Posted on 04/01/2011 6:06:44 AM PDT by marktwain
An independent RadioShack store in Montana is standing firm, refusing RadioShack Corp. headquarters' demand to stop giving away a firearm with each satellite dish sale -- a 5-month-old promotion that has proved widely popular and garnered national attention.
"Dish sales have tripled since October," when the promotion began, store manager Fabian Levy told the Star-Telegram on Thursday. "We got a call from a man in Texas asking if we knew of a RadioShack store with the same offer where he lives." (The answer is no.)
"My phone has been ringing nonstop," Levy said from Hamilton, Mont., 40 miles south of Missoula. "I've received calls from an air conditioning company in West Virginia and a mattress store in, I think, Minnesota that wants to run similar gun giveaways."
Levy says his franchised Dish Network sales are separate from his store's Radio-Shack business.
"We've got the contract right in front of us, and it doesn't say anything about this violating any [RadioShack franchise] rules," he said.
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It is not the initial expenditure, it is the monthly fee. Very similar to cell phones. They give away the phone to get you on the monthly fee. $50 a month is $600 a year, which is roughly equivalent to a net present value of $10,000. To put it another way, in order to have a regular income of $600 a year, you would need investments of about $10,000 or more.
That’s why the repeal of GCA68 should be a top priority.
Sadly, the NRA never even talks about that.
Thanks, I stand corrected. I’ve never had anything to do with satellite TV, as you can probably tell.
Agreed. It just ticks me off when American businesses don’t appreciate their customers’ values.
When they don’t respect them, they go out of business.
Simple and straight.
Just to satisfy my curiousity and to complete the mental image, how did you carry? Port, sling, trail arms or on your wrist in the shotgun drape.
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