<div dir="ltr">"A shame" doesn't seem like cursing the darkness :)<div><br></div><div>And I have no illusions of having even half the business sense necessary to make such an enterprise fly. Honestly, I do think I understand the economic pressures that have led us here, which is why it's "a shame" rather than "I don't know why...".</div><div><br></div><div>Pete</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 2:20 AM, Donald Tillman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:don@till.com" target="_blank">don@till.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
> On Oct 23, 2016, at 2:38 PM, Pete Hartman <<a href="mailto:pete.hartman@gmail.com">pete.hartman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> It's a shame there aren't more brick & mortar electronics shops even in large metros (only found one in all of Chicagoland, with a few cycles of looking, and they too carry almost exclusively NTE parts).<br>
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</span>Perhaps you should start your own?<br>
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("Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.")<br>
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I mean, if you see a need, and you have expertise in the field, and you might enjoy it, and you can deliver value to the customer, and you think you can run it profitably... why not?<br>
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-- Don<br>
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Don Tillman<br>
Palo Alto, California<br>
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