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Warning: that $2 flea market clock radio from 1987 still works and my $60 bluetooth speaker died in 8 months
Picked up a dusty little GE clock radio at the Hartville flea market in Ohio for two bucks. Seller told me it had been in his garage since the Reagan years and he had no idea if it worked. Brought it home, plugged it in, and it came on like nothing. FM sounds warm, alarm still goes off every morning, and the little red numbers are still bright. Meanwhile my $60 bluetooth speaker crapped out after 8 months, the charge port just quit. I keep seeing people say old cheap electronics are junk and you should only buy new. Not buying it. That radio has outlived three of my speakers now. Anyone else got a thrift store electronic that refuses to die?
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sarah22913d ago
I have to push back a little on the idea that old stuff was just built better across the board. That GE radio was probably made when a clock was a serious purchase, like people saved up for one, so they put real parts in it. A $60 bluetooth speaker today gets made as cheap as possible because most folks replace them every couple years anyway, and nobody expects a speaker to last 30 years. So it's less about old vs new and more about what the thing was meant to do and who was buying it. You got lucky with a flea market find, and I'm glad it works, but for every radio like yours there were ten that died in the 90s and got tossed. The dead ones just don't end up on a forum, you know?
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