[hagtech]

Avid customer JG liked the BUGLE so much he bought the company.  Well, not really.  But he did buy a boatload of circuit boards so he could offer complete kits on eBay.  That's right, for you folks that don't want the hassle of a half-kit, now is your chance to buy everything you need in one place.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Unbuilt-Phono-Preamp-Electronic-Kit-like-Heathkit_W0QQitemZ190085479934QQihZ009QQcategoryZ14974QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

This has been approved and authorized by HAGTECH management.  Why?  I don't know.  But they did.

jh

[PatOMalley]

Maybe you should add a full kit and a half kit. I bet many people would like to the convenient and the non-hassle of NOT having to figure out what to buy correctly and what to upgrade on the fly, etc.

Keep the half kit. Add the full kit. Keep an eye on this guy and see it is viable.

[hagtech]

I don't want to do full kits.  Can't afford the debt load.  So it's actually nice that someone picked up the slack here.  He buys all the stock parts per the manual, so it's a good deal.

jh

[PatOMalley]

looks like they are selling ...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=009&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=190085479934&rd=1&rd=1
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=009&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=190085844927&rd=1&rd=1

the one mentioning "Hagerman" kicked up the most.

[wiredbecker]

Thanks for allowing a middleman to sell these kits, Jim.
When I saw the full kit on eBay at that price I snatched it up. Sadly, I broke my wrist right before it arrived so now I consider the assembly as physical therapy! 
I'm having the best time building this thing. Cheers!

On the downside, the middleman smokes cigarettes. Which as we all know isn't good for electronics, let alone humans.
I opened up the box and *COUGH* *COUGH* the odor of stale smoke wafted out. Nasty.
Lucky for me, the components were in zip lock bags but the manual smells like a dive bar.

[dnewman]

Hey, he needs to update the eBay add to highlight the fact that
vinyl doesn't have DRM (yet).  On NPR they recently did a piece
on the resurgence of vinyl (+10% this year) and one of the speculated
reasons for the resurgence was the lack of DRM *plus* the availability of
phono to USB devices.

Dan

(http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9598796)