National Panasonic RX-5250L For £820.00 - Madness?

[MyOhMy]

Dear me, I thought this was a bit of a shocker:

A National Panasonic RX-5250L has just sold on eBay(UK) for £820.00. Advertised as "...it is has never been used and still in it's factory box" but, unless this particular box has some kind of special meaning to the winning bidder, is this an insane price for one of these?

 

[Nickeccles]

Lol!

I saw the auction & although it's very nice it is not mint by any means - I would pay max of £100 for such a unit!!

Winning bid is ridiculous & unrealistic - Who knows if it's genuine or not

 

[Northerner]

If you look it's a private listing so you can't see the bidders...totally bogus if you ask me...I never ever trust anyone who does that because there is no legitimate reason for doing it. Bogus bogus bogus

It's untested too lol

 

[Hisrudeness]

If it re-lists (again) then we'll know it's shill bidding.

 

[floyd]

You never know why somebody's willing to pay that much for it he'll you know they may need it for some specific reason who knows they got more money than I do just don't fall for paying too much for this s*** because you know the Nostalgia will wear off once all the old school people are dead

 

[Reli]

"never been used"

sure

 

[ralrein1]

MADNESS.......................sheer madness.

 

[Radio raheem]

Mediocre box at best £50. there is a member on stg just sold a boxed dc2 walkman with click for over 2k, wtf is wrong with people, it takes alot to shock me but 2 k for a walkman is just nuts

 

[ford93]

Just looking at the top trim you could tell it has been used!

 

[jimmyjimmy19702010]

$1369 AUD !!!! And no guarantee it works - bass shy even if it does!!

No thanks.

 

[Mystic Traveller]

the Nostalgia will wear off once all the old school people are dead

That's true..

 

[T-STER]

I saw thisw one, this was the second time it was listed due to a "non payer", i smell shenanigans, that is a £100 box all day usually, considerably more boxed perhaps but not that much.

 

[Superduper]

Why do these types of threads always seem to devolve into trashing of a model because the item sold for more than someone else wishes to pay. The 5250 is an excellent sounding boombox and used examples selling for ~$200 usd is common. This one does appear to be in superior condition (regardless if it is truly new or not) and comes with accessories and carton that everyone knows will bump up the price significantly. Now the concept of BNIB is not new and does frequently result in quite high pices. Many of us have been in the hobby long enough to have observed that. In fact I have a few in my collection that I paid a very healthy sum for because those were important models for me and I saw value in having a new example of a model that has significant sentimental meaning to me. Had I regarded those auctions any less, I would not have won the auctions and those boomboxes would still have sold for a lot.

As for this example, there clearly are some marks on the top trim which suggests that maybe it's maybe not really actually "new." So that's a fair argument to make. The final price as well. However, lets not trash this model. It is highly sought after and still a score to add to any collection. Argue the suspicious nature of the auction if you like, but let's not trash a good sounding boombox. It is not the loudest or biggest or has the most bling, but you could surely do a whole lot less.

 

[ralrein1]

I concur there Super. The Panasonic Rx-5250 is a great medium sized box w/a fair amount of bells and nipples.😄😄😄 It shouldnt be bashed by anyone here,now if it was a Yorx. Well then I could understand that.😄😀😁

 

[koleloi]

Why do these types of threads always seem to devolve into trashing of a model because the item sold for more than someone else wishes to pay. The 5250 is an excellent sounding boombox and used examples selling for ~$200 usd is common. This one does appear to be in superior condition (regardless if it is truly new or not) and comes with accessories and carton that everyone knows will bump up the price significantly. Now the concept of BNIB is not new and does frequently result in quite high pices. Many of us have been in the hobby long enough to have observed that. In fact I have a few in my collection that I paid a very healthy sum for because those were important models for me and I saw value in having a new example of a model that has significant sentimental meaning to me. Had I regarded those auctions any less, I would not have won the auctions and those boomboxes would still have sold for a lot.

As for this example, there clearly are some marks on the top trim which suggests that maybe it's maybe not really actually "new." So that's a fair argument to make. The final price as well. However, lets not trash this model. It is highly sought after and still a score to add to any collection. Argue the suspicious nature of the auction if you like, but let's not trash a good sounding boombox. It is not the loudest or biggest or has the most bling, but you could surely do a whole lot less.

Agreed!

 

[MyOhMy]

the Nostalgia will wear off once all the old school people are dead

That's true..

Try telling that to crazygamer and any other youngsters on this forum. I find it refreshing that there is still a following for old school BB's but it's anyone's guess as to how long this will continue or to what degree when the die hards are extinct!.

 

[Northerner]

I agree, it's a good small box...I've had a couple and it sounds better than you'd expect, a good useable box. I'd pick one up again if it was cheap enough. It's the listing that's crap not the radio

 

[BoomboxLover48]

The winning price all depends on how much the buyer loves to have it.

Once when I was drooling for an Akai AJ500FS, Sony CF590, Panasonic RX5230, and RX5350 I would have paid any price the seller would have asked.

RX5250 is a very nice box to have. The buyer might have drooled for getting that box ....

 

[Northerner]

As for younger fans...there are a lot of them at a Newcastle Uni! I do think, as with everything, the market will go up and down, and yeh when those of us who were teenagers in the 80's die off I guess the market will dip again. But who knows, all it takes is something like the Guardians of the Galaxy movie to make something old popular again

 

[Hisrudeness]

Why do these types of threads always seem to devolve into trashing of a model because the item sold for more than someone else wishes to pay. The 5250 is an excellent sounding boombox and used examples selling for ~$200 usd is common. This one does appear to be in superior condition (regardless if it is truly new or not) and comes with accessories and carton that everyone knows will bump up the price significantly. Now the concept of BNIB is not new and does frequently result in quite high pices. Many of us have been in the hobby long enough to have observed that. In fact I have a few in my collection that I paid a very healthy sum for because those were important models for me and I saw value in having a new example of a model that has significant sentimental meaning to me. Had I regarded those auctions any less, I would not have won the auctions and those boomboxes would still have sold for a lot.
As for this example, there clearly are some marks on the top trim which suggests that maybe it's maybe not really actually "new." So that's a fair argument to make. The final price as well. However, lets not trash this model. It is highly sought after and still a score to add to any collection. Argue the suspicious nature of the auction if you like, but let's not trash a good sounding boombox. It is not the loudest or biggest or has the most bling, but you could surely do a whole lot less.

Not much trashing of the model that I see to be honest except from Rimmer and that's to be accepted and probably ignored. It is a solid box, good looking and the ambience works nicely. But there is clearly something amiss with this auction. It's gone way beyond what the maximum this box is generally worth. It's gone even higher than this boxed Pioneer 909 on eBay uk last year. Very strange!