Ralph Mowery wrote:
. . .
As far as getting good answers about most anything at RAdio Shack or many
other stores , what do you expect from someone making the wages they pay ?
You do not get a salesman and electronics engineer for those wages. Try
going into any store, say Wal-Mart and pick out an area and ask some
specific questions about the products and see what they have to say.
Chances are you will get the same dumb look and maybe a dumb answer.

One of the reasons this is the only choice we have is that in times
past, there were stores which did pay the employees enough to get people
who understood the products. People would go in, get their questions
answered, then go to the Wal-Marts and Radio Shacks to buy the item
because it was cheaper there. We've gotten what we created and what we
collectively deserve.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

Roy Lewallen wrote:
Ralph Mowery wrote:

. . .
As far as getting good answers about most anything at RAdio Shack or many
other stores , what do you expect from someone making the wages they
pay ?
You do not get a salesman and electronics engineer for those wages. Try
going into any store, say Wal-Mart and pick out an area and ask some
specific questions about the products and see what they have to say.
Chances are you will get the same dumb look and maybe a dumb answer.


One of the reasons this is the only choice we have is that in times
past, there were stores which did pay the employees enough to get people
who understood the products. People would go in, get their questions
answered, then go to the Wal-Marts and Radio Shacks to buy the item
because it was cheaper there. We've gotten what we created and what we
collectively deserve.


Thanks for the reminder, Roy. But that has been a long while.

Phil w7ox

Roy Lewallen wrote:


One of the reasons this is the only choice we have is that in times
past, there were stores which did pay the employees enough to get people
who understood the products. People would go in, get their questions
answered, then go to the Wal-Marts and Radio Shacks to buy the item
because it was cheaper there. We've gotten what we created and what we
collectively deserve.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

Support your local hardware store, support your local ham store....

I have paid a slight price penalty plus state and local tax to buy from
my local ham store for almost 20 years. I can also sometimes get break
when I have a rig that needs fixing 3 days before a contest or trip to
FL and the service wait sign says "3 weeks".

Buy local if you want good service from people you know and who know you.

Tom
K0TAR

Hi Roy,

"Roy Lewallen" wrote in message
...
One of the reasons this is the only choice we have is that in times past,
there were stores which did pay the employees enough to get people who
understood the products. People would go in, get their questions answered,
then go to the Wal-Marts and Radio Shacks to buy the item because it was
cheaper there.

What, have you been talking to the guys at HRO again at how people will come
in and get technical advice for an hour and then go home and order on-line
again or something? :-)

Seriously, your point is well taken, although I'd suggest that all the product
reviews you get from, e.g., Amazon.Com can actually be more useful than the
information you'd get from a salesperson. There's no inherent bias (to want
to sell you something), and you get to see comments from people with a wide
range of background. (It's always kinda amusing to see people trash, say,
some classical technical book when the real problem is that they're just not
well enough educated yet to appreciate what they're reading!)