When buying collectibles one needs to find the right balance between the two. Pay high and enjoy it now or hold out, wait and search to save a buck. However, many people suffer from the 'want it now' syndrome and will pay whatever to get it. Sometimes, it may take years but, my waiting usually pays off. Rather than pay some insane price for something, I'll hold out for a better deal. Fortunately, these Mickey Mouse players don't go for that much and I got mine for around $20 (with shipping). The difference between me and everyone is that I will not pay out the butt to get something like what I used to own when I was a kid. When I first became involved with ebay, I saw them on there and decided to try and replace mine. My first record player was a battery operated Mickey Mouse 'close N play' style portable that I got for Christmas in either '79 or '80. Those folks don't want em to sound better then they did.that WANT that poor sound that WHAT they remember and what they want.Īnd, they'll pay whatever it takes to get it. A lot of folks had those Wildcats when they were young and a lot of them want em back. People collect things because the bring back memories.

If all we were concerned about was sound quality, we all would be listening to state of the art digital systems and these old phonos would be in the trash.

and i say phooey on solid state! LOLĮveryone needs to remember collect ability has ZERO to do with the sound quality of these things. Always enjoying the sound of a tube radio warming up. Now i wish i'd kept my record player i pulled out of a console from 1966, i think it was a zenith. I rather have a tube record player over a SS one, for 2 reasons- The unique tube sound and I can always find SS ones for little money unless its one of those high-end Pioneer or Fisher ones from the 80s or 90's but i dont need anything like that. i'm not going to say 1 way or another until i get atleast the model number.

I'm still awaiting more info on the unit. The seller is only asking 10.00 he has been trying to sell it for some time now, but he is going to want some gas money for bringing it to me. I was mainly interested bc i thought it may have tubes in it, and i'd like to have a tube record player at a reasonable price. I seen a few that were listed at some crazy prices, there were 2 tube ones listed and the seller wanted 279.00 OBO for them on ebay.

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