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RE: Fake Tubes/Bad Seller?

Posted by bcowen (A) on November 23, 2016 at 15:52:54

In Reply to: RE: Fake Tubes/Bad Seller? posted by JazzDude on November 23, 2016 at 12:26:22:

Well said.

And if your research showed that Amperex was the only manufacturer of a true 7316, even if they OEM'd and branded them for RCA, they would still have the cross hatch in the top glass as they certainly wouldn't have changed their manufacturing tooling and methods to produce an OEM tube for someone else.

With this particular seller, I don't know if he's printing the false labels or buying them like that, but for the number of tubes he peddles, he should certainly have enough knowledge to know what he's selling. I emailed him quite a while back about some 6922's he was selling (for a very premium price) that were clearly not Amperex. His response was pretty vile -- he knew what he had, I didn't know what I was talking about and was pretty much an idiot, and if I didn't like what he had for sale then I better quit wasting his time and go shop elsewhere. My email was polite and courteous, and when you get a response like that in return it's a pretty good indication that he's well aware of what he's doing....and doesn't like being called out on it. I have no proof one way or the other so my comments clearly fall into the FWIW category, but I stay well away from anything with his name on it.

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