Actually, if you watch ebay, very few are selling. Lots of auctions but few close with a sale. The price may come back to something more reasonable.
The dollar is very strong right now, it should translate to lower prices. And of course, the IN-18 is not a commodity. It's a scarce resource that is not in production. Over time the price can only average up. Demand can drive the price up, but supply can never really drive it down, unless a huge hoard is revealed. I started designing my Arduino based IN-18 clock a year ago. Tubes were about $30 then. I took a hiatus from that design and recently picked it up again, but it may not be worth finishing. I have my own personal stash of tubes, but not enough to sell kits. Do I make the PCBs and write code for just a few clocks? I'm not sure if the market will bear the cost of clocks with a $350 tube price. Terry On Monday, February 1, 2016 at 3:27:00 PM UTC-6, gregebert wrote: > On Monday, February 1, 2016 at 1:15:30 PM UTC-8, William Lee wrote: >> >> Actually, if we're talking about US dollars, it has been going up against >> other currencies for the most part. >> >> > I think it's more a matter of supply vs demand; people are apparently > willing to pay $350 US for six IN-18's on Ebay. There has been a roughly > 20% drop in the value of Hryvnia versus the dollar over the past few > months, so the cost of IN-18's should actually be *decreasing* rather > than increasing. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/ef9a991b-49d2-4c56-809a-606798fbfb32%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
