles from here and there go some (is that a bad thing today?) middle class jobs.
Bob

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remember Computer Shopper magazine?
Aug 5, 2013 6:12AM PDT

That was like my "Sears Catalog" for tech stuff, loved getting it. Eventually the explosion of computer hardware sites became fewer and fewer. The magazine got smaller and smaller, and finally I quit my subscription. I still have a few for memories on a bookshelf from the days of 486 & 586 chips and ISA slots.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Shopper_%28US_magazine%29

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Yeah, they were decent
Aug 5, 2013 3:09AM PDT

I've done business with them and recommended them. To order wasn't a bad process either as some online vendors seem to want to gather more info on the buyer rather just making the sale. Since, you mentioned Amazon, what i don't like about them is the "partnering" they do as they are only the frt. end and others vendors really do the sale fulfillment. Not all but a lot of it, IMHO. -----Willy Happy

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GEEKS - RIP
Sep 24, 2013 3:08AM PDT

Well - if I am ever down in Southern California, I will visit GEEKS store there. A rarity to go that way, but - it will be on my travel plans (headed to San Diego, etc).

I too ordered from them several times and now will be forced to go to unfamiliar ground.

Bye GEEKS.