Have a look at the current ebay prices of IN-7 nixies for an example... I have a design that was completed late last year but have no intention of announcing it until I've managed to buy enough tubes at a reasonable price. One seller I approached for a quote increased their ebay listing price of the tube I was interested in by 50% within 5 minutes of my enquiry.
It's a sellers market and will only get worse as supplies dry up. On Mar 14, 3:04 am, Terry Kennedy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 13, 4:55 pm, Adam Jacobs <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I think that (based on the current supply of nixies), if I was to design > > and build a new clock right now I would use IN-12's. > > Deciding on the desired tube, buying up available stocks, and _then_ > announcing the new clock is probably the best way to go. Look at what > happened to the price of IV-4/IV-17 displays when the IV-17 > Smartsocket was announced - the price per tube jumped from $1.50-ish > to $4-$8 per tube, and that's without an ongoing supply of Smartsocket > boards to drive them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
