I feel there should be a pinned thread titled “I can’t believe the price of tubes these days”. Don’t get me wrong, I also gasp at some of the asking prices I see!
Love those IN-18s. I would love to have a set, but I’m not sure I could justify the asking price, and I really need to make clocks for all the tubes I already have. On Sunday, January 30, 2022 at 8:18:36 AM UTC-5 Robert G. Schaffrath wrote: > 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/00bde208-6d38-4c4e-b713-37c24c7338f5n%40googlegroups.com.
