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Re: What else is new?

Posted by Ivan303 (A) on July 30, 2002 at 18:17:24

In Reply to: What else is new? posted by Lew on July 30, 2002 at 15:21:17:

It would seem that "Tube Re-Branding" was going on long before ebay came along.

Especially in this case where no attempt to hide the fact that these Hytron tubes were made in Russia, as they say so on the tubes.

I have made over 50 ebay purchases and have left less the positive feedback only once or twice, and have yet to be really ripped off.

I recall an ADZAM ECC-35 I purchased from an ebay seller in Belgium that failed after about 100 hours.

I e-mailed the seller only because he had mentioned at the time of the purchase that he had a few more. I asked if he would be kind enough to sell me a replacement for the tube that had gone bad so that I might have a pair. He REFUSED to sell me another tube and wanted the replace the 30-year-old NOS tube that had failed after months of use! I refused to accept his offer as I felt he might have miss-understood my request as a complaint about the tube he had sold me some months before, so I explained in was just a normal tube failure and sent him the same $$ as I had paid for the tube at auction (only about $35). Forced to take my money against his will he promptly sent me TWO perfect ECC-35's. One for the $35 and one for replacement of the tube that failed after 100 hours use.

Yes, that is the not the average experience, but I have had great luck on ebay and will continue to purchase tubes there.

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