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Long before people were modding these I got one for $20 CAD from Aliexpress. The speaker only works intermittently, requiring me to push on the case to get it to work (I guess there's a weak solder joint or something). I contacted the seller and of course just got infinite runaround. Either way, "buyer beware", these things are insanely cheap for a reason. Basically a dollar-store HT. :P


Just buy it on Amazon for $10 more, and you're good to go.


All that adds is fast shipping because someone with an alphabet soup brand name upfronted a bit of money to get a container load of them shipped from China to an Amazon warehouse.


It adds no-hassle returns.


Uh, on Amazon Canada, the Quansheng UV-K5 is being sold for $125.99 heh


Order straight from Aliexpress. You can get one for around ~$30 CAD all in depending on the day. And believe it or not the shipping only takes a couple weeks.


That's exactly what I did! Thus my original post lol.. I was refuting the parent post's suggestion to "just buy it on Amazon" as if the Amazon return policy is worth paying $100 extra for a $20 radio haha


It depends on that random reseller's pricing, no? I got mine for $30.




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