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CompUSA Makes Gift Giving Easy with TechToyland and Extensive Network of Technology Experts.


CompUSA Launches TechPro, Ready to Help Consumers this Holiday Season

CompUSA Stores Open Thanksgiving Evening, Giving Shoppers Jump-Start on Holiday Savings

DALLAS -- Giving a technology gift without the proper accessories is like giving a toy without batteries. This holiday season, CompUSA is helping shoppers make sure their gifts are ready to use immediately after the gift is opened. CompUSA's online and in-store TechToyland is designed to take the accessory guesswork out of technology gift giving, with helpful tips and savings.

But the help doesn't stop there. CompUSA is launching its re-branded and enhanced technology services program, CompUSA TechPro. With its force of more than 12,000 experienced and qualified technicians, CompUSA TechPro has a 98 percent customer satisfaction rating. CompUSA TechPro technicians are already in action helping consumers in their homes, at their businesses, online and in CompUSA stores.

"We understand that time is precious during the holiday season and we want to provide consumers with all the gift giving tools and services possible so they can spend more time with family and friends," said Ellen Miller, acting chief marketing officer, CompUSA. "This is a wonderful time of year and it only gets better when you add in popular gifts at great prices with top-notch technical help."

Thanksgiving Day Shopping

In addition to great service and value throughout the season, CompUSA, for the first time in the company's history, is giving consumers the chance to relieve Thanksgiving cabin fever cabin fever Relapsing fever, see there  by opening its doors on November 23 from 9 p.m. to midnight in stores across the continental United States United States territory, including the adjacent territorial waters, located within North America between Canada and Mexico. Also called CONUS.  including Hawaii and Alaska. Stores in Massachusetts, Rhode Island Rhode Island, island, United States
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The new Thanksgiving hours give shoppers the ability to get a jump-start on Black Friday Black Friday, Sept. 24, 1869, in U.S. history, day of financial panic. In 1869 a small group of American financial speculators, including Jay Gould and James Fisk, sought the support of federal officials of the Grant administration in a drive to corner the gold  shopping and bring home great deals that night. All the stores will re-open at 5:00 a.m. on Black Friday, with additional savings during a special 7-hour sale from 5 a.m. to noon.

For consumers that enjoy Black Friday shopping and the great online deals associated with Cyber Monday The name given by online retailers and e-commerce experts to the Monday following the Thanksgiving holiday. With its Black Friday counterpart in actual store-based traffic, analysts have pointed to significant spikes in online shopping on Cyber Monday. , CompUSA will offer savings packages on products including notebooks and desktop computer systems, LCD flat-panel TVs and monitors, printers, and portable DVD players A handheld device with a built-in DVD drive and flip-over lid that contains a screen, typically 6" to 10" in size. It may support rear seat passenger viewing, in which case the unit is hung upside down from the back of the front seat head rest, and a switch flips screen content 180 .

CompUSA TechPro

As the national retailer with a qualified force of more than 12,000 experienced technicians, CompUSA provides consumers with holiday technical support. CompUSA's TechPro ProPacks enable consumers to receive technical services to setup their holiday gifts such as networks, desktop systems, digital music players Hardware or software that plays audio files encoded in MP3, AAC, WMA or other audio formats. There are several software-based music players that play audio files in a desktop or laptop computer, including iTunes, RealPlayer and Windows Media Player.  and digital cameras. The setup services start at $99.00.

With CompUSA TechPro, consumers can receive:

* Immediate Appointment Scheduling: CompUSA enables consumers to conveniently schedule appointments in-store, by phone or online. Appointments are available seven days a week and customers can select the time of their choice and will immediately receive confirmation after making an appointment.

* Appointment Guarantees: CompUSA provides "next day in-home installation" if a customer makes an appointment by 3 p.m. local time.

* Complete Accessibility: For CompUSA technology services, customers can visit a CompUSA store, call 1-800-CompUSA or go online to www.compusa.com/tech_services.

TechToyland

This holiday season CompUSA stores across the country are transforming into a TechToyland with holiday-designated sections designed to provide consumers with easy one-stop-shopping and great savings. TechToyland is also available at http://www.compusa.com/techtoyland.

* Shopping Convenience: CompUSA will offer eight gift packages that include notebooks, gaming, phones, cameras, MP3 players A digital music player that supports the MP3 format, which was the audio format that started a revolution in online music downloads and distribution. All portable music players, the iPod being the most popular, support MP3 along with one or more other audio formats. , desktops, TVs, and printers with a variety of accessories. New gift packages will be featured each week.

* Holiday Savings: In addition to convenience, consumers can obtain additional savings with CompUSA's TechToyland special. When a customer buys a product from one of the eight featured categories and three qualifying accessories, they will receive 10 percent off each purchased accessory.

CompUSA Online

By visiting compusa.com this holiday season, consumers will find helpful tools and surprise savings sure to spark the holiday shopping spirit.

* HP's Ultimate Digital Home Gift Pack Giveaway: Hewlett Packard and CompUSA are teaming up to give away an Ultimate Digital Home Gift Pack, valued at $11,000, that includes a plasma TV A flat panel TV that uses the plasma display technology. See flat panel TV, plasma display and LCD vs. plasma. , notebook, desktop, and digital camera. The winner will also receive free in-home installation from a CompUSA TechPro specialist. The contest runs from Nov. 19 to Dec. 31, 2006. No purchase is necessary and shoppers can visit compusa.com/hp for more details.

* 80GB iPod Video Gift Pack Giveaway: Beginning Nov. 23, shoppers who complete an order on compusa.com will be automatically entered for a chance to win a free 80GB iPod Video Gift Pack, valued at $950, that includes $150 iTunes gift card, Shure E3c Earphones, Neuros Technology Neuros Technology is a Chicago-based company that produces a number of audio and video devices with the brand name Neuros. The company was previously a division of Digital Innovations and operated under the name Neuros Audio.  MPEG-4 Recorder 2 Plus and DLO DLO
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 HomeDock Deluxe. An iPod Gift Pack will be given away daily through Dec. 24. No purchase is necessary. Consumers can visit compusa.com for more details.

* Wish List: By creating a CompUSA Wish List on http://www.compusa.com/wishlists, shoppers can let friends and family know what gifts they would like to receive. To make shopping easier, consumers can search for their family and friends' Wish Lists.

* Holiday Gift Ideas: On http://www.compusa.com/techtoyland, shoppers can find the latest and greatest in technology and gadgets this holiday season with gift categories for him, her, teens, and kids and for under $25, $50, $100, and over $100.

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: Beginning Dec. 13, CompUSA is spreading the holiday cheer with special daily savings on select products. Each day, a new product will be revealed online to customers with special in-store savings only available that day.

* In-Store Pick-Up: Online shoppers no longer need to wait on shipping or pay shipping charges. CompUSA is offering in-store pick-up, enabling customers to order online and pick it up at the nearest store within 15 minutes of placing an order.

About CompUSA

CompUSA, Inc., a Dallas-based company, is one of the nation's leading retailers and business resellers of technology products and services. CompUSA currently operates more than 229 locations in more than 90 major metropolitan markets across the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area.  and Puerto Rico. In addition, CompUSA's Web site offers an assortment of more than 80,000 items. Visit them at www.compusa.com.
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