[BC] Re: Hi-Fi geek' paradise

[wfifeng@aol.com]

In a message dated 11/29/2005 3:42:40 PM Eastern Standard Time,
feehlee at fcc.net writes:

 > It is amazing what some people will pay for some used tube gear.  A coworker
 >  sold a Western Electric tube amp that he brought at an estate sale for $15.
 >  It didn't look like anything special, untested, a little dirty.  It was
over
 >  sixty years old and it went for over $3400!  What people will pay for that
 >  stuff.

That's because they don't know where to look for it... attics and 
garage sales.

A phool and their money are soon parted. It's kinda hard to criticize someone
who shines-up a turd, and then some knucklehead comes along and offers him a
mint for it. It's the fault of the phool with the money who offered, not the
guy who sold it.

Taking some old piece of gear, restoring it, and having someone willing to
pay big bux is far different from those who go and make a living off the
gullibility of others. That is what I find questionable... like those 
sites that sell
those "super wires" for outlandish prices. That's just plain wrong, because
they are making some pretty ridiculous claims and are literally cashing-in on
the gullibility of others.

If I fix-up and sell an old tube amplifier, where I have posted honest
ratings, performance specs, etc, and some phool wants to give me 
fifty times what
it's really worth, that's his choice. All I did was honestly sell a piece of
gear. What he offered to pay for it would be on his own head. So, thinking of
that... does anyone have any old tube amps they want to donate to a 
good cause?


Willie...