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RE: Buying DDAR


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  • Subject: RE: Buying DDAR
  • From: "Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 09:21:17 +0100
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Stu,

The DDAR is the same as the "Rio Receiver", so if you see _either= _ advertised, then you're getting the same product. The only difference is = in the cosmetics - the DDAR is black, the Rio silvery-thing.

I'm not aware that ANY have been sold in the UK. Certainly, several compani= es have ADVERTISED them, but always "had stock problems."

My advice would be to search the American sites, and find one that'll ship = to the UK. By the time you've paid shipping, insurance, import duty (2%) an= d VAT (17.5%) then realistically you'll end up changing the dollar sign for= a pound one, and then adding a bit.

I bought 5 when Tiger ran them for $99 each. By the time I got them landed,= they worked out about =A3102 each. That was taking into account the saving= s in shipping for order 5 en bloc.

If I were importing now, I would expect to pay up to =A3150 per unit. Certa= inly, that's what I paid for the first, when Graham did his original bulk b= uy...

The BEST way to get hold of some would be to "phone a friend" in = the States, get the friend to buy them, and then ship to you. This, however= , needs to be a GOOD friend ;-)

Regards,

Mark Harrison
Head of Systems, eKingfisher


-----Original Message-----
From: Stu Worrall [mailto:stuart@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 2 April 2002 17:11
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx Subject: [ukha_d] Buying DDAR


Hi All

Ive been reading/drooling about the DDAR's recently as ive just put in a server to manage the ha in the house.  My setup for sending mp3 to the=
hifi is not very good at the moment so id love to get hold of one of
these Dell products. 

Fraid I came in to this a bit late so will I be able to get one of these now.  Are they still not availble in the uk and if not is there a
similar product (with similar price) that will do the same thing.

At the moment I have the mp3 files sitting on the server with a pc in
the lounge and I manually play the mp3's using musicmatch.  It's a bit=
of a pain though to start up the pc when all I want is to play a few
tracks.

Anybody help?

Thanks

Stu Worrall



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