The radio scrappage scheme has been set up to give you some great offers on digital radios. The analogue radio signal is being switched off in 2015, making your current analogue radio useless. Luckily the radio scrappage scheme will get you up to £15 off the price of a new digital radio from the likes of Comet.
The radio scrappage scheme will work along the lines of the Sony tv trade in scheme, where you hand over an old analogue radio and you’ll get 20% off the price of a new digital radio. When you buy a new radio online, just add the code shown on the Comet or John lewis site, and handover the old rado when you collect your ‘Click and Collect’ order. Make sure you get the radio you want, and make sure its waiting for you at your local store when you buy with Comet’s “Click and Collect”. The scheme starts on the 22nd, click on the links above to see the current digital radios from Comet and John Lewis
There’s an estimated 100 million analogue radios still around in the UK, and with the digital switchover on hold until 50% or radios are digital, the radio industry are thinking on their feet and helping with the cost of a new digital radio. The radio scrappage scheme was thought up by ‘Digital Radio UK’ who have been holding discussions with radio retailers and manufacturers to the radio scrappage scheme started as soon as possible.
Digital Radio UK are also looking into what will happen with the 100 million analague radios that will be useless when the switchover has finished. Current thinking is that they will be shipped to Africa where analogue radio is the dominant format.
Radio Scrappage Scheme Retailers
Digital radio is alreadyhere, and thanks to the radio scrappage scheme or “radio amnesty” you can get an up to date radio with 20% off when you trade in your old set. We expect to see more news on the Currys Radio Scrappage Scheme over the coming weeks, with other major retails following suit. The Comet Radio Scrappage Scheme cannot be far behind.
My first impression, based on attempts to trade in a Panasonic analogue radio in full working order is that many dealers know little or nothing about the scheme. I also found that makers were restricting the range of models they offer within the scheme to a small number – I suspect that the models offered are obsolescent and they see the scheme as a chance to off-load these units.
I can’t see a substantial increase in users of digital services deriving from these very limited provisions.
I wonder how much this “radio scrappage scheme” is intended as a genuine offer to recycle old analogue sets while giving discounts to radio listeners, and how much it’s intended as a way of getting some free publicity and to increase the footfall in retail outlets. I approached a high street retailer today and was refused a discount because my set was a combined radio and CD player. If the publicity is to be believed then sets that can’t be used will be recycled. (My old machine works fine!)
I already have four DAB radios (used in bedrooms, the garage, on my desk and a personal one for BBC’s TMS). I will also take advantage of the scrappge scheme buy two more sets for other bedrooms, etc. Great! But my real beef is what about my hi-fi systems (a Denon, a Sony and a Pioneer). Whereas my smaller radios can be replaced for tens of pounds the tuners/tuner-amps of my hi-fi systems will cost hundreds of pounds (even if available). What is the scrappage scheme for the real top-end of the market? By the way at JLP I’ve not seen anything discounted to 20%
Can one still obtain a trade in discount on an old analogue radio against a brand new PURE Evoke 3 DAB Radio?
Thanks.
There aren’t any trade in deals at the moment.