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Free FM radio and Bluetooth Speaker at CVS pharmacy.

Intheairnevada

Intheairnevada

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IMG_3667.jpegI “bought” a small Bluetooth speaker at CVS PHARMACY. IT WAS $2.70 including tax, plus they gave me a $4 coupon I could use at he store, so they paid me $1.30 to take the speaker. (Only had one on close out. ) It has a FM radio built in, an mp3 player that uses a TF chip? and a wired cord for charging, connecting and functions as the FM antenna. It is difficult to tune , but sounds great for its size. Cheap consumer electronics, how they do it?
 
Intheairnevada said:
Cheap consumer electronics, how they do it?
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Manufacturing things in China is cheaper than you can imagine. Manufacturing that speaker probably cost under $3. Shipping it from China to your CVS store cost another dollar or so. The original sales price was probably $12.99, allowing CVS a 325% profit margin on full-price sales.

Presumably CVS took a loss on your speaker. But not a big loss.
 
Intheairnevada said:
View attachment 10743I “bought” a small Bluetooth speaker at CVS PHARMACY. IT WAS $2.70 including tax, plus they gave me a $4 coupon I could use at he store, so they paid me $1.30 to take the speaker. (Only had one on close out. ) It has a FM radio built in, an mp3 player that uses a TF chip? and a wired cord for charging, connecting and functions as the FM antenna. It is difficult to tune , but sounds great for its size. Cheap consumer electronics, how they do it?
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Someone probably bought it and then decided it wasn't what they were expecting and returned it. To CVS it was a writeoff, so any little bit of money they got for it was an improvement over throwing it in the dumpster. (The cost of returning it to their supplier probably would have been more than the $2.70 you paid for it.)
 
You'd be surprised what actually works. My Anytone 878 amateur radio HT has an FM radio. Obviously can't DX on it but it works for most of the strong stations. Only has an issue with a few lower powered translators.
 
It was factory sealed, or someone doing a flawless “rebo” on it. Theey had some cheapy am/fm table radios for $8 a while back, 2 dials, 2 c cells, 1 speaker jack.
 


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