What happened to Thinkgeek?

[Pulsar]

I'll admit, I don't go there super-regularly, but much like WOOT the front page of thinkgeek seems to have been hijacked by some advertising asshole. A lot of their cool stuff isn't there anymore, and they seem to have just turned into an electronics retailer. WTF? Did they get sold or bought or something?

 

[Captante]

Looks about the same to me ....

 

[Crono]

Does the site look like this to you? As far as I can tell, they still carry the same stuff. The layout has changed since I last checked the site, but it's been a while.

 

[Captante]

Well to be fair they did change the layout & logo.

 

[Newell Steamer]

,.. I never thought they had cool stuff to begin with,..

They are like the 99 cent store version of Sharper Image.

 

[Bateluer]

Dammit . . .why do so many sites want to move that shitty design? Motorola's site is almost unusable.

 

[Darksinnder]

woah, i haven't been on there for a while, totally different layout. so strange.

 

[mmntech]

Dammit . . .why do so many sites want to move that shitty design? Motorola's site is almost unusable.

You can thank Apple for that. Flat is the new it thing.

 

[Rakehellion]

Crappy website selling overpriced merch for fake "nerds" who want to look important.

 

[Red Storm]

,.. I never thought they had cool stuff to begin with,..

They are like the 99 cent store version of Sharper Image.

Except that a lot of ThinkGeek's stuff is ridiculously overpriced, just like Sharper Image was.

 

[KeithP]

Wow...just checked out the site. It is awful.

-KeithP

 

[HN]

that new logo with the reverse 'Geek' is atrocious

 

[Scarpozzi]

Thinkgeek used to have cool stuff for decent prices. Then they started getting far more corporate traffic and between the price hikes and competition, I stopped buying stuff there in 2003/2004.

Now you can buy just about anything they sell through other vendors for 20-40% less.

 

[MrColin]

I'll admit, I don't go there super-regularly, but much like WOOT the front page of thinkgeek seems to have been hijacked by some advertising asshole. A lot of their cool stuff isn't there anymore, and they seem to have just turned into an electronics retailer. WTF? Did they get sold or bought or something?

I think it happened some time ago, they were under the same parent company as sourceforge, which has also taken a steep downward turn. Sold to some slimeball corporation or another no doubt.