Note 1 - Description of Business	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2012
Nature of Operations [Text Block]	1. Description of Business Merisel, Inc. and Subsidiaries (the “Company” or “Merisel”) operate in a single reporting segment, the visual communications services business. It entered that business beginning March 2005, through a series of acquisitions, which continued through 2006. These acquisitions include Color Edge, Inc. and Color Edge Visual, Inc. (together “Color Edge”); Comp 24, LLC (“Comp 24”); Crush Creative, Inc. (“Crush”); Dennis Curtin Studios, Inc. (“DCS”); Advertising Props, Inc. (“AdProps”); and Fuel Digital, Inc. (“Fuel”). The acquisitions of the Company’s seven operating entities are referred to below as “Acquisitions.”

Note 1 - Description of Business

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2012

1. Description of Business

Merisel, Inc. and Subsidiaries (the “Company” or “Merisel”) operate in a single reporting segment, the visual communications services business. It entered that business beginning March 2005, through a series of acquisitions, which continued through 2006. These acquisitions include Color Edge, Inc. and Color Edge Visual, Inc. (together “Color Edge”); Comp 24, LLC (“Comp 24”); Crush Creative, Inc. (“Crush”); Dennis Curtin Studios, Inc. (“DCS”); Advertising Props, Inc. (“AdProps”); and Fuel Digital, Inc. (“Fuel”). The acquisitions of the Company’s seven operating entities are referred to below as “Acquisitions.”