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Old 07-03-2017, 02:26 AM   #20
Nine8Six
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Originally Posted by thatguychad View Post
I still don't understand how it's so cheap!
DAB; nvr seen nvr heard! Could get rid of the car's antenna and not look back in fact. Tunneling my Montreal radios to my 1din unit's BT using my mobby atm.

Liquidation! Unfortunately those units are hardware specific and so is most of the software that plugs in them. Hard'er to re-use. Doesn't make them bad, just a proprietary design type. Vendors are at a stage where they made so much money that cost is not an issue anymore - they desperately needs the latest hardware to be able to survive their game. If this unit wouldn't have sold at $15 it would simply have ended in the seller's bn anyway. So everybody is happy at the end!

Good business; the units that sells online today for $300~400 are roughly $25~30 in parts in the street markets of Shenzhen. Cool toys for sure.

So cool that I have to own one myself. Not using those parts though. DIY, scalable, part-time, so fun
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