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Originally Posted by Charlie
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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In the early 90's, I was a Zenith, Crosley, and Quasar dealer. I remember buying plain-jane 2-head Quasar VCR's for $240 and selling them for $299 (which was a good price and profit margin at the time). Seems like the 4-head models were about $100 higher.
The first 4-head stereo VCR's I sold were Zenith models. They were a very well built unit that Zenith sourced from JVC, but were very expensive. Since most people didn't even have a TV with stereo sound, I didn't sell very many of them.
At any rate, when the retail price on new VCR's fell below $100, I "saw the writing on the wall" on the VCR end of my business.