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andyknebs
Joined: 29 Jan 2008
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Location: Queen Creek
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| Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 12:04 am Post subject: Something I saw on e-bay. What do you think? G70 tubes |
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If you go on e-bay and under consumer electronics type in CRT projectors up comes 3 tubes for a G70 the guy is parting out. He says the green and blue were new from Sony and only have 200 hours on them. He is in the Virgin Islands. Is this a scam? Is it worth the gamble? Or should I just get the blue and green redone at that place VDC? that is mentioned in this forum that rebuilds the tubes. They told me it was about $150-$200 to redo each tube.
Need some opinions.
Thanks
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mtmelvin
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Location: Bay Area, CA
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| Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 2:28 am Post subject: |
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This may be the same guy that I was talking to a long time ago. He said he was parting out a G70 and I was going to buy the tubes and remote control. I believe I found him on AVS or Videogon. We communicated a lot and he seemed legit. We were close to finalizing the deal and then he stopped communicating all of a sudden.
It's probably the same guy and if not, the auction looks legit anyway. Although there is a little bit of wear visible on Green... which is surprising if they really only have 200 hours on them.
-Mark
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Zebu Fellenz
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| Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 3:22 am Post subject: |
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I'm watching the auction and debating weather or not to bid, my G70 needs new blue and green tubes. The green has a little more wear than I would like but if the price is right I may jump on it.
Btw. who quoted you the $150-$200 to rebuild a tube, I always thought it was more than that, for $150 a tube I may also consider this route even with the bad reputation rebuild have.
Erik
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ecrabb
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| Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 3:43 am Post subject: |
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The $150-200 figure you got was probably the trade credit you'd get for your worn tube against a rebuild - which last I knew was about $750 or so. Meaning your after-trade cost would be about $600 or $650 per tube.
If you could get rebuilds for $150/ea., EVERYBODY would have spanky-new rebuilds in their projectors. It's the cost of re-tubing that has forced the large delta between a nice, clean machine and a machine with wear on a couple of tubes. That delta can be $1000 on an 8-incher, and $2000 and up for a 9-incher. If you think $750 seems expensive, start shopping for $1300 9" tubes. Talk about sticker shock!
I don't know if it's the same one, but I remember a guy on AVS years ago (way before this site came on line) with an island villa somewhere that he timeshared. He had a G70 (I think it was) that had some issues and if he couldn't get it working, he was just going to part it out. I wonder if it's the same one.
SC
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Zebu Fellenz
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| Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 3:49 am Post subject: |
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Ecrabb,
That makes more sense, the $150 is the core charge.
Anyone know why they need your old tubes?
Erik
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Moose
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| Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 4:55 am Post subject: |
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| Zebu Fellenz wrote: | Ecrabb,
That makes more sense, the $150 is the core charge.
Anyone know why they need your old tubes?
Erik |
Well, they gotta get their tubes for rebuilding from somewhere.
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Zebu Fellenz
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| Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 5:18 pm Post subject: |
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Good Point Moose.
Who want to guess how much the tubes will sell for? I see we already have a few forum members with bids on them, my guess is between $400-$600 (because I'm thinking of bidding about $400 and I'm pretty sure somebody here wants them more than me.
Erik
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