topic of the hour: RadioShack

how does everyone feel about radioshack..

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over priced under educated

haha very true. i work for radioskank now and im an asc certified auto tech. but some of the kids o work with are crazy smart with that shit

I usually go there once or twice a year to find some oddball connector. They always have it.

I feel like a fuckin dork when I have to go to radio shack.

hmm there used to be one near my house...now its a source or circuit city or something like that

I bet a lot of growers buy their little cheap ass $13 microscope to look at trichomes!

well since i worked there for 6 years and got promotions and all that good shit. then was fired right b4 the holidays because i didnt hit my sales targets the shack can suck it ... but i was high everyday and never did pay for batteries around the house

Roseman said:

I bet a lot of growers buy their little cheap ass $13 microscope to look at trichomes!

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haha,

emphasis on A LOT

read the reviews

Worked there for two summers back in 1995 and 1996.

First boss was a thief from the store and the employees. The b1tch snagged a $2500 commission right out of my paycheck that would have totaled around $300 to me.

Second boss was an a$$. I came back from school to find a new cell phone package. First day, after I got a customer call I had the good sense to ask someone who was there when the package was setup, him. He flipped screaming that he was the only one there who knew anything ... bla bla bla. Then he threw a damned phone at me that he got off the wall.

I tendered my resignation that day and walked out.

In the time I worked there 70% of the computers sold came back with some error, it generally wasn't user generated either. Over 80% of the stereo's came back and went to the repair shop, most of them two or three times. TV's came back more than stereos.

Bottom line... Tandy corp is in the business of selling warranties. They sell warranties in the hopes the customer just says fk it and doesn't bring stuff back. Their products are crap and they know it, about the only things worth while in their stores are the 'components' that line the walls. Some of that stuff lasts forever, but the big money items are all junk.

I won't even buy the $13 microscope from them. When I start a grow I'll find one online and pay 2 to 3 times for the same thing simply because I will not spend money at Radio shack.

-RT76

I don't normally think about radio shack as being anything but an electronics store a tad pricey but locally convenient i guess.

poor quality products, poor service... radioshack in a nut shell.

i worked for em for 3 months....ending today...i got fired for not following company ethics...i sold a laptop that has traces of rollitup.org on it and they called corp...fuck it.. i work on cars...not land line phones...fuck that... good rid...although my boss was decent at the end...he skates.

anyone else work for that shitty excuse for a corporation

I've never worked there but I did like to buy components, etc. there. We don't have many electronics stores so it was convenient. They changed all of ours to The Source. They don't sell many components so they're pretty useless

isnt the source a jewelery store

I think I went there once for some batteries and a soldering iron. I often wonder how the fuck they make money off that shit.

SiCoSkateboards said:

isnt the source a jewelery store

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I've seen a jewelry store in the US advertised under that name on TV. In Canada it's The Source by Circuit City.

http://www.thesource.ca/estore/default.aspx?language=en-CA&swlang=true

i've got to go there today to get a battery for my garage door opener and i've bought one of those microscopes before too

The Son of Man said:

i've got to go there today to get a battery for my garage door opener and i've bought one of those microscopes before too

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the battery is probly a 23a or an N