Goodwill bases price on Ebay listings!!

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Today while in Goodwill I spotted one of those late 50s RCA portable sets that had the knobs on the side and was all picture in the front. The set was in very nice physical shape with a $39.99 price tag. I aproached one of the employees and asked if they could do better on the old "junker" set. My game didnt work.
The lady said first that the set played and that they had found out that it needed some "bulbs." Then she said "Them things go fer $99.99 on Ebay so our price is low cause its a collectable."

I went over to see it play and I saw a raster with v and h shrinking and h freguency screaming way off, and a hum in the sound. So now I guess if something is collectable and it does anything at all, then it plays.

Bottom line-even charity organizations are jumping on the $$COLLECTABLE$$ bandwagon

Anyway does anybody think these sets are worth $40. Maybe I should have picked it up. The thing had that cloth like type of covering over the metal cabinet. No gouges or rot. CRT seemed very strong. A look through the back cover showed a clean, dust free chassis. If it sounds like something special someone please let me know. I will be going back Sunday...

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