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Originally Posted by sampson159
i see ads on craigslist and the bulletin board at krogers for "antique consul tv".turns out to be a zenith from the 90s.collectors item,vintage,hard to find,one of a kind and my all time favorite-timeless classic!where do they get this?saw a rca 32 inch with a swivel cabinet advertised as,"take a trip back in time".no thanks.that period of time wasnt good to me.dont want to revisit
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I've been having these problems for 20+ years. It all started with radios and I'd usually get a call from an older person claiming to have an antique radio. I assumed since they were old, they knew the difference between a tube radio and an '80's clock radio or boombox. Too many times, I have gone 30 miles out of my way, only to arrive to find some POS from the '80's. It didn't take long for me to learn to ask questions before making the trip. If there was any doubt, I stayed at the house.
More recently, I placed a "wanted" ad in the local paper for "old TV's from the '40's through the early '70's with knob style tuners". The only TV remotely of interest that came out of that ad was a late '70's beat up Zenith 19" B&W. Everybody else wanted to sell me their BPC junk from the last 10-15 years. And, many of these people sounded old enough to know the difference between a knob tuned TV and something later. I finally wanted to scream at these folks, "What part of my ad do you not understand? When it says "knob tuned TV's no later than the early '70's, that means I don't want to buy your 10 year old wal-mart pushbutton junk".