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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voyageur" data-source="post: 1066143" data-attributes="member: 17953">At one time, I decided to take a course in TV repair and played with it as a side hobby. I ended up going to an auction at an old TV repair shop where the owner died and I bid on a tube tester similar to this and some old tubes. I bid $20 and ended up getting the tester and five huge boxes full of tubes of various types. Included in those boxes were some rare old tubes from the early days of TV and I found out they were worth a lot of money. These were tubes that weren't available anywhere from normal sources, and I sat there with hundreds of them. A guy who dealt with old TV memorabilia looked at my tube collection, after I'd put them in order, and said there were a few worth a few bucks and most of them could be pitched. He said he'd give me $50 to take them off my hands. When he made the offer, he looked away and I figured that was kind of fishy.So, I did some research and found some of the tubes were quite valuable. In fact, a small local airport wanted a bunch of them and offered me $500 for those alone. I could have probably got double for them, but this was something they needed, and I gave them to them for $300. The rest I ended up selling as a batch in an electronics magazine for $250. My $20 investment turned into a nice profit.</blockquote>

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