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Originally Posted by mbear2k
No affiliation - Pretty cool (for someone near California)...
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And with a lot of room (and money, if they are anyplace outside California or, within the state, even any distance from the seller, since the Los Angeles area is huge -- on a par with New York or Chicago). This console is very large and heavy; if anyone outside the L.A. area or nearby states, or even on the opposite coast (!) wants it they are going to have to pay dearly in shipping charges, unless they are willing to drive out to California with a large truck to pick it up. If they choose the latter they will pay a fortune just for gasoline, as it has gone past $2 a gallon in many parts of the US (at a local gas station here in my town, it is $2.69), and most trucks are not very fuel-efficient.
Personally, I wouldn't take the chance. If I wanted a TV this big (and had the room for it, which I don't), I'd wait until I saw one on eBay or CL within, at most, 20 or thirty miles of where I live. I would not risk having a set that size shipped 3000 miles; too much risk of it arriving with a smashed CRT or worse. I have a Zenith MJ1035 radio that was sent to me by a VK member about three years ago. The man lives in Arizona and had shipped the radio to me via UPS. Well, when the radio arrived here, it worked, but two controls had broken loose from their mountings on the chassis. I later found out that the radio had been thrown around, maybe kicked across floors, etc. in various UPS terminals between the Phoenix area and my apartment near Cleveland.
Personally, I am amazed the radio worked at all when it finally arrived here. However, later on, when I read (online, via email between the person I got it from and myself) the horror stories of all the mishandling it suffered along the way, I began to have second thoughts about shipping anything via UPS any appreciable distance. If UPS can damage a radio through manhandling, I hate to think what could happen with a console television as big as the RCA being discussed here. I would hate to think of anyone any distance from the seller (meaning 500 miles or more) spending a lot on shipping charges, etc. only to have the set arrive with a broken CRT or worse. Sellers of anything this large and/or fragile almost always insure the item before shipping, but it is still a bad feeling to have something you won in an eBay auction or bought on CL arrive at your door smashed to bits because of carelessness on the part of the seller, shipper or both.