How often do you find an unopened PG-300?

Check this out, an unopened, still sealed PG-300. Got it for $120 today.

Crazy!

Where?

Someone got in touch with on one of the techno lists i'm on and said he had a stack of them and he'd sell me one for cheap. Apparently he opened some of them up, backward engineered them and rewrote the code to make them as general midi controllers. This one, obviously, was untouched.

makes you wonder if there are warhouses with forgotten piles of sweetness lurking in our midst

Nice. Good find!

I got mine well used, but it still works like a champ.

Even that box looks to be in better condition than the boxes for new gear I buy.

Even that box looks to be in better condition than the boxes for new gear I buy.

That's because shipping companies used to take better care of parcels than they do now.

I know, I've heard this before where someone has old 80s gear unopened. Makes me wonder too. Nice score btw.

I found mine brand new in the box about 8 years ago.

I was looking around in a mostly guitar store and it was sitting in a stack with some boss drum machines. I asked how much it was and he had to go look it up since it was so old. He came back and said $300. Then I explained to him that I bought my alpha-juno2 for $350, and I couldn't justify spending that much. Long story short.. he sold it to me for $150. I love all of the documentation it comes with. It comes with a pamphlet showing you how to hook up your MKB-1000 (old roland midi controller) to a MKS-80.

Always nice to see a piece of older gear in pristine condition.

I believe Gilwe had a load of un-opened PG-200s as well. (new old stock)

I read about a warehouse owner who found this big old crate in the corner that hadn't been moved in like 25 years. He opened it up and inside was a BRAND NEW Ms. Pac Man machine. Never been touched since it left the factory.

It probably wouldn't be such a bad investment to buy some stuff like Evolver desktop, Sherman Filterbank, FR XS, Machinedrum, Waldorf Blofeld, Bug Brand etc.....never open it and keep it stored away for the next quarter century until you're ready to sell it.

I thought about doing this with the SH-32 when Nova Musik was blowing them out for cheap. People seem to like that thing for whatever reason and I even sold mine for the same price I paid for it, new. "One mans trash is another mans treasure" as they say.

SCORE!!!!!!!

Does he have any more?

Alternatively, the boxes may have been shipped on a pallet to a distributor, who then shipped them internally.

When I go into Guitar Center and see some product they have 50 units of sitting on the showroom floor, I assume those boxes were shipped as a group, not as individual boxes.

True. It was just my chance to get in a dig at the shipping companies that have trashed my property on so many occasions.