What has happened to Radio Shack??
Dave Lewis
a number of years. I have a friend who enjoys going to a smaller
airfield with me every couple of weeks and parking not far from the
runways and listening to the air traffic. He does not live far from the
airport & thought it would be cool to have a scanner to listen to the
traffic any time he wants.
We went to a local Radio Shack in a mall here in Cincinnati today to buy
an inexpensive scanner for him. We saw one for $89.00 that had all the
features he would need and give him a taste of scanning. The idea being,
enjoy it and see what features he may want later on then upgrade down
the road. He clearly does not need or want a 245XLT like I have at this
time as he is completely new to this.
The salesman kept talking about trunking and how he must have it. Funny,
since Cincinnati city & county PD & Fire are not trunked right now.
There are a very few but for his needs trunking is something he would
never care about for a long while. The salesman went on to explain how
he could program in 4 freqs and be able to rob any bank right now and
get away. Funny, my friend is not planning that either. He just wants to
get air traffic and some public service. I played along at this point &
told him to make a deal on the PRO-92 then. The salesman asked me what
that was. Yes, he asked me what the PRO-92 was. After making an ass out
of himself talking about how to scan and how important trunking is with
a wery poor explination of trunking, he did not know what scanners he
sold or what their features were, even though they were not 2 feet from
him. He even asked me if I was testing him. NO, I want to buy this
scanner with these features for $89.00. Needless to say, he told me to
have a good day & walked away.
I could not believe this. I came in to BUY something. I saw what I
wanted to buy & planned to walk out with it. Instaed, I was insulted &
talked down to by a person who had no idea what he was talking about.
I remember a time when you walked into RS and there was a salesperson
with their ham call sign on their name badge. They would walk you
through buying anything you wanted & explained how to use it.
Sorry, I just had to vent. I hope this is not a sign of things to come
here in Cincinnati.
Best regards,
Dave
--
David Lewis
dle...@lanstar.net
LANStar Communications
Wilreless solutions & accessories
http://www.lanstar.net
Stinky
TooManyRadios
<da...@aaa.lanstar.net> writes:
>We went to a local Radio Shack
This was your first mistake. Don't buy ANYTHING from Radio Shack which
requires input or a technical opinion from the "salespeople." RS is great for
fuses, adaptors, solder, etc...but anything above that level, forget it.
Their scanners are also generally way overpriced.
HalfLife9rb
you want to buy from a r/c car to scanners and parts.
Jim Shaffer, Jr.
electronics knowledge for quite some time now. I still run into a ham or other
hardware-hacker in the local one occasionally, but they're rarely there the next
time I go!
--
"I am not an Anarchist in *your* sense of the word :
your brain is too dense for any known explosive to affect it."
--Aleister Crowley
Daniel M. Conti
>
>I could not believe this. I came in to BUY something. I saw what I
>wanted to buy & planned to walk out with it. Instaed, I was insulted &
>talked down to by a person who had no idea what he was talking about.
>
>I remember a time when you walked into RS and there was a salesperson
>with their ham call sign on their name badge. They would walk you
>through buying anything you wanted & explained how to use it.
>
>Sorry, I just had to vent. I hope this is not a sign of things to come
>here in Cincinnati.
No, it is all over the country, and not getting any better, AND it is
not just at the Rat Shack...
Sad,,,,,
Frizz
door was wide open and no one was there. I looked around for what I needed,
a simple part, and they didn't have it. Big surprise.........
Daniel M. Conti <dco...@bellatlantic.net> wrote in message
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Rocinante
You mean you actually got an english speaking RS salesman?
I remember around 10 years ago, when the job market was tight, you
needed a college degree to manage some retail stores. Now, if you
speak english, you are in, no questions asked.
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000 04:38:07 GMT, Dave Lewis <da...@aaa.lanstar.net>
wrote:
>I could not believe this. I came in to BUY something. I saw what I
>wanted to buy & planned to walk out with it. Instaed, I was insulted &
>talked down to by a person who had no idea what he was talking about.
>
>I remember a time when you walked into RS and there was a salesperson
>with their ham call sign on their name badge. They would walk you
>through buying anything you wanted & explained how to use it.
>
>Sorry, I just had to vent. I hope this is not a sign of things to come
>here in Cincinnati.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Dave
Jason
the district manager.
When I worked for Rat Shack I always asked the customer what they wanted,
and went from there.
Unfortunately there is so much corporate BS, and the big wigs cant spare a
few bucks to pay the working help a little more to keep worthy souls
employed. I wonder if they realize that this would make them a better
company? Sorry for the vent.
BTW, was the salesperson 16? =]
Jason n1iic
Dave Lewis <da...@aaa.lanstar.net> wrote in message
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Andy in RI
of the store manager being extremely rude to me over the phone... funny thing
is that I haven't seen him in the store again after that! :)
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