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Can anyone explain this to me???
Tecsun BCL-2000 being sold online at http://store.yahoo.com/sports-imports/5bashrainred.html FM/AM/SW Digital 5 Band Shortwave Radio in Red or Black BCL2000 Regular price: $189.95Sale price: (You save: 32%) I cannot fathom the selling price or the statement about "regular price" I want to express shock and dismay, but all I can do is sit here and shake my head!!! This radio is like $80 including shipping on eBay. The Grundig S350 is only $99 plus shipping, online. And the same price plus tax in a retail store. Right??? What the hell!!! |
"Sanjaya" wrote...
FM/AM/SW Digital 5 Band Shortwave Radio in Red or Black BCL2000 Regular price: $189.95Sale price: (You save: 32%) Sorry. The "sale price" didn't paste in to a plain text message. It should read... Regular price: $189.95Sale price: $129.95 (You save: 32%) |
Hi Sanjaya:
- This is done in NYC, & probably other Big Cities, All the time; trying to hook gullible tourists.. - So I guess they think it'll fly on the net as well.. Here's there particulars.. Sports Imports, Ltd. PO Box 60245 Potomac, Md 20859-0245 Fax: (301) 299-0185 - Probably someone is running this thing out of their Apt; Using a Mailboxes, Inc as a base. Dan In article . net, "Sanjaya" writes: Can anyone explain this to me??? Tecsun BCL-2000 being sold online at http://store.yahoo.com/sports-imports/5bashrainred.html FM/AM/SW Digital 5 Band Shortwave Radio in Red or Black BCL2000 Regular price: $189.95Sale price: (You save: 32%) I cannot fathom the selling price or the statement about "regular price" I want to express shock and dismay, but all I can do is sit here and shake my head!!! This radio is like $80 including shipping on eBay. The Grundig S350 is only $99 plus shipping, online. And the same price plus tax in a retail store. Right??? What the hell!!! |
Unless one takes the time to thoroughly shop for any sort of electronics,
it's pretty easy to pay too much. That seller is apparently counting on it. These Ebay sellers: Brochhi http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=3070960 986 and Liypn http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=3078198 977 are the way to go if you want one of these radios, from what I've seen on the Yahoo S350/Tecsun BCL-2000 board. From feedback I've seen, and the "buy it now" price: Brochhi tends to ship faster (he's near Chicago), but doesn't e-mail as much as customers prefer. He also calls the Red Tecsun BCL-2000 "rare," which it is not. Radio = $69.99, Shipping = $14.99, and Insurance (optional) = $2.00; for a total of $86.98. (He sells the black one $18.00 cheaper -- total $68.98) Liypn ships a little slower (because he's in Shanghai), but people have been very satisfied with him. Radio = $41.90, Shipping = $38.00, Insurance (optional) = $5.00; for a total of $81.90. Same price for red or black. -- Stinger "Sanjaya" wrote in message ink.net... Can anyone explain this to me??? Tecsun BCL-2000 being sold online at http://store.yahoo.com/sports-imports/5bashrainred.html FM/AM/SW Digital 5 Band Shortwave Radio in Red or Black BCL2000 Regular price: $189.95Sale price: (You save: 32%) I cannot fathom the selling price or the statement about "regular price" I want to express shock and dismay, but all I can do is sit here and shake my head!!! This radio is like $80 including shipping on eBay. The Grundig S350 is only $99 plus shipping, online. And the same price plus tax in a retail store. Right??? What the hell!!! |
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Hi Mike, check this out, same radio, new, "buy it now" for $41.90
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=3078198 977 ====================================== Sanjaya wrote: Can anyone explain this to me??? Tecsun BCL-2000 being sold online at http://store.yahoo.com/sports-imports/5bashrainred.html FM/AM/SW Digital 5 Band Shortwave Radio in Red or Black BCL2000 Regular price: $189.95Sale price: (You save: 32%) I cannot fathom the selling price or the statement about "regular price" I want to express shock and dismay, but all I can do is sit here and shake my head!!! This radio is like $80 including shipping on eBay. The Grundig S350 is only $99 plus shipping, online. And the same price plus tax in a retail store. Right??? What the hell!!! [Image] Name: sports-imports_1773_4690554.dat sports-imports_1773_4690554.dat Type: NeroMediaPlayer media files (application/x-unknown-content-type-NeroMediaPlayer.File) Encoding: x-uuencode |
I just bought a Tecsun BCL 2000 from brocchi and was very satisfied. I got
my "rare" red one for a total of $70 including shipping- great radio! KG "Steve" wrote in message ... Hi Mike, check this out, same radio, new, "buy it now" for $41.90 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=3078198 977 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.572 / Virus Database: 362 - Release Date: 1/27/2004 |
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Thanks everyone.
I'm still stunned by this guy's ad. "Regular price $189.95" My God!!! "Diverd4777" wrote... Hi Sanjaya: - This is done in NYC, & probably other Big Cities, All the time; trying to hook gullible tourists.. - So I guess they think it'll fly on the net as well.. Here's there particulars.. Sports Imports, Ltd. PO Box 60245 Potomac, Md 20859-0245 Fax: (301) 299-0185 - Probably someone is running this thing out of their Apt; Using a Mailboxes, Inc as a base. Dan In article . net, "Sanjaya" writes: Can anyone explain this to me??? Tecsun BCL-2000 being sold online at http://store.yahoo.com/sports-imports/5bashrainred.html FM/AM/SW Digital 5 Band Shortwave Radio in Red or Black BCL2000 Regular price: $189.95Sale price: $129.95 (You save: 32%) I cannot fathom the selling price or the statement about "regular price" I want to express shock and dismay, but all I can do is sit here and shake my head!!! This radio is like $80 including shipping on eBay. The Grundig S350 is only $99 plus shipping, online. And the same price plus tax in a retail store. Right??? What the hell!!! |
Saki,
( First, are you the same as " H H Munro " ?? ;-) ) - Let us know what you think of the Kaito 1102; - Thinking of getting one ( eventually ) dan In article , saki writes: Subject: *gulp* From: saki Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 20:01:17 +0000 (UTC) (Michael Bryant) wrote in : From: Steve Hi Mike, check this out, same radio, new, "buy it now" for $41.90 Yeah, eveeryone says that Liypn is the guy to buy from. Even with the $38 dollar air shipping charge from mainland China the cost is still reasonable at about $80. This is correct. I just got my black Tecsin BCL-2000 on Friday; Liypn shipped it the previous Saturday. Wonderful turnaround. I'm playing with it this weekend (also with a Kaito 1102 I just got last week as well) and am very impressed with both radios. Hooked up my 70' magnet wire (used normally for my R75) and the Tecsun didn't overload, no distortion, and got great signals at very nice fidelity. It's certainly a nice "fun" radio to have. ---- |
On 2004-02-14 said: Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave Can anyone explain this to me??? Tecsun BCL-2000 being sold online at http://store.yahoo.com/sports-imports/5bashrainred.html FM/AM/SW Digital 5 Band Shortwave Radio in Red or Black BCL2000 Regular price: $189.95Sale price: (You save: 32%) I cannot fathom the selling price or the statement about "regular price" I want to express shock and dismay, but all I can do is sit here and shake my head!!! This radio is like $80 including shipping on eBay. The Grundig S350 is only $99 plus shipping, online. And the same price plus tax in a retail store. Right??? ----SNIP---- What was that the ancient Romans used to say about, "Caveat emptor"? I think it's rediculous to claim a retail price of $149.95 for something a Chinese seller can advertise on EBay for $42 all the time and sell at a proffit. Of course, by the time you pay him $38 for shipping to the USA or Canada, you have an $80 radio, and that may or may not include a stepdown voltage transformer, which effectively turns your built-in power supply in something that ends up plugging in via a wall wart. That's the Tecsun BCL-2000. The seller in Detroit has it with the stepdown transformer for $69.99 plus $14.99 for shipping within the US or to Canada, giving you a radio delivered to your door for $84.98. Then, you can buy what amounts to nearly the same radio with extra MW coverage and a Grundig brand name on it for $99.99 everywhere that sells it plus sales tax, and/or shipping and handling. Saying that the "list" or "regular" price is $149.99 or $189.95 is sheer market puffery designed to convince the gullible that they are getting something more than they are paying for. Stick something in a big shipping crate, or even a shipping pallet on an airplane, and cost of transporting a single radio from anywhere in the world to the USA drops to very little. It is easy to see why the stuff is made in China and not Europe, Japan, or North America. The proffit margins on the transactions can double twice or more, whereas the margin used to be measured in percentage points--maybe 10, or 20 percent on the high side. I mentioned last week that a handfull of mostly Chinese companies are flooding the world market with scads of cheap radios, just a few slightly varying models sold under a dozen or more brand names, but nobody is spending any money on really high-quality, good-sounding radio gear for the shortwave listener. I was asked if I had heard of the Eton 900, or whatever it is going to be called. Yes, I've heard of it, and based on what I've heard, it will prove my point. What are its proposed dimmensions--13 by 7 by 2 inches, weight, four pounds, aprox. This is even a little smaller and lighter than a Grundig Satellit 700. D batteries are at least 1.5 inches in diameter, so if it uses D batteries, it won't take more than four. That's a 6-volt amplifier design. A 2-inch thick radio is going to have a speaker with a small magnet. Don't look for any decent audio quality there. Judging from the thin, wimpy sound and abysmal audio capabilities of the amplifier and speaker in the much bigger Satellit 800, I don't expect to hear good quality audio out of the Eton 900/Satellit 900/Eton E1-XM or whatever they're going to call it. Even though they will cut the labor costs by up to 80 percent by making the radio in China instead of even a cheap-labor European country like Portugal, much of the money is going into making the unit XM radio-capable. The large XM boom box is really a crappy sounding piece of audio gear. I know two people who bought them and returned them the next day, including one who easily comfortable listening to a radio with a sound quality like a Sangean ATS-909. I'll bet that E1-XM won't sound much if any better than a Sony ICF-SW77 which is about the same size and weight, and uses C batteries instead of D batteries. I would really be surprised if it has audio quality even close to that of a Grundig Satellit 400 or Satellit 700. I hope my skepticism will be proven to be overly pessimistic, but I don't plan to get my hopes up at all. Even so, it's not here yet. We can't go see and hear one anywhere, and we can't order one yet at any price and expect to have it delivered to our door within the next two weeks or so. If we're lucky, we might get a chance to play with it, review it, and read people's comments based on experience by some time before the end of this year. In the meantime, the 32- or 33-year-old Satellit 210/6001 still rules the bedside table and sings or talks me to sleep many nights, and the nice little S-350 or the equally nice little BCL-2000 will probably be my main travelling shortwave radio. I wouldn't want to risk getting the Sat 400 or the Sat 700 killed or stolen. I think the E1-XM would be a better radio had it been an E1-Sir, as in Sirius Radio, and it would be even better if it could do Sirius and/or XM in the same box along with current state-of-the-art traditional off-air radio with current top-end portable radio coverage and tuning features. Reply to: Brent Reynolds, Atlanta, GA USA |
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Saki,
( First, are you the same as " H H Munro " ?? ;-) ) Now THERE'S an esoteric reference... being a long-time Sake/Munro reader, I must state my appreciation at seeing this one, Dan- Linus |
(Diverd4777) wrote in
: Saki, ( First, are you the same as " H H Munro " ?? ;-) Nope, just a fan. Saki was my cat's name, named after the great H.H. mimself. I took her name as a login for my initial Unix account and have used it for almost all my accounts since. - Let us know what you think of the Kaito 1102; - Thinking of getting one ( eventually ) I like the sensitivity so far, which is better (or so it seems from cursory examination) than my old Sony ICF-7600 (the 1991 model). I was looking for something a bit more portable and practical. The 1102 has a very nice feel to it (solid case) and logical operation (except for the battery charger, and I eventually figured it out with help from another 1102 owner). The blue backlight is very nice too. Not a challenger for a tabletop of course, and it would probably be outperformed by the 400PE or ICF-7600GR, but I wanted something smaller than both those options that would still pick up what are "essential" stations for me. The 1102 can get RNZI and Tunisia as well as DW and Radio Netherlands, so that's enough for me. Very good MW and FM fidelity as well. ---- |
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