{"id":35021,"date":"2018-11-30T08:05:30","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T12:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=35021"},"modified":"2018-11-30T08:05:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T12:05:30","slug":"radio-deal-xhdata-d-808-on-ebay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/radio-deal-xhdata-d-808-on-ebay\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Deal: XHDATA D-808 on eBay"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contribuor,\u00a0Charlie (WA2ONH), who notes:<\/p>\n

A good price for the XHDATA D-808 on eBay right now. No connection with the vendor. Buy at your own risk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to view on eBay.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Thank you for the tip, Charlie! Looks like the seller has a 99.6% positive rating–impressive for the volume they handle. I suppose the only thing worth noting is shipping time–if you opt for free shipping, it could take a few weeks to arrive.<\/p>\n

The price–$106.00 AU or $77.51 US<\/a>–is a great price for the XHDATA D-808.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contribuor,\u00a0Charlie (WA2ONH), who notes: A good price for the XHDATA D-808 on eBay right now. No connection with the vendor. Buy at your own risk. Click here to view on eBay. Thank you for the tip, Charlie! Looks like the seller has a 99.6% positive rating–impressive for the volume they […]<\/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":[6620,4495,331,320,6619],"class_list":["post-35021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deals","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-d-808","tag-deals","tag-ebay","tag-radio-deals","tag-xhdata-d-808"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-96R","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30303,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/mark-recommends-the-otterbox-3000-as-a-robust-case-for-the-xhdata-d-808\/","url_meta":{"origin":35021,"position":0},"title":"Mark recommends the Otterbox 3000 as a robust case for the XHDATA D-808","author":"Thomas","date":"January 15, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mark Hirst, who writes: Thomas, I'm something of an obsessive when it comes to hardcore protective cases for radios, phones and other gadgets. 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