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What’s your funniest TV repair story? Click on this post to share your story in the comments section.

We’re looking forward to reading them!

This post is courtesy of Justin, one of our Sales Reps and debatably the funniest employee at ShopJimmy.

Another year of NPSC is in the books! Just wanted to post a little something to thank everyone who we met with last week in Nashville. First of all, a big thanks needs to go out to everyone at NESDA. All of us from ShopJimmy truly enjoyed our time and even though it was pushing 100 degrees the whole week, we will take away plenty of great memories. From myself and Will golfing on Tuesday and sweating through our clothes, to Jimmy receiving an award for 2010 “PARTners in Excellence”, to Adam enjoying his time with Dave, Doug and Jon at the Jack Daniels tour….we all will never forget our time in Nashville. Also, thanks to all of our current wonderful customers for the time spent in meetings and at our booth; we look forward to many more years of business and friendships. To all of the new customers that we met, we are confident that choosing ShopJimmy as your parts supplier will be a very wise decision. Just give us a chance to prove it and we will do everything we can to help your business succeed. Remember, if you ever need anything we are just a phone call away and would love to hear from you! Hope to see all of you next July in Indy!

Name: Adam

Position at ShopJimmy: Various

Favorite LCD breakage story: All of them. Keep crackin’ those things.

TV model in your living room: None

Family: A very good one.

Hobbies: Partology, softball, reading

Favorite restaurant: Al Vento

Go-to Pandora station: Pelican/Mastodon/
Portishead/Atmosphere/The Knife/Ravel mix

Beverage(s) of choice: Whiskey, whisky, green tea, Summit EPA

In-flight reading material: My new Kindle.

Sports team(s) you root for: Twins, Gophers, Badgers, Packers, West Ham United FC, Dutch National Team

On a dating website, how would you describe yourself? Ladies, I look like Ryan from ShopJimmy – I promise.

Three things you’d bring to a deserted island: Target Field, the Twins and Tigers rosters, sunflower seeds

You can find me on…

Please disregard the annoying background music. Cue the video to just before the 1:00 mark…

No LCD TVs were hurt in the making of this video. Unfortunately, I’m not sure I can say the same about the technician.

Name: Emily

Position at ShopJimmy: HR

One sentence job description: Lots of random Jimmy tasks and HR stuff.

Favorite LCD breakage story: A lady called asking about replacement screens because her kids were playing baseball in the house.

TV model in your living room: Samsung or Sony?

Family: Mom, Dad, brother, sister, and husband.

Hobbies: Anything outside in the summer, shopping and watching movies in the winter, and I always love spending time with my family and friends!

Favorite restaurant: Dixie’s

Go-to Pandora station: I listen to everything.

Beverage of choice: Beer or water

In-flight reading material: Gossip magazines!

Sports team(s) you root for: Vikings

Three things you’d bring to a deserted island: Food, beer, and Lee Dewyze

On a web dating service, you’d describe yourself as: I wouldn’t be on one–I’m married.

You can find me on…

Have you ever watched an internet video and, at 30 seconds, wondered, “This is kind of cool, but pretty weird. Why am I watching it?” Then, at a minute or more, you ask yourself, “This is getting weirder. Why am I still watching it?”

This is one of those videos. I’m not sure what’s going on in the background, but the concept is cool, I guess. Dubbed “LCD Bending,” it’s the process of pressing a finger on a LCD TV that’s turned on.

Oh, and by the way, to the creator of this video: we’ll gladly take that TV. :)

We received this TV in one of our loads this week…

And if you missed it, here’s the original Anger Management post.

If you have any questions, especially regarding Barbies or Dora the Explorer, please contact our new Customer Service Representatives: Reegan (Justin’s daughter on the phone) and Millie (Jimmy’s daughter on the computer).






Below are Hunter (Jackie’s son) and Millie outlining and developing our market capitalization strategy for 2040, when Jimmy retires and they assume the positions of President and CEO of ShopJimmy.

This was an actual conversation that one of our Customer Service Representatives had with a potential customer yesterday…

Sandy: ShopJimmy.com, this is Sandy. How can I help you?

Customer: Hi, Sandy. Do you guys sell TV screens? I just bought a brand new, flat-screen TV the other day, and today, I was chasing a fly around the house. Well, the little sucker landed right on my TV, tempting me to swat him. I took a couple practice swings and then I swung for the fences. And guess what happened? A happy fly flew away and my brand new TV’s screen was cracked.

Sandy: Shoot! I’m sorry to hear that. We do have a few replacement screens. What’s the TV model?

Lesson for the day, boys and girls: an annoying fly is always better than a cracked TV screen!

We received a load of TVs late last night, so some valiant, industrious SJ’ers stayed overnight to unload the shipment.

I walk in to work this morning to this…

Hello All,

I am taking Jimmy’s place this week writing the post because I failed, for a second straight week, to lose any weight. Apparently, one cannot eat (or drink) what they would like when dieting and expect to see any favorable results! With that in mind, I am recommitting myself to this challenge starting this morning. Jimmy would like me to report that there will be no discount this week, as he maintained his exact same weight of 295 lbs.  Just kidding, I think he is tipping the scales at a paltry 236 lbs. I gained a little, for a second straight week, and now hit 207 and have to admit that my pants are getting a bit tighter by the day. So, I am going to be a bit more cognizant of the “see food” diet I have been on and really kick this thing in the tail! I don’t really have any authorization to give out a discount for gaining weight, but I do feel like I should have some sort of consequence. I am open to some suggestions should I fail to lose from here on out–let me have it!!

Justin

Starring (in order of appearance):

Name: Jon

Position at ShopJimmy: Customer Service Partologist

One sentence job description: Answer phones, emails, and anything else that is thrown my way.

Favorite LCD breakage story: A lady called saying that her son’s friend threw the remote through their one-year-old 52” Plasma trying to change the channel.

TV model in your living room: Olevia LT42HVI

Family: I have two boys: Zach is 16 and Anthony is 8.

Hobbies: Tennis, Golf, Disc Golf, pretty much anything outside, music, movies, and watching any kind of sports.

Favorite restaurant: Anyone that can cook a good rare filet.

Go-to Pandora station: U2 Radio

Beverage of choice: Starbucks coffee straight up!

In-flight reading material: Skymall, do people really pay those prices??

Sports team(s) you root for: The Twins and the Yankees (except when they are playing the Twins), MN Vikings (Brett, I know you are reading this: come back for one more year, we need you).

Three things you’d bring to a deserted island: Food, SPF 1,000 sun screen, and a boat.

On a web dating service, you’d describe yourself as: Well, I just may copy and paste this questionnaire to one.

You can find me on…

Have you heard about the Lose Weight or Lose Money Challenge I am attempting?!

How come nobody wants to join? Justin threatened to, but he decided he likes his pizza a little too much. I don’t blame him. Well, this week wasn’t too bad; I managed to exercise 3 times and not eat too horribly at SESDA in Atlanta (although the food was excellent, btw).

Until next time,

Jimmy

Have you heard about the Lose Weight or Lose Money Challenge I am attempting?!

Week one was a little too easy. Week two, on the other hand, was a disaster. We’re having a sale! I exercised five times, but ate out waaaay too much again. I think I’m seeing a trend. Since you all are keeping me honest to my word, and reading boring blog posts about my weight loss, you get 10% off your purchases now through Sunday if you enter the discount code “thanksfatty” upon checkout.

I wont let this happen again so take advantage of it!

Jimmy