If it goes cheap could Jaycar buy it just for a laugh (or so it doesn't fall into the wrong hands - as Gary and Dick are friends)?
Bugger that, I'd buy it just for kicks
I don't want the name, just the face, and I can start a new company called Dick Face Electronics
How about Dick Head Electronics? Featuring that head as the icon. You can start by selling matches. It appears the Dick Smith company may dropped that head some time ago. I have no idea when or why. In this advertisement, the head is everywhere. (The bald guy looks out of place.)
I appreciated Dick's "buy Australian" stance, despite him making a fortune out of imports. I also like his stance against greedy companies dodging tax, the population explosion dreams that only our politicians seem to want, and the highlighting the lack of philanthropy (or stinginess) by the filthy rich in Australia. Unlike most of our slimy politicians, Dick does have altruistic beliefs. I think he would make a good politician and would be good for Australia.
"SORRY DICK, IT DOESN'T WORK": With his foods he was patriotic. However there was one big stuff-up by some Dick Head. Dick Smith Foods was marketing ANZAC Biscuits as ANZAC Cookies. Dick Smith himself, his product managers, the packaging designers, the printers, the distributors, the quality control (if there was any), the stores and the general media should have detected the blunder. I ended writing to Dick Smith Foods and informing them that ANZAC Biscuits made for our soldiers in World War 1 were never called ANZAC Cookies, and that Australia was not and is not an American outpost. To their credit, the company immediately changed the name to Anzac Biscuits.