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posted by Fnord666 on Monday June 17 2019, @10:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the think-stuff dept.

I remember when ThinkGeek was in its hey day and often chortled on seeing some of the items on offer. It looks like there are some major changes under way. Their web site is moving under the web site of parent company GameStop. Physical store locations for ThinkGeek will remain open. Selected items will remain available in GameStop stores. Orders from ThinkGeek on or after June 13th, 2019 are final sales -- no returns.

As part of this transformation, there is currently a 50% off everything sale at https://www.thinkgeek.com/

I must confess I had not visited their site in years. What has your experience with them been like?


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  • (Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Tuesday June 18 2019, @06:36PM

    by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Tuesday June 18 2019, @06:36PM (#857115) Journal

    They're no longer able to maintain their operating units as independent entities (which really have different priorities, audiences, and aims although a little commonality). Seems like a sign of circling the drain in a desperate struggle to become profitable. I'm reminded a little of Radio Shack - they've put their chips on media franchise deals, apparently, and will ride that to its death. I'm also reminded of Hastings and all the stuff they carried - 99% crap to find one good thing and could wander the entire store for a couple of hours and find nothing worth buying.

    Someone above said my experience better than I could. They carry somewhat commonplace and mundane items for popular media brands that some geeks relate to. (Though going through the site I feel bad that I missed out on a D&D Expert Rules cover T-Shirt...) At one time they were *the* place to go and find the odd and unusual. (Theremin kits. USB3 hubs of ridiculous size. HAL computer interfaces). Now what they've had is just sad. I doubt I'll be making the jump over to GameStop.

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