Honesty is How This Tube Dealer Built His eBay Business

FleaBay, huh? Tube life is a difficult one, trial and error until you run across that old guru that wises you up to tube world exploits. Most resellers run across a bulk sale of tubes and hype them up to be something of interest when they were really manufactured for a totally different application than high end audio.
Yep, been there done that. I miss that old guru, he passed on. Me, I’m skeptical to any tube seller since...lmfao. He turned me onto a couple of items he modded over the years. Sad part of the story wasn’t just his passing, but when his kids got to the storage and trashed all of his tube collection and modded gear thinking it was all garbage.


It’s always good to hear whenever someone is satisfied with their purchase.

Anyways, here’s a toast to that old guru...here’s thinkin about at ya.

Another vote for Andy of Vintage Tube Services. I've purchased most all of my NOS tubes from him. Great guy and really knows his stuff.....

@labpro. Yes a valuable thread - thanks for starting it, all us tube junkies need a reliable connection 

Brent Jesse is one of the best suppliers in the us. 
Not cheap but guaranteed. He’s got some real hard to find tubes. 

Glad you aren’t my local customer who buys elsewhere and uses my equipment to quell his innate distrust of another supplier! And why you don’t do business with this EDWARDS fellow off eBay so he can picket that extra 15% is beyond me or maybe that would be giving him a bit more profit...or is whatever he’s make just as well by you??