[conspire] (forw) What's going on with Fry's Electronics?

[paulz at ieee.org]

 I remember buying a small electronics "box" at Fry's.  It didn't work.  I also noticed that something inside (loose screw?0 rattled when the box was shaken.   I returned it and got a refund.  There were no other of the same item in stock so I left empty handed.

A week later, I went back hoping to find a new unit.  There was one box on the shelf.  It rattled.
BTW, what happened with Central Computer on El Camino near 85?  It was more convenient than driving to Santa Clara.



    On Sunday, September 15, 2019, 6:48:07 PM PDT, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:  
One of the dirty little secrets of hardware is provenance and grading.
I won't point fingers, but certain vendors in the Valley historically
were known for low prices but seemed to generate a lot of returns,
leading to two speculations:  (1) Maybe their wholesale sourcing
included a lot of 'seconds'.  (2) Maybe their RMA returns tended mostly
to get re-shrinkwrapped and put back on the retail shelf instead of
being returned to the wholesaler.  Retailers get rewarded for low
wholesale-return rates with pricing.  The incentives tend to encourage
poor quality practices.




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