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White is a color.

-Ian

So's green. And the seller's seeing way too much of it, IMO. Even if the set displayed more colors than white, and was fully working, $700 would be steep.

If that thing's color, my name is Jack Robinson...I'm think $70 would be a VERY generous price on it, especially condidering that you'd have to go thru it, & re-finish the cabinet...And then all you'd have would be a large B&W set of no particular interest...

Here is what I sent him thru eBay. I wonder if he will respond or change his auction. " Hi, I'm not sending you this email to be a jerk, but there are a few problems with this listing. First of which this set is NOT a color tv. It's a B&W set. Second is your price. If it were a color set, it might have brought the price you have listed. But as a common B&W set, you would be lucky to get $50.00 out of it. They just do not move in the collectors market. I can guarantee you 110%, that this set will not sell at the over-inflated "buy it now" you have it listed at. "

The guy sells shirts and is clueless on the set.
Shipping costs on that thing are more than it's worth; $136 from Detroit to Milwaukee (400 miles) in my bogus submission.

It'll never stop... We need to look at this type of thing as "entertainment"! Furthermore, this guy put it in his eBay store so it doesn't show up when we use the eBay "Browse" function. I never saw it until Eric put the link!

Charles

Oh well back then they were probably wishing they could have afforded color instead of the B & W counterpart

well.... here is the reply I got. " hey, thanks for writing me. I'm selling it for a client, I was under the impression it was a color. My mistake. She does have a 1960's color console that will be going up soon, too. I just put the listing live in my eBay store with a complete pie in the sky buy it now price just so the owner could see how the auction looked live on eBay. Have a good weekend, Don" I think he ended the auction. Still doesn't explain the too high buy it now price tho.....

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My thoughts exactly -- A very nice-looking piece of furniture, probably a fun one to restore. I just noticed it's relisted at the right price, and she listed the client's actual color RCA set, which really is a color set, at a good price also. Sounds to me like she just made an honest mistake, and drew the first $700 price tag as a guess out of thin air, as not everyone's an expert on old TV prices like jstout. My first thought on all of these vintage/antique TV sets is that they're currently undervalued a LOT. A novice would think so too. I mean, compare it to the price of a 1955 Ford or Chevy or a 1955 comic book. A 1955 can of Coke will bring more than 50 bucks! I really doubt the seller had any intentions of cheating anybody.

Too bad both of them are $300.00 away, shipping-wise.

And at a realistic price.
Yes it is a pretty nice design overall, hope it don't wind up a fish tank.

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I like the look of that set. it would most definitely have to have some sort of importance for someone to pay shipping. I noticed the sync seperator adjustment next to the AGC on the rear. Was this actually used to adjust the sync pulse timing? or is it more like a poor mans sub-horizontal hold?