I think he just bought the CD player and not the Beolabs. Quite confusing because it says Beosystem on the front panel

Leslie wrote:

I think he just bought the CD player and not the Beolabs. Quite confusing because it says Beosystem on the front panel

He wrote : "The system came with 2 beolab 2500"

Your eyes, Leslie, your eyes !

Leslie, there is a big possibility that I will be in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria next weekend, so not just the border, but half way to Sofia :-)

Shoot, you're right! You know I had (and maybe still) problems with my eyes. Hope that's a good excuse😐

If that's the case he certainly had a good bargain when it came with the Beolab 2500's. Now I don't feel sorry with "npac" 🙂

Leslie wrote:

Now I don't feel sorry with "npac"

I still think he is a lucky guy ;

- a whole beosystem 2500 for 130 pounds

- an english seller who accepts to send abroad

What a lucky man !

Olvisab, yes it was rather cheap, I know, but this is the beauty of Ebay. Building my B&O collection I was rather lucky with a lot of stuff. I bought a beocord 2000 for 1 pound and a beogram 1900 for 10 pounds !!!

In the case of the Beosystem 2500, the seller sayed it worked fine. When I asked him, he replyed :

"hello,yes it was all working fine,cd tape radio,clear sound as when it was new,remote works fine.only one speaker not working at all,but fault in speaker as reversed to other port.and fine ,just nothing from one speaker at all.im sure there will be a website somewhere for these units to offer advice info,they are very popular and ive never really heard of any problems with them. i can only assume been damaged in transit.but saying that they are really well built sturdy units.regards james"

The seller had a 100% score in Ebay, with more than 900 transactions - so I trusted him. And in my opinion the courier is to be blamed. You see, because of an error in parcel's label, the Beosystem traveled from UK to Thessaloniki Greece - but the courier wanted to be payed 250 euros (although I had already payed 60 pounds to Parcel2go). It stayed about a month in Greece (maybe for summer holidays) it returned back to the sender and traveled again back to Greece (with out extra cost). It took me something less than 2 months to get the Beosystem to my hands.

If the seller was a bad guy, he could keep the Beosystem when it returned to him - but he didn't. So I trust him. I just have to find out what's wrong.

Dear Npac,

I don't blame you neither the seller. I had a similar problem with a becenter 2500, a problem of board. i bought it for a good price (not a bargain price like you). It just travelled from UK to France.

The seller paid me half the price of repair.

Recently, I moved a pair of beolab 3 from the seller's home to mine and when I plugged them to the main, I had an orange led . Repair cost : 400 euros.

Sometimes we win, sometimes we loose.

That's the law of EBAY/SECOND HAND/LIFE....

npac wrote:

Leslie, there is a big possibility that I will be in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria next weekend, so not just the border, but half way to Sofia :-)

As you might know I'm in Sofia next 2 weeks and meeting another member. Maybe you could join?

And probably visiting a friend (Spiros, old member) from Thessaloniki in the weekend.

olvisab wrote:

Leslie wrote:

Now I don't feel sorry with "npac"

I still think he is a lucky guy ;

- a whole beosystem 2500 for 130 pounds

- an english seller who accepts to send abroad

What a lucky man !

Yes I am quite lucky when it comes to ebay. Let me give you an example. I also collect retro computers, and the last item I bought was an Acorn Archimedes from 1989. The seller sayed "Computer boots up to comand prompt but cannot get hard drive or floppy drive to work. Suspected power supply failure or similar"

When I got the computer, I was able to make it boot to its Graphic User interface, the floppy drive worked, so did the hard drive. And all these, by just pressing the DEL button, while the Archimedes was booting... How can I tell this to the seller now???

So anyone that will help me with my beosystem, will get my luck in ebay 🤒

Not sure how I can help you but if you have some technical knowhow maybe I could help you with exchanging boards