Well i was looking on ebay at boxes and found a place that was not the normal place to loook for them - no i'm not telling

well spotted this blaster at 99p start with £8.00 postage - so 7 days later and i'm round a mates house on his son's laptop, watching the last minutes hoping no last minute high bids pushing it up and making it not worth buying

well 2 seconds to go and i blink as it comes up ! ?............. no more bids
so i got it for 99p postage at £8.00 (happy to pay that)

so it turned up today - flimsy cardboard box with the top corner torn (the hand that feels, i think blooy post office )

looked at the postage price and it was £9.58 so that means he paid the extra postage at £1.58p and throw the boom box for free

i have sent him a e-mail offering to give him an extra £3.00 - feel that is fare

so anyway back to what the box was and what it was like - it's a PYE TR-1842 (made like some phillips)

the deck needs a new belt, but apart from that i was well please with the condition as it's very clean with onlt a couple of light marks but looks fresh - will need a shine up to bring out it's most

I love the way the tweeters over lap the speaker with there silver outer rings - gives it a cool 80's look this is one of the reasons i put a bid in for it

hope you like it as much as i do

cheers B

Its got VMS ... wow.
what the #$?! is VMS ??

Sounds like someone just wanted it
out of the house.
There was alot of that before.

Are those vents or LED meters?

VMS ?

i think they were a little bit pissed off that it only went for 99p - ebay fees as well

he said he need to find a box and then send it out

so i said no worry's - please pack it well

what for 99p - he said

no i said for the £8.00 postage, that should allow you to get some old news papers to pack out the box

just got the feeling he was upset and angry about it all

not my fault - i bought in good faith


no there not leds just vent it looks like

Nice find B.

I got a walkman on one bid like that
on ebay.
But I sent some extra anyways.

You could put some LED in the vents.
Connect direct to speakers through resitors.

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Very pretty looking,I swear that these were sold as Magnavoxes here in the States. How does it sound?

Thought the same!
Looks like an typical PHILIPS or MAGNAVOX

Nice find..
Those who dig deep!!
Reap beauties while others sleep!
Congrats on that one!

when i win anything really really cheap i always message them to make sure theres no problems,i won a couple in the last few months and when i message the seller,there usually releaved that i`m a nice guy,often say there not happy at there end price,so i offer to leave feeback for eachother instead,saves all the hastle and arguments..
But...you did really well gettin them to send that for 99p..good going B..

well send it for free and he still had to pay an extra 58p - but it does look nice

sent him some extra money for it and a link to a courier service, as he said he had next to send a guitar - cost a lot at the post offic i would think but only £8.00 with my link

so i think he's a bit more happy now

hello b my friend
thats a nice old pye that mate- wouldnt mind one myself- more remeniscent of the philips offerings at the time though, wouldnt you agree, b?
meanwhile, are you parting with owt yet mate?
pm me if you are with what youve got!
(you can sell me the pye if you lika haha)
andy v.

Woah, nice box, and nice price! I have the original cardboard box for that very radio, I spotted it amongst a pile of rubbish about 2 years ago, and took it home.

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Originally posted by ViennaSound:
Looks like an typical PHILIPS or MAGNAVOX

Yep. Looks like this Magnavox D8127 is an aka. Cool looking box, no matter what the name!

And then there's the Philips D8128...

i agree baby boomer
andy