I hate Radio Shack - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

7 Jun 2002

What annoys me is when they give horribly incorrect advice. I stopped
by a local radio shack earlier this week to price out some RG6/U for
a new DirecTV dish that I was cobbling together.  I needed about ~350
feet of cable.  The sales droid insisted that I'd needed to buy three
in-line amps, and install them all at the dish ... (I guess he knew
enough rudimentary english to read the amp packaging, and extrapolate)
What bothered me the most, though, was the authoritative manner in which
he described what I had to do. It took quite an effort to keep from
laughing in his face...

BTW, I bought the coax somewhere else, just on principles...

-al-
-acorda(a)1bigred.com

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  -----Original Message-----
 From: Gene Buckle [mailto:geneb@deltasoft.com]
 Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 4:12 PM
 To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
 Subject: RE: I hate Radio Shack

 Damnit John, you beat me to it. :)

 g.

 On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, J.C. Wren wrote:

  Radio Shack: "You have questions, we have
blank stares."

 	--John

 -----Original Message-----
 From: cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org   [mailto:cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org]On
  Behalf Of Bob Lafleur
 Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 15:38
 To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
 Subject: RE: I hate Radio Shack

 I've decided that Radio Shack has one reason for existance; to sell
 pre-paid cell-phones to low-lifes. Every time I go in there, all the
 sales people are occupied with selling a pre-paid   cell-phone to someone
  who has such bad credit that they can't get a
regular   cell-phone. Then
  when they finally get to me, I ask them for an
adapter, or cable, or
 something and they look at me like I'm crazy. "I've never   heard of
such
  a thing" they say. If it's not a
pre-paid cell-phone, they   have no clue.