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Old 03-03-2013, 03:36 AM
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Originally Posted by davet753 View Post
It's amazing how cheap things got as the 80's and 90's progressed. In 1988, I charged $40 for a "Clean-Lube-and Adjust" repair job on a VCR....in 1998 you could buy a new VCR for about $50.
I bought my first VCR in 87... a Teac 2-head Stereo (not Hi-Fi) for about 300 bucks... so back then I could see charging 40 to give it a tune-up. My next VCR came a couple of years later... a Teac MV-550 4-hd Hi-Fi for about 350 bucks. I used that VCR for 12 years before it croaked.

Those were big investments back then (and even more expensive in the 70's).
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