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Who doesn't love a good deal?
If you do, it's time to head on over to your local RadioShack. The iconic retailer is now selling the last of its remaining office supplies as part of a liquidation process brought by a bankruptcy filed in March, and everything must go.
RadioShack is peddling pretty much everything it still owns, including some very questionable items like these waterlogged clipboards (for only 50 cents!) and a giant 50 gallon trash can that frankly has no business being anywhere except for a suburban mall. Still, it's super cheap, so why not pick one up if you have the space for it?
Source: Gizmodo
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RadioShack in Liquidation Process is Selling Musty Old Clipboards for Only 50 Cents
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Sunday May 28 2017, @01:16PM
Prices at radio shack toward the end were about 1000% over mail order minimum. I'm kinda busy so I can't shop till next thursday, I could stop at RS on the way home from work on thursday and buy a 6 foot HDMI cable for $50, but amazon can deliver one of those mysterious "amazon basics" cables for $4.51 ... for qty two. I just checked. And I have Prime anyway because its a net savings on my many orders, so the cable will only cost $2.26 delivered on Tuesday. Yes theres some minimum order complication and I might have to toss down $5.99 for the option without a minimum order. Anyway its hard to convince me to pay $50 on Thursday for something I can get for $6 tomorrow or wednesday.
Half price at RS is still 5x overpriced. 90% off is barely moving the meter. 99% off I might stop in to look.
All their stuff is priced that way. Genuine TI LM555 timer chip. normally $2.59 marked down to $1.04. I live within 1 day shipping range of digikey, they guarantee shipment today if ordered before 8pm central, and I'm close enough that no matter what shipping option I select I'll get it tomorrow or at worst during Christmas maybe the day after. The TI LM555 is oddly enough $1.05. The Fairchild Semi version of the same chip is $0.41 so I'll take a Fairchild semi chip. The real fundamental problem with buying a 555 is "most applications" of an analog 555 timer chip can be replaced by something like a PIC 10F220 which is not a terribly advanced microcontroller but its "about the same price" as a 555 and is also a 8 pin thru hole DIP and is also easier to mess with the software.