I really dont there's anything fishy. As I said, I spoke to him and his interest have changed. He simply has SOLD ALL TVs of his collection of many different types. I've seen collectors get sets and have them parked for months or years in their house, not doing anything to them as deferred projects. Many in this forum have these projects laying around. Another truth is that there's a limited amount of collectors for these, and some have sold their collections losing interest in this hobby. Most common and even rarer sets have had prices somewhat sagging lately, some 15" tvs or other TVs with higher reserve go unsold working or not. This Collector didn't have another chassis tv like from his small collection to use parts from this set either. I talked to him in detail to see what TVs he may have of interest to me.
Would of this set sold for a lot restored??
--probaly not--that working rca roundie lately went cheap
There's plenty of deadbeat bidders, seller could of backed out as shipping costs for these have gone up, among others. Many tubes are available new and second hand as surplus and salvage prices, a couple of tubes may have been taken seems trivial considering most of tv is probaly there and roundies in any decent shape aren't really seen or found anymore. Why blast the seller over a couple of crummy cheap tubes-- if so--??
