I went ahead and listed it on eBay. No reserve. If somebody wants to bid on
it, here's the link:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=3084068948

Funny though, I have close to 100 different portables (really need to count
them) and many are less than what I had hoped for. I have NEVER considered
selling any of them, so far. I did give a Bell & Howell away to someone on
the group for the cost of shipping though. Good or bad, they are mine.
Kinda like children, huh?



"Corbin Ray" wrote in message
...
I went ahead and listed it on eBay. No reserve. If somebody wants to bid
on
it, here's the link:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=3084068948

"Jim Hackett" wrote...
Funny though, I have close to 100 different portables (really need to count
them) and many are less than what I had hoped for. I have NEVER considered
selling any of them, so far. I did give a Bell & Howell away to someone on
the group for the cost of shipping though. Good or bad, they are mine.
Kinda like children, huh?

Yep : )
I want to adopt a Tecsun PL-550 next

In article .net,
Sanjaya wrote:
"Jim Hackett" wrote...
Funny though, I have close to 100 different portables (really need to count
them) and many are less than what I had hoped for. I have NEVER considered
selling any of them, so far. I did give a Bell & Howell away to someone on
the group for the cost of shipping though. Good or bad, they are mine.
Kinda like children, huh?

Yep : )
I want to adopt a Tecsun PL-550 next

Frankly, I don't see the attraction of this radio over, say, the Degen
1101 or 1102 ... except for size of speaker. In real-world use, certainly
it isn't going to be the extra memory slots that the Tecsun has which will
make the difference.

I'm a bit puzzled by some of the new Tecsun radios, and especially how
Eton has chosen which models as replacements for former offerings. For
instance, they sold the PL-707A, a dual-conversion set with weird tuning
controls, as one of the eTraveller models. Now they are carrying the PL-230
as the Yacht Boy 550 ... which is a _single_ conversion set ... a fact
they surely don't advertise. I don't see many user reports on this set,
apart from that one glowing review on RadioIntel, but there is a Yahoo
forum devoted to its twin-with-one-less-AA-cell, the PL-200. What sticks
in my mind from the few discussions there is poor battery life. Maybe the
PL-230 does better with an additional AA cell powering it.

I see no in-depth coverage of the brand new PL-550 so far .. .I'm
wondering if it's single-conversion as well ... as it seems to be
basically a big version of the PL-200 with an antenna trimmer. Does anyone
know otherwise?

According to your 'write up' though on ebay Corbin, it is just fine. What
gives? Hmmmm?

I noticed that too :~) What's he supposed to say if he wants to sell it?
LOL


"Dxluver" wrote in message
...
According to your 'write up' though on ebay Corbin, it is just fine.
What
gives? Hmmmm?

It's called marketing. And I spoke no lie there either. This IS my third
radio this week, and like it or not, I am henpecked to the point that my
wife really did tell me to sell this one on eBay.

The performance I experienced with my 9700 is probably average for that
particular radio, no better, no worse. As most of you know, I have found a
couple of cheap Chinese radios that I like better -- Tecsun BCL2000 and
Degen DE1102 -- and so I am choosing to sell the 9700 and keep the other
two. Also, to be fair, my opening price was only 1 penny, with no reserve,
plus the actual shipping I would need to send a three-pound radio anywhere
in the US. If the winning bidder paid $8.01 for the radio, would that be a
problem for anyone here? Not for me. What about $10.01 or $20.01? That's up
to the bidder. I paid a total of $47.90 to get that radio shipped to me. If
I sell it for less or more than that, it won't matter. I was able to try the
radio out for myself and I quickly found out that it didn't suit my
particular needs. That puts the 9700 in the same company as the Satellit 800
and the Sony 2010. That's pretty good company for some people.

What if I lose money on the transaction? Then it was a learning experience.
What if I make money on the transaction? Then it was a learning experience
on which I made a couple of dollars. Of course, I'll use those dollars to
order another cheap radio until I find one that I want to keep.

Thanks for being so understanding.