Zenith Flashmatic on ebay - Videokarma.org TV - Video

polaraman · #1 02-23-2006, 09:43 PM

I thought is was in the running for this set. Final bid was $521.00!!!!!!! What gives? Did somebody here win the set?

polaraman

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=5868315227

captainmoody · #2 02-23-2006, 10:29 PM

I don't think he's on here but this is the same guy that bought Doug's sony for a couple hundred a few weeks ago. A real serious deep-pockets collector!

jpdylon · #3 02-23-2006, 11:55 PM

I remember seeing one of those going at an antique mall that was closing for only 20 bucks!! This was about 1995 and I was only 11. Mom wouldn''t let me take it home no matter how much I tried to convince her that it was a cool and very valuable set.

I showed her the auction yesterday and she crapped her pants. I can't believe it went for over 520 either. Man I wish I coulda grabbed that set back then!!

bgadow · #4 02-24-2006, 11:17 AM

I was lucky enough last year to have this model given to me. I'm a little more appreciative of it now that I see this!

JCFitz · #5 02-24-2006, 11:49 AM

There was one at a local auction house only 4 miles from my house.It sat there for months.Had no high voltage but the sound was there.I kept bugging the owner about it but she wouldn't sell it to me.Even when she was having money problems and finally went out of business and had to leave the building.I never saw it again.

El Predicta · #6 02-25-2006, 09:28 AM

I got one of these last year in an antique store in West (Sweetwater) Texas. Am still looking to buy the remote.

JCFitz · #7 02-25-2006, 10:21 PM

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Originally Posted by El Predicta

I got one of these last year in an antique store in West (Sweetwater) Texas. Am still looking to buy the remote.

There was one on ebay recently.Don't know if someone from here got it or not.

Sandy G · #8 02-25-2006, 10:42 PM

Well, my eyes about popped outta my head when I saw what an R-389 went for-nearly $4000 ! An R-389 is a military radio-a "boatanchor"-made by Collins in '55 that receives from 15 KC to 1500KC. There were only 750 or so of 'em made, they are kinda the "G-33000" or "SX-1980" of the AM DX world. Maybe more like "CT-100" since they are so rare...I got mine about 10 yrs ago, I have about $1500 in it, but that includes a complete rebuild by one of the most highly regarded guys in the business. Quite honestly, if it weren't for the "braggin' rights", I might be tempted to sell mine-they ARE good, but I have several other radios that are very nearly as good. They won't even pick up to the top of the AM band nowadays, they stop more or less at WLAC, at 1510 KC. Mine had lots of little, PITA type problems-since they made so few, I really wonder if they ever really got all the little "bugs" out of the design. Mine had also been "whanged"-HARD- on the back panel, prolly early in its life, & had been relegated to being a "hangar queen" for most of its life. I like mine, DON'T wanna sell, but the thoughts of getting $4K....Hmmmmmmm...-Sandy G.