Very often when working on a creative project, I will need some supplies. And I will say to myself: I should drop by RadioShack and pick that thing up, whatever it is.
But every time I go to RadioShack, I leave empty-handed. They either don't have what I am looking for, or they have it and it is double or triple the price I could get online. The staff are not helpful either.
It's such a shame. RadioShack is supposed to be the place you can go to get answers. It's where tech nerds converge. They sell everything. Right? It hasn't been that way for years, even decades maybe. Instead of being a gathering place for people who want to make stuff, it's become a bland, overpriced cell phone store.
This experience gave me a vision for RadioShack. Normally I would just let this vision fester in my mind while bitterly ordering my parts online. But this is the Age of the Internet. So I decided to do something about it.
And I launched a brief, ambitious, and failed Kickstarter: www.letsbuyradioshack.com
The point wasn't to actually buy RadioShack. The point was to just get the idea out there.
I launched this campaign on a Thursday evening. At that time, RadioShack shares were selling at $0.10, with over 100 million shares. So in theory, for $10,000,000 we could actually buy RadioShack.
The next morning, RadioShack declared bankruptcy. We had raised $226, a mere $9,999,774 short of our goal. Alas.