Roundie in Philadelphia

[JB5pro]

It could be the lighting but the screen color looks lighter than the original style greenish 21FJ. Even the color knobs look like someone used Formula 409 to clean them leaving maybe none of those very pretty colors they should have.
What a product name... Formula 409... with such a technical sounding name like that it must be very good. Sooo much better than than the previous four hundred and eight versions.

[DaveWM]

heck they say or best offer, someone go throw them a 40$ offer, or you could go up some if they let you test the CRT (and you peek at the FLY).

I figure 40$ is fair if for nothing more than parts that "should" be ok, I guess you could get a real heap (bad fly/yoke/vert out, shorted Pwr trans, broken converg assy, in which case you would be down to maybe getting pots, coils, tuner, etc...



I just tell them the truth, if the CRT is bad then it become VERY hard to repair since they are hard to get. And even if its test just OK there is alway the chance of it dropping dead to gas (that is what happened to a zenith I picked up a few months back, it had a weak tube, and after about 30 min of combined run time it just went to air, and the filament burned out before I even knew what happened.

anyway thats my 2 cents on it.

I dont know if they understand that collectors are not getting rich off these old sets, you can drop a lot of coin trying to get one up and running and most likely will never get your money back,much less profit on it.

I think after they get a few calls, you know, I'll be right over, give me directions, I am on the way, etc... and then the caller never shows up, they will begin to understand that money talks.

[JB5pro]

I agree with Dave on all points.
It is a shame most people can't figure out for themselves what is logical and will most always, no matter how much they smile with "sincere" niceness, believ u are not telling the truth to make a fortune off them. I am sure many great sets ended up in the trash from such typical mindsets. Some people believ such to the point of resenting anybody that offers less than what they want to the point they get angry and enjoy "getting back at you" by trashing the set rather than recognize an honest person and accept a reasonable offer.
However, with this very tired but very worthwhile CTC16 I bet he takes a low offer.

[DaveWM]

you know even a 40$ is prob a "great" offer when you put it into perspective (outside our TV collector view point). If not for a handfull of guys (and gals if you are out there) that can actually do something (other than the alledged repurposing of the cabinet which I would bet rarely ever gets done or is kept very long if it does), these things would cost money just to have someone haul them away. I am sure there are exceptions, and I would have no problem buying from another collector where the working status is well know and therefore the set has more value, but with these kinds of sets (CL buys with unknown status) that are not operating its really just a crap shoot.

Sometimes i wonder if non collectors find this site and get all worked up over our at times rabbid like obsession, and think they are really going to score big.

Of couse what they dont know is A) not all old TV's are created equal, B) like real estate location location location, and C) even we have limits on how many can be save due to size and storage.