Pioneer Cs-707 SPeakers

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Hayleemilo

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Hi, I have browsed here for a long time, but decided to finally register. I was at the SA today and passed on a pair of really good condition CS-707's as I had never seen them before. They were cheap, about $50, but I wasn't sure about for resale value. The tested well and I can probably still get them. Any ideas?
 
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Resale only important if you plan to sell them...

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When the thread starts to get into valuation, in needs to be put into the "Dollars & Sense" forum.

Since this was your very first post, and you were asking about resale value, it tends to fall into that group of threads which ebay sellers ask, just before their weekend postings on ebay.

$50 for this set of speakers, as you said, is cheap. With the $50 price tag, your first post asking about resale value, just before the weekend, makes one suspect that you might be an ebay seller looking for information, which is frowned upon. Additionally, when there is a direct hit on an ebay id of the same name, although it may be a coincidence, makes it look even more suspicious: http://members.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=hayleemilo


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$50 is a good price, but you'ld still have some work to do to make sure the speakers are all in good working condition. Sometimes the tweeters are dead on these old Pioneers.

I personally have nothing against someone making a quick buck by flipping thrift store finds on ebay. After all, it provides cash to fund the procurement of other vintage gear that I really do want to keep. You can't keep every nice item you run across, so why not sell some of it to fund your hobby?

You appear to be a professional ebay seller, so you may not currently have an interest in vintage gear other than the profit motive. If you continue to pursue selling vintage audio, you'll discover that most items you find are not in 'mint' condition and you've got to acquire the knowledge and skills to put them back in top shape. This is especially true with speakers. To restore their value so to speak...

Example, you'll run across a dirty-looking Pioneer hi-power reciever at the thrift for $20. You'll research it on ebay and find it's worth $500. You'll get it home only to plug it in a find that one channel is dead and it's only worth parts.

Now you're properly motivated to try and fix it. You'll take it apart, clean all the POTS and switches, blow the dust out, clean the interior, polish the face plate and all knobs put it all back together and viola! It works! :banana:

Then a funny thing happens... You no longer want to sell it.... You find yourself looking for a nice vintage set of speaker and a turntable to go with it. Then you're fixing up other amps and before long your garage looks like an electronics shop and you're wife is bitching about it. :nono: That's how you know you've arrived. :smoke:

I don't think that some AKers realize how this site contributes to the appreciation of vintage gear. Sure these folks are sharing the knowledge, but they're also getting people like you into the hobby, thus expanding the community and the Karma. Vintage audio nuts aren't born, they're made.

Until then, my advice is to lay low around here, be polite, demonstrate that your questions are well thought out, that you've done some research not just gimme gimme gimme... and most importantly keep your ebay hobby to yourself. :yes:
 
Thanks for the help, I really appreciate it. Actually, I am both a re-seller, I never actually hide from it :) I sell under 2 different ID's, Hayleemilo and Modtotiki. It all depends on the type of items I am selling. But, I also appreciate good vintage equipment. My personal rig is a Kenwood Eleven G running a pair Kenwood KL-888S's. Great unit and I love being able to set the timer and not wonder if I left the unit or not :) I do sell a lot of older gear, I ususally shy from the older tube stuff as I don't know a lot about it. The 70's through the 90's is more my forte. I have some good friends in the local SA's and they hold the equipment aside for me and let me get first dibs, it's great! Unfortunately, so much of it sits in the garage and basements for so long that the speaker surrounds are deteriorated or the receivers are rsuted to death. I appreciate the help and passed on the speakers as the only thing I could think of was not making enough on them. My basement is a parts receiver nightmare like probably everyone else and yes, my wife will not go into the basement, ever :)
 
Interestingly, I am also a ebay reseller. I have to fund my vintage audio habit. But I rarely use AK to find values on vintage item. Google is mostly what I use and it has never failed me.
 
Yeah, I usually use ebay completed and yahoo and google to find out, but there is nothing out there on them. I couldn't really anything at all, very strange, hence my questions :) No big deal, there will always be more!
 
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