Look at this ebay auction:

http://cgi.ebay.com/1948-Philco-Combo-TV-Radio-Streamline-Exceptional-NR_W0QQitemZ180104370057QQihZ008QQcategoryZ63564QQ rdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Isn't that disgusting? And after the heinous crime he commited against such a desirable set, he still wants for it the same price it cost when new!

Shame on him!!!

:yuck: For more comments on this set: http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=107561

Oh well. Shame on me, too. I didn't noticed that there was already a thread about this same auction.

my reply:




"Play "I Love Lucy" and "Texaco Star Theater" the way they should be seen"

if that's REALLY what you intended, then you would have left the original electronics in it. shame on you for ruining such a nice set by shoving a made-in-china piece of crap into it.

And it actually got a bid!

Once again proving: "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." -H. L. Mencken

Hope the bidder is someone who wants to invest time and money looking for a CRT and to bring back that TV to it's normal condition.

The cabinet is beautiful; perhaps a collector with the same set in not nearly so nice condition wants it for an innards swap. That's my hope....

Lots of people buy things like that for visual reasons only. Even if it was 100% original, there is a fair chance that the buyer wouldn't use it. It probably will actually have a slightly higher amount of use with those modern guts stuck in there.

apparaently he's all butt hurt now, he was like "im reporting u to ebay, u have no right to pass judgement, ive had this TV for 15 years blah blah blah DELETED