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Title: insanity. pure and simple.
Post by: DummyLoad on October 20, 2010, 11:34:29 pm: http://cgi.ebay.com/Quad-EL34-Metal-Base-Philips-Miniwatt-Same-Codes-6CA7_W0QQitemZ250711462969QQcategoryZ67816QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp4340.m8QQ_trkparmsZalgo%3DMW%26its%3DC%26itu%3DUCC%26otn%3D5%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D4841141432631743475

current BID at 1147 american. w/ 3.5 days + remaining... for USED tubes! :huh:
Title: Re: insanity. pure and simple.
Post by: rafe on October 21, 2010, 01:43:32 am: NOS ..........To some people that's not a lot of money , but I sure hope they insert the broken one correctly
Title: Re: insanity. pure and simple.
Post by: DummyLoad on October 21, 2010, 05:25:11 pm: Quote from: rafe on October 21, 2010, 01:43:32 am
NOS ..........To some people that's not a lot of money , but I sure hope they insert the broken one correctly

ummmm.... no! These NOS testing tubes

one is missing the center-pin & to me the gettering shows some use. also, notice he doesn't say NOS outright anywhere, just "NOS testing".

insane...
Title: Re: insanity. pure and simple.
Post by: FYL on October 21, 2010, 05:35:26 pm: Quote
to me the gettering shows some use.

Ditto. I'd even say heavy use with tubes near the end of their useful life.
Title: Re: insanity. pure and simple.
Post by: rafe on October 21, 2010, 06:36:25 pm: Yeah I missed that , what the heck is tests as NOS :embarrassed: With 7 bids this early they might jump up a bit more, I'm watching to see
Title: Re: insanity. pure and simple.
Post by: EL34 on October 21, 2010, 08:57:53 pm: Ther idiot who wins, deserves to win
Title: Re: insanity. pure and simple.
Post by: rafe on October 21, 2010, 09:20:58 pm: They will most likely be delivered by a horse drawn cart to a castle in the remotest mountains of europe where they will be used for slingshot practice by young count alucard IX ..........the video will then be sent to a rival count who needed them to keep his great, great, great grandfather's brain in the basement alive with them......that kind of thing is common over there..... :laugh:
Title: Re: insanity. pure and simple.
Post by: John on October 21, 2010, 09:34:19 pm: If they're spending that kind of money on tubes, they'd better know how to hook up the directional cables right.
Title: Re: insanity. pure and simple.
Post by: billcreller on October 22, 2010, 11:16:59 pm: Weird people with money...not much new about that :smiley:
Title: Re: insanity. pure and simple.
Post by: bigsbybender on October 23, 2010, 02:56:07 am: I have given away old used tubes... I've never considered trying to sell them. I guess that is why I'll never accumulate any wealth. :wink:

j.
Title: Re: insanity. pure and simple.
Post by: rafe on October 24, 2010, 07:08:52 pm: :shocked: Went for $1413.
Title: Re: insanity. pure and simple.
Post by: Shrapnel on October 24, 2010, 09:04:15 pm: Quote from: rafe on October 21, 2010, 06:36:25 pm
Yeah I missed that , what the heck is tests as NOS :embarrassed: With 7 bids this early they might jump up a bit more, I'm watching to see

I suspect they were trying to make the claim these are testing at the levels that a NOS tube would deliver.

Quote from: rafe on October 24, 2010, 07:08:52 pm
:shocked: Went for $1413.

Even IF these were NOS, I'd be afraid to spend that much, let alone the starting bid, and use them.... NEW production tubes can be expensive enough.
Title: Re: insanity. pure and simple.
Post by: DummyLoad on October 25, 2010, 12:24:10 am: Quote from: rafe on October 24, 2010, 07:08:52 pm
:shocked: Went for $1413.

i saw that... :rolleyes: i wonder if they're in the market for some liquid conductor interconnects... :lipsrsealed:
Title: Re: insanity. pure and simple.
Post by: rafe on October 25, 2010, 12:32:06 am: Hey Shrapnel ...I knew that :angel, but why not tests as new .....just an odd way to put it .... when I read it the first time my mind saw it as NOS .....tricky stuff.........
Title: Re: insanity. pure and simple.
Post by: Shrapnel on October 25, 2010, 11:32:18 am: Quote from: rafe on October 25, 2010, 12:32:06 am
Hey Shrapnel ...I knew that :angel, but why not tests as new .....just an odd way to put it .... when I read it the first time my mind saw it as NOS .....tricky stuff.........

Personally, I think that was their Idea, and when it was realized it wasn't... :protest: well, "The ad only says it tested as NOS, not that it was." A bit of deception :evil1: for those who don't pay close attention.