On Apr 26, 2005, at 7:55 PM, David Kirkby wrote:
Just interested how much people have paid for them. At the minute there are several on eBay at $475 from the one seller. Is that a typical price, or am I likely to do a bit better than that if I wait?
It's probably reasonable. It's not a steal.
Thanks. I decided I could wait no longer and so bought one. Before buying, I asked if it came with the plug, thinking to myself he must have them, and perhaps will throw one in. That worked.
Unfortunately for you, that seller (glossa7) knows what s/he's doing.
Strange though s/he replied they would end the auction early if I bid, so it was effectively a "buy it now". Although it had more than a day to go. Perhaps he choses not to pay the buy it now fees, so just ends auctions.
I've bid against him on several items, and he typically bids immediately at a reasonable price level on the items.
I personally usually bid at the end, but
It was very frustrating when I was buying old HP counters to strip out their oscillators. People kept wanting to actually pay a reasonable price for them...
I know the feeling. My biggest hassle is shipping charges, which generally adds quite a bit. Luckily he is quite reasonable on that, but my time-interval counter was $150 or so just to ship.
You probably won't regret paying $475 - they're about 3x that new - but it's on the edge of what I'd pay for a surplus Rb oscillator.
I have seen rubidiums quite a bit cheaper, but the Stanford is still sold new, compact, the manual looks good. It's said to have a design life of 22 years, which is twice some of the much older units on eBay.
I've bought several things from Stanford and never had a problem. There's a good possibility I will buy a 200MHz lock-in for work, if the UK dealer can find a sensible price for me.
On the bright side, that seller _does_ seem to know what he's doing, and I've seen him on ebay for a long time, so I'd believe him when he says that the oscillator is working perfectly.
Someone else has just commented he is not so good, but his feedback seems pretty good, so I guess there are not too many dissatisfied customers.
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Dr. David Kirkby,
G8WRB
Please check out http://www.g8wrb.org/ of if you live in Essex http://www.southminster-branch-line.org.uk/
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