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PC Mall, Inc.

2555 West 190th Street, Suite 201
Torrance, CA 90504
(310) 354-5600

www.pcmall.com

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Sales

$976 million

Business Description
PC Mall, Inc. ("PC Mall"), formerly IdeaMall, Inc. and Creative Computers, Inc., together with its subsidiaries (the "Company"), founded in 1987, is a rapid response direct marketer of computer hardware, software, peripheral, electronics, and other consumer products. The Company offers products to business, government and educational institutions as well as individual consumers through dedicated outbound and inbound telemarketing sales executives, the Internet, direct marketing techniques, direct response catalogs, a direct sales force, and three retail showrooms. The Company offers a broad selection of products through its distinctive full-color catalogs under the PC Mall, MacMall, ClubMac, PC Mall Gov, and eCOST.com brands, its worldwide Web sites on the Internet: pcmall.com, macmall.com, clubmac.com, pcmallgov.com and ecost.com, and other promotional materials. The Company believes that its rapid response service and its broad product selection result in customer loyalty and repeat customer orders. The Company also operates OnSale.com, an online marketplace and auction, which was formally launched in October 2003.

Products and Merchandising

The Company offers hardware, software, peripherals, components and accessories for users of computer products, as well as electronics equipment and other consumer products. The Company screens new products and selects products for inclusion in its catalogs and web sites based on features, quality, sales trends, price, margins, cooperative/market development funds and warranties. The Company offers its customers other value-added services, such as the ability to purchase systems that have been specifically configured to meet the customer's requirements. Through frequent mailings of its catalogs and e-mails to its customers, the Company is able to quickly introduce new products and replace slower selling products with new products.

Computer Systems. The Company offers a large selection of desktop, laptop and server systems from leading manufacturers including Apple, HP, IBM, Sony, Toshiba and others.

Peripherals, Components and Accessories. The Company offers a large selection of peripheral and component products from manufacturers such as 3Com, Apple, Canon, Cisco, EMC, Epson, HP, IBM, Iomega, Kingston, NEC/Mitsubishi, Sony, Viewsonic and Xerox. Peripherals and components include printers, monitors, data storage devices, add-on circuit boards, connectivity products and communications products. The accessories offered by the Company include a broad range of computer-related items and supplies such as toner, ink cartridges, magnetic tape, cables and connectors.

Software. The Company sells a wide variety of software packages in the business and personal productivity, enterprise, utility, language, graphics and video editing categories, including word processing, spreadsheet and database software. The Company offers a large number of software programs and licenses from established vendors, such as Adobe, Apple, Computer Associates, Filemaker, Intuit, Lotus/IBM, Macromedia, Microsoft, Network Associates, Quark, and Symantec, as well as numerous specialty products from new and emerging vendors.

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