Some Ebay Sets

[Eric H]

The $449 Magnavox has been there for a long time, it started out at $1200.
I bet he would have a hard time finding a buyer at $49.

I've seen sets like it wind up in the outdoor lot of the Thrift here for $20.
Not a lot of demand for large 60's consoles unfortunately.

[AndyMack]

Not sure if anybody has posted this link, but here's a Zenith that doesn't come up often.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Antique-Zenith-C...item45f8991f46

[hposter]

OK..this is killing me, and I see Eric is here...so...I'll ask!

All of those links above (and every other ebay link), refuse to open on any of my Browsers!

They show link locations like:
http://redirectingat.com/?id=1010X50...23ht_874wt_907

And I need to find and copy-paste the ebay number (360304166050 on this one), into an ebay search, to open, and see, the item.

What gives? I've checked my Host files and http://redirectingat.com is not listed as a problem, but that link refuses to open...???

Harry

[hposter]

OK--forget about the link problem I just asked about!

Seems my Browsers refuse to open links starting:

http://redirectingat.com/?id=1010X502...

but instead, want to see it as http://www.redirectingat.com/?id=1010X502...

and, by adding that www. everything is happy...go figure!

[Jeffhs]

I knew we'd start seeing these older sets for sale after the DTV transition, before DTV converter boxes came on the market. I guess a lot of folks believed that dire warning in 2006, and again in 2009, that "your television will go black after February 17 or June 12" (2009; not sure what the DTV transition date was supposed to have been in 2006). I bet those older TVs have been sitting in basements, garages, etc. all that time, while their owners either went out and bought new flat-panel sets or, in some cases, went without TV. Also, I think a lot of people wanted to get a FP set (regardless of the DTV transition) after seeing the vastly improved picture (compared to 4:3 NTSC TV) on a good set. I realize that on many HDTVs (mainly the cheaper Chinese/Korean off-brands) the pictures are actually worse than the same pictures seen on an NTSC set, but there are some HD FPs that make very good pictures, given a decent signal, such as RCA and Panasonic. I had to stay in our town's senior center for about seven hours (mandatory evacuation) last month after a gas explosion here; they had a Sony console TV in the building for emergency information that looked like either an HDTV or a projection set (I would guess the latter), and it had a decent picture. The convergence looked a bit off, but I was sitting fairly close to the screen at the time; otherwise, however, the picture wasn't half bad.

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by hposter

OK--forget about the link problem I just asked about!

Seems my Browsers refuse to open links starting:

http://redirectingat.com/?id=1010X502...

but instead, want to see it as http://www.redirectingat.com/?id=1010X502...

and, by adding that www. everything is happy...go figure!

Some browsers are like that. I have Firefox version 3.6 on Windows XP (also had earlier versions of FF on Win 98SE), and have had the same problem on some sites. On the other hand, it may not be the browser after all. Many if not most websites require that the entire URL, including www. at the beginning, be entered before the site will load as intended, although a few sites will work just fine with just "http://" followed by the domain name; apparently, however, redirectingat.com isn't one of them.

[DaveWM]

Originally Posted by Eric H

The $449 Magnavox has been there for a long time, it started out at $1200.
I bet he would have a hard time finding a buyer at $49.

I've seen sets like it wind up in the outdoor lot of the Thrift here for $20.
Not a lot of demand for large 60's consoles unfortunately.

Yea that one is near me, no way, maybe 25$