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- From: josephc@cco.caltech.edu (Joseph Chiu)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Big Brother Radio Shack
- Date: 10 Nov 1992 20:30:10 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
- Lines: 44
- Message-ID: <1dp64iINNene@gap.caltech.edu>
- References: <1840073@hpsad.sad.hp.com> <BxBzJK.BqK@news.udel.edu> <1992Nov10.112934.60615@cc.usu.edu>
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- slmdj@cc.usu.edu writes:
-
- >In article <BxBzJK.BqK@news.udel.edu>, bew@brahms.udel.edu (Ben Williams) writes:
- >>
- >> I've just read this thread containing 50+ complaints about Radio Shack.
- >> What I would like to know is: Why do we have to shop at RS to get
- >> electronic supplies? Why aren't there other electronic stores in
- >> competition with RS?
-
- Sure there is... Circuit City, The Good Guys, Silo, Sears, Montgomery Ward,
- even Robinson's and May Company...
-
- Oh, you mean for electronic components? Well, when was the last time your
- mother needed a 10K ohm resistor and a handful of 74LS00's? I'm afraid
- that at "onesies", there's not enough profit to make selling components
- worthwhile unless you raise the price like RS does.
-
- >> I still would like the option at least to do business elsewhere.
- >> You know, like maybe an electronics store where the salesmen know what
- >> they are talking about...
-
- All the EE's are busy getting good money designing stuff.
-
- In some areas in California, there is a Fry's Electronics - they actually
- do a pretty decent job of keeping their price low and their selection wide
- enough... But there's only one Fry's in the Los Angeles area. (Fry's,
- BTW, is sort of a K-Mart for electronic/tech hobbyists/pro's. _B_I_G_! )
-
- >> Ben Williams
- >> bew@brahms.udel.edu
-
- >us hobbyists around. I have found my best (and cheapest) source of parts to be
- >an electronics teacher I once had who works at the local vocational school...
-
- If you have time, mail ordering parts is the best way. And if you're into
- electronics, there's no excuse for not ordering "common" parts and keeping
- a stockpile.
-
- And worst come to worst, I just scavenge discarded PCB's that I find
- lying around the campus...
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