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February 29th, 2008 at 9:52 am

Sharper Image always reminded me of one of those luggage stores in the mall that sold overpriced, under-used junk to people who really saw value in a 24k golf ball paper weight. Yeah, they had a couple cool gadgets and such, but not much that fit this frugal guy’s taste.

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February 29th, 2008 at 10:17 am

C’mon on! I need my massage chair with built-in headset and 300,000 settings the comes with an optional footbath! What am I going to do!

Ah! I know – I can get it from the magazine in the back of the seat on my next flight.

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heather
February 29th, 2008 at 2:01 pm

Number 3 can be looked at from two perspectives…corporate marketing AND worthless salespeople. Worthless salespeople who not only don’t know what they are selling, don’t know anything about it, and don’t know how to turn on and demo said crap. They also never seemed to figure out how to kick out the chubby guy who spends hours in the massage chair while his wife shops at Kirklands across the way.

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Mrs. Micah
February 29th, 2008 at 7:37 pm

So you gave them your money for a gift card and they won’t let you have it back? Ouch. Another reason I don’t like gift cards.

I’ve never even had the kind of money to shop there…no point in looking.

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Connie
March 3rd, 2008 at 2:15 pm

I’m surprised it took this long to go belly up! It was a store for people with more money than brains….something I aspire to be!; )

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Jonathan
March 6th, 2008 at 3:03 am

I just have to say that I am loving all the stick-figure drawings a la MS Paint. You should collect them in an online album or something.

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March 6th, 2008 at 4:29 pm

Jonathan, thanks! The stick figures are actually part of another plan I’ve had brewing in my head for a while. We’ll see where it goes from here…

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Tony
March 7th, 2008 at 8:10 pm

Fifty-eight different vibrators, pens that can record my melodious voice in an emergency, folding hammers, tiny digital cameras that can store 4 million of my precious photos, anything that emits little blue lights…I’m consumed with nostalgia.

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Michael
March 9th, 2008 at 11:28 am

I am moderately proud to say that I never spent so much as Dime One at Sharper Image.

At some point, maybe after junior high, it became a pretty easy place to avoid.

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March 9th, 2008 at 3:29 pm

Oh, I loathe that store. Thanks for sharing the good news.

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Llama Money
March 12th, 2008 at 9:35 pm

This is one of those stores where I always thought “who would ever buy this crap? And if they did, why would they pay this much for it?”. Apparently I wasn’t the only one, or they wouldn’t be going under.

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vicky
March 22nd, 2008 at 9:36 pm

went there today, had $75 on my giftcard – they said i had to spend at least $150 in order to use the giftcard. we walked out.

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pedro
March 25th, 2008 at 2:13 pm

I felt the same way about the Gift Card welshing, until I complained to the Federal Bankruptcy Court, and they told me that it is THEIR regulation that enforces the refusal to honor these Cards, until the Reorganization phase is completed.

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Austin
April 8th, 2008 at 4:54 pm

Hi, I’m with a company called Leverage. I’m responding for several reasons. 1) I want to inform the consumers that we have a new bankruptcy policy that allows customers holding gift cards purchased via its LeverageCard.com destination from Sharper Image and other merchants filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to transfer remaining, unredeemable balances to gift cards from other retailers available on the Leverage site. 2) also to get the word out there so that people know there’s a free service available to help them.

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Bankruptcy Protection
August 12th, 2008 at 12:45 pm

Anyone have an update on this story?

Is the Sharper Image still in business?

I always liked the stuff in Sharper Image & it seemed to do a brisk business. But, I couldn’t ever figure out who could afford the goods in their store!

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August 28th, 2008 at 9:55 am

I wish I could say I was as wise, but alas I bought 2 ionic breezes and 5 year replacement warrantees, and now both are somewhat on the fritz because little particles of dirt get stuck in there and no matter how much they tell you to use compressed air to clean them out, it doesn’t work and it’s too noisy and irritating to keep them on. So, my question, does anyone have any advice for me re: any recourse on this, how to get my money back (ha ha)? thanks

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Paul
October 22nd, 2008 at 8:02 am

The extended service programs sold by Sharper Image were underwritten by a company in VA called NEW. They were very helpful to me when my camera died, sending me a return label, and, once I sent back the camera, a check arrived shortly thereafter. I had trouble filing a claim on their website, but the person on the phone was most helpful.
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Internzoo
November 11th, 2008 at 11:56 pm

First of all i just loved the way you have illustrated the whole thing with the image used at the top.Affording goods in a very high priced store is always difficult, but still those who have to spend it will spend it, no matter how high priced are they.

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the delivery guy
December 1st, 2008 at 3:04 pm

Well that is just great another huge company folds. Leaving hundreds of small businesses like mine who did there deliveries holding the bag. How many small companies like mine will have to fold because we will never see a penny of the money they owe us. Yet the american consumer wonders why we charge so much for goods and services…

Thanks walmart shoppers for all your support

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April 14th, 2009 at 9:34 am

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July 21st, 2009 at 3:51 am

Interesting way to look at it. For the most part, I agree with you.

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Captain Justice
December 23rd, 2009 at 3:21 pm

I agree. Everything I bought at Sharper Image was plain and simple junk. A 6 hundred dollar camera that was 399 online, broke a few weeks later. I have $200 worth of gift cards that are nothing but a free gift to Sharper Image now.

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November 18th, 2010 at 11:10 pm

SMB may be bankrupt now but I am optimistic that they will bounce back from this debacle and become as strong as ever! With the good signs of the economy starting to appear, two years are long enough for their hibernation.

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February 24th, 2011 at 3:47 pm

The other type of store I dislike is the type that has a (usually) short expiration date on their gift card or certificate.
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