[TriLUG] Radio Shack: was Old Dog In Need of New Trick - Digital TV Recording

[William Sutton]

I can't say I've been in a Radio Shack lately, although the last time I 
was, I mostly saw consumer grade crap (like junk RC cars).  I can't 
remember seeing the LEDs and resistors (etc.) of my youth.  Not to say it 
wasn't there, but it wasn't obvious.

That said, bad customer service is going to eventually get you unless you 
mend your ways.  Look what happened to CompUSA.  Horrible customer 
service, everyone knew it, and they no longer exist...

William Sutton

On Fri, 7 Feb 2014, Steve Litt wrote:

> On Fri, 07 Feb 2014 13:43:38 -0500
> "Randy Barlow" <randy at electronsweatshop.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 07 Feb 2014 12:26:53 -0500, Roy Vestal <rvestal at trilug.org>
>> wrote:
>>> And Radio Shack doesn't have a clue how to be helpful anymore.
>>
>> http://www.theonion.com/articles/even-ceo-cant-figure-out-how-radioshack-still-in-b,2190/
>
> All you guys dissing Radio Shack: Don't come crying to me when
> they're gone and there's no source for that one-off LED you need, or
> that special USB cable for your camera, or a replacement for that 22K
> 1/2 watt resistor that went open inside your receiver.
>
> Hey, it won't be that bad paying a shipping charge double the price of
> what you're buying, waiting four days to get it, and having to go
> through an RMA procedure if it's bad.
>
> Oh, wait, you can go to Frys. LOL, last time I went to Frys I did the
> whole get-detained-for-stealing-what-you-bought routine. And last time
> I went to Frys, their employees knew less about electronics than the
> average homeless guy. And their prices weren't all that great.
>
> By the way, last I looked, Radio Shack had a bunch of
> computer-on-a-board projects. And the 80's will be jealous to know
> these aren't Z80's or 80286's. I don't remember if they were Beaglebone
> or Raspberry Pi, but they were some thing like that.
>
> I honor Radio Shack for still paying some attention to people who can
> actually handle a solder iron.
>
> SteveT
>
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