I always check the price history to see when and how much. I know of sellers selling something for a normal price, then after I buy and get it, they change their auction to a completely different cheaper item so it appears to new people that the cheap item sold for a higher amount.
Michail Wilson 206-920-6312 From: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com <neonixie-l@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Bartek Ogryz Sent: Monday, January 24, 2022 1:39 PM To: neonixie-l <neonixie-l@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] Is it just me? Do you know how eastern sellers (Ukrainians, Russians, etc) are uplifting the tubes prices? It's a very simple trick :) I had bought many IV-25 about a year ago for funny money. It was a real catch! After a few days, the seller had raised the price 10x. From that moment on, every next person, who had found that auction, could think, that so many tubes had sold for that high price :) Tubes prices increased twice last year. Bartek. poniedziałek, 24 stycznia 2022 o 20:40:32 UTC+1 nickja...@gmail.com<mailto:nickja...@gmail.com> napisał(a): That's just crazy talk. Glad I picked up some IN-9 and IN-13 a while back, but wish I'd bought a lot more. I think IN-9 should be about $5-6ea and the 13s what, $10? I wish, not any more! I think it's awesome that some folks are being inventive and making things, but it really sucks when it ruins the market for specific items which haven't been made in decades. On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 4:39 PM Mac Doktor <themac...@gmail.com> wrote: Some blathering... On Jan 23, 2022, at 12:44 PM, Bill Notfaded <notf...@gmail.com> 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 the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+...@googlegroups.com. 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 neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<mailto:neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/371d33ff-6184-4638-b7d2-d8b18a923ae8n%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/371d33ff-6184-4638-b7d2-d8b18a923ae8n%40googlegroups.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 neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/MW2PR0102MB3435B5E081F921EB61212184825F9%40MW2PR0102MB3435.prod.exchangelabs.com.