The man I mean, not the store.

Decades ago when he sold the business, he sold his name with it. Maybe that was the dealmaker and he had no option, I don't know.
Now he's stuck with a lot of the ill will because there is a huge number of people out there who still think it's his store.

Now he's making noises about what awful people they were who bought it most recently and made a pretence of tarting it up. There is even some talk of a lawsuit.
But that would likely be a waste of time. The people concerned probably don't even live here and anyway they would have only been the front for the money people who made off with the hundreds of millions and left about $400 million debt behind.

So don't get involved in a lawsuit Dick, you'll just do your dough.

I was thinking much the same thing.
The new owners of the business, keeping and using his good name he made in the industry. There should have been a stipulation that after a year or so, once the new business owners got a foothold, should have applied for a name change.

There is a health industry I am a member of, that had their name right up there on the corporate ladder world wide, and recently, changed hands and changed their name, and the products names, this was one area where it should have stayed the same, because it wasn't anyone's personal name, like Dick Smith had. I feel a bit put off since this health industry made too many huge changes, can't even log on the old way.
I have a feeling business is plummeting a bit, and they should have kept the same name, with the same product labels that we all knew so well.

Funny thing is, a name change can work for some corporate businesses, but not all.

As for Dick Smith Electronics, perhaps an update in name should have been the go.

Now his own personal name seems tainted.

I went into Dick Smith's two days ago to buy a TV cable. All they had was 6 meter lengths for $29.00. So I went over to K Mart and got a 3 meter cable for $5.00.

issuevoter wrote on Jan 15^th, 2016 at 12:34pm:


Yep that can happen. Is cable quality. single , dual or quad core the same?

issuevoter wrote on Jan 15^th, 2016 at 12:34pm:


I went to Dick Smith for some basic components.  The store guy said we don't sell them anymore and told me to go to Jaycar....maybe the real Dick Smith now owns Jaycar? 

bogarde73 wrote on Jan 15^th, 2016 at 8:43am:




Dick Smith is a global warming crank like Al Gore, he flies around in his personal helicopter while exhorting others to go without in order to save the planet.

Also, now that he has cashed in his capitalist chips and cleaned up he is anti capitalism.

bogarde73 wrote on Jan 15^th, 2016 at 2:31pm:




OK sure, I agree that he was a great Australian once, a real go getter that we could all look up to, but now he has morphed into a hypocrite, I guess the ever changing circumstances that one finds themselves in shapes their thinking.

Its like if I was dropped into Saudi Arabia and surrounded by a bunch of sword wielding donkey rapists that demanded that I convert to islam or get arse reamed and beheaded instead, I'd be like where do I sign 

Swagman wrote on Jan 15^th, 2016 at 1:38pm:


Originally it was an electronics store (which is why they called it Dick Smith Electronics I guess) but in later years it just became a clone of JB HiFi. That was it's downfall