The mythical Circuit City credit card issued by Synchrony Bank

[Royalbacon]

After Circuit City liquidated and went out of business in 2009, the owners of TigerDirect (Systemax) acquired the name & logo and opened a new Circuit City website and online store. Sometime after Systemax shuttered that, some other company eventually acquired the rights to the name & logo and opened ANOTHER Circuit City online store (and I believe they had plans for opening up some sort of physical retail stores of some sort too...? That never happened though and at this point I highly doubt it will)

I was just browsing the website and stumbled across this.

Circuit City Plus ® Credit Card

Does anyone have this card? Was it ever a real card? There is literally no information at all on the page other then a picture of the card and it saying 0% financing for 6 months, and the "apply" button is completely broken. The card does have a Synchrony logo on it though that we can see. Googling "Circuit City Credit Card" or "Circuit City Synchrony" brings up literally no information. The only stuff that you can find is about the old Circuit City card issued by Chase for the original Circuit City before they went out of business for good in 2009.

[FinStar]

Wow. Blast from the past!

The actual Circuit City CCs are no longer around. Not since mid-2009, IIRC? In fact, SYNCB doesn't have anything listed for this particular card, let alone their prior CCAs.

I remember that store-branded Circuit City cards were given the option to upgrade to the Chase Circuit City Visa if eligible. When the Circuit City demise was on the horizon, some who had the Circuit City Visa were able to PC to the Chase Rewards Visa or the Chase Freedom Plus Visa.

[NRB525]

6 month 0% financing on a Pentium Tower model PC, 17" CRT monitor and dot matrix printer.

Sweet !

[SPChaser]

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@NRB525 wrote:

6 month 0% financing on a Pentium Tower model PC, 17" CRT monitor and dot matrix printer.

Sweet !

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still got the tower 

[ChargedUp]

Oh wow! My mother had a Circuit City card back somewhere in the 90's. (It was white and issued by some weird lender... 1st National something?)

I do remember mother buying a new TV and VCR for our living room at CC and the 1970's Admiral console TV ending up in my room She likely used that card for it.

[Benzman]

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@ChargedUp wrote:

Oh wow! My mother had a Circuit City card back somewhere in the 90's. (It was white and issued by some weird lender... 1st National something?)

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Yep, First North American National Bank. Spent many thousands with them for computers back then.

[SoCalGardener]

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@NRB525 wrote:

6 month 0% financing on a Pentium Tower model PC, 17" CRT monitor and dot matrix printer.

Sweet !

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What about the 2400 baud modem?! (Or were they 9600 by then?)

[LADave]

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@SoCalGardener wrote:

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@NRB525 wrote:

6 month 0% financing on a Pentium Tower model PC, 17" CRT monitor and dot matrix printer.

Sweet !

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What about the 2400 baud modem?! (Or were they 9600 by then?)

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If I remember correctly, by the time the first Pentium came out, a high-end computer was more likely to have a 14,400 baud modem than a 9,600 baud one (and everyone wanted to forget about 2,400 baud).

Either 14,400 or 9,600 baud were agonizingly slow compared to today's speeds, but blazing fast when compared to 2,400 baud! 😂

[Borealis]

Aw gee, now I can finally afford to go get that Amiga 500 I've had my eye on!

[iced]

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@SoCalGardener wrote:

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@NRB525 wrote:

6 month 0% financing on a Pentium Tower model PC, 17" CRT monitor and dot matrix printer.

Sweet !

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What about the 2400 baud modem?! (Or were they 9600 by then?)

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14400 was widespread 1994, though a budget build (which a Pentium w/17" monitor was most certainly not in 1994-1995) probably still used a 9600 or even 2400. By the mid-90s, bubblejet/inkjet was also an affordable (and quieter) upgrade from dot matrix.