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- From: bladin@wam.umd.edu (Ilana J. Getz)
- Subject: Re: Radio Shack garbage
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.214615.6951@wam.umd.edu>
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- References: <1992Dec31.092338.24589%jim.uucp@wupost.wustl.edu> <C05qz7.Mp7@cs.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan2.084526.1056@cmkrnl.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 21:46:15 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan2.084526.1056@cmkrnl.com> jeh@cmkrnl.com writes:
- >In article <C05qz7.Mp7@cs.uiuc.edu>, gillies@cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies) writes:
- >> Re: Somebody's Radio Shack Speakers (the ones rated highly in Consumer
- >> Reports) are not working well as center-channel speakers.
- >>
- >> Radio Shack makes total garbage; most likely your problem is all Radio
- >> Shack's fault. I would never buy a Radio Shack product.
- >
- >This is a trifle overstated. RS's upper-end scanners, for example, are widely
- >considered to be among the best available, and they have a long history of
- >reliability. Many of their short wave (now often called "world band") radios
- >are also well-regarded (these are relabelled Sangean units, so I guess you
- >could say that they're not really a RS product).
- >
- I worked at good 'ol RS when I was in college, and I think I can provide
- some insight.
-
- Radio Shack manufactures about 50% of th stuff they sell, and the rest is
- farmed out to other suppliers. For example, when I worked there, they made
- all of the stereo receivers, but none of the VCR's. To make matters worse,
- the situation is not consistant within a product line. They made all of their
- low-end cassette decks, but none of their high end ones. The cheap ones were
- crap, and the high end ones were pretty good. On top of all of this, the
- list of outside suppliers chages from year to year. One years models may be
- repackaged Sharp TVs & VCRs, the next may be a different model all together.
-
- What's the bottom line? A total lack of consistancy. You simply cannot say
- that "all of the RS gear is bad," or even that all of one particular
- line of products is good or bad. They may all come from a different place.
-
- As a sales person with a morals (yes, a contradiction), I had a hard time
- selling a lot of this stuff with confidence. I didn't work there long...
-
- I agree that it is best to avoid RS products in general, but not because
- they are all bad. Rather, there is no way to know which ones are bad.
-
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