Canadian Radio Business Good

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 25, 4 January 1929, Page 25

Canadian Radio Business Good

HOLESALDRS and retailers in Toronto are well pleased with the radio business this autumn. The volume of sales shows a gain over the same period of last year, varying from "a small gain to a month’s gain over last year. One wholesaler has sold more receivers this year than he had up to the end of October of last year. From 90 to 95-per cent, of the receivers sold are electrically operated. Battery sets have a yery small sale to-day in the cities of the Dominion. The probm that is facing Canadian radio deal‘ers now is. that of exchanging old sets for the new electrical ones, No definite plans have as yet been made to take care of this situation, which is be-. coming more important each day. The average price paid for receivers, according to Toronto dealers, varies from 225. dollars to 300 dollars. Cheap sets are not in demand. The present buyer is prepared to make the purchase of a good. receiver, preferably a console model. This trend shows that people are becoming satisfied with radio receivers of the present type. The sets . "selling at these prices average about *. one-third higher in price than the same set sells for in the United States.