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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Crazy_EddieCrazy Eddie - Wikipedia

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   Crazy Eddie was a consumer electronics chain in the Northeastern United States. The chain was started in 1971 in Brooklyn, New York, by businessmen Eddie and Sam M. Antar, and was previously named ERS Electronics (ERS stood for Eddie, Rose and Sam; Rose and Sam were Eddie's parents).

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     80s Commercial | Crazy Eddie | 1985 | 1986 | 1987

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     Crazy Eddie 'Insane!' Commercial (NY, 1978)

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     How Crazy Eddie Built a $160 Million Empire of Fraud

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3. www.forbes.com › sites › simonconstableThe Rise And Fall Of Crazy Eddie: A Tale Of Epic Fraud - Forbes

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   Aug 27, 2022 · The rise and spectacular fall of the chain, and its CEO Eddie Antar is the subject of a the book Retail Gangster: The INSANE, Real-Life Story of CRAZY EDDIE by investigative journalist Gary...

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4. money.cnn.com › 2016/09/11 › technologyCrazy Eddie founder and fraudster Eddie Antar dies at 68

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   Sep 11, 2016 · Eddie Antar, the founder of the Crazy Eddie electronics retail chain known for its hugely popular TV commercials in the 1970s and 1980s, and later brought down by a massive fraud scheme, died...

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6. nypost.com › 2022/09/10 › retail-king-crazy-eddieRetail king Crazy Eddie Antar led an even crazier real life

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   Sep 10, 2022 · The real Eddie was Eddie Antar, a Brooklyn-born businessman who ostensibly got his “crazy” nickname from customers. “I wouldn’t let a person walk out the door without selling,” he once told a...

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7. www.nickiswift.com › 1334159Whatever Happened To Crazy Eddie? - Nicki Swift

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   Jul 10, 2023 · Crazy Eddie was a chain of electronics stores founded by Eddie Antar, who became famous for his zany ads and low prices. But his business was also based on fraud, tax evasion, and family feuds, leading to his downfall and imprisonment.

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8. www.newyorker.com › culture › culture-deskRemembering Crazy Eddie: His Prices Were Insane

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   Sep 17, 2016 · While his sales pitch brilliantly suggested that customers were putting one over on him—with prices that low, he’d have to be insane—in reality he was inflating sales and inventory numbers ...

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   Where did Crazy Eddie come from?

   • Crazy Eddie was a consumer electronics chain in the Northeastern United States. The chain was started in 1971 in Brooklyn, New York, by businessmen Eddie and Sam M. Antar, and was previously named ERS Electronics (ERS stood for Eddie, Rose and Sam; Rose and Sam were Eddie's parents).

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   Is 'Crazy Eddie' a 'NE'?

   • "Crazy Eddie, his prices are in-s-a-a-a-ne!" Anyone who listened to Tri-State area radio during the 1970s and 1980s will no doubt remember the zany commercials for the chain of bargain electronics outlets named after its co-founder Eddie Antar.

   Whatever Happened To Crazy Eddie? - Nicki Swift

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   What is the story behind Crazy Eddie?

   • Weiss deftly tells the story of three mind-boggingly complicated things at the same time: The history of the Antar clan, the state of New York City in the 1970s and 1980s, and the nature of the epic fraud committed by Crazy Eddie’s CEO, Eddie Antar, and his cronies . Weiss does all that without scrambling your brain.

   The Rise And Fall Of Crazy Eddie: A Tale Of Epic Fraud - Forbes

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   What happened to Crazy Eddie?

   • In 1998, the grandchildren of Eddie, Allen and Mitchell Antar, revived the chain with a shop in Wayne, New Jersey, and as an online Internet venture, crazyeddieonline.com. The revived company retained the slogan "His prices are insane" and re-hired Jerry Carroll, who by this time had founded his own advertising agency, as spokesman.

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10. www.nytimes.com › 2022/08/09 › booksCrazy Eddie’s Life Was Insane! - The New York Times

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    Aug 9, 2022 · Apple’s commercial of marching automatons turned out to be the prescient and prevailing one. Carroll, the face and tireless voice of Crazy Eddie’s TV ads, died in 2020, unheralded.