Maybe you can get some Danes shipping you one?

http://www.dba.dk/asp/soegning/detail.asp?annonceid=60922648

http://www.dba.dk/asp/soegning/detail.asp?annonceid=60887090

There is plenty others, amongst them full systems:

http://www.dba.dk/asp/soegning/detail.asp?annonceid=60913115

Prices are DKK, where 100 Euro = 745 DKK (appx)

But it is the WHITE one he is looking for...

But a good platform to look for the system.

Ralf

True, I've seen a couple of silver 5500 in ebay UK in the last couple of months. I even considered (quite seriously) getting a 3300 instead (I really like its design (I mean it looks good to me in the photos) but then figured that perhaps I should hang on a bit more for a white 5500 to appear. It did, but a bit too far for my reach ;) Anyway, I'll keep checking the suggested website, thank you!

Oh, man. This is defiitely a conspiracy!!! Here is another

It may be worth emailing the seller. I honestly think the seller would do better selling the Beosystem and Lab 6000's separately as there can't be that many people after that combination who don't have the speakers or Beosystem already and there is no CD player with the Beosystem so £1200 may well be too ambitious.

It looks like the seller is local to me, I would be happy to box the Beogram up and store it here until you had the opportunity to collect if the seller did agree to sell it separately.

Simon

This is sound advice and a super kind offer, Simon. I'll get in touch with the seller and let you know.

Thanks again,

Dragos :)

Loooool :) The seller suggested I buy the lot off him and then resell individually the stuff I don't need (pretty much everything apart from the turntable), thus making a profit. Not a good solution for me, I'm afraid ... Well, I guess I'll just need to hang on for a bit longer...

So near and yet so far!

The fundamental problem seems to be that the seller has an over-inflated idea of what the system is worth. I would certainly want the CD player to be present before parting with the kind of cash he is is asking for as it would be very expensive and time-consuming to to track one down afterwards. 

Simon

May be worth watching though, perhaps the seller will list them again with a more realistic price when he sees nobody's going to bid.

Parting the lot out might not be too difficult - the BL6000's will certainly find a buyer separately, Beo4 likewise, and the Beomaster + MCP (which seems to have a broken hinge...) probably as well. So the only difficult part would be a white Beocord...

It's pretty hard to get a rare item like this and a bargain at the same time. I realized this after I had lost an auction twice when looking for a white Beogram 6500 to complete my setup. On the third time, I bid enough to get it...