Jonny the 8-Tracker! wrote:
Speaking of playerly troubles, what are the odds that a General
Electric quad player/receiver (with stereo AND four-channel aux
inputs,
even) I see in a thrift store will be worth $40? Besides the fact
that
thrift stores aren't always the best place for a find (though my
$3.98
Lloyd's receiver is worth more than its weight on gold), how durable
were the GEs?



The older GE's are great players- I had a few of them, they look really
neat and played well too. They have an angled face on the ones I had.
One of them was a quad, the other stereo. They both brought over $100
on ebay- one I believe fetched $150 or more. Recently prices have come
down though. It's hard to get a player price over $100 anymore due to
flooding of the player market on ebay, and tons of competition from
wanna-bee sellers who aren't even into 8-tracks. It's becoming a
diminishing market over time. Prices are about 1/2 or less than what
they were at the peak of the "rebirth" of 8-tracks and ebay.

Realize any of these players you get, have to be completely serviced to
be worth anything. The worst thing you can do is auction it "as is",
in that case unless a really rare model, it's worth less than $50 on
ebay.

$40 for that deck is as high as I'd go at a thrift store. Actually
I'd try to get it cheaper, and may pass on it for that price. Often I
would go in and fill an entire shopping cart with decks and all-in-ones
for $5 per unit. It's just like the stock market, you want to buy low
and sell high.