I hate Radio Shack

From: Corda Albert J DLVA <CordaAJ_at_NSWC.NAVY.MIL>
Date: Fri Jun 7 16:00:48 2002

What annoys me is when they give horribly incorrect advice. I stopped
by a local radio shack earlier this week to price out some RG6/U for
a new DirecTV dish that I was cobbling together. I needed about ~350
feet of cable. The sales droid insisted that I'd needed to buy three
in-line amps, and install them all at the dish ... (I guess he knew
enough rudimentary english to read the amp packaging, and extrapolate)
What bothered me the most, though, was the authoritative manner in which
he described what I had to do. It took quite an effort to keep from
laughing in his face...

BTW, I bought the coax somewhere else, just on principles...

-al-
-acorda_at_1bigred.com
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gene Buckle [mailto:geneb_at_deltasoft.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 4:12 PM
> To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: RE: I hate Radio Shack
>
>
> Damnit John, you beat me to it. :)
>
> g.
>
>
> On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, J.C. Wren wrote:
>
> > Radio Shack: "You have questions, we have blank stares."
> >
> > --John
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org
> [mailto:cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org]On
> > Behalf Of Bob Lafleur
> > Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 15:38
> > To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
> > Subject: RE: I hate Radio Shack
> >
> >
> > I've decided that Radio Shack has one reason for existance; to sell
> > pre-paid cell-phones to low-lifes. Every time I go in there, all the
> > sales people are occupied with selling a pre-paid
> cell-phone to someone
> > who has such bad credit that they can't get a regular
> cell-phone. Then
> > when they finally get to me, I ask them for an adapter, or cable, or
> > something and they look at me like I'm crazy. "I've never
> heard of such
> > a thing" they say. If it's not a pre-paid cell-phone, they
> have no clue.
> >
> >
> >
>
Received on Fri Jun 07 2002 - 16:00:48 BST