I have a brand new in the box AIWA HS-PX900 with the original price sticker from 1989. Friend passed away and came across the Walkman. Would like to sell it not sure how to price something like this. Any advice is appreciated, is anyone is interested we can do a paypal transaction or E-Bay

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There are going to be a few people interested here.  May they form an orderly queue for the closed auction bids.

Very interested as I know someone else that would love to have this one. PM with price or ebay link.

I will be creating a on-line auction with E-Bay and will post the link here to make it fair. Any questions PM me....

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It ended at over USD$1,000. Not too shabby for a boxed PX900 (US version PX303).

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/160818752620

Not too shabby at all, I had my eye on it!  It's new in the box...was it tested?  If not, do you think this will work perfectly as-is out of the box?

It going have bad capacitors more likely, but someone really wanted it and paid way over the top for it, as I bidded a 1k on it, reason it when high, as it was at $500 before. Only wanted it  to replace a lost one, otherwise won't have bidded as high.

Highly probable it will have leaky capacitors. Not many AIWA walkmans from that era escaped the scourge.

It would be nice to know if the buyer was a member on here and could give us a follow up on their new PX900.

I am stunned by that price. I wish good luck on the new owner's re-capping process.

The caps that AIWA used would leak because the rubber gasket seal inside the capacitors over time would fail, thus allowing the liquid electrolyte to escape. Now depending on how the walkman was stored, it could cause no damage or a lot of damage to the PCB. For example if the walkman was stored with the unit face up then potentially the electrolyte would leak all over the PCB. If however it was stored with the unit face down then this is less likely to occur and the caps would simply just dry out due to evaporation. In all likelihood the capacitors would probably all need replacing, an ESR meter would quickly establish if they are starting to decline or if in fact dead should there be no obvious external signs that it has expired.