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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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