[Jonah Hex]

My own recent Radio Trash story:

I'd visited my local Shack to buy an extension antenna for my hand-held scanner. While paying up, the clerk asked me who provides my cell-phone service. When I answered I use a Trac-phone, he turned up his nose and suggested I should switch to their phones.

I just stared at him for a few beats... then quietly suggested (using my dangerously quiet voice) he finish up the sale so I could leave. He rang me out very quickly without further harassment.

Mark one up for counter-intimidation. ;-)

[spinner55]

Howdy,

I worked for them part-time for 10 yrs in the late 70's to mid to late 80's. Use to be the place to get parts. They changed the layout a few years ago to target women instead of us electronic geeks like in the past. Sure you can special order parts online and but they are not cheap. Plus waiting for a week to get them doesn't help. As for the name/address thing, that info was used to ship out the monthly sales fliers. I use to get lots of people saying 'Johnny Cash' and I would just finish the sale and go to the next. But getting names etc was tracked, if you didn't get enough of them, you got hauled on the carpet and told to do a better job of it. As for heading to Best Buy and other larger type stores, it would be nice, but living in the 'boonies' makes for a 60 mile round trip a huge $$ these days. Sure miss the days of Heathkit and all the long gone electronic stores.
Take care and God Bless,

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