[LukeSimon]

People should be happy to see prices for vintage TVs increase. That means a healthy market is forming. The tube audio community started paying so much for NOS tubes, transformers, and audio amps that, guess what? Many small businesses were created to meet the demand for new parts, professional restorations, etc.

Much of the new tube audio products and services are in the USA and Europe and have good paying jobs, all thanks to people that gain so much happiness from a tube audio amplifier that they pay good money for quality products and services. Not everyone cares about tube audio enough to pay the high prices. It is a free market and nobody is forcing tou to pay those prices. The 300B vacuum tube, for example, is being manufactured again, in the USA! It costs a few hundred dollars per tube though.

A vintage Zenith TV like that was hand made in the USA by well paid, skilled labor. It is a work of art, and I am happy tk see it sell for good money. Maybe we will eventually see small businesses form to save these TVs from going to the dump and instead get professional restoration. If nobody is willing to good money for electronics, then expect for all of the manufacturing to occur in sweat shops in developing countries… and expect for most vintage TVs to end up in the dump.

I rarely see functioning non-solid state TVs on eBay these days, and I never see them in my area in Craigslist or Facebook. I hope people see that they can sell such TVs for good money on eBay so that they save them from the dump.