Radio Shack.
 

Have you ever shopped there? My friend bought me a phone for X-Mass there and it's not working now. I'll never shop there myself it kinda sucks when a x-mass present breaks in less than a year.

:(

It's the 7-11 of electronics stores.

I worked for 10+yrs there and managed a bunch of em.
Whats wrong with it?

yeah they were here long ago - not bad but its not like topnotch quality

bob get on icq

I think it's not sitting on the charger right. I put it on last night about 11ish and when I got to the phone ringing, which I really hate, it was dead.:( So I put it back on and look but the charge light isn't on so I stuck a paper towel behind it in the charger and the charge light came on so I think it will have to charge for 12 hours again.



:)

their not what they use to be (it's more like a cell phone outlet now) i remember going to them whenever i needed to "marry-up" electronic equipment with connections/devices now i just do searches on the net.

sincerely ~ ..."wierd science" - oingo boingo

Radio Shack is not that bad
You can buy stuff anywhere and it breaks down in a yr
Walmart, Sears, Best Buy Etc, they all have thier problems with stuff breaking early or just not working at all.
the ones to blame are the factories and maybe the cheap labour they use to that make the items.

Used to be my favorite store in the late 80's. Before all the PC and cell phone craze, I stocked up on all my electronic gadget gear.

I remember building a 12VDC power supply in high school...

nostalgia is overcoming me now. sniff sniff

ok, I would take a pencil eraser and clean off the metal charge contacts as good as possible. If the base has those pointy contacts, the very tips will sometimes get a tiny speck of crud on there, preventing a good charge connection. Also in general, if it's a Ni-cd battery pack, try to run it from a full charge, to a full discharge everytime, else the per-charge life decreases pretty quickly.

Thanks hun I'll try that!


:)

I used to sell shitloads of replacement battery packs. Awesome profit margin on them, lol ;)

Radio Shack: You've got questions; we've got blank stares

I bet!

:winkwink:

Haha! :thumbsup

There was a Radio Shack nearby for years, until this past year when the chain was bought out by circuit city. They are now called "The Source". The one near me recently closed though, but I have bought quite a bit of stuff there over the years, mostly phones, small electronic gadgets and cables and parts etc, batteries, a battery recharger, etc etc. But whenever anything crapped out on me they were always all too happy to make it right and exhange it for me.

Their staff wasn't ALWAYS the most knowledgeable about everything, but then again go track down an employee in one of the aisles of any larger store and start asking a technical question. Quite often you get the dreaded "blank stare" from them.

No, I'm going to miss that little store in my neighborhood.

i fuckin hate Radio Shack. piece of shit items at not so impressive prices. blahh.

Yea I wouldn't have gotten a phone from there myself but it was a present.


:)

There are advantages and disadvantages. They've never been very price competitive for sure, especially on non store-brand items.

One decent thing is that on their own brands, they are the repair drop off point for in and out of warranty repairs (warning:no receipt, no warranty). On many in-warranty items (store pay's for the repair), like cordless phones for example, the store cost to get a new one from the warehouse is much less than a repair charge that the store lays out. So a SMART manager (good luck since I left :winkwink: ) will hand you a new one and scrap the broken one and save themselves money and bonus.

Even the veteran managers when I was a newbie manager didnt take advantage of their P&L allowances for simple things like that.

Their stock was just downgraded to JUNK status yesterday, which is too bad because I have a few hundred shares, lmao.

true:thumbsup

Mr. Romance

I remember buying one of their "Realistic" brand tape recorders back in the 80's. I noticed the Realistic brand sticker was a bit loose so I pulled it off.

Below it was a Panasonic logo.

I've never bought equipment there since. Only connectors and other niche parts.

Yep, Panasonic manufactures some of the old Realistic (Optimus today). They DO have extra quality control and specs however. They're not exact 1 to 1 these days.

Although way back in the day, Tandy bought a shitload of IBM PC's and rebranded them with new cases and got sued, haha.

Tandy's Money Machine is a good book to read about one of the most innovative business men we've had. Took an old Leather catalog and a few new fangled elctronics nerd shacks and grew it into a fortune 100 company after all.

Ho really? Not cool !

prob just a bad batch

I thought they got sold to compusa or something.
They're named uhh....fuckin....
Something wiht a C....

Do they still have the "Battery of the Month Club"?

... feel like playing WHEEL OF FORTUNE .... :)