gateway retail stores to close

[ribitch]

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/micro_stories.pl?ACCT=144245&TICK=GTW&STORY=/www/story/04-01-2004/0002139696&EDATE=Apr+1,+2004

did anyone ever shop at these? Theres one by one of the malls i live by and the parking lot always seems pretty empty. Looks like there may be deals on emachines and gateways in the near future.

[Apex]

http://www.gateway.com/store/index.shtml

http://www.forbes.com/technology/2004/04/01/cx_ah_0401gtw.html?partner=my_yahoo?partner=my_yahoo&referrer=

Almost makes you wonder if it's april fools...

[TERRIBLETOM]

Did I hear that gateway purchaced E-machine?

[Apex]

Yeah, awhile ago.

[ribitch]

i remember when everyone and their brother owned a gateway. Now i cant name a single person that has bought one recently.

[eSDee]

They are closing the stores and moving their corporate office from Poway to Irvine as a part of the restructuring the the new CEO is doing. They are going to downsize quite a bit in order to try and become profitable again.

[Bires]

Good riddens (writtens?)

I waited for a Radeon9800Pro from Gateway that was "in stock" and "will ship any day now" for three weeks, before cancelling my order. :angry:

[speedracer120]

FYI it's riddance.

I think they did much better in the late 90s as a mail order company and have stretced themselves way too thin with the retail stores. Jeez, those were days when I was a fool staring at all the systems in Computer Shopper magazine wishing I could own one of those nice systems. Now I'd rather build my own.

[irwin]

nm

[hapoo]

Moving to Irvine you say :D
Too bad they're not Upsizing. I could use an internship

[bachviet]

Gateway computer is a piece of junk.

[kimchicowboy]

i've only known three people with gateways ever. the stores were probably a bad idea.

[ufcrusher]

I used to own a gateway back in the early 90's when they were Gateway 2000. At the time it was actually a better system for a better price than Dell.

The problem with Gateway in recent years was that they stopped allowing you to really customize their systems and never had what I would call a really good price....comparatively.

[NullUnit2000]

I've owned one Gateway and it was one too many.

I bought it in '98. For that year's model, some marketing numb-skull thought it would be cool if the sides of the case were curved.

That's fine until you go to swap a card and the whole case is rocking back and forth under the pressure.

I would have happily swap out the case if the (then expensive) DVD-ROM drive wasn't form-fitted to the case.

[attgig]

the gateway stores were actually very well thought out. They only have like a couple hundred or so stores and it's within like 20 miles for 90% of the US population. unfortunately, they couldn't pump out the deals like dell did.