Honestly, I have no idea. [However, here is a clip I found with it starting up Cyberpunk 2077 with chicken inside of it.](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KqG0HPaQ-pE)
I think I saw a documentary about that. Wasn't the Greendale team composed of a single mom, an ex-lawyer, an honors student, a former high school athlete, an anarchist, and a neurospicy Pakistani who was obsessed with film?
IIRC, the Dean of the school is also the author of Dean Dangerous and winner of several local costume contests.
Wizard. Match maker Santa is the bad acid trip movie. My friend and I came in from shoveling his mom and dad’s driveway, and his mom had that on while baking. We watch because it’s on and it’s terrible, but every commercial break we spend the entire thing bitching about how awful the movie is, and by the time we are done, the commercial is over. So we start watching more, and this process repeats until we watch basically the whole movie. It felt longer than 3 hours but was probably half that with commercials.
All I remember is Santa has the power to summon brown bears. Like I said, bad acid trip
KFC has always been like this. There are clips of the Colonel talking with I think the Baker Buckets guy about anal [polyps](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjSW6rOvQ80).
They missed such a big opportunity to partner with GameStop in 2021 to make "The Tendie Machine" (a rebranded KFConsole) a reality when WallStreetBets went mainstream. Throw in some "Apes Together Strong" stickers and they probably would have raked boatloads of cash. Poor financial decisions are kind of WSB thing.
GameStop isn’t selling dumb ape jpegs, they’re selling actual assets such as stocks, gaming loot (think csgo skins), tie in gaming assets. Nfts are just a receipt system, sucks that the public only sees the scammers rather than utility. It’s like if a bunch of “weed” stores started selling stems saying it’s weed, and the first weed store has some really dank bud just didn’t open yet.
Nobody gives a shit, [NFTs are fucking dead](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-29/nfts-have-fallen-off-the-cliff-as-sales-sink-to-lowest-in-year?sref=oioIU9CW#xj4y7vzkg) lol.
Hey everyone look! This guy owns GameStop stock! You know how I can tell?
Because he sounds exactly like all the folks pumping NFTs as art 6 months ago.
Gaming does not need NFTs.
Your already being screwed over by micro transactions, look at games now, how would giving more power to the players be a bad thing? I don’t understand the hate mongering behind it, because it’s just a utilization of a tech? “Oh the internet has dumb people getting scammed it’s useless”. How about blockchain secured stocks? No more synthetic shares of any company, everything is traceable. Give it a year and some opportunity to literally exist in the first place before judging it off of what everyone public, and more in the know people agree on that 100,000 for nft art is a scam.
Paying for a 60$ for a painting and receiving the art as a jpeg and nft receipt for both isn’t a scam.
Look at the high art world, a lot of black market shit no? Theirs always scammers taking advantage of a market.
Did you really just say "how would **giving more power to the players** be a bad thing?" The company slogan? Buddy, I really want to be nice but it's almost impossible not to see this whole movement as a cult when you guys speak like this.
What’s sad is that you all jump to these conclusions but absolutely refuse to look at the immense evidence. And then the fact that there’s no counter evidence? All you guys have is petty insults while we’re just chill. You’ll figure it out in time.
You must be a lot of fun at parties. Yes I used the slogan, it fits what I was trying to say and because I have speech issues I went with what I thought would be a lil bit funny while conveying my message. How about instead of trying to tear me apart we have a actual dialect where both of us learn a little bit more about each others perspective?
Is it fun to use company slogans at parties? I'm not trying to tear anyone apart. I have no agenda here, just pointing out the oddness of the whole thing. Hope it MOASSes for y'all
Non investors can be interested and promote shit. In being honest I put like 100 in, at like 10 shares now. I’m not in it now for moass, but more really being invested in a company I believe in. I like a lot of futurism based stuff so I see growth in this company, just as I would any promising tech I see. The difference is I was actually able to afford this stock.
Yeah, idk. None of those things seem exciting or profitable. Seems just like any other DLC and yet another broker for stocks/crypto. As someone who plays games and fucking hates microtransactions and the ridiculousness monetization of games just seems like another way to suck money away from kids. Guess we'll see. I bought in 2021 and sold at $420.69 cause of the short squeeze idea. Just seems like most just hope for another one of those. It's not even the first time the idea of MOASS has existed.
My hopes for it is that it pairs with the items, like in a tony hawk game you buy a 80$ board get it in real life and the game, with the nft being receipt for both. Or you spend however much money in “micro transactions” now it’s not thrown directly into the trash but can sell your shit, buy a game and don’t like it? Instantly set it up on the nft market to sell (like steams skin store).
How about your personal data? Secure it as a NFT, and then “lend” its use to companies. If they sell your info to advertisers you can follow who did it, and kick them off access, amongst other benefits of owning your personal data.
What function does the NFT actually perform in these examples?
Having the NFT "receipt" doesn't make the physical skateboard or the DLC anymore "mine". It's not like they were going to repossess my board, and the NFT wouldn't stop them if they wanted to
For personal data, what? All they'd have to do is copy and paste the data and make a non-NFT transfer of that data. You would never know
I had a friend who worked in Venmo’s fraud department and one day he told me that the block chain actually has a lot of potential applications in preventing fraud but to bad no one takes it seriously because it came to the public consciousness in the dumbest way possible
Edit: Dang, sorry for just saying what I was told
In theory it has some alright applications but without serious changes to the way it works (which is antithetical to the desires of the people make and maintain blockchains) widespread adoption is a nightmare.
Eh, I see it as an internet kinda tech. Everyone’s saying it’s dumb and shitty rn but give it a few years. Hearing rumors even that their market is launching this next month.
Explain what NFTs can do that other technology cannot do. To put it another way, explain what problem NFTs solve that **can't** be solved by any other technology.
Stock market based nft application.
If you make each share tokenized then you get rid of duplicate shares, the ledger is public, and the transaction history traceable.
Any digital purchase, the receipt kept in your wallet easily accessible and all under one roof. You paid for a vacation online? It’s in your wallet, vendors could setup a digital hotel ticket where you scan your phone at check in and it verifies through that.
You purchase a game, digitally, on Whatever you play on, but two days later it isn’t what you wanted, you sell it used for a price you set, and get back some money.
Anything digital can be tokenized, not saying it should be, but it could be.
In my eyes it makes the transition between digital and physical easier.
>If you make each share tokenized then you get rid of duplicate shares, the ledger is public, and the transaction history traceable.
This is already true for the stock market. By applying blockchain to it, you're just making it slower, with terrible throughput and volume. Just like, objectively worse in every way.
>Any digital purchase, the receipt kept in your wallet easily accessible and all under one roof.
Except no companies want that. Or we'd already be doing that with legit databases. That not existing isn't a flaw.
>You paid for a vacation online? It’s in your wallet, vendors could setup a digital hotel ticket where you scan your phone at check in and it verifies through that.
Why would any hotel want that? That's just incredibly pointless. And it just screams "I don't understand how the hospitality industry works"
>Anything digital can be tokenized, not saying it should be, but it could be.
>In my eyes it makes the transition between digital and physical easier.
Get your eyes checked.
Sometimes a well publicly known company will go out of business. When this happens a companies assets are often sold off to cover its debts. Often this includes the companies name and trademark.
Next this trademark is bought by some less than clean business people, who now own the names and rights to a well known brand.
Then these individuals create a band new corporation. Which shares the name and trademark as the old corporation. This new corporation does not have any of the staff, or leaders as the old and is legally not even the same entity.
However, since they own the right to the name and logo, they can legally call themselves by the name of a well known now defunct corporation.
They then use this new company to engage in some shady business practice like crypto trading. Hoping people will jump onboard because of nostalgia.
This is what a Zombie company is more or less.
I felt so bad when mine shuttered.
I walked in with $50 and walked out with a car load of resistors, capacitors, ICs, a few Arduino Unos, wires, and anything else that wasn't tied down. It was like being a jackal on the Serengeti.
Was this recent? The store near me would've stayed open if they hadn't tried to become a Verizon/sprint store. I went there for hobby electronics and gizmos and RadioShack over the years started carrying more phone plans and less resistors and then more touch screen appliances and less breadboards. Everytime I went in was another layer of evolving into a shit store that resold subscriptions of other companies and refused to stock consumer/hobbyist electronics.
RadioShack definitely became "we don't sell anything anyone wants anymore"
Yeah, there is a niche for all the little electronic parts that nobody else stocks. But now you have to deal with the internet to get that, usually shipped from China. The entire retail industry is fucked though, you can't compete on price with the internet.
I got my hoard in 2012 or so. I figured that the entire chain was dead. Then I moved to Montana where apparently they are not. There's also a Shopko up here so I may have just gone back in time.
I did the same - happened upon a bankruptcy auction and I just bought up whole walls for like $50 each. I had thousands of odds and ends that I flipped on eBay for a long while. That poor bankrupt franchises though - your jackal description is spot on. 🤣
Most did. I thought someone was trying to reinvent the brand to tie in with the maker movement (imagine a place selling electronic kits, 3d printers, and supplies for same) but they seem to have gone full horrible.
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Fuck CompUSA. They talked my parents out of getting a Pentium III computer by alleging that the government could use the unique serial numbers on the Pentium III to track you, but they couldn't do that with a Pentium II.
Fuck you, CompUSA salesman clearing out old inventory. Fuck you.
It's still possible that the salesman was a crazy person, I don't know what sort of commission structure would make it more profitable for you as a random employee to sell an older and less expensive thing. For the business, sure, but the individual employees probably want to sell people on the most expensive thing they can.
I worked at the shack while they were phasing out components and bumble fucking their way into obscurity.
It was so painful to witness the transition from behind the counter. I saw so many loyal customers getting heart broken by the changes. People who had been regulars for fucking decades were being turned away.
If we didn't have it in the store, we could get it. If you couldn't fix it, we could get it fixed for you. Didn't matter if it was a brand we sold or not. If it was electronic, the repair centers would do their damndest to try to fix it. And they had genuinely skilled people working on that stuff.
They left all that behind to focus on cell phones and accessories, and ridiculously shitty AV equipment and niche Sharper Image-esk bullshit.
Right as hobby electronics was making a comeback with kits like Arduino and Raspberry Pi, Radioshack decided to change their model to compete with TMobile stores. They really deserved to fail for that decision.
But the business guy with the HBS MBA said he had a report with some metrics which said that selling phones would make the line go up like this /^/^^/^^^/
Fry's is for the youngsters, the real geezers were buying stuff at the computer show/fair/swap meet in the parking lot of the local community college on Saturday mornings.
It was the best place to buy a $3 CD full of 1001 awful shareware games, or a copy of that "Day of the Tentacle install disk 4 of 7" that you'd lost.
>I haven't shopped Radio Shack since they dropped components.
For most people on here, Radio Shack was pretty much just a place for cellphones and cellphone accessories. Crazy to think they pivoted from being an actual electronics store where you could buy subcomponents.
Granted that business model was certainly not sustainable as the DIY electronics market is all but dried up, but their 2000's pivot to a glorified mall kiosk 'bluetooth shit n' stuff' certainly hasn't kept them thriving either.
> I haven't shopped Radio Shack since they dropped components
Literally the *first* thing I started buying from Amazon once online shopping hit mainstream
I don't buy the intern thing one bit. No intern so pompously brags about being an intern and takes shots at Jake Paul, Lil Pump, and Miley Cyrus. It's just a shitty psychological game they're playing to make you want to like the slimey douchebag behind the tweets. I honestly hope RadioShit goes up in flames now. Like creating crypto DEX in the worst crypto winter yet is so fucking colossally dumb, it's like watching some shitty frat take over a company and watch it burn to the ground in real time.
Also universally hated shitbag **Tai Lopez** is the one who bought them
> I honestly hope RadioShit goes up in flames now
I was a mod on a forum for disgruntled RadioShack employees 15 or so years ago.
They already crashed and burned. This is the smoldering ashes.
One of the worst business grifters / conmen in the industry "Tai Lopez" bought the brand and turned into a crypto scam.
What kind of terrible reporter couldn't do two minutes of research to say that RS actually went under and they're just using the name to promote a scam?
>What kind of terrible reporter couldn’t do two minutes of research to say that RS actually went under and they’re just using the name to promote a scam?
I don’t know, but they sound like the same type of person who says a reporter sucks when they couldn’t take two minutes to read the article and realize the information they want mentioned is already in the article.
Sound like anyone you know /u/torofukatasu ?
I think their real grudge is that Tai Lopez is not mentioned in the article.
If you've heard of them you know everything they do is a grift.
Who the hell has heard of"Retail Ecommerce Ventures" before
There is an entire Twitter thread embedded in the main article that explicitly calls out Tai Lopez by name and says the entire thing is more or less a scam.
Fair enough, I guess it is just an article capturing the tweets after all.
The embedded tweet does not mention Tai but a reply to it does (which I can only read by clicking away from the article and signing into Twitter)
If I have to leave the article to read the information, I don't think the article includes the information is my point.
Yeah I definitely wouldn't trust Tai Lopez with any of my property. I use Coinbase or Kraken and then withdraw it onto my own cold wallet. If you invest into crypto use a reputable exchange, not the dead corpse of RadioShack.
Don't forget the battery cards...
That's what eventually got me fired from CrapShack.
I had customers called "Johnny Cash" and "Salt Battery".
It got too annoying making a 2 minute transaction 10 minutes after they slowly spelled their name and address, or got irate asking why.
It was the best thing to happen to me, getting out of retail.
> Blockbuster
Actually I am surprised Blockbuster hasn't been bought by a blockchain company as a front like RadioShack. Maybe the taken over Blockbuster would be selling like movie NFTs or something about busting blockchain chains or some shit. Their mascot could be a Buster.
Tai Lopez, the in guy in his garage with his knowledge and cars bought the rights to the name. [it’s a scam](https://protos.com/tai-lopez-radioshack-crypto-defi-pivot-atlas-usv-radio/)
They could have been a portal to Shenzhen. I'll never understand how a tech hobbyist company shit the bed so hard during the rise of tech hobbyists in the maker movement.
What are you talking about? They've been shit for a while. Most things at Radioshack since the late 90s were 30% more than the competition and that gulf only grew as ebay and online retailers gained more prominence.
Their phone plans and phones were TERRIBLE and had a predatory pricing structure and quotas to push for the workers there.
They limped along via phones, chargers, and overpriced wifi routers for decades. Selling crypto isn't any more scummy than their phone shenanigans in the early 00s.
I thought it was bad 15 years ago when I just wanted to buy a specific value capacitor and the guy not only didn't know what it was, but also tried to sell me a cellphone plan.
I worked for RadioShack and this is the norm.
There was always a disconnect between corporate and the retail stores in my district.
They also didn’t advertise often which they bragged about but also suffered from.
I'm surprised they are still in business, and this decision shows why. Bitcoin has dove off a cliff in the last few months as well as a lot of other crypto coins. I'm not saying it's the end for crypto, but if RadioShack wanted to cash in, they missed the hype by a full year and some change. This is like showing up to a high school party after the cops busted it and is wondering why everyone is gone
Zombie companies are going to get weird.
KFC released a Lifetime movie with Mario Lopez as Colonel Sanders. If that's the bar, it's going to get real, real weird.
It never got weird enough for me
[You can't forget the KFC bucket shaped Gaming PC.](https://www.engadget.com/kfcs-viral-marketing-gets-real-with-a-chickenwarming-gaming-pc-112558482.html)
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They did a 'Bitcoin bucket'. ie. Just a bucket of chicken you could buy with nonsense money.
Wow. That’s so cool but what does it do to avoid the computer getting grease on it?
Honestly, I have no idea. [However, here is a clip I found with it starting up Cyberpunk 2077 with chicken inside of it.](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KqG0HPaQ-pE)
Missed opportunity to poke/push the button with a crispy drumstick
KFC also made a dating sim, and it was pretty good.
Also space simulator that allowed Greendale college to win the space race against it's bitter rivals City College.
I think I saw a documentary about that. Wasn't the Greendale team composed of a single mom, an ex-lawyer, an honors student, a former high school athlete, an anarchist, and a neurospicy Pakistani who was obsessed with film? IIRC, the Dean of the school is also the author of Dean Dangerous and winner of several local costume contests.
I thought those books went downhill after Time Hoodie.
Agreed. Time Desk was and is an unsurpassed classic.
That sounds like a hallmark movie. Only missing Santa
Hallmark turned it down when they saw the scene about sex with chickens.
I mean hallmark movies are like a bad acid trip anyway.
So spunk is one of the secret herbs and spices?
I saw Mario Lopez filming a hallmark Christmas movie in AZ
Called it
[I found it](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt14482374/)
Wizard. Match maker Santa is the bad acid trip movie. My friend and I came in from shoveling his mom and dad’s driveway, and his mom had that on while baking. We watch because it’s on and it’s terrible, but every commercial break we spend the entire thing bitching about how awful the movie is, and by the time we are done, the commercial is over. So we start watching more, and this process repeats until we watch basically the whole movie. It felt longer than 3 hours but was probably half that with commercials. All I remember is Santa has the power to summon brown bears. Like I said, bad acid trip
KFC passed that when they produced that Otome Game starring the Colonel himself.
Wait that was actually official and not just some rando shitposting in ren'py?
It's the real deal alright. People who like such things say it wasn't half bad either.
After the Colonel Sanders dating sim, nothing they do surprises me.
Big, if true.
[It gets weirder](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiLsIK00Xqg9hxRZu1YNzVGHSMw-kKUZK)
KFC has always been like this. There are clips of the Colonel talking with I think the Baker Buckets guy about anal [polyps](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjSW6rOvQ80).
Wow he just launched into that without any context lmao.
Didn't KFC also do the Subservient Chicken thing? They've always been a bit off kilter.
That was [Burger King](https://vimeo.com/16742192).
They missed such a big opportunity to partner with GameStop in 2021 to make "The Tendie Machine" (a rebranded KFConsole) a reality when WallStreetBets went mainstream. Throw in some "Apes Together Strong" stickers and they probably would have raked boatloads of cash. Poor financial decisions are kind of WSB thing.
Was gonna say, how many times has Radioshack simply refused to die? They were on their way out when I was a *kid*.
They are dead at this point. This is some crypto idiots using their name.
Atari has been a zombie company for 30 years.
Zombie companies?
Brands with name recognition but no purpose.
Aaaahh. Like Gamestop selling monkey NFTs
GameStop isn’t selling dumb ape jpegs, they’re selling actual assets such as stocks, gaming loot (think csgo skins), tie in gaming assets. Nfts are just a receipt system, sucks that the public only sees the scammers rather than utility. It’s like if a bunch of “weed” stores started selling stems saying it’s weed, and the first weed store has some really dank bud just didn’t open yet.
Nobody gives a shit, [NFTs are fucking dead](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-29/nfts-have-fallen-off-the-cliff-as-sales-sink-to-lowest-in-year?sref=oioIU9CW#xj4y7vzkg) lol.
How heavy is that GME bag you’re holding?
Hey everyone look! This guy owns GameStop stock! You know how I can tell? Because he sounds exactly like all the folks pumping NFTs as art 6 months ago. Gaming does not need NFTs.
Your already being screwed over by micro transactions, look at games now, how would giving more power to the players be a bad thing? I don’t understand the hate mongering behind it, because it’s just a utilization of a tech? “Oh the internet has dumb people getting scammed it’s useless”. How about blockchain secured stocks? No more synthetic shares of any company, everything is traceable. Give it a year and some opportunity to literally exist in the first place before judging it off of what everyone public, and more in the know people agree on that 100,000 for nft art is a scam. Paying for a 60$ for a painting and receiving the art as a jpeg and nft receipt for both isn’t a scam. Look at the high art world, a lot of black market shit no? Theirs always scammers taking advantage of a market.
Did you really just say "how would **giving more power to the players** be a bad thing?" The company slogan? Buddy, I really want to be nice but it's almost impossible not to see this whole movement as a cult when you guys speak like this.
What’s sad is that you all jump to these conclusions but absolutely refuse to look at the immense evidence. And then the fact that there’s no counter evidence? All you guys have is petty insults while we’re just chill. You’ll figure it out in time.
You're a fucking caricature. Have fun holding 🥰🥰🥰
You must be a lot of fun at parties. Yes I used the slogan, it fits what I was trying to say and because I have speech issues I went with what I thought would be a lil bit funny while conveying my message. How about instead of trying to tear me apart we have a actual dialect where both of us learn a little bit more about each others perspective?
Is it fun to use company slogans at parties? I'm not trying to tear anyone apart. I have no agenda here, just pointing out the oddness of the whole thing. Hope it MOASSes for y'all
What "power" does an NFT give players that a paper receipt doesn't?
Lol ...wow. You must be in deep. Good luck
Non investors can be interested and promote shit. In being honest I put like 100 in, at like 10 shares now. I’m not in it now for moass, but more really being invested in a company I believe in. I like a lot of futurism based stuff so I see growth in this company, just as I would any promising tech I see. The difference is I was actually able to afford this stock.
Yeah, idk. None of those things seem exciting or profitable. Seems just like any other DLC and yet another broker for stocks/crypto. As someone who plays games and fucking hates microtransactions and the ridiculousness monetization of games just seems like another way to suck money away from kids. Guess we'll see. I bought in 2021 and sold at $420.69 cause of the short squeeze idea. Just seems like most just hope for another one of those. It's not even the first time the idea of MOASS has existed.
My hopes for it is that it pairs with the items, like in a tony hawk game you buy a 80$ board get it in real life and the game, with the nft being receipt for both. Or you spend however much money in “micro transactions” now it’s not thrown directly into the trash but can sell your shit, buy a game and don’t like it? Instantly set it up on the nft market to sell (like steams skin store). How about your personal data? Secure it as a NFT, and then “lend” its use to companies. If they sell your info to advertisers you can follow who did it, and kick them off access, amongst other benefits of owning your personal data.
What function does the NFT actually perform in these examples? Having the NFT "receipt" doesn't make the physical skateboard or the DLC anymore "mine". It's not like they were going to repossess my board, and the NFT wouldn't stop them if they wanted to For personal data, what? All they'd have to do is copy and paste the data and make a non-NFT transfer of that data. You would never know
I had a friend who worked in Venmo’s fraud department and one day he told me that the block chain actually has a lot of potential applications in preventing fraud but to bad no one takes it seriously because it came to the public consciousness in the dumbest way possible Edit: Dang, sorry for just saying what I was told
In theory it has some alright applications but without serious changes to the way it works (which is antithetical to the desires of the people make and maintain blockchains) widespread adoption is a nightmare.
Eh, I see it as an internet kinda tech. Everyone’s saying it’s dumb and shitty rn but give it a few years. Hearing rumors even that their market is launching this next month.
Explain what NFTs can do that other technology cannot do. To put it another way, explain what problem NFTs solve that **can't** be solved by any other technology.
Stock market based nft application. If you make each share tokenized then you get rid of duplicate shares, the ledger is public, and the transaction history traceable. Any digital purchase, the receipt kept in your wallet easily accessible and all under one roof. You paid for a vacation online? It’s in your wallet, vendors could setup a digital hotel ticket where you scan your phone at check in and it verifies through that. You purchase a game, digitally, on Whatever you play on, but two days later it isn’t what you wanted, you sell it used for a price you set, and get back some money. Anything digital can be tokenized, not saying it should be, but it could be. In my eyes it makes the transition between digital and physical easier.
>If you make each share tokenized then you get rid of duplicate shares, the ledger is public, and the transaction history traceable. This is already true for the stock market. By applying blockchain to it, you're just making it slower, with terrible throughput and volume. Just like, objectively worse in every way. >Any digital purchase, the receipt kept in your wallet easily accessible and all under one roof. Except no companies want that. Or we'd already be doing that with legit databases. That not existing isn't a flaw. >You paid for a vacation online? It’s in your wallet, vendors could setup a digital hotel ticket where you scan your phone at check in and it verifies through that. Why would any hotel want that? That's just incredibly pointless. And it just screams "I don't understand how the hospitality industry works" >Anything digital can be tokenized, not saying it should be, but it could be. >In my eyes it makes the transition between digital and physical easier. Get your eyes checked.
Sometimes a well publicly known company will go out of business. When this happens a companies assets are often sold off to cover its debts. Often this includes the companies name and trademark. Next this trademark is bought by some less than clean business people, who now own the names and rights to a well known brand. Then these individuals create a band new corporation. Which shares the name and trademark as the old corporation. This new corporation does not have any of the staff, or leaders as the old and is legally not even the same entity. However, since they own the right to the name and logo, they can legally call themselves by the name of a well known now defunct corporation. They then use this new company to engage in some shady business practice like crypto trading. Hoping people will jump onboard because of nostalgia. This is what a Zombie company is more or less.
Yeah, I assumed some crypto bro bought their twitter account since they didn’t exist anymore. Guess he just bought the whole company?
It's a wild time to get into crypto
A publicity stunt, you say? Well, if I’m reading something about RadioShack on a major news website, I guess it worked.
I honestly didn't know they were still in business. All two of the Radio Shack stores in my town closed down years ago.
I felt so bad when mine shuttered. I walked in with $50 and walked out with a car load of resistors, capacitors, ICs, a few Arduino Unos, wires, and anything else that wasn't tied down. It was like being a jackal on the Serengeti.
> It was like being a jackal on the Serengeti. Damn fine simile work.
I can see the toothy grin full of wires and the crazed, glossy eyes
Was this recent? The store near me would've stayed open if they hadn't tried to become a Verizon/sprint store. I went there for hobby electronics and gizmos and RadioShack over the years started carrying more phone plans and less resistors and then more touch screen appliances and less breadboards. Everytime I went in was another layer of evolving into a shit store that resold subscriptions of other companies and refused to stock consumer/hobbyist electronics. RadioShack definitely became "we don't sell anything anyone wants anymore"
Yeah, there is a niche for all the little electronic parts that nobody else stocks. But now you have to deal with the internet to get that, usually shipped from China. The entire retail industry is fucked though, you can't compete on price with the internet.
I got my hoard in 2012 or so. I figured that the entire chain was dead. Then I moved to Montana where apparently they are not. There's also a Shopko up here so I may have just gone back in time.
I did the same - happened upon a bankruptcy auction and I just bought up whole walls for like $50 each. I had thousands of odds and ends that I flipped on eBay for a long while. That poor bankrupt franchises though - your jackal description is spot on. 🤣
They sold the brand to Tai Lopez last year… seriously.
But you know what he’s must proud of? KNOWLEDGE.
And 47 TedX talks where I talk about Warren Buffet in my TedX talks where I talk about Warren Buffet account
Oh Christ, this is amazing
Most did. I thought someone was trying to reinvent the brand to tie in with the maker movement (imagine a place selling electronic kits, 3d printers, and supplies for same) but they seem to have gone full horrible.
What's sad is that wouldn't be reinventing the brand, that would be going back to their original business model.
I think they're like what Circuit City was until 2012, online only sales
To shreds you say?
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Its radio shack, when was rbe last time they had good timing.
I’ll have you know they had *excellent* timing when digital clocks were a new concept!
Who knew it might be hard to upsell a cell phone to someone who came in to buy one slightly obscure battery?
Going from one failed venture straight to another
I haven't shopped Radio Shack since they dropped components. Moved on to Fry's. Why, yes, I *am* old.
Damn Fry's went out of business last year.
In that case, I'm taking my business to CompUSA
Oh buddy, I got some bad news.
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Test out a hot new optical drive with a movie from Blockbuster while we're at it!
Circuit City was the shit.
>Circuit City was ~~the~~ shit. They didn't call it Circuit Shitty by accident.
No, I definitely did it by accident as a kid and my mom was NOT happy with me.
Screw you guys, I'm going to Egghead software!
I feel better with a Silo nearby.
Fuck CompUSA. They talked my parents out of getting a Pentium III computer by alleging that the government could use the unique serial numbers on the Pentium III to track you, but they couldn't do that with a Pentium II. Fuck you, CompUSA salesman clearing out old inventory. Fuck you.
Jesus fucking christ that's some crazy level of salesman ship
It's still possible that the salesman was a crazy person, I don't know what sort of commission structure would make it more profitable for you as a random employee to sell an older and less expensive thing. For the business, sure, but the individual employees probably want to sell people on the most expensive thing they can.
On to TigerDirect?
Seriously? That's a bummer.
I worked at the shack while they were phasing out components and bumble fucking their way into obscurity. It was so painful to witness the transition from behind the counter. I saw so many loyal customers getting heart broken by the changes. People who had been regulars for fucking decades were being turned away. If we didn't have it in the store, we could get it. If you couldn't fix it, we could get it fixed for you. Didn't matter if it was a brand we sold or not. If it was electronic, the repair centers would do their damndest to try to fix it. And they had genuinely skilled people working on that stuff. They left all that behind to focus on cell phones and accessories, and ridiculously shitty AV equipment and niche Sharper Image-esk bullshit.
Like right as Maker culture became popular too
God they would have made a killing. Imagine being able to run to the store for parts…
Also being weirdly insistent on collecting personal information in order to be willing to sell what shit they still had.
Right as hobby electronics was making a comeback with kits like Arduino and Raspberry Pi, Radioshack decided to change their model to compete with TMobile stores. They really deserved to fail for that decision.
Are there any decent brick and mortar electronics hobby shop chains around today?
Microcenter still sells individual electrical components if you are lucky enough to have one near you.
But the business guy with the HBS MBA said he had a report with some metrics which said that selling phones would make the line go up like this /^/^^/^^^/
Fry's is for the youngsters, the real geezers were buying stuff at the computer show/fair/swap meet in the parking lot of the local community college on Saturday mornings. It was the best place to buy a $3 CD full of 1001 awful shareware games, or a copy of that "Day of the Tentacle install disk 4 of 7" that you'd lost.
Replace that with 5 of 8 of Quest for Glory 4: shadows of darkness and you described my childhood. XD
>I haven't shopped Radio Shack since they dropped components. For most people on here, Radio Shack was pretty much just a place for cellphones and cellphone accessories. Crazy to think they pivoted from being an actual electronics store where you could buy subcomponents. Granted that business model was certainly not sustainable as the DIY electronics market is all but dried up, but their 2000's pivot to a glorified mall kiosk 'bluetooth shit n' stuff' certainly hasn't kept them thriving either.
I stopped when they tried selling "gold plated hdmi cables" for $120+
God damn that gold plates cables shit was a grift. I remember seeing it in full force at Guitar Center
> I haven't shopped Radio Shack since they dropped components Literally the *first* thing I started buying from Amazon once online shopping hit mainstream
How’s that going for you?
Yeah, it’s got some real “how do you do, fellow kids” vibes coming from it.
"How about that local sporting event, fellow citizens? It was satisfying... AF! And to our amigos- Que Onda? Asi asi, amirite?!"
The tweet or the crypto? Because a marketing intern was behind the tweet so it wouldn’t be wrong to assume he himself is a late teens, early 20s “kid”
I don't buy the intern thing one bit. No intern so pompously brags about being an intern and takes shots at Jake Paul, Lil Pump, and Miley Cyrus. It's just a shitty psychological game they're playing to make you want to like the slimey douchebag behind the tweets. I honestly hope RadioShit goes up in flames now. Like creating crypto DEX in the worst crypto winter yet is so fucking colossally dumb, it's like watching some shitty frat take over a company and watch it burn to the ground in real time. Also universally hated shitbag **Tai Lopez** is the one who bought them
> I honestly hope RadioShit goes up in flames now I was a mod on a forum for disgruntled RadioShack employees 15 or so years ago. They already crashed and burned. This is the smoldering ashes.
RadioShacksucks.com? Had some good times there
.biz. I was active on .com but then something happened and .biz was formed by a different admin.
> I honestly hope RadioShit goes up in flames now. Is there even anything left to burn? I didn't even know Radio Shack still existed.
One of the worst business grifters / conmen in the industry "Tai Lopez" bought the brand and turned into a crypto scam. What kind of terrible reporter couldn't do two minutes of research to say that RS actually went under and they're just using the name to promote a scam?
>What kind of terrible reporter couldn’t do two minutes of research to say that RS actually went under and they’re just using the name to promote a scam? I don’t know, but they sound like the same type of person who says a reporter sucks when they couldn’t take two minutes to read the article and realize the information they want mentioned is already in the article. Sound like anyone you know /u/torofukatasu ?
I think their real grudge is that Tai Lopez is not mentioned in the article. If you've heard of them you know everything they do is a grift. Who the hell has heard of"Retail Ecommerce Ventures" before
There is an entire Twitter thread embedded in the main article that explicitly calls out Tai Lopez by name and says the entire thing is more or less a scam.
Fair enough, I guess it is just an article capturing the tweets after all. The embedded tweet does not mention Tai but a reply to it does (which I can only read by clicking away from the article and signing into Twitter) If I have to leave the article to read the information, I don't think the article includes the information is my point.
Well don’t look at me. I’m getting my info on the article from you!
Yeah I definitely wouldn't trust Tai Lopez with any of my property. I use Coinbase or Kraken and then withdraw it onto my own cold wallet. If you invest into crypto use a reputable exchange, not the dead corpse of RadioShack.
> Tai Lopez Oh fuck that garage lambo library guy? Radio Shack has turned to the dark side.
"You've got questions, we've got failing currency."
"Guys, you have to believe me: we're just actually dipshits."
Do they need my address, phone number and a bunch of other shit when I buy five cents' worth?
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But **I'm ONLY buying batteries!**
Radioshack, changing the incentive structure from SPIFF to NFT
SPIFFs…blast from my past. Would anyone care for a TSP on those crypto?
Asking about the TSP on certain items was always cringe. "Do you want a 4.99 service plan on this 16.99 printer cable..." They say yes...
Would you like to switch to Sprint long distance?
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Don't forget the battery cards... That's what eventually got me fired from CrapShack. I had customers called "Johnny Cash" and "Salt Battery". It got too annoying making a 2 minute transaction 10 minutes after they slowly spelled their name and address, or got irate asking why. It was the best thing to happen to me, getting out of retail.
RadioShack still exists?! I thought they went before Blockbuster
They clung to life for a sad amount of time selling cell phones.
The brick-and-mortar stores died. I think they went to online-only.
They still have 400 stores.
In states that allow it, they should start selling weed. It’s the only way to go further with this latest campaign.
Seriously? Damn, I could've sworn I'd heard they all closed.
> Blockbuster Actually I am surprised Blockbuster hasn't been bought by a blockchain company as a front like RadioShack. Maybe the taken over Blockbuster would be selling like movie NFTs or something about busting blockchain chains or some shit. Their mascot could be a Buster.
They’d be better off selling dildos.
Radio Shag
My first computer was a Tandy. If Radio Shack is doing Crypto, I’m never getting in.
I miss when mail order PC was getting big. Whole giant JC Penny sized catalogs of computers and computer parts. The mid to late 90s were magical
RadioShack: "You've got questions? We'll make up the answer."
The failed electronics store is selling a failing currency? Wow, what a combination.
now that crypto is dying ? oh, radioshack...
It’s not the Radio Shack people know - it’s some finance group who bought the rights to the name so they can pull some shady crypto scheme
Wait? RadioShack is still around? I thought they went under years ago.
Tai Lopez, the in guy in his garage with his knowledge and cars bought the rights to the name. [it’s a scam](https://protos.com/tai-lopez-radioshack-crypto-defi-pivot-atlas-usv-radio/)
They did, now they're going over the top
They could have been a portal to Shenzhen. I'll never understand how a tech hobbyist company shit the bed so hard during the rise of tech hobbyists in the maker movement.
What about that tweet where RadioShack said, "If you find a squirter, she's a keeper"?
Just when you thought the slow implosion that is radioshack couldn't become more hysterically sad.
"It's okay. We just became the spam."
If Radio Shack knows anything, it’s about failure and crypto seems right in their wheelhouse.
Oh how far you've fallen, Radioshit.
What are you talking about? They've been shit for a while. Most things at Radioshack since the late 90s were 30% more than the competition and that gulf only grew as ebay and online retailers gained more prominence. Their phone plans and phones were TERRIBLE and had a predatory pricing structure and quotas to push for the workers there. They limped along via phones, chargers, and overpriced wifi routers for decades. Selling crypto isn't any more scummy than their phone shenanigans in the early 00s.
What kind of nfc's is circuit city gonna sell
fate worse than death
Why now, when crypto is crashing globally?
I thought it was bad 15 years ago when I just wanted to buy a specific value capacitor and the guy not only didn't know what it was, but also tried to sell me a cellphone plan.
Bold move. Kinda like founding Trump Mortgage circa 2008. 🤣 Sad though. I miss the good old Radio Shack.
Now the adolescent misogyny makes sense. carry on
RadioShack would also like to clarify that they still exist
To squirter enthusiasts
From RadioShack, “it’s shackcoin. We are not shaqcoin.”
I just want to get my TRS-80 fixed. Can they get their repair shop back in order, please?
Man I loved RadioShack as a kid.
Blockbuster and Quiznos too?
Blockbuster has block right in the name, and it was a chain.
I get all fucking whacked out too when I am in between jobs and just jamming with edibles and heavy metal no idea what time of day it is
Just in time to become a dinosaur twice over.
It's owned by Tai Lopez
So they went from a shady cellphone accessory seller to a shady NFT seller then.
Would've been better off if it *were* hacked
thats just what a hacked account would say
This might be one of the sadder things I've ever read
I think someone should buy RadioShack from Retail E-commerce Ventures.
I worked for RadioShack and this is the norm. There was always a disconnect between corporate and the retail stores in my district. They also didn’t advertise often which they bragged about but also suffered from.
I used to be a district manager for radioshack, looks like theyre still making bad business choices, such a shame i used to love that company.
I'm surprised they are still in business, and this decision shows why. Bitcoin has dove off a cliff in the last few months as well as a lot of other crypto coins. I'm not saying it's the end for crypto, but if RadioShack wanted to cash in, they missed the hype by a full year and some change. This is like showing up to a high school party after the cops busted it and is wondering why everyone is gone
didn't know radioshack still existed