For that kind of money I wouldn't touch that with a 10ft pole!! Somebody's bright idea. At that price though I would just have a good 8 pill built and use a kenwood 480HX to drive it with. And still have enough for some supplies as well. And still have money left over. Radio (kenwood 480hx), is 1099 new, amp is gonna run 1400 or so for a good 8 pill base amp. So for 2500 i can have a brand new setup for less than that one and know it will blow the doors off that one. But hey some people like pretty knobs and lights and painted cases. I've learned that 99.9% of that crap being sold like the item posted are usually someone's homebrew BS. All that was done was an export radio with no SSB as its a magnum s3 and not an s9, and an base amp were put together. But like I said, some like lights and such, I've learned enough to buy new and get an HF radio unless I am talking AM only then it's an old cobra 29. Other than that HF radios are the way to go and there are some good deals out there right now. For $1100 you can get a 200 watt kenwood 480HX. And a brand new base xforce amp for about 1400-1500 with added bias and shipping. Still under the 3k mark. JMHO.