Yamaha CS80

There´s a guy on eBay Germany who´s currently selling an old Yamaha PM-400 mixer... in the photo, you can see a CS80 in the background. His asking price is, hang on a second, 15,000 Euro plus 19% VAT...

And I thought 15,000 US$ was insane...

Stephen

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Laurie Curry 
  To: yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 2:38 AM
  Subject: [yamahacs80] Re: CS-80 on eBay? ($15,000?!?!?!?)


  Tell her to sleep in the kitchen when it drops below the CS80s
  value.....
  -----Original message-----
  From: "dscr22" dscr22@...
  Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:37:12 -0700
  To: yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com
  Subject: [yamahacs80] Re: CS-80 on eBay? ($15,000?!?!?!?)

  All, thanks for the replies! I'm SPEECHLESS...

  Scott: why stop at $16,000???

  Laurie: I mean just what I said. I don't like the CS-80 better than 
  the Memorymoog, Prophet10, OB-X, Jupiter8. But I do like it!

  What the market will bear indeed. Again, I just can't believe it. I 
  had no idea they were going for more than $4k. 

  Now, that said... I agree with the guy that said he wouldn't sell his 
  for $25k. When it costs $50k to redo a kitchen, or $150k to send a 
  kid to college, my lifestyle isn't going to change significantly even 
  for a good number of thousands. Man, if the wife finds out and I 
  refuse tosell it though... I'm going to be sleeping under it!!!

  --- In yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com, "Laurie Curry" wrote:
  >
  > 
  > I have spent $800.00 for a days worth of technician on 3 different
  > occasions.......What do you mean when you think it isn't worth more
  > than a memory moog or Prophet 10????
  > 
  > 
  > If you are a trophy hunter, than your logistics may be true......
  > 
  > If you are a CS80 user.......the original $8,000 price tag should 
  be a
  > no brainer compared to todays rapidly
  spiraling dollars.......
  > -----Original message-----
  > From: "dscr22" dscr22@...
  > Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:43:11 -0700
  > To: yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com
  > Subject: [yamahacs80] CS-80 on eBay? ($15,000?!?!?!?)
  > 
  > 
  > OK, let's say up front the guy isn't going to get his Buy It Now.
  But 
  > even the comments from people ridiculing that number suggest it's
  > worth 
  > $8,000. 
  > 
  > Is that true? I don't watch them super closely and haven't seen one 
  > sell for a couple years. But I've never seen one go for more than 
  > $3,500. Twice that? Yikes, they're not worththat much to me.
  > 
  > I love the CS-80, but other than the glamor pretty much defined by
  > it's 
  > reputation, rarity, and market value... I don't consider it any 
  more 
  > desirable of a keyboard than several others that sell in the $3,500 
  > price range (Memorymoog, Prophet10, etc.).
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