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Re: Before Selling - What to charge for a Beogram RX?

murcieme — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 02:12:32 GMT

Doctor:

The problem you have is that this is just not very sought after - mistakenly, as it will produce excellent sound. On eBay, it will struggle to reach £50 in my view. As you are also really wanting to sell locally, your audience is reduced still further. An auction type site is your best bet for a decent price as people can get into a bidding war.

Unfortunately, I think you're probably right. There are truly appalling used turntables for sale in 2nd hand record stores here in Toronto for $75-$100 (Canadian), such as same era or older Sony's, JVC's and other mass market plastic junk. I know these stores wouldn't heed much notice for my beautiful B&O and likely offer only a small premium.

Sadly, vintage audio specialty stores have been shutting down like crazy too, so that's not a likely option either.

I'm reluctant to try ebay because I don't think I can package it adequately. These tonearems are notoriously fragile. The Beogram 5000 I recently purchased was packaged very well and still arrived with it a slight bit bent at the counterweight (since fixed by B&O).

Ah well, I suppose I'll see if I can pack it up well enough, and if so put it on ebay.

Thank you for your opinion!

Re: Before Selling - What to charge for a Beogram RX?

Doctor — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 01:50:52 GMT

The problem you have is that this is just not very sought after - mistakenly, as it will produce excellent sound. On eBay, it will struggle to reach £50 in my view. As you are also really wanting to sell locally, your audience is reduced still further. An auction type site is your best bet for a decent price as people can get into a bidding war.

Before Selling - What to charge for a Beogram RX?

murcieme — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:09:35 GMT

Hi Everyone!

I'm interested in selling my Beogram RX turntable, hopefully locally to someone in Toronto, Canada (as shipping would be a headache), but I have no clue how to price it.

I know it's not a terribly high end B&O table, as I think it was thier base model back in the early 80's, but:

- I've had it for over 13 years and it was recently (2008) serviced completely by Bang & Olufsen in Toronto and works as new

- Cosmetically there is no damage, and even the dustcover is remarkably scuff-free for a 25+ year old turntable

- For sale with it would be a virtually no-mileage MMC5 (I replaced it with a series of MMC 4's shortly after buying it)

Taking this into consideration I'd consider this to be an extremely nice example of an RX. But it's still just an RX . . .
What's it's relative worth?

Any help would be great, as usual. :)

Mike