Where have all the 6550's gone?

[bigsbybender]

Doug!  Where are the 6550's in your store? 

Are they not worth stocking anymore? (Too expensive?, Low sales volume?) 

I'm planning on using some in an upcoming build.

j.

[navdave]

I've never seen em in his store?

[mresistor]

this place has them, even the new EH big bottle

[EL34]

6550's became way too expensive like all the Russian tubes did a while back.
Except that the 6550's are way more expensive than 6l6's and 6v6's

No one would pay that much for them
Just look at the 5u4gb sovtek
I have sold maybe one or two since the prices jumped through the roof a year or so ago

[bigsbybender]

That answers that....    $36 for a 5U4  .....   then I'd hate to see what 6550 goes for.

[Geezer]

That answers that....    $36 for a 5U4  .....   then I'd hate to see what 6550 goes for.

They go for $50 a matched pair>>>  http://www.tubedepot.com/eh-6550.html

[bigsbybender]

Cool...  that's a lot easier to swallow than some of the prices I've seen out there.  $70-80/Pair.


Thanks.

j.

[bluesbear]

$50 - $70 might be worth it for bass amp or possibly steel guitar. They'd better last a LONG time, though!
Dave

[EL34]

You should buy every one they have in stock because they cost me more than that, per tube.

That is if they are platinum matched like I buy all my tubes

Unles you are buying 100 of a tube, you can't compete with guys that stock huge amounts of tubes.
And there is no way I am going to buy 100 matches pairs of a tube that sells as little as 6550's do.
I sell 100 6L6's to every 6550 sold

Here's the current New Sensor wholesale market pricing on 6550eh's with platinum matching
The prices are for each tube, not a pair.

[John]

Doug, it sounds like you follow the same rule that I do: sell what 90% of the people want to buy. 

[prs_matt]

It's not just big bottles that are ridiculously priced. I had a friend call me to order some 12AX7s and thought he had to have Groove Tubes as that is what was in his amp. I can get JJs for less than half the price of the GTs. What's going on in Russia to drive the prices so high?

[EL34]

The Russian mafia is one big reason

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/09/business/worldbusiness/09iht-cheat.html

[simonallaway]

"ExpoPUL makes two-thirds of the world's musical vacuum tubes. Tuned in to the music industry's needs, Matthews increased sales to 170,000 last year from 40,000 tubes a month in 1999."

I am quite sure this forum and the knowledge within it's members has contributed to that kind of growth (or recovery). I wonder if the JJ factory is subject to such pressures.