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'Crazy Eddie,' electronics chain kingpin with 'insaaane' prices, dead at 68
NJ Advance Media for NJ.com ^
Posted on 09/11/2016 1:14:15 PM PDT by SMGFan
—He was known as Crazy Eddie.
Eddie Antar, the electronics kingpin who once presided over a retail empire spanning four states, died Saturday, according to a family member. Antar's company was known for its frenetic television advertising of a seemingly crazed pitchman—before it all collapsed like a house of cards in a multi-million-dollar securities fraud.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: crazyeddie; newjersey; obituary; securitiesfraud
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To: fhayek
You don’t pay to ride, you pay for me to let you out!
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posted on
09/11/2016 1:28:41 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Steely Tom
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posted on
09/11/2016 1:29:46 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Pearls Before Swine
I didn’t remember him as getting off scott-free. He got off easy.. considering. No, he didn't get off easy. He got about what was coming to him, I think.
He was a total sleeze, which is exactly what I thought at the age of 21 or 22 when I used to see his ads when I went down to the NYC area.
Actually, the place I went was Chappaqua, believe it or not.
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posted on
09/11/2016 1:30:20 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
To: SMGFan
Crazy Eddie Ads while watching Bowling for Dollars!
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posted on
09/11/2016 1:31:58 PM PDT
by
Leep
(Hillary Clinton does not approve of this message.)
To: Secret Agent Man
Tourists?
Maybe. They might also have been used for fencing stolen merchandise. Perhaps they worked some kind of warranty scam on the manufacturers.
Times Square was mucho sleazy back then, a real dump.
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posted on
09/11/2016 1:32:21 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
To: SMGFan
In Philly we had Krass Brothers...Store of The Stars!!
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posted on
09/11/2016 1:46:49 PM PDT
by
4yearlurker
(Go Trump!!)
To: SMGFan
That guy was famous all over the country, even places far from where his commercials ran. He spawned the whole “crazy salesman” TV commercial genre. (Not a good thing)
To: SMGFan
He was only 68? So he was 35-40 when he was doing that? Jeez.
To: SMGFan
Crazy Eddie was nothing but a thief compared to Madman Muntz, whose self-taught engineering skills and methods are still influential today. He had a very interesting life.
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posted on
09/11/2016 2:55:40 PM PDT
by
The Antiyuppie
("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day")
To: SMGFan
You must be talking about that chain of shops,
GOING OUT OF BUSINESS INC. They were for tourists...New Yorkers knew better.
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posted on
09/11/2016 3:33:46 PM PDT
by
Roccus
(When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
To: SamAdams76
"Crazy Eddie Was not he a Mote' ?
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posted on
09/11/2016 5:29:38 PM PDT
by
buckalfa
(I am deplorable.)
To: SamAdams76
hahaha me too. I lived in NYC in the mid-late 70’s to about ‘84. those ads were on all the time.
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posted on
09/11/2016 5:32:24 PM PDT
by
visualops
(It's the majority of the American people and Trump against the enemies of the republic - Windflier)
To: MIchaelTArchangel
I guess their number came up.
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posted on
09/11/2016 5:48:23 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
(Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
To: SMGFan
There used to be a Crazy Eddie’s Night of Thrills at Raceway Park in Englishtown in the late ‘70’s.
To: fhayek
“Hillary not getting to 69.”
I’d imagine Hillary has “gotten to 69” plenty of times by now.
But it’s best left unimagined, trust me.
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posted on
09/11/2016 5:50:15 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
(Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
To: SMGFan
Back in the late 70’s there were electronic stores like that in Times Square ( among other things). Who would buy electronics in NY Times Square?The best view of those "Tourist Traps" was the movie, "You Don't Mess with the Zohan." Wildly funny movie by Adam Sandler. "Going out of business!" "Sony guts!"
Mark
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posted on
09/12/2016 12:03:54 AM PDT
by
MarkL
(Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
To: Steely Tom
Actually, the place I went was Chappaqua, believe it or not. It was a pretty good sized NY chain. I recall there was one in Yonkers on Central Ave, and another one not too far from Stony Brook on the Island. And there were probably at least 3 or 4 more.
Mark
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posted on
09/12/2016 12:07:27 AM PDT
by
MarkL
(Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
To: Larry Lucido
He did outlive Cal Worthington and his dog Spot by 3 years.
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posted on
09/12/2016 12:14:47 AM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
To: SMGFan
Did he have one of the missing servers?
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posted on
09/12/2016 12:06:02 PM PDT
by
E Rocc
(BHOzo = 1/Reagan)
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