Comments on: Crazy Eddie sells out

Crazy Eddie sells out

Yakuman — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 00:08:52 -0800

Crazy Eddie. His prices were in-sane! After a failed attempt to revive the home electronic brand known for wacky commercials, the name is being auctioned off on eBay.

By: StrasbourgSecaucus

StrasbourgSecaucus — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 00:10:35 -0800

i bought my commodore 128 at crazy eddie's. well, actually, my parents bought it for me.

By: yeti

yeti — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 00:18:05 -0800

Second link is misdirected [has an extra http and redirects to w3.org]. It should lead here.

By: three blind mice

three blind mice — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 00:29:58 -0800

i bought my commodore 128 at crazy eddie's. crazy. Crazy Eddies was the qunitessential New York/New Jersey thing. Shouting into the camera like a man insane was funny on TV, but it made me want to go nowhere near the place in person.

By: Steven C. Den Beste

Steven C. Den Beste — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 00:32:53 -0800

Did that store appear before or after the Niven/Pournelle book "The Mote in God's Eye"? (Which came out in 1974.)

By: Gator

Gator — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 00:35:42 -0800

Ahhh, memories. Actually, for some reason I thought ol' Malfunctioning Eddie had passed away a while back, but apparently not.

By: Afroblanco

Afroblanco — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 00:37:20 -0800

Didn't he go down for, like, tax fraud in the '80s?

By: StrasbourgSecaucus

StrasbourgSecaucus — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 00:39:28 -0800

yah, he spent some time in jail

By: nanojath

nanojath — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 00:42:01 -0800

A detailed page of facts about the massive web of financial fraud that brought down the "Crazy Eddie"

By: Smedleyman

Smedleyman — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 01:31:01 -0800

Perhaps he should have pled insanity? Heh, yeah, I remember Crazy Eddie.

By: dabitch

dabitch — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 02:39:27 -0800

Seems the reserve was not met.

By: IronLizard

IronLizard — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 03:09:10 -0800

800,000? He is crazy.

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 03:58:41 -0800

Not Crazy for Eddie on eBay

By: Smart Dalek

Smart Dalek — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 05:07:24 -0800

For zero seller feedback, and a Buy-i-Now price of $800,000, I have to ask: is Jerry Carroll included?

By: AJaffe

AJaffe — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 05:34:40 -0800

I knew a guy growing up who worked at the Kings Highway branch and he stole thousands of dollars worth of merchandise in his time there. I wonder what happened to the guy we all knew as "Crazy Rob."

By: octothorpe

octothorpe — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 05:52:36 -0800

Oh man. Thanks for the link to those videos. Crazy Eddie was big part of my youth, you couldn't get away from him. It didn't matter what TV or radio station you listened to, you'd have to deal with his commercials. I once was sleeping with the radio on (probably old WNEW) and had a dream with the Crazy Eddie announcer in it. My favorite commercial was one for Channel 9's Godzilla festival where he did the whole thing with a Godzilla head on and just made growling noises in the same cadence as the normal commercials.

By: tommasz

tommasz — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 06:41:44 -0800

Ah, Crazy Eddie. Now how about JGE Appliances, "for union members and their families"?

By: jonmc

jonmc — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 06:46:54 -0800

I got a free nylon Crazy Eddie's wallet at the opening of the Bridgeport branch when I was a teenager. Then one day I lost it, with all my ID, at Crazy Eddie's. It was great fun asking on the phone if they found it. After going through huge rigamarole at the DMv to get a replacement liscence, I got a call from Crazy Eddie's. Somehow they found it. Also, I bought afew records there, Def Leppard's Pyromania, I recall.

By: StickyCarpet

StickyCarpet — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 06:53:59 -0800

Just south of Eddie's on canal was Meshugina Ike's. The merchandise (broken phones, mismatched speakers) would often be dumped in front of the store in a heap on saturday where it would sit through the weekend, on monday it was cleaned up, repackaged, and in the store window.

By: Dr. Wu

Dr. Wu — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 07:45:20 -0800

Weird - I was just thinking about Crazy Eddie the other day. I had the wallet, too, jonmc, and I also had a Crazy Eddie t-shirt which I wore in gym class. I really like those commercials - more, probably, than I've ever liked any commercials, and it was great to see them again. (Thanks, Yakuman!) Largely for their nostalgia value, I'm sure, since I doubtless saw them all when I was a kid growing up in suburban NYC; but partly because they're good-natured and funny, and the announcer guy really is quite a good performer. It's hard to speak so fast, forcefully, and humorously all at once. A cheap and easy Halloween or costume-party costume was to dress up as the Crazy Eddie guy: a blue blazer and a light blue turtleneck, and that was it. Everyone instantly recognized the costume.

By: teishu

teishu — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 08:41:54 -0800

I have lots of old VHS tapes of TV specials from when i was a kid and my grandfather taped them for me, and invariably, every tape from that era has a crazy eddie commercial.

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 08:57:17 -0800

he'd be better off selling all that crack he got in trouble for.

By: punkrockrat

punkrockrat — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 09:46:04 -0800

I remember seeing this guy when my brother and I would stay up until midnight on Saturday nights just to watch WWWF wrestling on WOR out of NYC. Funny stuff!

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 11:32:16 -0800

Crazy Eddie's was where my family met the NES, Mario, and Link. For a brief time, it was where we went for electronics, replacing Circuit City (which we left behind in KY until they finally expanded into the NE), and earlier, Service Merchandise (which was FPPed, but I can't find it). Pretty sure SM is where we got our Intellivision.

By: ZenMasterThis

ZenMasterThis — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 11:56:37 -0800

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By: birdie birdington

birdie birdington — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 11:58:52 -0800

I went to highschool with a couple members of the Antar family.

By: porpoise

porpoise — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 12:24:10 -0800

Oh. I thought you were talking about Crazy Eddie.

By: HTuttle

HTuttle — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 13:02:23 -0800

Tha actor in those was a manic AM radio DJ, Jerry Carroll.