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wanted cheap hf rigs workn or not hopefully under $50 schematics and
parts gettn harder 2 find radioshack isnt radioshack anymore |
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That's great news. They missed out on a lot of sales by bailing out in
the first place. Mike K8MB |
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I forgot to mention, I never really thought of their glory days as
being very glorious at all but just ok. Ok... with the exception of the pro-2006. :-) Hey Radio Shack! Try really really hard this time and suprise the hell out of all of us. Try to put a Digi-Key, Allied Electronics, Mouser type experience or effort out there and put it within driving distance. And ah.. let's taper off on the chinese robots,light saber's and the multiple variations of the laser pointer. There's a goal for ya. :-) 73's Mike K8MB |
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There were Glory days at Radio Shack - back in the 1930's. Radio Shack used
to be big - in fact their name said it all. Even during the 1950's, I remember a great buy on surplus Harvey Wells TBS-50 power supplies. They became really popular in the 1960's - not because of what they sold but because of their marketing. Every item had a price tag on it. I remember as a poor kid being afraid to go into the local ham radio store and walk up to the counter with an unpriced chassis or part. I was too embarassed to ask the price and was afraid I might not have enough money. And, I suspect the fellow at the counter often guessed at the price and tried to make it just out of what I had in my pocket. People still have not figured out that if you do not have a price on it, it means you do not want to sell it - and I do not ask. I see that at ham swap meets and generally walk right by. So, the local radio stores went out of business because of poor merchandising. Hopefully Radio Shack will get back to their basics. 73, Colin K7FM |
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COLIN LAMB wrote:
There were Glory days at Radio Shack - back in the 1930's. Radio Shack used to be big - in fact their name said it all. Even during the 1950's, I remember a great buy on surplus Harvey Wells TBS-50 power supplies. They became really popular in the 1960's - not because of what they sold but because of their marketing. Every item had a price tag on it. I remember as a poor kid being afraid to go into the local ham radio store and walk up to the counter with an unpriced chassis or part. I was too embarassed to ask the price and was afraid I might not have enough money. And, I suspect the fellow at the counter often guessed at the price and tried to make it just out of what I had in my pocket. People still have not figured out that if you do not have a price on it, it means you do not want to sell it - and I do not ask. I see that at ham swap meets and generally walk right by. So, the local radio stores went out of business because of poor merchandising. Hopefully Radio Shack will get back to their basics. 73, Colin K7FM ---------------- I'm just the opposite. Regardless of where I am, store or no store, if I see something that I want, I'll try to buy from the individual. "Let the customer say no", is something that I learned in sales. Don't say no for them, you might be wrong. Same thing with buying, it doesn't hurt to ask. What is the worst thing they can say? No? So what? I first learned this when dating. Nothing ventured - nothing gained. Life is too short to be shy. Ed Cregger, NM2K |
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COLIN LAMB wrote:
There were Glory days at Radio Shack - back in the 1930's. Radio Shack used to be big - in fact their name said it all. Even during the 1950's, I remember a great buy on surplus Harvey Wells TBS-50 power supplies. They became really popular in the 1960's - not because of what they sold but because of their marketing. Every item had a price tag on it. I remember as a poor kid being afraid to go into the local ham radio store and walk up to the counter with an unpriced chassis or part. I was too embarassed to ask the price and was afraid I might not have enough money. And, I suspect the fellow at the counter often guessed at the price and tried to make it just out of what I had in my pocket. People still have not figured out that if you do not have a price on it, it means you do not want to sell it - and I do not ask. I see that at ham swap meets and generally walk right by. So, the local radio stores went out of business because of poor merchandising. Hopefully Radio Shack will get back to their basics. 73, Colin K7FM ---------------- I'm just the opposite. Regardless of where I am, store or no store, if I see something that I want, I'll try to buy from the individual. "Let the customer say no", is something that I learned in sales. Don't say no for them, you might be wrong. Same thing with buying, it doesn't hurt to ask. What is the worst thing they can say? No? So what? I first learned this when dating. Nothing ventured - nothing gained. Life is too short to be shy. Ed Cregger, NM2K |
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"Ed Cregger" wrote in message
... COLIN LAMB wrote: There were Glory days at Radio Shack - back in the 1930's. Radio Shack used to be big - in fact their name said it all. Even during the 1950's, I remember a great buy on surplus Harvey Wells TBS-50 power supplies. They became really popular in the 1960's - not because of what they sold but because of their marketing. Every item had a price tag on it. I remember as a poor kid being afraid to go into the local ham radio store and walk up to the counter with an unpriced chassis or part. I was too embarassed to ask the price and was afraid I might not have enough money. And, I suspect the fellow at the counter often guessed at the price and tried to make it just out of what I had in my pocket. People still have not figured out that if you do not have a price on it, it means you do not want to sell it - and I do not ask. I see that at ham swap meets and generally walk right by. So, the local radio stores went out of business because of poor merchandising. Hopefully Radio Shack will get back to their basics. 73, Colin K7FM ---------------- I'm just the opposite. Regardless of where I am, store or no store, if I see something that I want, I'll try to buy from the individual. "Let the customer say no", is something that I learned in sales. Don't say no for them, you might be wrong. Same thing with buying, it doesn't hurt to ask. What is the worst thing they can say? No? So what? I first learned this when dating. Nothing ventured - nothing gained. Life is too short to be shy. Ed Cregger, NM2K I know what Colin is saying - that can be frustrating in its own right - you get that in "stores" today - like Wal-Mart, etc. You have to either ask or take the item to a reader to give you the price. I also know what you're saying too - Ed. I've tried several selling methods with various seasons, products, etc. It seems to me - if a customer is interested enough - they will enquire OR just pick out the item and pay for it. Supply meets demand - issue. A "lack" of sign doesn't necessarily mean "no sale". It "could" be open for offers - like at a flea market or some similar sale. I do a lot of "Make-offers" and it is amazing how often I'm still asked - "how much". I tell them - just as the sign says - make offers. I realize that by saying that - if I am offered say a mere 10 cents for the item - it is the loss/chance I take. Usually though - all offers made - surprisingly are in the ball park of the expected sale price. I do a lot of those sales just to move stuff out - be it on my web site or at a Hamfest or Flea Market. Unless I need to recoup a certain amount of money - I love offering deals. I have fun just dealing with people. Have met many interesting people and swapped some good stories. That is what "I" get from it all. It isn't "always" about the profit. Besides, if you try to treat people right - they'll be back. Then too - people are hard to deal with at times. Like going into a Radio Shack store - I prefer "no" help. I know what I want, need, looking for. I don't need help from someone who most likely doesn't know what a resistor does - compared to capacitor. I don't need them hanging around me. On the other hand - there are those who like that - because they're so unsure. But it "does" burn me - when I'm looking at an item and there is no other way to get a price other than to cart the damned thing clear across the store for a price - or you need assistance and can't ever seem to find it. I was looking at a Truck Tool box - it was stacked. I couldn't get anyone to tell me the price and it wasn't worth taking it down - putting it in a buggy to go to a check out - and then maybe decide it wasn't what I wanted. Finally after going to the service desk half way across the store - I had someone paged - I went back. The item "was" priced as I was looking for - and I had them load one in the buggy. Those sorts of things can be irritating and time consuming. The best story I have to relate to Radio Shack...... When I was married - I gave a list of items for my wife to pick up on her shopping run. There was solder, Tuner Spray, and some other things. I even had the stock number there so she couldn't make any errors - being they had two types of spray and so on. She went in - was picking out the items per my list. The salesman took the list from her hand and asked - are you sure this is what you need? Per her story then which I had no reason to dispute - She simply told him, "I" wrote the list and that is exactly what I requested. She said he got huffy with her. With this particular store - it is easy to understand that. Of all the sales people who've come and gone - "dozens" - I've only seen a handful I would ever deal with. And they've disgusted me so much - that me and a friend of mine who used to spend "hours" in there a month and many dollars - are lucky if we go there once a year - now. Unless I am in DIRE need for an item they have - to do a repair - I don't care if I ever go back in one. Quite frankly - I do "not" see Radio Shack - on a rebound. The majority of their items can be bought in other stores - Wal-Mart - Best Buy - Circuit City - Kmart - Verizon Store/Kiosk -wherever. I hardly ever see anyone at the closest store to me - as opposed to recent years. Lou |
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On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, COLIN LAMB wrote: There were Glory days at Radio Shack - back in the 1930's. Radio Shack used to be big - in fact their name said it all. Even during the 1950's, I remember a great buy on surplus Harvey Wells TBS-50 power supplies. They became really popular in the 1960's - not because of what they sold but because of their marketing. Every item had a price tag on it. I remember as a poor kid being afraid to go into the local ham radio store and walk up to the counter with an unpriced chassis or part. I was too embarassed to ask the price and was afraid I might not have enough money. And, I suspect the fellow at the counter often guessed at the price and tried to make it just out of what I had in my pocket. People still have not figured out that if you do not have a price on it, it means you do not want to sell it - and I do not ask. I see that at ham swap meets and generally walk right by. So, the local radio stores went out of business because of poor merchandising. Hopefully Radio Shack will get back to their basics. 73, Colin K7FM Its not going to happen. We're in a post-modernist culture, full of instant gratification expectations, and no one is interested in learning electronics, doing hobbies, building things, tinkering, or figuring things out. Buy it and go into debt, use it, if it breaks, buy another one and go deeper in debt and throw the old one out. You don't need a license to buy a computer and start surfing the web and hang out on the social websites, the virtual reality websites, porno websites, whatever. There are a few stores that sell mail order parts (Newark, Mouser, Digikey, Radio-Daze, etc) and you're going to have to work with them (and what you can find at hamfests). I do. If I can't get exactly what I want, then I do a workaround. W4PON |
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