[Coco] Radio Shack dealers - CoCoFEST! Visit?

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  Original Message
From: Gene Heskett
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 7:01 PM
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Reply To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] Radio Shack dealers - CoCoFEST! Visit?


On Tuesday 23 January 2018 18:08:11 Allen Huffman wrote:

> On Jan 23, 2018, at 5:05 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:
> > The only thing left here is a Sprint dealer now.  Very low to
> > non-existant stock. Strange faces behind the counter that had no
> > interest in talking to this old fart.
>
> Most of my RS locations are not Sprint stores, with no connection to
> Radio Shack and no Radio Shack merchandise. Is that what you are
> talking about?

No, nearly every model was a "special order" taking days to ship it to
the customer, who then had to bring it back to the store for an extra
fee enabling it. Hell of a way to run a train IMO. Sprint did the same
thing to me 2 years running in Iron Mountain MI. Phone didn't work when
I bought it back home to WV at the end of that trip.  So I dig it out
and take it with me the next time I was up there. Didn't work, sim card
expired. Had to buy another $250 phone. About 5 weeks total use cost me
over $500. The local phone company was worse, any call out of town was 5
buck a minute long distance, including across the railroad tracks to
Kingsford MI.  Next time I bought a phone before I went up, worked fine
for about $30 a month.  Now I have one of Wallies Alcatels, $11 month,
but even turned off, it needs charged every week or so. Taint that great
a phone, and its camera is a joke. But its a road phone. ;-)

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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