[Boatanchors] TV7D/U - Here's what your missing

[manualman at juno.com]

At just a quick glance on Ebay, I found at least four Hickok tube testers
where the buy price was $1400  and up. Good quality tube testers command
a good sell price most of the time. On the other hand, there's probably a
larger number of tube tester owners, who worship their $50 tube testers
for obvious reasons.

Pete, wa2cwa

On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 21:23:52 -0500 Nick England <navy.radio at gmail.com>
writes:
> Things aren't always what they seem at first glance - check the bid 
> history
> The two $6000+ bidders had 0 ratings and their bids were cancelled 
> for some
> (probably quite good) reason.
> 
> So it finally sold for $1400, which is still a pretty tidy sum - but 
> there
> were only 3 bidders above $300 and 2 bidders above $626 (still 
> pretty steep
> but not for people who'll pay 10x that for an audio amp). So 
> somebody put
> in what he thought was a ridiculously high bid ($1300) but another 
> person
> (with feedback rating of 12) had already bid more than that. Note -  
> IF the
> 12 rating comes through, OK, but if not it'll go for $636 to the 2nd 
> pace
> bidder.
> 
> Moral - don't plan to retire by selling that TV-7 in your 
> basement......Mr.
> $1400 already has his, so the next contest will be between Mr. $600 
> and Mr.
> $1300. And the one after that will be between Mr. $300 and Mr. $600. 
> There
> really is not an infinite supply of insane money....
> 
> Cheers,
> Nick England K4NYW