At least the seller was honest enough to mention that the TV would need a converter box or a cable hookup to work properly.
Also, I agree that the opening bid is far too high. This console has to be at least 40 years old, and the TV may not even be color. I wouldn't give more than $50 for it, since there is probably quite a bit that needs to be done to this set (such as the usual capacitor replacement, at very least the ones in the power supply) before it can be used on a daily basis.
I also think sellers need to put a disclaimer in their ads for old sets like this, warning potential buyers not to indiscriminately plug the set in as soon as it arrives at their door; to be fair, some do put such a disclaimer in their ads, but many do not. As we VK members know and respect, any piece of electronic equipment 40 years old or more almost always has bad or failing capacitors and other parts that must be replaced before it can be used safely. Most eBay sellers do not know much or anything about how a TV set works, much less the dangers of plugging in and trying to use a four-decade-old (or more) TV that may have been sitting in an often damp and/or unheated basement, garage, etc., unused. Case in point: My first eBay score, in 2002, was a Zenith H511 radio. I had won it from a seller in the Northeast, and when the radio arrived here I made the mistake of plugging it in as soon as it was delivered. The pilot light immediately burned out with a bright white flash, probably due to a filter capacitor that had become deformed due to years of sitting in the former owner's garage or basement, unused, for years or decades. The radio worked after I replaced the pilot light (and still works to this day), but the damage that could have been caused by that deformed filter could have been a lot worse than it was. Had I made the same mistake with a TV . . . good grief, I shudder to think of it.
