RCA must have made a zillion of these jokers!

[julianburke]

I recently went to a church rummage sale and they had two 12" colors, one Sony and something else. Only $50 each!! One said "ready to enjoy".

[radiotvnut]

$50 each was a fair price - 15 or 20 years ago! Now, about $25 is all any 13" set will fetch. And, it has to be a newer model with A/V jacks in order to get that much. Sort of reminds me of when my church had a rummage sale in the late '90's. They had a mid '70's 19" Toshiba built Sears color set priced at $75 and an early '90's 19" Zenith remote color set priced at $125. Fortunately, they listened to me when I told them they'd never go at those prices. The people pricing those sets were a bunch of old ladies who probably had not priced a new TV in ages. And, most people who frequent rummage and garage sales are looking for a dirt cheap bargain.

[julianburke]

$25???? Nooooooo! Start doing yard sales tomorrow. Every yard sale is guaranteed to have at least (one) bread maker, coffee pot of some description, curling iron and a 13"-19"-27" TV or all three priced at $2-15 each and work good. Don't take my word for it, Do'em!!!

Report back to me Monday, I'll be waiting....

[radiotvnut]

Yeah, that $25 price is what it would bring after extensive advertising on CL, the local paper, and some exposure at the flea market. If it was at a yard sale, a 13" TV would bring less than $10. I know I have no intention of selling any semi-modern working color TV for $10 (unless it's that beat up RCA console that I currently have). It wouldn't be worth my effort to drag them home and repair them for that amount.

[Tubejunke]

Originally Posted by Greg B.

I have a early-mid 80s RCA B&W 12" set that I bought new as a bedroom set. The interesting thing for me about this set is that it doesn't have the usual click-stop tuner, but instead one that is more like a radio tuner which is continuously variable, with a toggle switch to choose either VHF or UHF. I haven't seen anything like that before.

Wow, I have one of those as a spare in my closet. I just went to try to find a model and the sticker has been peeled off of the back of my set. It is white plastic and simply says RCA on the black face, with "Electronic Tuning" underneath the RCA logo in small, red font. Funny how it's an "Electronic Tuning" model that is all BUT that. It's tuning is as manual as manual gets. I know, theoretically any tuning is electronic tuning. I just wonder why they made a set as recent as the 80's with a very backdated tuning method. I have only seen sets form the late 40's with continuous tuning.

I bought the set second hand for no real reason other than it semed unique, cheap, and works like a charm. It main purpose is for when the electricity goes out in the winter. I hook it and the sattelite box up to a car battery, via a power inverter, and I at least have SOME form of entertainment as I lay bundled up with the indoor temperature steadily dropping (electric house).