Zenith Estate Sale find I passed on...

[jstout66]

Okay, so I gotta vent about an estate sale company I HATE, and wonder if you guys have run into the same thing? This company usually does tag sales in the "better" parts of town, but the prices are priced waaaay to high and they are "snooty" and I feel like giving the workers a "smack". So today I go to my first sale of the year. The house is in an older part of town, but the house is a 70's custom built home. The owners must have had money as the house was beautiful, altho ALL original, so if people don't like 70's design it's gonna be a redo. What turned me off is that the furniture was all "high-end" leather, glass & chrome pieces from an overpriced store here, Elan. When I saw the prices on the furniture I knew it wasn't gonna be good. I went off to look for tv's and saw that the people bought "higher-end" stuff from "back in the day" They loved SOny and there is a set I saw I'll get to later, but in the living-room, I saw a Zenith from the dreaded picture tube years I think. It was a 25" 1993 Advanced System 3, in a cabinet style I have been looking for. The tall all oak with the 2 shelves with glass doors on the bottom. Set was on and had a surprisingly perfect picture. I walk over to see how much it was priced at and they had it at $300.00!!!! WTF????? $300.00 for a 13 year old console set??? The house was too packed for me to even bother making a rude comment. I was gonna put in a $40.00 bid just to piss em off. The Sony I saw was a cool looking 13" Remote with a speaker on the top that said "Mega-Bass" and it had a built in FM radio. I'm gonna guess it was from the late 80's. I didn't get it as it was $50.00. Anyway has anyone seen one of those SOny's? And was 93 the "bad year" for Zenith? Hope you guys don't run into overpriced sales that often, but would love to see some postings if you have, along with comments on the 2 sets I saw.