This person found a TPR-950 in the trash, sold it on ebay for $150.00, whoa...righteous bucks! It's a very interesting blog, and the TPR looks mint. https://garbagefinds.com/2017/12/13/recent-sales-november/#comments
this reminds me that I should buy a Lottery ticket, to give Him a chance to prove that He/(she?) Loves me... I know that I do Love myself, and someday I will get me one of these Aiwas, but following @Michelle Knight blog I am not sure if this shall be a torture instead of a Heavenly bliss
They're out there, keep your eyes open and hit that one last garage sale, right when your done for the day and have given up...it will be there. They must have put a BIN on the box last winter, $150 is chump-change for these, although I got mine for a lo-dough.
Those look great in photos, but when I got mine I was disappointed to find that the metal trim was more like a sea-green rather than gunmetal.
some nice boxes are changing hands when you are not watching... I forgot that there is Telefunkem HiFi Studio 1M on my watch list; eBay informed me today that it was sold for just $160. I do not need another home stereo (and ran out of space for my bbox collection), but $160 seems ridiculously low!
The Telefunken is dime a dozen in Germany. There's at least 4 or 5 of them on Ebay Germany every single week. Plus that one had a non-working tape deck and a non-working signal strength meter, which could be simply stuck or maybe it's just broken.
@Reli these are great news! Keep forgetting about our eBay brothers on the "wrong side of the Pond". For days now Im trying to figure where would I place this Telefunken beauty: all the rooms already have hi-fies in them... Time to get another house?... Wonder how it fares against Panasonic RX-A2 for music, not blasting neighbors into hate-mode?
How about a Grundig tube-type console? Had chance at one awhile back, and all it needed was a new "vibrator". I passed on it because I didn't have a clue what it needed at the time, and it was raining when I stopped into the resale shop it was in. But I did take home the Harmon-Kardon CD carousel I saw there. As for the main topic of this thread, I hear you... It's like I've said since finding a early Pentium computer in the dumpster by a friend's apartment, 20-years ago: It never fails to amaze me what some people will just throw-away.
