[drh4683]

Indeed, I need to bite the bullet. This would have been the perfect one too, it looked excellent inside, very clean and the fact that the CRT was a dud didn't even bother me. Ive restored a few early colors and would like the challange of a CT-100 someday.
I was watching that set sit at $909 or whatever it was at for the past few days, but I knew it would be too good to be true for the set to end for anything near that price. I was ready to put the big bid in at the last second and then my mind flashed for a moment as I figured shipping could be another $500+and then backed off. Thats not to say that shipping costs were my main concern. Then again, I even considered driving out to california to pick it up in person and make a vacation out of it. The furthest west I ever went in my life was Omaha, NE. Vacations are something I hardly ever got to take and I've been so busy with work that me taking a vacation would be out of the question. All I see in life is my basement full of TVs or I'll be at work until late at night. I have been house hunting, so that is really my major reason for delaying the CT-100 purchase.