Advice on selling Audio gear on Ebay etc...

[basite]

jrhymeammo

Where to - Hong Kong. Think of Vancouver - but much bigger and a lot more people - and with a very English flavor. It's the Asian place to go if you ever wanted to try Asia but were worried about language/culture etc. It's basically London meets Vancouver meets China meets India all stuffed together amidst double-decker buses and Starbucks. And Macau is very close by which is basically a higher roller version of Las Vegas.

"the city of horns and tubes", as they say

You're going on a wild trip in audio land too if you're going there

I have a friend living there, also much into audio gear, and probably knows all the hifi nuts there, he could guide you around the city, and other things (audio stuff too)...

PM me if interested, I think he'd be happy to help...

Keep them spinning,
Bert.

[RGA]

I am still waiting for a reply. I have done two interviews and passed with the board of education. Now they send my documents to all the public schools and they go through and contact the people from the list. So I sort of have a job in the sense that I am in their system but until they offer me a contract I am kind of stuck.

I have to sell my car as well which sucks since I bought it last June so I will take a bit of a beating on that as well. Fortunately it's a 2007 with less than 35,000km on it and the bumper to bumper warranty is good until June 2017 and 180,000km which is more than most new cars. But it's a Kia Rondo so not exactly a supremely popular model. Fairly popular in Canada but dropped from the US market. But it's a pain because I can't really put it up for sale until I get an offer and if I wait too long I will have to sell it in a rush which means I'll lose even more money on it.

The stereo stuff I may wait until next summer. The HK job is a 2 year contract - if I don't like it there I will return to Canada after the 2 years. If I like it there I may emigrate. If I do that I can bring my AN J's (sorry tube fan) which will fit the housing there better than AN E's). The OTO would have to go due to the power requirements and the turntable might be able to be switched over to their power. There is a huge Audio Note dealer in that country and one of the big magazines over there has a love fest for it - it's in Cantonese so who knows what it says.

basite thanks I might take you up on that. Finding the audio places is sometimes tough as few people are into this hobby. I can also cover any shows that are going over there which would be kind of cool as I don't read much about shows in Asia. And they have bags of money there so I am betting the top shelf gear will be there.

[Feanor]

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... - it's in Cantonese so who knows what it says.

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Ah! So, (opps! no racial slur intended), you don't speak Cantonese, but I guess there are a lot of English speakers in Hong Kong.

I was totally amazed to learn how much Mandarin my son has picked up. But then he took some courses and his wife and in-laws are from Beijing. I recently met his wife's folks who don't speak English, and was delighted that my son did quite a bit of the translation for them and us to communicate.

[RGA]

Ah! So, (opps! no racial slur intended), you don't speak Cantonese, but I guess there are a lot of English speakers in Hong Kong.

I was totally amazed to learn how much Mandarin my son has picked up. But then he took some courses and his wife and in-laws are from Beijing. I recently met his wife's folks who don't speak English, and was delighted that my son did quite a bit of the translation for them and us to communicate.

Learning languages can be difficult especially Chinese languages but I'm sure I'll pick up a little. The written language will be tougher. I have been to Hong Kong for a week so I kind of know what I am in for. Great city really - the Asian city to go to is you ever wanted to try Asia but were worried about language. Most everything is in English anyway since they ran the place for so long. Mainland China has more or less left it alone because it works.

Hong Kong is very much like Vancouver in a lot of ways. More than 50% of the people who live in Vancouver are Asian (mostly Chinese) and the joke here is that Vancouver's real name should be Hongcouver.