Vintage Rotel gear...for $8,300????

[Skylab]

I own a fairly modern Rotel surround preamp, and it's nice. I always had read that vintage Rotel gear was just so-so...and so this was a surprise...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ROTEL-RB5000-RC5000-and-RT1024-/300696025440

Is that stuff really worth anything close to the ask?

It's local to me, so I suppose I might even be able to go look at it, although I likely won't as I hate to waste people's time and I have NO interest in buying it...just wondering if the person is being realistic or not.

Zero affiliation.

 

[R-2-R]

Rotel (tomato sauce?!)

Nice system but definitely nowhere worth that price, not even close to it in my opinion.

 

[deep3shot]

The dude has 10 feed back none of which is from a buyer. What's not to trust?

 

[Kahoona]

Hi
First off he is either new to Ebay (10 feedbacks) or a scammer restarting with a new name to get a clean slate. A new guy might be just testing the water and not know how high to shoot. A scammer might be posting it on eBay at that price so that he can try to sell it privately for half that much using the listing as a proof of value. As a buyer I have only a small bit of my brain still working but even I know to check and see what these actually sold for. It has been like this since cavemen swapped pointy rocks. I have other things to pay attention to. If it gets down into the hundreds I'll read the listing.

 

[Skylab]

Yep...that's why all the best auctions are the ones that have no BIN price and start at $1. That is the way I do it when I sell on eBay. Then the final price really is the then-current market price (current at that second in time).