...either because they're trying to hide it or they don't know enough about boomboxes to notice it?

My answer: non-working FM stereo.

What about you?

that ---
and small grill dents.

The physical condition is usually overstated.... or major flaws are hidden by poor pictures that don't show them either by angle or size.

MOST OFTEN LEFT OUT - Powercord. Even though it is pictured in the auction it gets "left out" so often I get surprised when they actually ship it. And when this is pointed out there is a 50% chance they will not even respond to the email, 40% that they will do nothing about it even if they do respond.... 10% claim to send it off right away.... and 1% of the powercords actually show up after all this.



Basically outside of this board most boombox sellers are lying sacks of dog c@rp that have been sitting out in the sun and they don't have a clue as to what they are selling. Or choose not to. These days I am happy if I buy two supposedly perfect boxes from no-name sellers and I can put them together to make one....

Jaded ----> 71spud

pedantic flaws i find are often left out

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Basically outside of this board most boombox sellers are lying sacks of dog c@rp that have been sitting out in the sun and they don't have a clue as to what they are selling. Or choose not to. These days I am happy if I buy two supposedly perfect boxes from no-name sellers and I can put them together to make one....

AMEN BROTHER!

Biggest problem for me has been ebay sellers who do not examine the BBX's carefully. I just got burned three times in a row on ebay. The seller plugs the radio in, puts in a cassette or turns on the radio and hears sound. Lets it play for 10 minutes and deems it completely functional. Happens all the time.

I usually ask sellers to check if the FM stereo light comes on and if line-in works. So I've never had a problem with that. My biggest problem has been poor packing - when a boombox arrives in 3-4 pieces. Which is not really a defect - but still....

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Originally posted by vladi123456:
I usually ask sellers to check if the FM stereo light comes on and if line-in works. So I've never had a problem with that. My biggest problem has been poor packing - when a boombox arrives in 3-4 pieces. Which is not really a defect - but still....

It wasn't a 3 piece or component system was it Vlad?!

Johnny <-better not quit his day job!

Think of all the PC-5's Vlad tossed!

Ooooooooooooooooooooh - so the PC-5 is a 3-piece by design???

Can't stand when there is 1 pic only, Also the pic is too far, And describe it as excellent .

that their perfect minty items dont work.
or they will rip you off keep your money and your boombox they just sold you.

Missing case screws ore broken ones inside the boombox.
Hard to tell on bad pictures but very obvious when you see the gaps live.

I'll add a second one...

They fail to mention that one or more of the radio bands (usually SW, but sometimes AM/MW, and rarely [but once in a great while] FM) doesn't work... at all! I'm not talking about lousy reception. I'm talking dead silence... the kind no amount of jiggling any dirty switch can fix.

And don't give me any of this, "We live in a remote area, so we don't get many radio stations." Dead is dead. Admit it!

Torn speaker cones.
One of the tweeters not working.
Static in the controls.
Playback not the right speed.
Battery compartment corroded.
VU needles not working right.

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Originally posted by Reli:
VU needles not working right.

VU meters (LED meters, too, for that matter) that change with the volume control(s) and are calibrated so the that the volume has to be up full blast before they begin to move.

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Originally posted by baby boomer:

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Originally posted by Reli:
VU needles not working right.

VU meters (LED meters, too, for that matter) that change with the volume control(s) and are calibrated so the that the volume has to be up full blast before they begin to move.

Exactly why I haven't bought a Rising 20/20 or Crown 950

Good God Vladi123456!

Nice!!!

People who sell this radios think that a working tape deck is one that moves the tape foward and backward.
In most cases, and prior to picking-up I found that tape deck ...

1) Is dead or nearly dead OR
2) Sound awful, with lot of flutter OR
3) eats tapes.

Finally, because I like working on them, I pick-up the BBX anyway at a lower price ...

that everything is in good order just to find out that that that that

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Originally posted by tburick:

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Basically outside of this board most boombox sellers are lying sacks of dog c@rp that have been sitting out in the sun and they don't have a clue as to what they are selling. Or choose not to. These days I am happy if I buy two supposedly perfect boxes from no-name sellers and I can put them together to make one....

I think you are very generous with 10mns!
AMEN BROTHER!

Biggest problem for me has been ebay sellers who do not examine the BBX's carefully. I just got burned three times in a row on ebay. The seller plugs the radio in, puts in a cassette or turns on the radio and hears sound. Lets it play for 10 minutes and deems it completely functional. Happens all the time.

Ten minutes is very generous!
Also the problem i found on two boxes is the radio playing slightly when a tape is being played....annoying....it seems not to disturb them though lol

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Originally posted by baby boomer:
And don't give me any of this, "We live in a remote area, so we don't get many radio stations."

Like I said...

Take a look at the description for a National RX-7000 in eBay auction #220350945377.

"I'm not sure about the radio-but I live in a mountainess area so reception here is poor anyways."

No.

It's a Japanese domestic unit with a digital tuner that receives 76-90MHz FM and AM in 9KHz increments. In other words, virtually incompatible with U.S. radio frequencies. Mountains schmountains.

that 7000 is also not a 7000 !!
its a 7200 ??

and thanks , baby boomer, for the warning re the fm 90

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No.

It's a Japanese domestic unit with a digital tuner that receives 76-90MHz FM and AM in 9KHz increments. In other words, virtually incompatible with U.S. radio frequencies. Mountains schmountains.

Just as an aside to this topic, and please forgive my naivete/stupidity in advance, but would it be possible to monkey around with the internals of the tuner section, particularly the polyvaricon adjusters, to change the tuning spectrum for a radio that's been designed for .jp only stations?

I realise the numbers would all be out of wack on the dial itself, but it'd be a reasonable solution for radios that were less widely distributed throughout the rest of the world than japan, if it worked. Surely they'd all have the same parts in them for the tuner boards and the manufacturer just make an internal adjustment in the factory depending on the region it was to be sold in, along with a different set of dial numbers to paint on the tuner or a different version of that display.

Just a thought anyway.



Rock On.

good thought for you

i bought a box from a member here , who had made that fm conversion --and it did work fairly well.

I have this model. And I don't care that the FM is not usable in the USA - I have 14 other boomboxes with *proper* FM. But none of my other boomboxes look THAT expensive - maybe except for National Panasonic 4360. And very few sound as good as this National RX-7200. I think $300 is a really good price for this box - I highly recommend it!