{"id":22349,"date":"2016-11-23T08:35:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T12:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=22349"},"modified":"2016-11-23T08:35:04","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T12:35:04","slug":"holiday-deals-open-box-sony-icf-sw7600gr-for-113-via-amazonblinq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/holiday-deals-open-box-sony-icf-sw7600gr-for-113-via-amazonblinq\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Deals: Open Box Sony ICF-SW7600GR for $113 via Amazon\/Blinq"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10587\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Sony-ICF-SW7600GR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10587\" class=\"wp-image-10587 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Sony-ICF-SW7600GR.jpg\" alt=\"Sony-ICF-SW7600GR\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Sony-ICF-SW7600GR.jpg 640w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Sony-ICF-SW7600GR-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Sony-ICF-SW7600GR-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10587\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traveling with my Sony ICF-SW7600GR in Taos, New Mexico<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Regular <em>SWLing Post<\/em> readers know that I&#8217;m a big fan of the, now discontinued, Sony ICF-SW7600GR shortwave portable. Recently, I even wrote a post about <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/finding-a-sony-icf-sw7600gr-online\/\" target=\"_blank\">finding some of the remaining units online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, I noticed that <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2fqIVOx\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon.com has some &#8220;Used &#8211; Like New&#8221; &#8216;7600GRs available\u00a0via the seller Blinq for $113.39 shipped<\/a>. At first, I didn&#8217;t notice the deal because it&#8217;s buried in the page: <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2fqH38F\" target=\"_blank\">simply go to the Amazon product page<\/a>, scroll down and click on <em>&#8220;Used &amp; new from $113.39 &amp; FREE shipping&#8221;<\/em> on the right side of the page. There, you&#8217;ll see the current offerings, if still available:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ICF-7600GR-Amazon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-22350\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ICF-7600GR-Amazon-1024x315.jpg\" alt=\"icf-7600gr-amazon\" width=\"625\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ICF-7600GR-Amazon.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ICF-7600GR-Amazon-300x92.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ICF-7600GR-Amazon-768x236.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ICF-7600GR-Amazon-624x192.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since this offering is available via Blinq, I then searched the Blinq.com website and found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blinq.com\/detail\/electronics\/headphones-portable-audio\/more-audio\/sony-icf-sw7600gr-7600-multi-band-world-receiver-radio\/18186?condition=new-open-box\" target=\"_blank\">the same deal:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Blinq-Sony-ICF-SW7600GR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22351\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Blinq-Sony-ICF-SW7600GR.jpg\" alt=\"blinq-sony-icf-sw7600gr\" width=\"978\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Blinq-Sony-ICF-SW7600GR.jpg 978w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Blinq-Sony-ICF-SW7600GR-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Blinq-Sony-ICF-SW7600GR-768x386.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Blinq-Sony-ICF-SW7600GR-624x314.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 978px) 100vw, 978px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve bought a number of items via Blinq (directly and through Amazon) in the past and found that the retailer is not only reliable but has a very generous return policy if you&#8217;re not satisfied. You can buy from them with confidence.<\/p>\n<p>Each time a &#8216;7600GR deal pops up, I&#8217;m very tempted to bite the bullet. I have two working units already though&#8211;&#8220;Coals to Newcastle&#8221; as they say!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular SWLing Post readers know that I&#8217;m a big fan of the, now discontinued, Sony ICF-SW7600GR shortwave portable. Recently, I even wrote a post about finding some of the remaining units online. This morning, I noticed that Amazon.com has some &#8220;Used &#8211; Like New&#8221; &#8216;7600GRs available\u00a0via the seller Blinq for $113.39 shipped. At first, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4138,3,43],"tags":[471,3317,3145,4495,121],"class_list":["post-22349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deals","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-amazon","tag-blinq","tag-blinq-com","tag-deals","tag-sony-icf-sw7600gr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-5Ot","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23757,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/sony-icf-sw7600gr-new-and-open-box-units-on-sale-via-blinq\/","url_meta":{"origin":22349,"position":0},"title":"Sony ICF-SW7600GR: New and open box units on sale via Blinq","author":"Thomas","date":"January 29, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"SWLing Post readers know that I\u2019m a big fan of the, now discontinued, Sony ICF-SW7600GR shortwave portable.\u00a0I try to post '7600GR deals when I find them and they're beginning to become more scarce as retailer inventory depletes. This weekend, I found another deal via Blinq\/Amazon. They have a number of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Deals&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Deals","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/deals\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Blinq-Sony-ICF-SW7600GR.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Blinq-Sony-ICF-SW7600GR.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Blinq-Sony-ICF-SW7600GR.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Blinq-Sony-ICF-SW7600GR.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":12519,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/blinq-sale-sony-icf-sw7600gr-89-39-shipped\/","url_meta":{"origin":22349,"position":1},"title":"Blinq sale: Sony ICF-SW7600GR $89.39 shipped","author":"Thomas","date":"February 28, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The online retailer, Blinq.com, has posted a number of used Sony ICF-SW7600GR radios for $89.39 US, shipped. This is an excellent price for the '7600GR--even used. As I've mentioned a number of times, the ICF-SW7600GR is one of my favorite shortwave portables. 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As I mentioned once before when one of these surfaced on Blinq, this is a great deal for an excellent radio. This is a used unit, but if you receive it and are not pleased, you can return it to Blinq free\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Deals&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Deals","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/deals\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Fullscreen capture 1222016 22338 PM","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Fullscreen-capture-1222016-22338-PM-1024x458.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Fullscreen-capture-1222016-22338-PM-1024x458.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Fullscreen-capture-1222016-22338-PM-1024x458.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":16649,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/blinq-deal-sony-icf-sw7600gr-98-89-shipped\/","url_meta":{"origin":22349,"position":3},"title":"Blinq Deal: Sony ICF-SW7600GR $98.89 shipped","author":"Thomas","date":"January 6, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Blinq.com has another \u201copen box\u201d deal on the Sony ICF-SW7600GR. As I mentioned last time one of these surfaced on Blinq, this is a great deal for an excellent radio. Actually, if you\u2019re clever (!) you can buy this \u20187600GR for $89.90 shipped\u2026 If you\u2019ve never\u00a0visited Blinq.com, or if you\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Deals&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Deals","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/deals\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Fullscreen capture 172016 11225 AM","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Fullscreen-capture-172016-11225-AM-1024x597.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Fullscreen-capture-172016-11225-AM-1024x597.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Fullscreen-capture-172016-11225-AM-1024x597.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":18725,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/blinq-deal-open-box-sony-icf-sw7600gr-104-89-shipped\/","url_meta":{"origin":22349,"position":4},"title":"Blinq Deal: Open Box Sony ICF-SW7600GR $104.89 shipped","author":"Thomas","date":"May 7, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Blinq.com has another \u201copen box\u201d deal on the Sony ICF-SW7600GR. As I mentioned last time one of these surfaced on Blinq, this is a great deal for an excellent radio (that's getting more and more difficult to find). Actually, if you\u2019re clever (!) you can get a 10% discount code\u2026\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Deals&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Deals","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/deals\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Fullscreen capture 582016 123349 AM","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Fullscreen-capture-582016-123349-AM.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Fullscreen-capture-582016-123349-AM.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Fullscreen-capture-582016-123349-AM.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Fullscreen-capture-582016-123349-AM.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":21348,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/finding-a-sony-icf-sw7600gr-online\/","url_meta":{"origin":22349,"position":5},"title":"Finding a Sony ICF-SW7600GR online","author":"Thomas","date":"September 15, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Though I have a lot of shortwave portables, the Sony ICF-SW7600GR is still one of my favorites. Why? Despite its ergonomic shortcomings, it's a solid performer with a robust sync detector and stable AGC.\u00a0Check out how it compared with other benchmark portables in our Mega Review. 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