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Discussion in 'Brochures, advertising, data & specs...' started by Mister X, Jul 17, 2019.

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    Some more goodies from 1985, pricing in USD. A rare siting of a Fisher Keyboard Boombox, unfortunately Fisher had such a crappy reputation from it's all-in-one stereo racks.


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    Hitachi TRK-5050 1977


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    National RF-966MB from 1977


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    National Boomboxes from 1974


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    National RQ-543 ADS from 1976


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    AIWA CS-880 from 1982, AUD


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    1985 Boomboxes, AUD

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    Sharp GF-555 from 1980, AUD


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    Sharp Boomboxes from 1985, AUD. The top recorder is interesting, I'm not sure who was buying those at the time.


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    Some neat Sanyo's from 1981, price is AUD. I've got an M7900 and M6400, both are very high quality builds, they fit into the mini-boombox catagory.


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    Radio Shack's little portable from 1983, Panasonic RX-1920 clone?

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    Radio Shack Modulaire 850 from 1987, price is AUD. It can record at 1/2 the normal speed, I wonder how much better that makes the sonics.


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    Lot's of goodies from Singapore Charlies including a very rare ad for a Disco Lite! from 1988, AUD

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    Great, there are a lot of rare materials here, I can only find Sony product manuals in yen
     
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    I don't remember ever seeing product manuals over here but English Versions are around. I think the Japanese had to print pricing on their ads because they all have it. As far as I know, that's the set price, over here our electronics stores would heavily discount.

    Example, store buys JVC RC-XXXX at $100 USD, puts on floor at $200 USD but then has "BIG SALE" and marks that down 30% for a $140 USD sale price. Different countries have different ways of doing business and I'm not familar with most of them.
     
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    Here are some really old Sony prices from 1974.
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    In the U.K. people hate haggling but love a bargain and have been known to queue up for days to get one in the January sales.
    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/boxing-day-sales-shoppers-queue-2960045
    Dixons, whose catalogue this is from, kept getting in trouble for misleading "sale" prices
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4576311.stm
    I recall when "sale" adverts always stated in the small print how long the item had been sold for at the previous price.
     
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    Those CF Mono Boxes are cheaper than I would have thought.
     
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    A Sanyo Radio Cassette was about £40. Either was just over a weeks wages for a full time manual male worker and nearly two weeks wages for a woman. I have commented before that they were the sort of thing a lucky person (like a student on teaching practice, who was working for my Mother) got for their 21st Birthday.
     
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    VEF204 Priced at £42 in 1971
     

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    The actual price was £13.97 but they are probably right that an equivalent from Sony or National Panasonic would have been £42. Russian made products like these and Lada cars were popular with people after a bargain here in the U.K. in the 1970s. I am sure they would have been far less affordable in the USSR. @CDV might know.
    Here is a webpage about a later model.
    https://www.petervis.com/Radios/selena-vega-215/selena-vega-215.html
     
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