One of my personal grails arrives :)

[RockE]

I found this listed on eBay Italy and thought it would end up going for heaps, he had it listed for 49.99 euro start price, someone bid 50 I bid 51 and thought I'd just watch it and see what happened, I was prepared to go higher but nothing happened and I won it much to my surprise. Shipping was a bit but I opted for tracking so that has to be expected.

The heading read HITACHI TRK-3D95E RADIO REGISTRATORE CASSETTE NUOVO the bit that got me interested was NUOVO (new)

It came pretty quick, I was worried that it was headed to Austria which has happened to me before instead of Australia on something else I bought from eBay many years ago.

08-07-2011 11:24 LA SPEDIZIONE E' STATA CONSEGNATA Australia
06-07-2011 21:38 RICEVUTO FILIALE Australia
06-07-2011 21:25 LETTURA IMPORT Australia
06-07-2011 15:15 RILASCIATO DALLA DOGANA Australia
06-07-2011 15:15 IN ATTESA DI SDOGANAMENTO Australia
05-07-2011 01:13 RICEVUTO FILIALE Germania
05-07-2011 00:51 RICEVUTO FILIALE Germania
04-07-2011 17:52 RICEVUTO FILIALE Italia
04-07-2011 16:45 PARTENZA DAL GATEWAY INTERNAZIONALE ORIGINE Italia
04-07-2011 09:18 ARRIVO AL GATEWAY Milano Gateway
01-07-2011 15:55 SMISTATA DAL CENTRO DI MECCANIZZAZIONE POSTALE Trieste
30-06-2011 14:18 USCITA DALL'UFFICIO POSTALE Trieste

I present my win a very minty Hitachi TRK-3D95E it still has the plastic stuff over the LCD and VU

Love the sound of it, easily probably the best sounding box I have, not sure if I want to dirty the virgin cassette heads playing all the old 80's compilation tapes I have though

I am one very happy individual at the moment.

 

[redbenjoe]

great WIN

 

[Terry]

Nice work RockE! Personal grails are the best grails.

 

[skippy1969]

Congrats!

 

[kingrat2010]

congrats, nice vu

 

[blu_fuz]

Not bad looking for an EGG!

 

[Gluecifer]

Fantastic! Great to see her arrive all in one piece!!

Not going to find many radios, even of a 90s vintage, in that kind of brand-new condition.



Rock On.

 

[ClaretBadger]

RE
SULT

 

[Fatdog]

Nice work RockE! Personal grails are the best grails.

I agree! And man, that IS some fast shipping from Italy to Australia.

 

[MR.GROOVE]

Well done!

 

[stormsven]

Alien egg . Love the LEDs .

 

[im_alan_partridge]

Good work, that sucker looks like it can rock. Also like new condition

 

[monchito]

great WIN

 

[MasterBlaster84]

Great score, they sound very good. Getting one like new in the orignal box has to make it a rare score.
I've got the version with the CD player and it pumps out great sound but I wish it had some LED meters like yours.

 

[tshorba]

nice

what was the freight like, there is no real surface mail options into or out of Au now

and time to get some NOS tapes

 

[RockE]

nice

what was the freight like, there is no real surface mail options into or out of Au now

and time to get some NOS tapes

Two options non tracking 70 odd Euro tracking 141... nasty!

 

[RockE]

Its a wide beast!

In action

http://s1105.photobucket.com/albums/h357/Rockey70/?action=view&current=Boomers002.mp4

http://s1105.photobucket.com/albums/h357/Rockey70/?action=view&current=Boomers004.mp4

I asked the seller what the story behind this box was:

HELLO,
THE PERSON THAT GIVE ME THIS BOOMBOX HAVE BUY THIS AND THE OTHER 3 BOOMBOX I HAVE IN THE AUCTION FOR HIS FATHER THAT HAVE HEALTH PROBLEM BUT I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND IF HIS FATHER DIDN'T LIKE IT OR THEY WAS TO COMPLICATED FOR USE THEM BECOUSE HE WAS ANCIENT AND HE DIDN'T USE IT AND THE OTHER WAS USE ONLY SOME TIME.
PAOLO

 

[tshorba]

nice

what was the freight like, there is no real surface mail options into or out of Au now

and time to get some NOS tapes

Two options non tracking 70 odd Euro tracking 141... nasty!

you should have seen the quote to send a box to US from melbourne, i saw some express sir services for $700
most were around $280. Some very creative packing made an unbelivable difference to the price.

Into and out of AU, proper packing of a box = big $$.