I paid $25 for mine but it was hell of a lot of work If I remember right, to get the belts installed and then deal with that clutch. Might not be exaggerating too much to say that I had the transport out 10 times doing trial & error repair. But like I say, it is a super sounding deck. Possibly the best one I've heard. I wish mine worked as well as it did when was done with repair, it might not have atrophied again, but it did not drag me back into recording tapes which is mostly what I did with cassettes. Mostly for the car and for other people but I listened to few when at home.