Customer Reviews

SONY 211566803 Sony Replacement Pad for Sony MDR-7506 and MDR-V6 Headphones - Each

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2 star:		(9)
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Do yourself a favor and buy these from suntekstore. They're less than five bucks per earpad there, plus it's free shipping. (I put link in the comments so it doesn't get removed by Amazon).

I ordered this without looking too closely at the title. I assumed that since the headphones have two ear pads, I would get two ear pads. I am absolutely livid to find out that I ordered one ear pad. This item is sold by a third party "Dependable Resource". I'm not sure if the people running the outfit are stupid or sleazy. The tactic of selling a single ear pad reeks of some third rate mail-order camera store that sells the camera cheap, but rips off the customer by selling the camera battery as an extra cost item. In this case, I either have to place a second order for the other ear pad, or return the damn thing and order a pair from someone else.

When I placed my order, I ordered some extra things I wouldn't have normally ordered to pad the order to the magic $25 for free shipping. If the company had packaged two ear pads for $26, I probably would have grumbled, but ordered the things anyway due to the free shipping. Anyway, Dependable Resource gets big black marks in my book. After looking at some other reviews, it appears I should have just ordered them straight from Sony. I'm going to return the one ear pad, and I will encourage Amazon to drop these bozos.

But to charge eight bucks for shipping it is totally absurd. It doesn't weight two ounces and you could send it in a envelope.

If you want thirteen bucks for the thing, then charge thirteen bucks and ship it free.

The pad is fine, and I'm ordering a few more...just not from this vendor. It's not really cheaper elsewhere, it's the principle of the thing. Pricing it at $4.95 and shipping it for $7.95 just feels dishonest.

I spoke to Sony and they charge $5.95 for each pad and $6.95 for shipping so why should anyone buy from these guys when Sony charges the same amount as these sellers. These guys charge $4.95 and $7.85 for shipping so what am I saving? They are not giving the customers any bargains or discounts so why not deal directly with Sony? It doesn't make sense. If they lowered the price of shipping then it would pay to order from them, otherwise stick to Sony.

Like the other people that have written here, the whole experience has turned me off on this vendor/product. If you order a replacement for a headphone it should be clearer. Out of principle, I will not order from this vendor again. I simply feel like I have been ripped off. I would rather put up with my old worn pad than pay for another one from them.

First, I expected a pair of pads for the money they were charging. $12.97 for one pad is robbery. When I got the pad, I found it's diameter is too small for the headphone. I have the v600 series and it obviously is not the right pad even though it is claimed to fit. I ended up spending $18.31 for a pad that is too small even though I could make it work,it is sub-par, and I still need another one.

When the product came, it did not fit my Sony MDR-7506. When I returned they charged me 15% for the return.

As a previous reviewer wrote, buy these at the suntekstore online. You will get free shipping and the price was under $5 per pair. The Suntekstore website clearly states 2 pads (unlike the seeming sleazy pracice of the Amazon vendors selling only one pad per order) and the reviews are much more positive than the reviews here at Amazon.

Like another poster, I was confused when only a single pad showed up in the mail rather than two.

At that price I assumed it included two.

So that was frustrating.

The part didn't come with any instructions at all on how to actually apply the part, it took me a bit of googling to figure that out. (Found some generalized instructions here: [...])

It took me about 10 minutes of fiddling to get one pad on.

However, once it was in, and with my other one still old and worn out I could really tell the difference. I could hear background noise through the old pad while the new one was nice and silent like when I bought them.

So overall, this product is worth it if you can afford to buy two. While it does essentially come to half the price of just buying new headphones, if you believe in reusing things and have any sort of emotional attachment to your old and trusty headset, this is worth it.

I also got fooled into assuming this is a PAIR of pads ... it is NOT. At the current selling price of $11 for a SINGLE PAD, that is over-the-top expansive. Other vendors sell this pad as a single item for less than half this price.