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Hello my friends.It's me again, this mad cassette deck fan from Spain.
I follow intensively eBay Germany. It is the bigger cassette deck marketplace in the world. I don't know japan, but many times bigger than USA or UK cassette decks section within eBay.
I've been only one year and a half buying there and have tracked all interesting decks so far. I've seen prices go up and down, I've been able to get bargaings due to my perseverance. I've been suprised by abnormal high prices and, also, by low ones.
But things have changed. Prices have got higher than before and it seems that this is no going back soon.
In the last weeks three Dragons have been sold over 1000 euros (1300 Dollars, right now). I was outbid this summer just with 505 Dollars on this deck.
I've made a summary of prices of well known decks in the last month.
Sony Walkman WM-DC6 for 256 euros ( I got one for 80 eur)
Teac Z-5000 for 443 Euros
Nakamichi T-100 (Audio Analyzer) 330 Eur, 382, 400 and 456 Eur
Pioneer CT-95 for 600 Eur
Nakamichi 700 ZXL 700 Eur
Nakamichi TD 1200 E II for 1200 Eur !!!
Technics RS-9900US for 865 Eur
Sharp OPTONICA RT-9100 for 451 Eur
Nakamichi 682 ZX 450 Eur!! with remote
NAKAMICHI ZX9 for 400
Tapedeck Nakamichi RX-505E for 502 and 572 eur
But other high and middle class decks have also suffered price gains.Hummm! Maybe this is a "cassette deck bubble"!
Right now, there is one Teac Z-6000 on sale. I feel I will only be allowed to watch the pictures.
Follow Ups:
I bought earlier in the year a Aiwa XK-S9000 deck for more then brand new pricing. I ended up paying $1300 US plus $200 Canadian for import taxes. It was not a good deal in my opinion, but I had to have the deck. The deck now needs an alignment and new belts before I can even use it- so thats more costs.
Hi Rotovator,Very interesting observations - sounds as if you have one terrific collection of cassette decks - and tapes if I remember correctly.
Thanks for the info!!
Hi,Well, I think eBay Germany prices on decks are still mostly O.K.
Just received Sony TC-K 990ES, champagne, with manuals, wooden panels and remote,
In really “LIKE NEW” condition, for 290 Euro total.
Looks like never used. In the days this was new, no way I could afford this machine.
Kind a different story with Naks, some of the prices in Europe are just stupid.
Prices are almost as they were new, but the decks are mostly close to worn out.Regards
Well.It's a free market. more supply-> prices down. The more demand, prices up. Right! Prices are mostly ok... or not??
I consider another point of view.
In the end, we are talking about buying useless devices for most of the people nowadays. You can't say it's a good deal to spend 1/10 of the original price for a new deck. It's useless for most of the people!
Its value may be zero.We are a bunch of romantics/collectors/etc that still buy and pay for them. But there are thousands of decks with no use. I would pay a some money for a rare deck, but not for a just high end deck.
This is just another point of view. I don't really follow it, I paid 200 euros for a similar ranged deck, and more for a older very used deck. But I don't want to mentally get used to these prices. They should be less, like in the US.
So which brand(s) and model(s) qualify as a RARE cassette deck from your point of view? Thanks.
I'm no expert, nor a long time collector. This is just my opinion.For me, Rare/valuable decks are Those which were both, high end decks and not produced in a reasonable quantity or widely distributed
It is very uncommon to see BIC decks on sale on eBay Germany, or Tanderg TD-910 or even 3014, Pioneer CT-A1, SONY TC-KA7ES, Hitachi D-2200MB /D-5000Mb etc.
These are special collector items that may be worth some more money. In my opinion, they should be more expensive than a Nakamichi CR-7, or a DRAGON, which are always two or three on sale on ebay. Anyway, no more than 400 Euros/dollars
Well, I thought I was the only person left who thinks cassette decks are still cool... sure I have an Ipod and learned how to put LPs and tapes ont CD and mp3, but I always go back to my cassette deck...
in the US the commodity ones are plentiful and cheap, but as time goes by the cleaner ones will become increasingly hard to find.
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