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Excellent guess!

I'm relatively new to tubes, but I've already learned some costly lessons about buying pricey tubes from ebay and elsewhere. In one case, it was just as you guessed: I bought some used power tubes online for some fairly serious $$$, only to plug 'em in and find out they were so worn out they didn't sound half as good as the C-label Svetlanas I'd bought new for less than half the price. I've also fallen victim to the familiar ebay scams: tubes that never arrive, tubes arrive that are not the tubes in the picture online, etc.

So... I'm not buying anything but new tubes online anymore, unless I see an absolutely screamin' bargain.


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