RE: [neonixie-l] Is it just me?

2022-01-24 Thread Michail Wilson 
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  On Behalf Of 
Bartek Ogryz
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2022 1:39 PM
To: neonixie-l 
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 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  wrote:
Some blathering...


On Jan 23, 2022, at 12:44 PM, Bill Notfaded  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

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Re: [neonixie-l] Is it just me?

2022-01-24 Thread Bartek Ogryz 
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 
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  wrote:
>
>> Some blathering...
>>
>>
>> On Jan 23, 2022, at 12:44 PM, Bill Notfaded  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
>>
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Re: [neonixie-l] Is it just me?

2022-01-24 Thread Nick Andrews 
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  wrote:

> Some blathering...
>
>
> On Jan 23, 2022, at 12:44 PM, Bill Notfaded  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
>
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Re: [neonixie-l] Is it just me?

2022-01-24 Thread Nick Andrews 
But that seller graciously offered me that tube for only $7000...

On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 10:50 PM Mac Doktor  wrote:

>
> On Jan 23, 2022, at 11:11 PM, Bill Notfaded  wrote:
>
> This is what really set me off:
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/174977901251
>
>
> I've been told by someone who knows these sorts of things that this price
> is just a tad high. And so is the seller. Much more so.
>
> Nice though the object is...
>
>
> Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
> "The Mac Doctor"
>
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> personnel, giving them a total of 242 lost to our 195. Keep up the good
> work and prevent accidents. This shift is concluded."—*THX 1138*
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