Grace Leong

South Jordan-based PC Laptops, which built its business on rescuing stranded customers of failed PC companies including those of Totally Awesome Computers, is now offering to help PC Club's customers after the California company filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy on Tuesday because of mounting cash flow problems.

As a result of the Ch. 7 filing, which will result in the liquidation of PC Club's assets, around 300 of its workers nationwide are now out of work. It is unclear how many of those workers are in Utah.

PC Laptops on Wednesday announced it will launch a radio and online advertising campaign offering free lifetime labor and service support to all PC Club brand computer owners, a strategy it uses to quickly ramp up its customer base. The company gained thousands of new clients by offering similar free services to customers of CompUSA, Gateway, Micron Computers and Totally Awesome Computers, when they closed their Utah stores in recent years.

PC Laptops, which has 86 workers at its seven Utah stores including one in Orem, and one in Henderson, Nev., also said it has immediate job openings for 20 workers in Utah and Nevada. Interested applicants can submit a resume and cover letter via e-mail to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or call 801-870-9960.

The company is also looking to buy PC Club's assets including stores in Las Vegas, Reno and Phoenix. "I've contacted PC Club's bankruptcy attorney to find out how we can do that. We're not likely to buy the Utah PC Club stores because we already have locations close to those," said Dan "The Laptop Man" Young, president and founder of PC Laptops. "The most valuable assets would be its customer lists and locations in other markets, computer units and components."

When Totally Awesome Computers shut down in March 2006 and closed eight stores in Utah, PC Laptops hired 26 of its employees and took over three stores in Orem, Layton and Murray.