Radio Shack To Ditch Verizon for Cingular
Verizon deserves this for what they do to the little guy
Read this entire article and you will understand.
Radioshack helped build up Verizon in many areas. To repay them they gave 2 of Radioshacks biggest competitors the ability to carry Verizon(Circuit City and Best Buy). They probably also tired to cut there commissions per phone like they did to the company I work for.
I think this a good kick in the a** for verizon. There a bully in the market and they have no regret showing it. What I mean is I work for a small 4 store Indirect agent for Verizon. We were the only Verizon dealer in our area for years. We built up the customer base in the area for Verizon. How do they repay us. They build a good old Verizon Direct store less than a mile down the road. A year later they build another s...
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Radioshack helped build up Verizon in many areas. To repay them they gave 2 of Radioshacks biggest competitors the ability to carry Verizon(Circuit City and Best Buy). They probably also tired to cut there commissions per phone like they did to the company I work for.
I think this a good kick in the a** for verizon. There a bully in the market and they have no regret showing it. What I mean is I work for a small 4 store Indirect agent for Verizon. We were the only Verizon dealer in our area for years. We built up the customer base in the area for Verizon. How do they repay us. They build a good old Verizon Direct store less than a mile down the road. A year later they build another s...
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Sorry I moved the last paragraph up and forgot to delete it.
The overall message is Verizon has been screwing the little guy and Radioshack was the one company big enough to say we don't need you. Bout time someone stood up.
The overall message is Verizon has been screwing the little guy and Radioshack was the one company big enough to say we don't need you. Bout time someone stood up.
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I can defintely see what you're talking about. However, to be a bit blunt, that is how business is played. Second, VZW's big enough to where loosing RadioShack won't hurt them much if at all. Someone else in this particular forum of this article stated VZW had already lined up new outlets to sell their services.
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Radioshack stock has went up since they dropped Verizon. While Verizon is a large compnay Radioshack is over 7000 stores strong if not more. 5000 of those are compnay owned so Verizon has to replace 5000 stores. There also putting there agents out of buisness quite fast. Verizon needed them but they dont want to admit it. I mean its not gonna end them or anything close but it will hurt them. Also Radioshack will gain nextel soon since the merger.
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That may be a lot of stores. However, I believe that the number of stores isn't really the issue. Think about it, when someone wants to buy a cell phone, the first place they will think of to go to is the actuall carrier's store. Then they will more likely think of the bigger resellers such as Best Buy or Circuit City. I see the cell service more heavily advertised in those stores and their ads all the time. I had already knew that RadioShack did sell VZW and Sprint but not once did I ever see an ad on TV or in the paper saying we got a special deal on this cell phone for this carrier. I'm not saying RS didn't advertise for it. It just seems to me that they didn't do it enough compared to the other stores. That is why I honestly feel...
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While its true that people go to the carriers store there arent enough Verizon stores in all areas meaning they need to use another store. There are around 1600 Verizon sotres inclduing kiosks in circuit city according to Wireless weekly July 2005.Also the waits for the direct stores on average are a very very long time. As far as advertising I live in the northeast and see a fairly good amount of radioshack advertsing products such as cell phones. People go into radioshack and they see advertsing and then they grab some info on a phone. If they have Verizon and they see they carry Verizon they probaly go back to whoever is closer to there home which is usually the shack. Overall radioshack has been LOSING money in there wireless sales while...
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steeda76 said:
Overall its a good move for Radioshack and Cingular.
Good move for Cingular?! So now they have all their activations and account messed up?
Hope they enjoy that....
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Umm... No one needs radio$hack, verizon is big enough now to the point that they don't need radioshack, besides, R$ was doing some funky $hit that started pi$$ing off customers, like charging $50 more for upgrades, which is where a majority of their business came from(atleast in my store) and refusing to employees to add VZW's insuarance to their phones. and just when EV-DO comes out, lol, looks like I quit working for R$ just intime 😁
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Verizons plan is to push out the middle guy, I worked at verizon about 4 months a go in North Dakota and in the midwest region they are looking at adding over 20 stores in ND, SD, MN, Iowa, for such low population states 20 stores is a lot, when Verizon Put in the corporate store in the city I used to work at they killed alot of indirect agents, when Verizon could offer an extra 100 dollars off for new every two the indirects couldn't afford to take the hit, and most indirects shot themselves in the foot when there was a phone issue or billing issue they would send them into our store, thats one more customer that won't go back to the indirect because they didn't want to take the time to solve the problem.
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steeda76 said:
Read this entire article and you will understand.
Radioshack helped build up Verizon in many areas. To repay them they gave 2 of Radioshacks biggest competitors the ability to carry Verizon(Circuit City and Best Buy).
Don't forget Cingular coughing up more money per activation for the deal.
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Losing over 5000 Verizon dealers and adding 500 Cingular dealers is going to push Cingular over the top. Verizon made a big mistake here and they will see the results Q1 2006. Verizon will back in Radioshack within 1 year, along with T-Mobile (if nobody buys them out by then). Then RadioShack will have the market cornered.
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