Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Pay $80.00 for the Sony, good idea......

I own this boombox, and it sounds great, possibly the one that the other person that wrote the negative review tested was a working sample in the store that had been abused. I have owned my Memorex Boombox for 8 months, and take it with me often when going to the beach, and it has worked flawlessly, and sounds great, I have no complaints. Not only that I can buy two of these for what most of the Sony models cost, including the one that was recomended by the other reviewer, who sounds alot like a Sony salesperson posing as a [normal] customer....