Hello All,

 

For those interested in the profit margins of the Chinese PL-380 sellers on eBay, the actual retail price of the model in Hong Kong was confirmed to be $293 HK, or about $37.56 US.

 

My XYL Ruth (KC7BAR) is currently visiting her parents there, and purchased three PL-380's at the regular HK retail price for some local Puget Sound DXers. Of course, I would have asked her to buy out the store's stock, but didn't want to have her held up by US Customs upon her return :-)

 

73, Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA) 

--- In ultralightdx@..., D1028Gary@... wrote:

> For those interested in the profit margins of the Chinese PL-380 sellers
> on eBay, the actual retail price of the model in Hong Kong was confirmed to
> be $293 HK, or about $37.56 US.


It may be more than that. I recently bought a battery charger from Hong Kong. It was smaller and lighter than a PL-380, but they charged me about USD1.00 for postage and it got here in about the same length of time as the PL-380. I think anon-co is hiking up the shipping charges to make a few more dollars on which they don't have to pay eBay commissions.

Based on the HK retail price it's costing Tecsun about USD8.00 to make a PL-380. You'd never know it from the antenna, would you? :)

Next time Ruth goes over, send along some good Litz wire and see if she can get it into the right hands. If Tecsun knew what they were missing they might stop wrapping their antennas with copper-plated egg noodles.

73,

Jim, KR1S
http://kr1s.kearman.com/ 

hi gary,

Of course, it doesnt really cost 24 dollars to ship a small radio to the u.s., they're making about 15 dollars on the shipping costs. its an old ebay trick. sell something for 10 bucks and charge 30 dollars to ship it.

i wonder how many more radios they'ld sell, if the shipping costs were 10 or 12 bucks.

another cost comes if the radio doesnt work, and you have to ship it back, then wait for a replacement radio to come back again.
4-6 weeks maybe.

i wonder when they'll add a removable antenna to the 380, like they did on the 360 ? after everyone has already bought their 380's ???

byron