WOW... Ed actually IS selling coffee Options

[PillarOfDavidson]

Damn... I was certain people were being facetious about that shit. I'm poking around his website... and BAM, there the shit is staring me in the face:







TGF





This post has been edited by pho3nixtar: Dec 19 2009, 4:01 am

[OutToDry]

Good discussion above, good points there!!

To me, he's become what I am speaking of in the other thread. To paraphrase here:

Crazy Eddie is the name of a consumer electronics retailer conducting business through the internet and by telephone. The venture is the most recent to be doing business under the Crazy Eddie name, with the most well known (and later infamous) being a chain of retail stores that operated throughout New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut for nearly twenty years

Crazy Eddie was started in 1971 in Brooklyn, New York by businessmen Eddie and Sam M. Antar as ERS Electronics, named after Eddie, his cousin Ronnie (Ronnie Gindi, a partner), and his father Sam. The chain rose to prominence throughout the Tri-State Region as much for its prices as for its memorable radio and television commercials, featuring a frenetic, "crazy" character played by radio DJ Jerry Carroll (who copied most of his shtick from early TV-commercial pioneer, used car and electronics salesman Earl "Madman" Muntz). At its peak, Crazy Eddie had 43 stores in the chain, and earned more than $300 million in sales.[1]

In February 1987, the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey commenced a federal grand jury investigation into the warranty billing practices of Crazy Eddie. In September of that year, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission initiated an investigation into alleged violations of federal securities laws by certain Crazy Eddie officers and employees. Eddie Antar was eventually charged with a series of crimes.

Unable to sustain his fraudulent business practices, co-founder Eddie Antar cashed in millions of dollars worth of stock and resigned from the company in December 1986. Crazy Eddie's board of directors lost control of the company in November 1987 after a proxy battle with a group led by Elias Zinn and Victor Palmieri, known as the Oppenheimer-Palmieri Group. The entire Antar family was immediately removed from the business. The new owners quickly discovered the true extent of the Antar family's fraud, but were unable to turn around Crazy Eddie's quickly declining fortunes. In 1989, the company declared bankruptcy and was liquidated.

Antar fled to Israel in February 1990, but was returned to the United States in January 1993 to stand trial. His 1993 conviction on fraud charges was overturned, but he eventually pleaded guilty in 1996. In 1997, Antar was sentenced to eight years in prison and paid large fines. He was released from prison in 1999.[2]

An essential part of Crazy Eddie's success was its advertising campaign. In 1972, WPIX-FM late-night disc jockey Jerry "Dr. Jerry" Carroll ended a live commercial with the now-famous slogan, "Crazy Eddie, his prices are IN-SA-A-A-A-A-ANE!" Antar called in and told Carroll to say the line the same way every time.[3]

[Sakhmet2]

Good discussion above, good points there!!

To me, he's become what I am speaking of in the other thread. To paraphrase here:

Which other thread? This just seems like a random story you picked because the guy has the same name as Ed, did something illegal and you want to make some kind of parallel.

And on the subject of kids: it's not just about money for your kids, it's about protecting them.
It kind of disturbs that Ed lives in Ojai, although I wasn't too thrilled about the Hollywood house either, because of why he moved there. It was a reaction to 9/11: "take my kids and go into the country because ain't no terrorists gonna find us there". In other words, it smacked of survivalism. Maybe I'm out to lunch on this connection, but I always associate stuff like survivalism with fundamentalism and some other undesirable -isms.

Whatever was going on at the end of the 90s that was leading Ed to Christianity, really got a big boost from 9/11 IMO.

This post has been edited by Sakhmet2: Dec 19 2009, 5:05 pm

[OutToDry]

Which other thread? This just seems like a random story you picked because the guy has the same name as Ed, did something illegal and you want to make some kind of parallel.

And on the subject of kids: it's not just about money for your kids, it's about protecting them.
It kind of disturbs that Ed lives in Ojai, although I wasn't too thrilled about the Hollywood house either, because of why he moved there. It was a reaction to 9/11: "take my kids and go into the country because ain't no terrorists gonna find us there". In other words, it smacked of survivalism. Maybe I'm out to lunch on this connection, but I always associate stuff like survivalism with fundamentalism and some other undesirable -isms.

Whatever was going on at the end of the 90s that was leading Ed to Christianity, really got a big boost from 9/11 IMO.

I'd it to poke fun (the ed's its weird thead). Those who remember this guy will laugh at my attempt to be funny, It wasn't meant for the Canadian folks to understand eh?