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I purchased this item because I though it was a good deal at the time. I am very busy and only listen to it about once a week. Needless to say, the cd player has already went out. It no longer works. I would not advise purchasing this product. It appears from the reviews listed there is a manufacturer defect with the product, especially the cd player. No wonder the price was reduced.

My experience mirrors that of others posting here.

I purchased a Memorex unit for my son for Christmas.

After 1 1/2 months, the CD player no longer works.

I would strongly discourage anyone from buying CD player products from this manufacturer, and would pull the product.

Right out of the box, the CD player was dead. The second one lasted a week before the CD player died. It doesn't take long to completely drain the batteries during portable operation....which is significant since this "device" consumes 6 "D" batteries at a time.

Everything about this product is second rate, I am almost grateful the CD players died because it was easy to see that the buttons, doors and other moving parts will have a very limited life expectancy.

Sure it's cute, but it doesn't work. My parents bought this for my daughter's birthday from a local chain discount store. (that ryhmes with arget) Everything seemed fine when we used the batteries. Then we tried to plug it in. It wouldn't work with the cord and then the CD player stopped working alltogether. We exchanged it for a new one and the CD player on the NEW one won't work either. I think I know now why the store was fully stocked with this. Everyone but us knew it was a piece of garbage! And it's no wonder all the other brands of purple CD players are out!

I bought the "grape" version for my daughters, and it seemed fine for a few months. Then the first thing that happened is the door to the CD player on top broke so it remained opened all the time. It still worked if we put a book on it to weigh it down. Then the CD player went out all together - started playing all CDs at double their speed. Well, I figured I could at least use the tape player, but surprise, surprise, the tape player went out next. We've had it about a year and the only thing that works now is the radio, and even that doesn't work so well (reception is pretty lousy.) I would not recommend this to anyone.