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7th Sep 2019, 9:00 pm | #1 |
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Relate 2000 video phone. Value?
Hi everyone, have just inherited a Relate 2000 video phone with box and wondered if anyone would know roughly how much it was worth?
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8th Sep 2019, 12:25 pm | #2 |
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Re: Relate 2000 video phone. Value?
The usual answer is to check eBay SOLD or COMPLETED listings, however there aren't any at the moment, nor even current ones.
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8th Sep 2019, 4:05 pm | #3 |
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Re: Relate 2000 video phone. Value?
That takes me back! I remember visiting the factory that made them down in Portsmouth, as the same company were developing something for a car project I was working on.
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8th Sep 2019, 4:47 pm | #4 |
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Re: Relate 2000 video phone. Value?
Not a lot looking at similar phones.
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17th Sep 2019, 10:06 pm | #5 |
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Re: Relate 2000 video phone. Value?
So how does that work? You plug it into a normal telephone line and voila! you get video, or do you need a specialised type of phone line to use it?
To answer your original question, I feel the urge to make a bad joke in which there may be an awful lot of truth and to say that one of these phones is probably worth significantly less than a pair of them. In monetary terms, a casual collector, someone like myself (if I had space for more phones and hadn't just resigned from a job that paid for such luxuries) might well buy a pair of said phones as, if they worked on standard lines, it could be fun to lend one to friends, but a single phone would serve no purpose whatsoever and would be of no interest to me, so the market would be more limited. Last edited by Riccardo Grillo; 17th Sep 2019 at 10:11 pm. Reason: Extra thought needed extra paragraph |
17th Sep 2019, 11:21 pm | #6 |
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Re: Relate 2000 video phone. Value?
It uses a standard line, and is compatible with others that conform to the standard: http://www.samhallas.co.uk/repositor...phme_12595.pdf
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18th Sep 2019, 9:56 pm | #7 |
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Re: Relate 2000 video phone. Value?
If you'd bought a pair new, it would have cost you less than two bought separately according to the blurb.....
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