Comments on: The Great Union Square Virgin Megastore Clearance Sale: Well, It’s Not All That Great

By: red_dolphin_nyc

red_dolphin_nyc — Fri, 08 May 2009 04:50:03 +0000

I live in NYC and often see movies at the theatre just behind this Virgin location. I’ve stopped in every weekend for the past 3, and I have to agree with some of the above….there are no great bargains yet. Pretty much whatever they have “marked down” is always off original list.

So DVDs marked down from list 20%, electronics 10%. When Times Square closed they had a few great promotions in the end…namely 40% off DVDs and 30% of blu-ray. also, they had a week where if you bought 5 items you got an additional 15% off your total purchase. So far nothing great here….all the DVDs I want I can find much, much cheaper at Best Buy or Barnes & Noble.

So far, fairly disappointing!

By: MayhemintheHood

MayhemintheHood — Thu, 07 May 2009 17:46:48 +0000

I’m beginning to think Maura has a room in her pad that is filled with nothing but Ida Maria cds and vinyl, as well as clipped photos of the group as wall paper.

Not that it’s a bad thing, really.

By: Vulture.Protein

Vulture.Protein — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:13:14 +0000

The Virgin store on Michigan Avenue in Chicago has been closed for some time. I used to think it was a corporate nightmare (it is), but i did find some good deals in the cheap bins, and there was enough sales on back catalog of CD’s that no one cares to buy anymore (except me), and therefore I got some excellent deals.

Since I buy 90% of my CD’s used anyway, I don’t really care if Virgin exists or not.

By: Chris Molanphy

Chris Molanphy — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:26:13 +0000

I love how the Eagles box is called (I forgot this till just now) Selected Works, as if it’s gathering choice bits from William Faulkner or some-such. Can “Witchy Woman” be considered a “work”?

Black Kids vinyl FTW — there’s your overbought clearance stock right there.

I assume “confronted” as in offered mixtape CDs and concert flyers? I wonder whether that traffic has stepped up, either because of the recession or mix/flyer-pushers’ perception that there’d be more traffic during the clearance…?

By: 2ironic4u

2ironic4u — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:44:42 +0000

Meh, I live in Greenwhich Village (not far from Union Square) and prices for everything are still THROUGH THE ROOF

By: Lampbane

Lampbane — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:32:57 +0000

What sucks is that I keep wanting to go to the Times Square Virgin Megastore to look for CDs, but then have to keep reminding myself that it’s NOT THERE anymore.

It’s becoming increasingly hard to buy media in this city; I think the nearest place to buy CDs might be Record Mart down in the subway station.