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This seems to be typical on craigslist. Someone has something vintage like this old TV, the sellers surf the web and run across videokarma and see about 20 people in a population of about 300 million who happen to discuss TVs like this and of course they think someone is going to shell out major cash to grab it. They're greedy and the TV will sit outside under a tarp next to their garage until someone offers them about $500 before they consider selling it. By that time the TV is ruined and or full of gouge marks because it was being used as a work bench in the interim. Same phenomenon with the grundig console stereos, they see a highly laqured attractive cabinet and instantly think huge cash/collectors items while the guy who just wants to save a cool peice of history is screwed and either looses out due to greed or the seller hangs onto it and then decides they'd throw it away vs. selling it for cheap.