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Sanyo M4440

walkgirl
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Hello Smile

Behold my latest walkman new in the box Cool
I did get it as a present from Sinterklaas this
afternoon, he was a week early but I did not mind
at all Big Grin

It is the super fantastic ultradeluxe sanyo m4440!

Here are some pictures:

This is the imaculate box:

Here is the side of the box with the stuff on it:

Here is the box open with the booklet Big Grin :

Behold the super new walkman and headphones Eek :

And here is the walkman itselfCool :

Here are the really nice looking headphones with
foams and all Smile :

And here is a picture from the headphones so you
can see how nice they look:

There also was an extra pouch under the headphones!,
according the booklet it is for storing tapes Smile


So, this is my new secret walkman Smile, the smell is like new! Smile, I think I will never use this
nice walkman as it is too nice to use.

Oh yes, all thanks to Sylke Smile

Cool

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The box is huge! Eek
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    Tranxmetal
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    Oooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh......

    Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh......

    Nothing better for this christmas season, a super Walkman, and in its condition, you are very lucky to get it. Congratulations. But you must use this Walkman to tell us about the fantastic experience of the first sounds of this lovable machine, at the same time you smell that box and packing bags.... A priceless privilege only reserved to few peoples these days.

    Well i hope you have a good place for you new SANYO, and, of course, I hope you enjoy it very much. Smile
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    walkgirl
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    quote:
    Originally posted by sylke:
    In a few days i get the same Sanyo walkman from the same lot.new in the box Smile
    I hardly cant wait till its arive`s
    It is a superbuy I Agree
    Congrats Nod Yes


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    quote:
    Originally posted by Transxmetal:
    Oooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh......

    Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh......

    Nothing better for this christmas season, a super Walkman, and in its condition, you are very lucky to get it. Congratulations. But you must use this Walkman to tell us about the fantastic experience of the first sounds of this lovable machine, at the same time you smell that box and packing bags.... A priceless privilege only reserved to few peoples these days.

    Well i hope you have a good place for you new SANYO, and, of course, I hope you enjoy it very much. Smile


    Thank you Transxmetal Smile

    Actaully I was just lucky, like Sylke did say,
    they were just available for everybody to get
    on ebay!, just strange not much more peoples
    did bid on them Confused Smile

    quote:
    Originally posted by Fatdog:
    Wow! That is super nice, Nicole!! Cool Eek


    Yes Smile, thank you! Cool

    quote:
    Originally posted by Litfan:
    Good luck on the jj nicolle.


    Oh Big Grin, you did notice!, yes, I hope I will
    be lucky again!! Smile


    quote:
    Originally posted by skippy1969:
    SuperYaY Nicolle!!!!! Very nice!! Nod Yes Eek


    SuperYaY! Big Grin, yes I am super happy now Smile
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    walkgirl
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    Thank you Smile, Yes I remember a topic where
    you did tell about your first walkman! and
    also you did tell about you did get this one
    after all those years Smile

    I have one all ready, it was my first ebay walkman
    Cool, I use that one for playing tapes, this
    one I keep in the box Smile
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    AO
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    Hi Nicolle, yeah sorry this is late.

    Isn't it remarkable that this stuff manages to survive in this condition for as so long, it makes you think who bought it & why, as they certainly didn't use it.

    I always struggled to see where the 4440 fitted in the grand scheme of things. Yes it was Sanyo's answer to Sony's budget WM-1/WM-4 units.(too late to compete with TPS-L2 I'm affraid) but it wasn't cheap, this was around £60 in the UK compared to Sony's £45/50 price tag. Why have a Sanyo with ugly headphones when you can have a Sony with the glorious MDR-4's for £15 less.

    The reason it was so pricey was that it was just too over-engineered for a budget unit, nice quality plastics plus lots of features.

    That said, there's a lot of these turning up on eBay, it's probably the most frequent vintage unit (pre 85) to appear in the UK. But certainly NOT in any condition even close to this.

    Indded a nice catch.
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    walkgirl
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    Smile

    That is what I wonder about also!, I would love
    to know where the sellers find this stuff, and
    how these boxes did stay in this condition
    for 25 years or so!, there is not even one bit of dust
    on the box to find!, there must be some old
    stores out there who still have some of the nicest
    walkmans lying around in the warehouse, but why do
    I never find these stores? Confused

    I love this sanyo walkman very much, and I
    believe it is a good competitor(??) to the
    tpls2 walkman, and I think (I never did see a
    tpls2 box in real life, only on pictures) that
    how this sanyo walkman is packed it does seem
    more luxurious as the sony!, this box is almost
    as big as a shoebox!.

    I like these sanyo E330 headphones as much as
    the sony tpls2 ones, and maybe they are even
    more rare! (I think Leaving )

    Smile
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    Last edited by Kid Sensation!
    first of all:

    Very nice find Nicolle!Glad you found a Sanyo in this nice condition!!Looks great Cool

    to the nib-thing.

    Those Sanyos seem pretty common with original packaging i think.
    Saw a lot of nib sanyos on ebay until now..Got 2 nib ones myself!(one is a MG-30 , same condition to unit and box like nicolles )
    Never saw more nib walkmans/walkmen(?) than those sanyos!Even if the most common ones are more like the low-end ones like my MG-30 ( and maybe that's why they stayed in the warehouses )

    still great to find a unit like nicolles in this condition..I guess the better the quality and functions the harder to find it nib.
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    walkgirl
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    quote:
    Originally posted by MasterBlaster84:
    That's awesome walkgirl.
    It's the dream of any collector to find what you have. The box looks like it doesn't even have 25 minutes of wear let alone 25 years.

    I agree, I wonder how things like this pop up. Was it a box in a warehouse that fell into a dark space unnoticed for 25 years?


    Thank you Masterblaster84 Smile

    Yes, the box is imaculate! Eek, I have to
    find such a warehouse where these walkmans are!
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    walkgirl
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    quote:
    Originally posted by Kid Sensation!:
    first of all:

    Very nice find Nicolle!Glad you found a Sanyo in this nice condition!!Looks great Cool

    to the nib-thing.

    Those Sanyos seem pretty common with original packaging i think.
    Saw a lot of nib sanyos on ebay until now..Got 2 nib ones myself!(one is a MG-30 , same condition to unit and box like nicolles )
    Never saw more nib walkmans/walkmen(?) than those sanyos!Even if the most common ones are more like the low-end ones like my MG-30 ( and maybe that's why they stayed in the warehouses )

    still great to find a unit like nicolles in this condition..I guess the better the quality and functions the harder to find it nib.


    Thank you Felix Smile

    Yes, I do see alot of new in the box sanyo
    walkmans on ebay de, but usually the more
    'cheap' ones, the more expensive ones not so
    much, as it would be more logical the more
    expensive ones would be more common as they
    are kore expensive and people tend to buy the
    more cheap ones first Confused
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    olboy (Guest)
    i worked in a warehouse in the late 1970's. we did also get returned defectives that came back. sometimes when a partial lot of a certain product was defective the whole lot was recalled to the main warehouse. not all were bad but a large percentage were. the seller sometimes wanted there products sent back after the claim was settled. others said just go ahead and destroy them. that meant the crusher. they all didn't get crushed. we could buy any amount of these "destroyed" products for very little money. many took advantage of these great deals and some ended up with bad products and some got lucky and got a perfectly fine merchandise. i believe that still happens and occasionally these small lots come up for sale now. it's a gamble but for a good price why not take a chance ? also i know they surface in quantities at freight salvadge stores and many are purchased at a low price buy flea market dealers who sometimes are not able to sell all they bought and then are put aside for future sale.
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