Red Wave Radio

Quote:> Friends
> Does your local Radio shack market scanners at all? Our local Radio
> shack franchise store doesn't. .Even tho they were told to set up and
> display a Radio shack Pro95. It sits there on a shelf unplugged. When I
> go in and clone it they keep it on for the time being. When I leave it
> looks like they unplug it and remove the batteries and leave the
> batteries out. I go in to see how things are going with it. There it
> sits unplugged. The memory is gone because they leave the batteries out
> for extended periods of time. They were TOLD to market scanners. They
> say they are trying. .They're not. Why can't they get a simple case. Put
> a Pro95 Pro96 and Pro97 in it. Program them and you've done something.
> You've put the Radio back in RADIO SHACK! YAY! Steve

I drove nearly 50 miles to the next closest (I live way out in the
"sticks" up here in the upper left corner) RC where they had a large
display....told them the story and they almost didn't believe me until
they called my local store and inquired--and were told the same thing!!

Wayne Howell
Photon Phlats Observatory
Port Townsend, WA

Employees don't really have to know what they're talking about - just show
up on schedule and know where to find the product in the back room is about
the extent of what's demanded of them...

And it shows...

YMMV.

Scanner radios is one of their high-ticket items.  You'd think they'd be
really pushing them.  Strange.

Bill Crocker

Quote:> Friends
> Does your local Radio shack market scanners at all? Our local Radio shack
> franchise store doesn't. .Even tho they were told to set up and display a
> Radio shack Pro95. It sits there on a shelf unplugged. When I go in and
> clone it they keep it on for the time being. When I leave it looks like
> they unplug it and remove the batteries and leave the batteries out. I go
> in to see how things are going with it. There it sits unplugged. The
> memory is gone because they leave the batteries out for extended periods
> of time. They were TOLD to market scanners. They say they are trying.
> .They're not. Why can't they get a simple case. Put a Pro95 Pro96 and
> Pro97 in it. Program them and you've done something. You've put the Radio
> back in RADIO SHACK! YAY! Steve

Asked the clerk for his name and the name and phone number of his
district manager. If he asked me why, I'd reply that I want to confirm
Radio Shack's decision to discontinue carrying scanners. If he didn't
cave in at that point, I would call the district manager right then
and there from my cell phone, ask the question, and then explain that
<insert clerk's name here> at <inster store number and/or location
here> is telling me that RS no longer carries scanners. If necessary,
I'd hand the phone to the clerk and have him tell his DM what he just
told me. Then I would have watched as the clerk began wincing from the
tongue-lashing the DM would give him.

Within a week or two, that store would have a new manager... And there
would be a full line of scanners gracing the shelves. And that lying
punk of a clerk would be gone, as well.

We were talking about the Pro-95.

I calmly waived the 600.00 cash in her direction, and said 'thanks...think
I'll go elsewhere.".

They didn't even try to dissuade me from leaving! Unbelieveable. I went
elsewhere and bought a great scanner for less, plus I received a floppy of
local freq's and a printout of many more useful freq's that were active in
my area. I received a free leather case as I purchased on a 'sale-day'.

For plugs, wire and misc electronics I'll still go to RS if I have to.
Anything over 10 bucks, I take my business elsewhere.

If I had time, I'd post the real story. It's a funny story, however it's a
very sad indicator of the Radio Shack chain's refusal to help customers.

Mike T.

HOLD THE PHONE! "Scanners are a hight ticket item"? Are you sure about
that statement? Wouldn't say a t.v be more of a profit maker? Because if
scanners do provide more of a profit then this store is making their
money some other way .What way I do not know!? Steve