ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL

 I bought a Denon CD changer on Trade Me a couple of weeks ago before we went to Rakiura Stewart Island.

I had to do this because I buggered up tried to fix and munted  our one somehow stopped working. It cost $49 plus postage. I asked the seller to wait a week before sending because we would be away.

After I did this I read through the seller's listing again and discovered that it clearly said that the CD drawer would not open. This is of course the very problem with our current one - the problem I couldn't fix and, in fact, made worse. Bugger.

I was hoping that when the delivery was made, The Old Girl would be out. This would give me a chance to:

1. Quickly have a fiddle with it to see if I could get it going or,
2. Hide it.

We arrived home from R.S.I. and, after a week went by I contacted the seller to ask when delivery would be made. A couple of hours later I received an email from Trade Me saying that $64 was being credited back to my account ($49 purchase price plus $15 postage). There was no explanation. Obviously the seller had second thoughts about sending me something that didn't work or he lost it or he sold it to someone else. No matter I was pleased and then confessed my carelessness to The Old Girl. She just said it wouldn't have mattered as it was only $64. OK, all good.

Yesterday I  got online to Trade Me looking for other Denon CD changers. There were three listed:

1. One was available for buy now $190
2. One was listed with start price of $185 (no buy now option)
3. The third was listed as buy now $60.

Immediately I pressed the 'buy now option --- ha, got you there, no, I then carefully read through the seller's listing and saw that this Denon 5-CD changer (same as we own) is working perfectly. The only problem is that they've lost the remote and it has to be operated manually. We have a remote with ours but have never (over nearly 20 years) used it preferring to operate it manually. I then pressed the 'buy now option. I'll get it posted here (from $9 to $15) or, if we make a trip to Auckland soon, pick it up.

All's well (I hope).