I'm glad I'm not the only one. I love all of you. You've let me in on your journey. It seems we're at a turning point now. I suppose our hope is all on a few now. We love the neon. Maybe more of us might get the bug to make more things. That Dalibor Keysight neon comes to mind. I can't let go of the past because it's gotten us to where we are today.
This is what really set me off: https://www.ebay.com/itm/174977901251 Best Regards, Bill On Sun, Jan 23, 2022, 3:39 PM Mac Doktor <[email protected]> wrote: > Some blathering... > > > On Jan 23, 2022, at 12:44 PM, Bill Notfaded <[email protected]> wrote: > > Perhaps for some of us collectors we now sit on a gold mine > > > Everything I've bought in the last five years seems to have turned into a > good to excellent investment. IN-13s have of course gone up in price at a > steady pace but over the last year or so IN-9s have absolutely > *skyrocketed*. For example: > > https://www.ebay.com/itm/223870481127 > > > That's $14.36 apiece including shipping but not taxes—for a lot of 25! If > you click on the number of lots sold you'll see that last February the BIN > was only $179. o_O > > Ridiculous asking prices are nothing new on eBay but I've bought from this > seller in the past and he/she/it was reasonable then. > > The pandemic is the major factor in all of this but we all know that > stocks of Soviet surplus are dwindling as well. Also, a certain Chinese > "VU" meter with two IN-9s suddenly turned up everywhere in the last year. > The typical price is something like $109. Could that be factor #3? > > > Forget about hoarding IN-14s, I should have borrowed some money and bought > every IN-9 in sight a year ago. I would have at least doubled my money by > Christmas. 8D > > > Terry Bowman, KA4HJH > "The Mac Doctor" > > "There is no Main Street anymore except at Disneyland—and try and buy a > gun there"—Hank Hill > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/neonixie-l/cD6RyBuudW8/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/E91BBEFE-5AA6-4780-B7E2-1091BAC96F44%40gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/E91BBEFE-5AA6-4780-B7E2-1091BAC96F44%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/CADToqn1%2BWuYu2GnARSU6MUGqH%2B5x4Bc2_NhvSnFQZy%3D5LiMmBQ%40mail.gmail.com.
