I paid $125 for 25 NOS Philips ZM1022's back in 2002. Kicking myself I did not buy 50 at the time as I had the money and they are one of my favorite style tubes. They sat packed away for years until 2019 when I got several of the four digit Chinese clocks that use them.
On Saturday, January 29, 2022 at 7:26:46 PM UTC-5 J Forbes wrote: > A screen shot of part of David's Cathode Corner page twenty years ago. I > remember when he paid $800 for a box of 100 ZM1040s. Man that was a lot of > money! :) > > > > On Saturday, January 29, 2022 at 4:28:37 PM UTC-7 Terry Bowman wrote: > >> On Jan 24, 2022, at 2:39 PM, Nick Andrews <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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. >> >> >> It's been a little over four years since I got into this hobby. In April >> of 2018 I made some large purchases on eBay; a variety of cold cathode >> goodies, all NOS. The Nixies were all symbolic, no numerics. Here's a >> sampling of the prices (not including very reasonable combined shipping). : >> >> vannadiy: >> OG-4 - @$5 >> 2 each of IN-19A/B/V - $11 = @$1.84 >> 10 IN-7 - $11.50 = @$1.15 >> >> uralspirit: >> IN-15A/B - @$1.50 >> IN-5A-1/IN-5B-1 - @$2.50 >> IN-7A - @$2.00 >> IN-7B - @$1.90 >> *IN-13 - @$6.50* [only $6 a week earlier] >> >> Another seller listed 12 IN-9s for $32 and accepted my offer of $28. >> That's $2.34 apiece less than four years ago. >> >> Sadly, I only purchased five of the IN-13s. Even worse, I could have >> gotten six or eight argon-filled IN-9s for $36 + shipping and passed on it. >> I haven't seen any since. o_O >> >> >> Right now I possess thirteen IN-9s and ten IN-13s. You know that some of >> these won't work well enough to be used. I have a use for seven of the >> IN-13s right now. >> >> >> 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/552bbedd-93e1-4196-818c-95b67c972729n%40googlegroups.com.
