The current plan is for all Dick Smiths to close by the end of April, but over the weekend some closed their doors for the last time.
If you’ve ever wandered into a Dick Smith in the last week or so, it’s pretty depressing.
These guys are selling everything. And I mean everything.
I don’t know about you, but I’m really in need of some uncut confetti.
One store was trying to sell these things for 25 cents each!
Raiding Dick Smith fixtures! These are perfect for the Game & Watches + Atari Lynx! 25c each! #retrogaming pic.twitter.com/YcsjGQY6QT
— ausretrogamer (@ausretrogamer) April 15, 2016
This was taken about five days ago, but damn. That second pic is especially brutal.
Dick Smith is depressing these days. pic.twitter.com/UlWD3ssdcw
— Tenani (@Tenani) April 13, 2016
Taken just over a week ago. This store is selling everything, even the fixtures.
Dick Smith returning to its origin, by selling off the myriad small parts that make the wh… https://t.co/5plmTF2b92 pic.twitter.com/USqyLTa52V
— Tim Kong (@timoslimo) April 10, 2016
Holy shit, this store was actually trying to sell a fax machine.
Just give up, Dick Smith. pic.twitter.com/N1MmyVgCT2
— Oliver L (@eey0re) April 10, 2016
This store had a sense of humour about the situation.
Closing day at Dick Smith’s, staff are amusing themselves pic.twitter.com/FzvzaAoJGk
— Tim Shiel (@timshiel) April 16, 2016
This was taken at Glen Waverley.
Via Reddit
It’ll be a shame to see Dick Smith go. The stores themselves were a bit of a relic, but it’s been such a fixture in Australian retail. Good luck to all the staff members who’ll soon be out of a job.
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18 responses to “Dick Smith Is Selling Everything, And I Mean Everything”
If only they were relevant and humuorous 6 months ago to appeal to the younger market. They might still be around.
There was only so much tech the grand parents need to shop for.
Probably not, JB has good prices to go with the jokes.
The way Dick Smith was run, they probably would have been disciplined/fired for stuff like that if it wasn’t the last day the company existed..
And soon the workers will have to sell their bodies,
My local is charging stupid money for fixtures. Every time I go in there and see the pricing I’m reminded why they’re going out of business.
The $99 fax machine is a perfect illustration of one of the many factors that led to DSE’s demise.
yeah, it’s worth maaybe $86 in brand new condition. $50 would be fair for a second hand one in good nick.
Especially when you can get a brand new, not-on-clearance unit for about $75. A price found in under a minute by googling the unit model number.
If they’d lowered their prices below what JB Hifi has as standard, I might have picked up a set of headphones
This kind of explains why they went under a little bit for me. If they had all this garbage (the PS1 link cable from last week was especially stupid) just sitting in their warehouses without being written off as a loss (as no-one in their right mind is going to buy them), kind of suggests they were using these items to prop up the book value of their assets. But then obviously these items aren’t in fact worth any money, so they’re just pumping in illusory assets in order to make themselves appear to have more liquidity than they actually do. That’s never gone wrong before has it? …
When ever i shopped around for prices, dicksmith were never the cheapest.
Great way to lose to the competion.
I bought a hdmi micro adapter the other week at 80% off. Ticketed price was $22 so it came around $4 (what it is worth) but the price it scanned at was over $60.
I remember Dick Smith offered me and a friend a great Pre-order deal so we signed up. We ended up cancelling the Pre-order after a few days because they couldn’t get us the game, this was over two years ago before the clearance thing started. But I saw so many people coming in to pick up their Pre-order getting frustrated and cancelling it, getting money back and going around the corner to EB.
It’s like Management couldn’t understand why we wanted the thing we paid for the day it came out. The guy actually snapped at me on the third day when I called in and told me to get a refund or wait 2 weeks (the game was on shelves everywhere). The guy who did my refund just told me he was sorry we couldn’t get it in on time. I even overheard the conversation he had with the Manager where he said there was no point asking if I wanted to Pre-order something, when they couldn’t deliver it on release day, because I’ll cancel and buy it elsewhere.
Good riddance.
overpriced and clueless.
I went into one and spotted dirty used extension cords for sale, and also pieces of things.
The stuff that was overpriced was still overpriced though.
I remember going into Dick Smith during a clearance sale a while ago and picking up a PSP game for $5. I took it to the counter and after some confusion the clerk told me they couldn’t sell it to me – because tomorrow it was going on sale for $2.
I explained I didn’t really want to come back tomorrow and I was happy to pay $5 – cash I literally had in my hand – but they wouldn’t (or couldn’t) take it.
Once Dick Smith started being a consumer electronics store, I only bought two things from them. A Moto G and a pack of Eneloop batteries.
I used to actually shop there pretty frequently back when they sold components. Bought many c7/c8 and c13/14 power plugs/sockets even small motors and pumps. One store near me even sold PC components for a while and during that time half my PC came from Dick Smith complete with a GeForce 6600.
If Dick Smith had become something like a cross between Jaycar, MSY and that American thing Adafruit, it would have become my dream store. Now if only Jaycar would purchase the Dick Smith branding we’d be able to go full circle and get the Dick Smith component stores and back.
Picked up a G29 for $198 (down from $495) so I can’t complain. Had to call a dozen stores to find one however.
With Dirt Rally out (and Assetto Corsa on the horizon) I just couldn’t pass up the chance up ‘upgrade’ my perfectly fine G27.
The first photo was at DSE North Lakes, I was there on Saturday. Pretty sorry sight.