[ML-General] No More Radio Shack

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I believe you must find an INDEPENDENTLY owned RS...

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On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 9:56 AM, WebDawg <webdawg at gmail.com> wrote:

> I do not know what that company was thinking.  It was like Best Buy
> before they started price matching.  Prices were way too high on
> everything.  Then they started to remove more and more from there
> parts.  The only good radio shack that I ever found had a manager that
> somehow was able to sell some extra parts unique to his store.  Like
> he ordered them himself and stocked them himself.
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Jacob Chancery
> <jacob.chancery at gmail.com> wrote:
> > They declared bankruptcy yesterday.
> >
> > So, is there any other place I can go to buy electrical components?  I
> mean,
> > for a planned project I would just buy online.  But for an emergency
> repair,
> > it sure was nice to have a local store.
> >
> > I once spent hours disassembling my mini-van power sliding door to figure
> > out that the problem was a corroded limit switch.  Luckily I could pick
> up a
> > new switch from Radio Shack and fix it, instead of having to reassemble
> it
> > broken and wait for an order to arrive.
> >
> > -Jacob
> >
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