Another Commercial

I’ve extracted this from Wikipedia to set the scene for a few of these crazy commercials.

“Crazy Eddie was a consumer electronics chain in the north-eastern United States. The chain was started in 1971by businessmen Eddie and Sam M. Antar. The chain rose to prominence throughout the Tri-State area (New York-New Jersey-Connecticut) as much for its prices as for its memorable radio and television commercials, featuring a frenetic, “crazy” character played by radio DJ Jerry Carroll. At its peak, Crazy Eddie had 43 stores in four states and reported more than $300 million in sales.”

Here are some Crazy Eddie Commercials and Bloopers 1980’s which are worth a watch.

A viewer of these commercials made the comment “I so miss Crazy Eddie! Crazy Eddie in the 1970s (when Fair Trade Laws were still a thing) was a godsend. He was clearly dealing in grey-market goods, and nobody gave a shit, cause his prices really were nuts! The first VCR I bought (a Betamax) went through three Crazy Eddie stores: I got the first store to give me his lowest price (took like 4 salespeople too!), then took that price to another store, repeated the exercise, and then hit the third store. When the third store started “beating” my best price by nickels, I knew it was as good as I was going to get! I still have that Betamax too!”