Woooh! I saw what people are asking for that Flashformer, Ouch!!! Those prices must be driven by nastalgia, it just doesn't make any sense.. I still have the original "baby" Gemini mixer, as we called it. It was the first real small mixer used back in the evolution of turntable tricks circa 1984.
That flashformer, or the homeade ones, were called cheater boxes. You could spend about 10 bucks at radioshack for all the parts, rig up a chassis and have that effect. Or you could rig your crossfader to cutout in several places so each time you slide the fader across there would be 2 or 3 dead spots in the music. ................................Then there was the Flare! Tansforming was easy once you learned that. That happened because someone slicked there fader up which led to manufacturing optical faders.
I am stumped on that one, it doesn't ...I don't get it...Wow!
It's one thing to place a high price on something you don't want to sell, just to get a response, but another thing if someone actually pays $250-$500 for a 35.00 switch.
I sold a skateboard deck that I paid $35.00 for in 1986, it went for $1800.00 (on ebay) ten years ago. That was around the time skateboard nastalgia kicked in. I also sold (on ebay) a Sharp VZ-2000 for $1,500.00 (there was a bidding war on that one) to a guy in the Bronx. He said his brother had one like it but never let him touch it. 20 years later he spent big bucks to get what he always wanted. I felt bad for the guy but the other bidder wanted it almost as bad as he did. There wasn't many ghettoblasters on ebay 10 years ago.
Hey good luck with that. Shite, i'd hold on to that just because of the few that were made there's probably a lot of them that went into the trash as people started buying cd's and throwing there vinyl out. Goldmine man!!!
