[Amps] Tube Prices

[Will Matney]

Hal,

At the time, GE, Owensboro was the last manufacturer of receiving tubes. The prices were still cheap where anyone could afford them. Richardsons bought up the stock from every other manufacturer who had quit making them like RCA and Sylvania. Eddie Richardson cut a deal with GE and bought the GE plant renaming it MPD. They mention this at their website, but wont mention Eddie's name, just saying an investor. As soon as this happened, Richardsons price doubled on tubes, and in months kept going up. What does this sound like to you?

Best,

Will

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On 7/30/06 at 1:39 PM Harold  Mandel wrote:

>Richardson's doesn't even have the temerity
>to list tube prices any more.
>
>Last year I checked on a 3CPX1,500A7 and
>they wanted $3,495.00 per piece.
>
>Even C & D in Florida seems to off the Eimac list
>as their website says nothing about tubes any more.
>
>  Hal
>W4HBM
> 
>
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>From: amps-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:amps-bounces at contesting.com] On
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>Subject: [Amps] Tube Prices
>
>> in. We should blame ourselves for not wanting to pay the 
>> high prices for better quality north american or European 
>> brands of tubes which were available all along.
>
>Actually a good bit of the blame falls on Richardson's 
>Electronics and their policy of absorbing all the small 
>manufacturers and dealers, and the poor decision by Eimac to 
>allow a outright competitor to be the sole distributor of 
>Eimac tubes.
>
>The Justice Department should have stopped all the buy-ups 
>before they ruined the tube market prematurely. Eimac should 
>have kept some independent distributors.
>
>China would have come along anyway, Richardson's just sped 
>the process up by inflating prices.
>
>73 Tom 
>
>
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