OhMyGod! IT'S UP TO $326!!!

[Watson A.Name \"Watt Sun]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3800110452&category=4666&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBWA%3AIT&rd=1

I didn't think it would get much past $200! The sky's the limit!!
And there's still five hours to go!!

 

[Walter Harley]

"Watson A.Name "Watt Sun - the Dark Remover"" <NOSPAM@dslextreme.com> wrote
in message news:c22b5b$66gq9$1@hades.csu.net...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3800110452&category=4666&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBWA%3AIT&rd=1

I didn't think it would get much past $200! The sky's the limit!!
And there's still five hours to go!!

Which raises the question of whether I can double the price of my audio
equipment if it contains Vintage Semiconductors. NOS J112's in my
compressor, just like the originals. Dooood.

 

[Tim Wescott]

"Watson A.Name "Watt Sun - the Dark Remover"" <NOSPAM@dslextreme.com> wrote
in message news:c22b5b$66gq9$1@hades.csu.net...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3800110452&category=4666&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBWA%3AIT&rd=1

I didn't think it would get much past $200! The sky's the limit!!
And there's still five hours to go!!

You seem to have an unhealthy fascination with these -- or are you really
the seller, trying to drum up interest?

I'm tempted to dig down to the bottom of _my_ antique transistor stash and
start the auction, but they're all Philcos, and some of them have (gasp!)
_four digit_ numbers.

 

[CWatters]

Humm. I better not have that clear out just yet.

http://www.antiqueradio.com/ward_history_12-98.html

 

[Pieter Hoeben]

On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 18:47:16 GMT, "CWatters"
<colin.watters@pandoraBOX.be> wrote:

Humm. I better not have that clear out just yet.
http://www.antiqueradio.com/ward_history_12-98.html

Hi, I have some old OCx transistors. Are they antique?

Regards,

Pieter Hoeben

 

[Watson A.Name \"Watt Sun]

Watson A.Name "Watt Sun - the Dark Remover" wrote:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3800110452&category=4666&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBWA%3AIT&rd=1


I didn't think it would get much past $200! The sky's the limit!!
And there's still five hours to go!!

 

[Watson A.Name \"Watt Sun]

Tim Wescott wrote:

"Watson A.Name "Watt Sun - the Dark Remover"" <NOSPAM@dslextreme.com> wrote
in message news:c22b5b$66gq9$1@hades.csu.net...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3800110452&category=4666&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBWA%3AIT&rd=1

I didn't think it would get much past $200! The sky's the limit!!
And there's still five hours to go!!


You seem to have an unhealthy fascination with these -- or are you really
the seller, trying to drum up interest?

No, but I'd consider buying them if the prices was $100 or less. But
the winning bid is $878!!! Unbelievable!!

I'm tempted to dig down to the bottom of _my_ antique transistor stash and
start the auction, but they're all Philcos, and some of them have (gasp!)
_four digit_ numbers.

 

[Watson A.Name \"Watt Sun]

Pieter Hoeben wrote:

On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 18:47:16 GMT, "CWatters"
colin.watters@pandoraBOX.be> wrote:

Humm. I better not have that clear out just yet.
http://www.antiqueradio.com/ward_history_12-98.html


Hi, I have some old OCx transistors. Are they antique?

Regards,

Pieter Hoeben

Put 'em on Ebay and find out!

 

[Jerry Greenberg]

Interesting historic link with some specs shown about the first
transistors, by
Bell Telephone.


http://users.arczip.com/rmcgarra1/weco1951.html

http://www.antiqueradio.com/ward_history_12-98.html


As for these old type transistors, I was working for a company that
about 15 years ago, the discarded these. Many did this practice with
these old germanimum devices.

As for paying hundreds of dollars for these, I would not believe this
without seeing it. They are interesting, but I cannot see collectors
paying out this type of cash for these. Maybe when they get to be a
few hundred years old, then they may be worth some good cash. (Maybe I
am out to lunch in this...)


Jerry G.

--


"Watson A.Name \"Watt Sun - the Dark Remover\"" <NOSPAM@dslextreme.com> wrote in message news:<c22b5b$66gq9$1@hades.csu.net>...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3800110452&category=4666&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBWA%3AIT&rd=1

I didn't think it would get much past $200! The sky's the limit!!
And there's still five hours to go!!

 

[Tim Wescott]

"Jerry Greenberg" <jerryg50@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:460a833b.0403021505.130ef029@posting.google.com...

-- snip --

As for paying hundreds of dollars for these, I would not believe this
without seeing it.

You could probably sell blank sheets of paper for $50 each on ebay if you
wrote the advert well enough.

I understand that buyers sometimes back out of these bids though -- I wonder
if all those absurd prices really hold in the long run?

 

[Harry Conover]

"Tim Wescott" <tim@wescottnospamdesign.com> wrote in message news:<1049jje7pfv89d4@corp.supernews.com>...

"Watson A.Name "Watt Sun - the Dark Remover"" <NOSPAM@dslextreme.com> wrote
in message news:c22b5b$66gq9$1@hades.csu.net...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3800110452&category=4666&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBWA%3AIT&rd=1

I didn't think it would get much past $200! The sky's the limit!!
And there's still five hours to go!!

You seem to have an unhealthy fascination with these -- or are you really
the seller, trying to drum up interest?

I'm tempted to dig down to the bottom of _my_ antique transistor stash and
start the auction, but they're all Philcos, and some of them have (gasp!)
_four digit_ numbers.

Do it, since a credible winning bidder payed over $800!!!!! (By
credible, I refer to a bidder with over 400 positive feedbacks, and no
negatives.)

It's also inspired me to dig out my 1950/60 component junkbox and put
some of this stuff up for auction on eBay, rather than putting it out
for the trash. I have an original RCA labs prototype of what becaume
the 6198 vidicon tube...still functional. That alone should be worth
a few bucks! Also, many early transistors from the circa 1958 era.

Harry C.

 

[Chaos Master]

Tim Wescott tava com a mulhegada quando eu cheguei gritando:

"Jerry Greenberg" <jerryg50@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:460a833b.0403021505.130ef029@posting.google.com...

-- snip --

As for paying hundreds of dollars for these, I would not believe this
without seeing it.

You could probably sell blank sheets of paper for $50 each on ebay if you
wrote the advert well enough.

I understand that buyers sometimes back out of these bids though -- I wonder
if all those absurd prices really hold in the long run?

And what would be an use for those old transistors/diodes?
Just collecting? Using in repair of old equipment? Modelling them in PSpice?


--
Chaos MasterŽ - Porto Alegre, Brazil!
Remove the "IHATESPAM" from my e-mail address to get a valid address.
Remova o "IHATESPAM" do meu e-mail para ter um e-mail válido.
IRC #XLinuxNews or #POA of irc.brasnet.org , nick Wizard_of_Yendor .

 

[Lewin A.R.W. Edwards]

You could probably sell blank sheets of paper for $50 each on ebay if you
wrote the advert well enough.

Yes. You can sell a bag of shit on eBay, as long as you successfully
convey to bidders that it's /rare/ shit.

I understand that buyers sometimes back out of these bids though -- I wonder
if all those absurd prices really hold in the long run?

Sometimes yes, sometimes no. I have, on several occasions, put up
pieces of common (VIC-20-related, mostly - some Sinclair and Atari
stuff also, on occasion) vintage computer hardware that I estimated to
have market values of, say, $5 - and had them bid up to $200.
Sometimes, people pay up. Sometimes, they don't. On the occasions that
people have paid, they have *never* received the goods and then
complained that they were ripped off; they either drop me a thank-you
email or just post positive feedback. You just don't know what people
are willing to pay for an item until you drop it into the "free"
market.

 

[Tim Wescott]

"Chaos Master" <wizard_of_yendorIHATESPAM@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1aaf3696888c1c819896cf@NEWS.INDIVIDUAL.NET...

Tim Wescott tava com a mulhegada quando eu cheguei gritando:

"Jerry Greenberg" <jerryg50@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:460a833b.0403021505.130ef029@posting.google.com...

-- snip --

As for paying hundreds of dollars for these, I would not believe this
without seeing it.

You could probably sell blank sheets of paper for $50 each on ebay if
you
wrote the advert well enough.

I understand that buyers sometimes back out of these bids though -- I
wonder
if all those absurd prices really hold in the long run?

And what would be an use for those old transistors/diodes?
Just collecting? Using in repair of old equipment? Modelling them in
PSpice?


--
Chaos MasterŽ - Porto Alegre, Brazil!
Remove the "IHATESPAM" from my e-mail address to get a valid address.
Remova o "IHATESPAM" do meu e-mail para ter um e-mail válido.
IRC #XLinuxNews or #POA of irc.brasnet.org , nick Wizard_of_Yendor .

I wonder if it isn't like the classic car boom in the '80s. People had been
buying and selling classic cars for years, with the prices going up pretty
much as you'd expect between inflation and attrition. Then some analyst
noticed that classic cars were outperforming the Dow! Woo hoo! Let's buy
them as an investment! It all ended up like a pyramid scheme with no one at
the top -- the winners were the folks who sold at the right time, the big
loosers were the folks left holding $50,000 cars that they'd paid $250,000
for at auction, and the little loosers were all the serious collectors who
just wanted to buy a neat old car.

 

[Walter Harley]

"Chaos Master" <wizard_of_yendorIHATESPAM@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1aaf3696888c1c819896cf@NEWS.INDIVIDUAL.NET...

And what would be an use for those old transistors/diodes?
Just collecting? Using in repair of old equipment? Modelling them in
PSpice?

If you look at the winning bidder's other purchases, there is a long string
of antique transistor manuals, old transistor testers, and the like. I
think it's a (decreasingly) wealthy person starting a transistor museum.

 

[CWatters]

"Pieter Hoeben" <hoebenNOSPAM@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
news:u5u940592frolb74j40s7841bfekib1gba@4ax.com...

On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 18:47:16 GMT, "CWatters"
colin.watters@pandoraBOX.be> wrote:
Humm. I better not have that clear out just yet.
http://www.antiqueradio.com/ward_history_12-98.html

Hi, I have some old OCx transistors. Are they antique?

Do a web search. If you can find them for sale they probably aren't worth
much.

 

[CWatters]

"Jerry Greenberg" <jerryg50@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:460a833b.0403021505.130ef029@posting.google.com...

As for paying hundreds of dollars for these, I would not believe this
without seeing it. They are interesting, but I cannot see collectors
paying out this type of cash for these. Maybe when they get to be a
few hundred years old, then they may be worth some good cash. (Maybe I
am out to lunch in this...)

I expaect they only get these high prices because they are in their original
packaging and are collectors items.

 

[Jamie]

878 or what ever it was dollars was the winning price on
those!
my god.
i guess i should put my lot of germanium transistors up
for bit! )
i have some old special types made back in the days of when
they first made transistors.!)


Watson A.Name "Watt Sun - the Dark Remover" wrote:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3800110452&category=4666&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBWA%3AIT&rd=1


I didn't think it would get much past $200! The sky's the limit!!
And there's still five hours to go!!

 

[Watson A.Name - \"Watt Su]

"Jerry Greenberg" <jerryg50@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:460a833b.0403021505.130ef029@posting.google.com...

Interesting historic link with some specs shown about the first
transistors, by
Bell Telephone.


http://users.arczip.com/rmcgarra1/weco1951.html

http://www.antiqueradio.com/ward_history_12-98.html


As for these old type transistors, I was working for a company that
about 15 years ago, the discarded these. Many did this practice with
these old germanimum devices.

As for paying hundreds of dollars for these, I would not believe this
without seeing it. They are interesting, but I cannot see collectors
paying out this type of cash for these. Maybe when they get to be a
few hundred years old, then they may be worth some good cash. (Maybe I
am out to lunch in this...)

Yeah, you sure are! There are fanatics out there, too, that pay
thousands of dollars for Beanie Babies! And they're only a few years
old!

Jerry G.

--


"Watson A.Name \"Watt Sun - the Dark Remover\""
NOSPAM@dslextreme.com> wrote in message

news:<c22b5b$66gq9$1@hades.csu.net>...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3800110452&category=4

666&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBWA%3AIT&rd=1

I didn't think it would get much past $200! The sky's the limit!!
And there's still five hours to go!!

 

[Watson A.Name - \"Watt Su]

"Tim Wescott" <tim@wescottnospamdesign.com> wrote in message
news:104a6797fa8e097@corp.supernews.com...

"Jerry Greenberg" <jerryg50@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:460a833b.0403021505.130ef029@posting.google.com...

-- snip --

As for paying hundreds of dollars for these, I would not believe
this
without seeing it.

You could probably sell blank sheets of paper for $50 each on ebay if
you
wrote the advert well enough.

So, why aren't you out there doing that?

I understand that buyers sometimes back out of these bids though -- I
wonder
if all those absurd prices really hold in the long run?

Seldom happens. I'd say that the bidders are not making those "absurd"
bids on a whim. Most have a spotless history, and are not going to risk
their hard-earned reputation by reneging on a bid.