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Good Afternoon alls,
I just come back from an unexpected adventure I want to share with you guys.
Today I was wandering on the French second hand website "Leboncoin" when I saw a (supposed dead) Beosound 3 for a ridiculous amount. As i missed a similar opportunity two month ago, I decided to call aven if i knew the BS3 will not gonna be much of use to me. Anyway I called.
A lady which will later happen to be charming asked me which one I wanted as she has three of them!
- Three dead BS3, thats very bad luck!- Oh, I forgot to mention, we're a B&O closing store and we have a lot of things to sell collecting dust!Come if you want, and I let you search and give you a good price foe whatever you want!
No need to say more, I jumped on my bike, crossed the city in a blink and here I am in the basement excavating things.
And I have to say it was a very weird experience. I've been lurking for a lot of B&O stuff and always saw them like dreams or "one day, I gonna have this" things. And they were all just there, plenty of them, randomly stored, waiting to be trashed forgotten or as I was told, bought by technical center for spares.
What I saw:
- Beolab 7, in all flavors for ridiculous prices,- 2 Beoplay S8 hubs (yes, the quite rare ones),- Crates full of beolab 4, considered dead,- A BV7, 40 MK unknow…- Plenty of Beosound 1 (CD) grids, gold…- Beosound Essence all over the place, The lady told me they were MK2 like if it was important to note.- Beolab 18 wooden grids,- Two crates with recent BV accessories, hooks, supports, cards,…- Random other things ranging from BS Centuries to A9 legs, and including several B&O link boxes i dont know what for they are!- A truck load of catalogs for the past 30 years (which they kept despite my obvious and repeated mark of interest,- Two beotime "flutes": one as not working, the other one, brand new with box, cloth sock and magnetic holder.- A very old amplifier with some sort of mechanical graphic equalizer,- Phones, phones, phones, - I dont know, a bunch of other things i dont even knew they were existing.
Finally I just get out with the dead BS3 (which I will ask you some stuff on, but its another thread!) and was gifted with a (sadly, just one!) Beolab 5 miniature, B&O "From Spark to Icon" last edition book, and a gold, mint beo6, sadly without base.
So Bottom line: If you live in Paris Area, and look for opportunities, its a good place to be!
I've complaint in the past that they were a lot of opportunities in UK or Denmark, about B&O stuff, quite cheap or sometimes even give away, and there was not such thing here in Paris. I was wrong, I just needed to wait.
Hope you likes my adventure and thank you if you read it to that point.
Regards.
Wow! What a cool adventure for you! I love scrounging around like that, but sadly as far as B&O goes it's pretty much impossible to find over here in the US. I'd have jumped on the Century, I've always kind of wanted one of those, same for a Beosystem 10, the little boom box.
Are you going to go back for more?
As for the BS3, yeah, a very very cool product that sadly had a serious design flaw in the construction of the upper control panel. If fixable, a very gorgeous little thing.
Jeff
I'm afraid I'm recovering from the BeoVirus.
Jeff: Are you going to go back for more?
Yes I plan to go back soon to get some stuff for fellow beoworlders, including the Beotime (Sorry Ferdinand!).
I Like the Century too but I need to refrain myself of buying stuff I dont need just for the pleasure of contemplating them!
Hope My BS3 will start. I need a power supply someone will lend me end of the month. We'll see then!
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Hi Matador,
Thanks for this note.
Do you think Beosound Essence was in operational/reparable condition with all components for it (remote and base)?
Do they have more beo6 remotes?
Can you take some photos (ideally with asking prices) of stuff they have?
Cheers,Henryk
Hi mhenryk,
I can ask the price for the beosound Essence as we were talking about it. But I fear we were talking just about the white box and nothing else. Let me know then.
i dind't see any other BEO6 appart the one i was offered.
As for cataloging their full offer, I fear it will push them out of patience; I sensed some sort of bitterness in the business going down and they seems like trying to save the furnitures like we say in France.
Best thing to do is following leboncoin.fr in paris area.
I hear you.Please apply your judgement, what you can get from them. If white box is still in possible operational conditions I will be interested (for good price).
I'll keep eye on leboncoin.fr as well. Thanks for tip.
matador43: Jeff: Are you going to go back for more? Yes I plan to go back soon to get some stuff for fellow beoworlders, including the Beotime (Sorry Ferdinand!).
Go back and get that "very old amplifier with some sort of mechanical graphic equalizer" !
That's probably the High Fidelity Stereo Amplifier 608 or 610. Beautiful amplifier, sounds incredible and very rare to get.
Here or here you can see some of them (and also get the value of those rare amps these days).
Best regards,
Theomaster
Vintage Bang & Olufsen
That was that one!
But when i asked price for a contemporary Beolink Active, the guy rushed into eBay to set his asking price, so no much luck of a bargain here!.
Anyway, I didn't knew about such device and it was really thrilling to discover it.
offer less for cash and no fees
Also, when looking at Ebay, look at complete listings, screen shot a low sold item and show that.