Eddie, once crazy, now deceased (New York, York: neighborhood, college, camp)

[Wild Style]

Originally Posted by Aquarius37

Old enough here to remember those commercials as a kid hahaha. Gotta love the crack era lol

He precedes the crack era, though it did overlap it at one point. I guess im dating myself lol

[Kefir King]

Originally Posted by mathjak107

he was a master of creative accounting . i am surprised we have not seen his story on american greed yet .i love that show

I think a few years back I DID see Eddie featured on American Greed. (Most important show on TV.)

[mathjak107]

i will search the old shows , i really want to see it if it was.

found this in the mean time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_7ntzgTvhs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YGvFB-0ZbQ

[mathjak107]

i checked the list of american greed show's but didn't see it. cnbc did do the special i posted above though .

[Kefir King]

Originally Posted by mathjak107

i checked the list of american greed show's but didn't see it. cnbc did do the special i posted above though .

Maybe that's what I am misremembering (thank you, GWB) then.

[mathjak107]

sam antar teaches creative accounting to the fbi and major corporations so they can be aware of how things go under the radar . they had great scams accounting wise far deeper than just the empty boxes and forging inventory numbers .

[nyctc7]

Of course I remember the commercials (I was a high school student in the 1970s) but I don't think I ever shopped there. I dimly remember browsing in the store on 6th Ave and 8th street. IIRC Crazy Eddie was a bit of a high-pressure, bait-and-switch joint. There was a good chance you'd walk out with some piece of low-fi crap. J&R was a better store.

[Kefir King]

Originally Posted by nyctc7

Of course I remember the commercials (I was a high school student in the 1970s) but I don't think I ever shopped there. I dimly remember browsing in the store on 6th Ave and 8th street. IIRC Crazy Eddie was a bit of a high-pressure, bait-and-switch joint. There was a good chance you'd walk out with some piece of low-fi crap. J&R was a better store.

I found that J&R wrote the book on "high-pressure, bait-and-switch."

[bxlover]

How many of you guys would mimic the commercial and say " Its in s a n e " for whatever.

[tungt88]

Originally Posted by Kefir King

I found that J&R wrote the book on "high-pressure, bait-and-switch."

Really? Not that I doubt you, but in the past I have gotten some decent deals there. Not incredibly good, but saved me a few extra bucks here and there. Maybe I bought in the wrong department?