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BIG FOOT
| | Posted on Saturday, May 25, 2002 - 3:49 pm: | 
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have a question: has the " economic slowdown " effected sales of amateur. cb , amplifier , antenna in YOUR area ? Are sales of NEW ( or used ) stuff going as well as it did last year or even a couple of years ago ?.... have been told at the local radio shack that all of their sales are DOWN on all kinds of communication stuff ( scanners, cb radios, amateur radios, antennas, etc ) ...but cell phones and computers are holding their own....how is it in YOUR neighborhood ???........... BIG FOOT |
jyd
| | Posted on Saturday, May 25, 2002 - 8:28 pm: |
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radio shack sale are down,but people like copper have alot of better deals then radio shack.there for the better the deals the more they sell. |
bruce
| | Posted on Saturday, May 25, 2002 - 8:44 pm: |
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Radio Shack is high on almost everything the alinco dx-70 was 700 at the shack PLUS 22 bucks shipping PLUS tax now i could order that radio for 649 no tax no shipping from ham radio outlet they wanted 2.49 for ONE of a part i needed and i found it for 9 cents in qt of 100 and 2.00 shipping i think is more people use the net look at copper ill bet they depend on internet sales
if jail numbers are a reading of the ecomomy being down tampabay is doing well jail count is 3000 same as last year
bruce |
RCI2990
| | Posted on Sunday, May 26, 2002 - 12:12 am: |
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Who wants to buy from them anyhow? LOL! everytime i walk in the door i walk right back out empty handed.. They almost have no parts anymore like they used to so i dont hardley ever go there. |
Tech671
| | Posted on Sunday, May 26, 2002 - 12:46 am: |
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Radio sales have picked up in the last year. For two years prior when gas prices were maintaining constant high and unemployment rising, sales sagged for everyone in the industry. The downslope began around late 99 and began an upturn late in 01. |
Grumpy8220
| | Posted on Sunday, May 26, 2002 - 7:34 am: |
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Radio Shack is way over price in what they sell, they have very poor selection on part's and equipment compared to what they had at one time. Radio sales are down in this part of the country,I live in South East Pennsylvania. |
BIG FOOT
| | Posted on Sunday, May 26, 2002 - 1:04 pm: |
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...maybe i need to re-phrase the "radio shack " part...I did NOT mean the "radio shack " store of TANDY corporation that is world wide...I meant the small town radio stores, truck stops, etc... also how fast are USED items being sold ? .......... BIG FOOT |
jyd
| | Posted on Sunday, May 26, 2002 - 4:54 pm: |
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you have to radio shack online to find the good parts and a large selection. |
Tech181
| | Posted on Sunday, May 26, 2002 - 11:54 pm: |
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jyd is right. Their website is far better for finding parts and trinkets than the stores. I think their biggest problem is that when, "you have questions, they have no idea what you are talking about."
Steve
Tech181
Tech181@copperelectronics.com |
Funtimebob
| | Posted on Monday, May 27, 2002 - 1:01 am: |
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Back in the 70's you could walk into Rat Shack and pick up a final bubble packed for under $3.00.
of course that ended in the early 80's..... |
jyd
| | Posted on Monday, May 27, 2002 - 8:53 am: |
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181, hit the nail on the head.they dont know what you are talking about.poor service,i asked a guy when they wer going to get mor switching transisters,he told me (i don't know)that was his ansure |
Apachee
| | Posted on Monday, May 27, 2002 - 10:51 am: |
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Well like they say you got ? we got--- uh uh uh uh uh uh i don't know. I went into a RS store and told the guy i needed a jumper wire for a meter, he said here, you know what it was? A phone cord. 73's |
bruce
| | Posted on Monday, May 27, 2002 - 10:06 pm: |
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At a seminole store just in the last month i watch a sales man holding a 2/440 handheld telling a customer why these are much better that FRS and all you have to do is SEND AWAY for a license in the same store less that a week later i watched a guy brow beat a salesman DEMANDING he sell him a BIG cb liner. The poor sales guy was totaly stupid when it came to cb hell all they sell now are c-phones.
After lissing to this baboon for a while i broke in and said that the REASON they didnt have any was the store did not carry illegal idems and amps were not alowed. WELL this jurk blew up at me the sales man let loose with a string of words that i hadnt heard since i hit my hand with a hammer. On the way out capped it off my telling me it was his RIGHT to own one and he would see that radio shack got him one right away. He is still waiting |
Tech181
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 12:50 am: |
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Bruce, Bruce, Bruce....LOL
I went in to my local Radio Shack yesterday to find three capacitors and one resistor. I struck out on all four!
Today I went there for two germanium diodes. Skunked again!
I am suggesting a new motto for them...You need parts? We can order them!
Another pet peeve (since I am on a rant) I have with them is as soon as you walk in the door the salesmen are on you like white on rice on a paper plate with a glass of milk in a snowstorm!!! They won't leave you alone! And when you're browsing the racks for this or that they stand behind you pretending to dust off they RC cars or something. They watch you like a hawk! I don't look like a criminal. Must be the fact they work on a sales commission or something.
Steve
Tech181
Tech181@copperelectronics.com |
BIG FOOT
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 29, 2002 - 3:09 pm: |
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...sounds like my visits for parts there in recent years... got every thing BUT what you need... then when you go back for something else...out of that too but back in stock on the item you wanted 2 weeks ago...........reminds me of why my grandfather did not throw hardly any thing away... if it was thrown away, you or a friend may need a part from it 2 weeks later, even if the item had not been touched in 10 years...( something about a guy named MURPHY and one of his LAWS ).... having fun with my radios BIG FOOT |
RCI2990
| | Posted on Thursday, May 30, 2002 - 8:35 pm: |
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LOL!!!!!! You guys!!! Well it seems everytime i walk into a RS i get jumped on by the saleman too. 90% of the time well, 95% to be realistic i walk in the door and right back out again!!! |
Monk
| | Posted on Friday, May 31, 2002 - 12:20 pm: |
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Here is a trick I've used for years at any store where there are the vulture salespeople: Act like you are deaf! |
BIG FOOT
| | Posted on Friday, July 05, 2002 - 12:36 pm: |
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...MONK ,,, why would a DEAF person be at a RADIO store ? ( just kidding )... since about half of the stuff in a radio shack store has a SPEAKER in it ( tv, scanners, shortwave, cb, amateur, satellite receivers, some computers, am/fm portables, etc. )......by the way, found something even NOISIER than "jake brakes on an 18-wheeler " and that is the local kids with a car stereo... hear them coming and going for a good mile or two BEFORE you see them and AFTER they have passed by ** the occupants of the car are wearing ear plugs so their hearing will NOT be effected ** ( oops) BIG FOOT |
Biged
| | Posted on Saturday, July 06, 2002 - 12:03 pm: |
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Big foot,
I am one of those kids with the big speakers. Accually, I am 31 but I was into the car stereo thing for a while. I had 2-4" kickers, 2-6 1/2" eclipse, 2-6by9 eclpise, and 2 15" kicker subs. For power I had 4 kicker amps that had a total power rating of 1190 watts RMS! Beleive it or not, I had all of this in a standard cab Toyota pickup. I had it checked one time and got a 145.2 db. Thats pretty loud. But, it seems I have lost interest in it and all of this stuff is boxed up and sitting in the closet. Waiting to go on ebay. Its a shame because it all has only been used for about 2 months then I took it back out. CB stuff takes up less space. |
Hoosier Cardinal
| | Posted on Monday, July 08, 2002 - 2:28 pm: |
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LOL I know some of those kids myself!! Some of those stereos are loud enough to set off a car alarm!! ha! What i cant stand is one of those kids parks the vehicle next to the house and they are not even near the car and all i hear is BOOM BOOM BOOM from all the base! |
BIG FOOT
| | Posted on Thursday, August 15, 2002 - 9:22 am: |
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..locally I sold about 3k worth of equipment about 2 weeks ago, the GREAT stuff sold extremely easy, but it went to about 4 operators in MISSISSIPPI...the "so-so" stuff stayed LOCAL, but the GREAT stuff sold within 24 hours, and the locals were "upset" ( why did not you save it for me to make payments per week on, once I got my trailer payment made )...but I still have a MAXON h-t in the glove box for "wreck info " ( hard to get wreck info on a 2 meter amateur rig ).....PRAISE the LORD...BIG FOOT |
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