NOS Wells Gardner 6100... wow

[ChadTower]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6195743851

[AlanS17]

Paying for $455 for something untested? That's just absurd. He even mentions he has games to hook it up to and test it, but he's just too lazy. It's as if he has the idea it might br broken. I mean, if it's brand new then what does he have to be afraid of? Why wouldn't he just test it so he can say "NOS vector monitor works like new!" It would only be worth more. Something's just not right.

Yet people are clammering to pay $455 for it. That's just stupid.

[Ken Layton]

Even N.O.S. monitors like that are now old enough that it would need a capkit anyway. Capacitors go bad just sitting there unused.

[KSKID]

Think i would rather take my money, buy a new tube, and the reproduction deflection and HV boards that are being produced, that would only leave the neck board that would have to be rebuilt with new caps etc., think that would be a better/safer bet than shelling out 400+ for a NOS untested 25 year old monitor. It sure does look pretty, but unless you need a museum piece, i think i would pass.  I think the seller should have set his/her reserve price lower knowing that some items for this monitor are being reproduced. I Personallly would have stopped bidding at the $300 to $350.00 mark.

[PetitMorte]

$455, and the auction still says RESERVE NOT MET.

[SirPoonga]

Think i would rather take my money, buy a new tube, and the reproduction deflection and HV boards that are being produced,

Where do you get those?

[Matthew Fisher]

The tube is a 19VLUP22, apparently available here for $99 (I say apparently because I have not tried to order one; it may be that you would get an out-of-stock message):

http://www.hbfelectronics.com/index.php?action=disp_item&item_id=28183

Note: the best price I have seen elsewhere is ~$155. 

As for the boards, Arcade Shop Amusements used to have them, but someone else has bought the rights to make the parts and, as far as I know, they are not yet available again. 

For this, I can't see why anyone would go anything over standard non-working prices, i.e., $200-250.   In one of his pictures, he has a Star Wars cockpit behind the monitor.  Too much trouble to plug it in?  I don't think you're going to burn the screen in thirty seconds.  I will admit, it's pretty incredible to see one in such pristine condition, but the fact is that a "rough" one that has been recapped is going to be more reliable than this NOS one, even if it works right now.  If you are that obsessed about screen burn, just buy a new tube. 

[AlanS17]

It didn't meet the reserve the first time around so they put it back up - probably with the same reserve. This time it has a Buy It Now price... $650!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6197531439

[sonicflood]

It didn't meet the reserve the first time around so they put it back up - probably with the same reserve. This time it has a Buy It Now price... $650!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6197531439

And somebody bought it!!! 

[Ken Layton]

Looks like a shill to me.

[AlanS17]

I know this sounds bad, but...

I hope it's a real sale, and I kinda hope the buyer gets screwed. Then maybe he won't make the same mistake again. On top of that, I hope he gives the seller all kinds of never ending hell for selling him junk.