[Jeffhs]

The seller says he cannot get a picture on the TV because he "does not have an antenna..." Sheesh. He could get a cheap pair of rabbit ears to test it, or else hook it up to cable through a matching transformer. If he is in Phoenix, he should have more than enough signal to air test it with an antenna. Heck, even a piece of wire run off one of the VHF antenna terminals should give him enough of a signal if he's in a good signal area.

As to the starting bid and BIN, well, this person may be very new to online auctions and may not realize that his opening bid for a set that old is too high. The BIN, however, is so far out of line it's ridiculous. If this were an RCA CT-100 or some other sought-after early color set, I could see having a BIN that high, but not for a set of this type.

Many times ebay sellers will throw important-sounding words around in their listings just to make the set look good, without having any idea what the words mean; this certainly seems to be the case with this person. Seems to me he/she just wants to get rid of the set at any and all costs, even if it means making the thing sound more important, rare, etc. than it really is.

As I said in a previous post: Sheeesh! What some people won't do these days to sell something quickly.