Hey, budding audiophiles...

[Bogie]

I know more than a few folks here dig the tuneage... I'm cleaning house, and one of the items I'm unloading is a Yaoin tube buffer (goes between your DVD player and your preamp or receiver). It's got the original Chinese tubes and a set of "vintage" RCAs with it...
 
This is a good way to "try out" tubes... If you don't like it, sell it to someone else, maybe lose/make a few bucks. If you do like it, either keep it, or upgrade.

These tend to run about $150 or so shipped from China... I _really_ liked the "tube sound," so much in fact that I'm going to go to a "real" tube preamp. But to do that, I've gotta (a) make space, and (b) not spend a bunch more money... So... Just put the thing on the 'bay...

Now to start going through Jen's old jeans that she decided to yard sale...
 
http://stores.ebay.com/Bogies-Bizarre
 

[Gewehr98]

Just put an eSnipe bid on it.  Dunno what it's good for, but it has tubes.   

[Bogie]

what's esnipe?

[Gewehr98]

Automated bid sniping, synchronized to eBay's clock.  I fire off my snipe bids in the last 4 seconds of an auction. 

[Bogie]

Cool... I gotta look into that... I think I just got sniped on a cheap hard drive for The Waumpuscat's (my esteemed father...) linux box...

[280plus]

I like to do my sniping manually, good adrenaline rush what with all the heart pounding and stuff. 

Thanks bogie, no tubes for me. I DO have an old tube amp I can put my guitar through though. I can get some neat overdrive out of that thing let me tell ya. I haven't played with it (the amp, dammit!) in a while, I should bust it out. But not tonight. 

[crt360]

Crappy dial-up + ebay = I get sniped more often than not. 

[DustinD]

Why don't they just enable the feature that extends auctions after every bid?

[Bogie]

I _hate_ that... I hit an industrial auction site that bumps it 5 minutes with every bid... So you know that somewhere, there's some dude in a cube calling his boss to see if they can beat you...

Actually, I've had good results starting off with a high bid, and every time someone bids, it gets automatched... People look at the bid history, and decide not to bother.

[Gewehr98]

Killed my e-Snipe bid.  It's already over what I set as my upper limit. 

[Bogie]

Went for $91... Someone got a deal, and I'm happy enough with it.