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.
Location: Paris France
