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In Reply to: RE: Fake Tubes/Bad Seller? posted by bcowen on November 23, 2016 at 15:52:54:
Right on Bcowen.
FYI: The OP never mentioned who he purchased his RCA 7316's from. I but mentioned old_guy_radiola as I am aware he has what appears to be fake 7316's for sale on ebay. As you experienced, from previous threads and some of his ads I've read, he is notorious for deceptive sales practices. And in his current sales and completed sales I've noticed gold plated old stock tubes made by manufacturers that never made gold plated tubes of the type he's advertising. Seems a sweet business model he has, inflate the price of more common old stock tubes as they are (recently) gold plated.
I sympathize with your experience with that dude. I had a somewhat similar experience with one of the better known Internet tube guys. I felt he sold me tubes deceptively. The majority of which had tilted glass envelopes and charged me full price. Now if the tilted nature of the tubes was disclosed prior to purchase, that's fine, and I'd have had opportunity to decide if I would buy them. But that was not the case. Later, he called me on the phone and stated the tubes are fine and work as advertised. Without any aggression or demands, I mentioned he should have allowed me to decide if I wanted tubes with tilted glass and besides other vendors who sell tilted tubes discount them. In stated disbelieve he indicated no one does that, then inquired what vendors and prove it. I am aware of at least 2 well-known vendors that discount such tubes. So while holding the phone in one hand and searching for ads on a website with the other, this tube guy starts swearing at me and hangs up.
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