50 sets in one auction!
 

Seller says some of them are new.
Someone really needs to check this out and see what's there.

I know no one will have room for 50 large sets at once.

http://cgi.ebay.com/LOT-OF-50-OLD-VI...item439e181d8b

that is amazing! I don't think I've seen so many in one place at one time.

Wow, thats unreal. Some of those look like real unique offbrand sets. Hopefully they can be saved!

He says he's selling in LOTS OF 50, so there must be more!

John

OMG! If this were local I would get them and make room even I had to build a room. This would keep me busy for years. I hope someone who loves old sets gets these and not the recycling crowd.
Packard Bell made some amazing sets. The cabinets and chassis are heavy duty.

I am just trying to get my head around the vehicle needed to pick up 50 sets, and then the size of the storage building.

OMG, my Mother would disown me if I brought home 50 console TV's all at once; however, I do see some interesting sets there that I'd love to have. If they were closer to home, I'd try to work up some kind of deal to save at least some of them. This is indeed a once in a lifetime find.

A moving truck would do the job. I wonder how many lots of 50 there are and what the history is with this collection. This has to be the largest collection of tube sets left in the world.

The load floor on U-Haul's largest van is roughly 23x7 feet. Putting fifty sets in one of those would mean stacking them at least two high and possibly some on top of those!

It would also cost me about $900 to do it from about 700 miles away. Not including the storage unit I'd have to rent.

Bah...

I did e-mail the seller and ask how may sets there are in total.

no way she would go for it...

Honestly Im thinking about it. But I got to also be real. I would have to fly to SC, rent a U Haul and drive them back to Los Angeles. I figure the truck would get 5 mpg so the total cost would be about $4000. I live on a 3 acher defunct farm so space is the least of my worries.

There must be less expensive ways to move them. Maybe more complicated. I wonder what it would cost to containerize them and ship by train to CA?

John

Definitely looks like an old TV sales & service shop out-of-business. Probably a few nice sets, and also, with a hoarder like the owner of that shop, I can nearly guarantee that there are other rooms; perhaps filled in prior decades to that one!!!

Charles

GAWD I would love to go see all that stuff. God (and that guy) only knows what kind of goodies are in there.

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