14 Feb
2002
14 Feb
'02
6:59 p.m.
The one nearest me is so bad...
1. You learn that the Radio Shack slogan,
"you've got questions, we've got
answers"' is true. They have answers alright, it just may not be the right
ones!
They don't have answers... their conversation skills are limited to
chatting with other clerks, or trying to explain to me why I should drop
my cell phone plan, and sign a contract with them.
2. The people that work there think you are trying to
contact someone from
Mars or outer space, with all the cables, adapters, connectors, etc., that
you buy there every week.
They don't know what any of them do... nor where (or what) Mars is.
3. You think of opening your own store, because with a
name like Radio
Shack, they ought to sell lots and lots of amateur radio equipment.
Nah... then I would be forced to employee morons. Oh wait... I do that
now anyway.
4. You know your way around the store better than the
employees that work
there.
That is a given... and god forbid one of them TRIES to help... I end up
wasting more time trying to explain that I don't need what they are
saying, I know what I am looking for, get away (and NO I don't want a
freaking cell phone from you!)
5. You spend so much time and money driving there, you
think of buying one
of everything.
The only reason I still go is because I am too impatient to wait 3 days
for parts to be shipped to me (that and most dealers have a $25 or so min
order... when all I need 99 cents of resistors)
6. The people who work there think you own one heck of
a radio station, (in
a way it might be a little truth to that), or you're trying to build a bomb.
And god forbid you try to purchase a portable auto dialer... if they
think everyone makes red boxes out of them... WHY do they continue to
sell them?!? (although, I'm not sure I have seen them recently... but now
they have mini digital audio recorders... which are even easier to turn
into all sorts of cool fun toys.)
7. You realize you know more about electronics and
computers than they do.
I think we have already established that cats know more about electronics
and computers than any run of the mill clerk does.
8. You spend more money in a week at Radio Shack than
you do on food.
Humm... not recently, but I can think of a time in my life when I did
(now I spend more on old computers, or odd Mac parts)
9. You know everyone who works there by their first
name.
Nope, that would require looking at them... only one clerk is worthy of
looking at... and only because she is REALLY REALLY attractive (but once
she starts pushing those cell phones... I want to choke her too)
10. You have your own private parking spot there.
Its in a mall, so no luck on that one
11. When they call you for a stocking item because they
are out.
They can't call me... I still give them my parents info when they ask my
name, phone number, address, zodiac sign, favorite color, and pets names
just so I can buy a freaking battery.... and NO, I do NOT want a cell
phone!!!
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
18 Feb
18 Feb
8:42 p.m.
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Chris wrote:
And god forbid you try to purchase a portable auto
dialer... if they
think everyone makes red boxes out of them... WHY do they continue to
sell them?!?
I converted a manual dialer into a redbox, but the phone around here are
immune and I knew it ahead of time, so I made certain that I told the
owner of the device that it was for pure novelty.
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8:43 p.m.
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Chris wrote:
They can't call me... I still give them my parents
info when they ask my
name, phone number, address, zodiac sign, favorite color, and pets names
just so I can buy a freaking battery.... and NO, I do NOT want a cell
phone!!!
My favorite response to the clerk: "You don't need it."
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"Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony."
19 Feb
19 Feb
7:15 a.m.
I tried that when I called TEAC. I wanted to ask a question about a DVD
player that I didn't own yet. They wanted my name, address, and phone
number becasue each call was "logged". They would even let me ask the
question until I gave them that info. I was tempted to hang up, but I
really wanted the DVD player. Now I wish I would have looked around a
little more, although, it still was a good deal on a good DVD player.
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
Kris Kirby wrote:
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Chris wrote:
They can't call me... I still give them my
parents info when they ask my
name, phone number, address, zodiac sign, favorite color, and pets names
just so I can buy a freaking battery.... and NO, I do NOT want a cell
phone!!!
My favorite response to the clerk: "You don't need it." 
7:35 a.m.
They can't call me... I still give them my parents
info when they ask my
name, phone number, address, zodiac sign, favorite color, and pets names
just so I can buy a freaking battery.... and NO, I do NOT want a cell
phone!!!
Get in the habit, before you walk into a Radio Shack store of jotting down
THEIR address and phone number. and the name on the clerk's nametag, if
he's wearing it, . . .
When they ask for address and phone, give them THEIR address and
phone. See how far you can get through the address, or how many times you
can do it, before they notice that it is their address that they are
writing down. And if they DO add it to their mailing list, . . .
I have had them actually enter the entire address and phone number without
ever noticing.
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8:49 a.m.
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Chad Fernandez wrote:
I tried that when I called TEAC. I wanted to ask a
question about a DVD
player that I didn't own yet. They wanted my name, address, and phone
number becasue each call was "logged". They would even let me ask the
question until I gave them that info. I was tempted to hang up, but I
really wanted the DVD player. Now I wish I would have looked around a
little more, although, it still was a good deal on a good DVD player.
Easy fix.
Herman Munster
1313 Mockingbird Lane
Hollywood, CA
800-279-9222 (CRY-WAAA)
g.
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2:06 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" <cisin(a)xenosoft.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 01:43 PM
Subject: Re: Radio Shack (Was: STAPLES STORES WILL TAKE OLD COMPUTERS)
I give out 555-1212 pretty often, and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue as my
address... They've been getting sneakier about it lately. Lowes' cache
register wouldn't take 555-1212, even thought the poor cashier entered it
three times!
Bob
Easy fix.
Herman Munster
1313 Mockingbird Lane
Hollywood, CA
800-279-9222 (CRY-WAAA)
I always give out a 555 phone number.
Nobody ever notices. 
3:46 p.m.
Quothe Robert Schaefer, from writings of Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 08:06:39PM -0500:
I give out 555-1212 pretty often, and 1600
Pennsylvania Avenue as my
address... They've been getting sneakier about it lately. Lowes' cache
register wouldn't take 555-1212, even thought the poor cashier entered it
three times!
Try the telephone numbers for time and weather. Usually any last four
digits will work for those numbers, so, take your pick. Or... use
your favorite politician's office address and telephone number. :-)
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21 Feb
21 Feb
4:10 a.m.
New subject: Radio Shack and Schematics
While there's been much criticism of Radio Shack lately, let's
remember that it was one of the few companies that provided schematics
with all of the electronics equipment that it sold, typically as part
of the owners manual, long after most other companies had ceased to
provide them.
Granted, many of the Radio Shack employees don't know a capacitor from
a transformer, and if you ask them if they sell a 10 mH choke, they'll
probably tell you to visit an auto-supply store. However, quite a few
of us here most likely got our childhood start in electronics from
Radio Shack. Remember the P-box kits, the soldering-iron sets and
100-in-one kits that we got as young children? Alas, in this day of
overprotective parents, looney legislators and those mandatory and
ridiculous bicycle helmets, car safety seats, lead paint laws, etc., I
doubt that many young children these days will receive a soldering
iron and 60/40 lead solder from Santa Claus to build kits and other
electronic circuits with.
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All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature &
rdd(a)rddavis.org 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma to justify such
http://www.rddavis.org beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.
8:44 a.m.
New subject: Radio Shack and Schematics
However, quite a few
of us here most likely got our childhood start in electronics from
Radio Shack.
This is probably why I stick to software design now ;-)
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