The Empty Receiver Box
By : Dan Rose Courtesy
of Sears™
For almost 30 years , I owned a Home Theater / Satellite TV company in Phoenix /( Scottsdale AZ ( Personal Cable TV Systems™ ) ... I had the contract with SEARS™ when DirecTV™ & Dish Network™ came out with the second generation hardware. Dish Net. was playing around with the International market. It was right after 911 and The Arab market was exploding ! ( HA! I crack me up ! ) , anyhow so I go to this home with the box from Sears and open it up and get ready to do the install . I unpack the Dish and LNB head ( the Pre-amp that the dish reflects the concetrated microwaves at ) and to my surprize , it was "hollow" , there were NO electronics in it. So I figured I could get it swapped at Sears for another one with a wholllllle lot of red-tape and paperwork ... so I continued , and mounted the dish and aimed it with a spare head from my companies stock, and ran the cable to the living room TV. These were really nice folks that were thrilled to be getting TV channels from Iran, Egypt, Dubai, and 2 from India. As I pulled the receiver box out of the shipping box, I couldn't believe my eyes and I was LOL and WTF !!!??? at the same time. The receiver box was, yup, you guessed it , empty , no circuit boards. I took polaroids for my own amusement, and tried to explain through the little kid that I couldn't finish the job today , because their equipment was "hollow" ...
... I showed them the box and the
LNB head and they gave me that look that transcended our language barrier ...
like " Are you Frigg<%ing Kidding Us ! ...??? " So I proceded to SEARS with the empty / empty boxes ... their returns Dept . called in several manager types with clip-boards and they gave me that look again : ...
" Are you Frigg<%ing Kidding Us ! ...??? "
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