 Hey everybody, welcome back today to RetroTech and specifically MarketWatch where we're going to be looking again at recent Sony PVM and BVM sales and possibly other video monitors that were sold that were specifically CRTs. And this is going to be more along the early summer months. We last episode went through up to the end of April. So we look at some stuff over June and May of this year of 2020. And I think you find something quite interesting. Most of the sales, especially of better monitors have not been eBay. They've actually been another website that we're going to highlight first today. And that is government deals. And that's just a international or a national website for the United States where they have government auctions of their old equipment that they've discontinued or for whatever reason. And it's not just like video equipment. This is all kinds of equipment and things that could be even seized from like police seizures. So this first one was a lot of TV slash PVMs. That's how it was listed on this website. And you can tell it's just pretty much a random lot of different monitors here. Looks like we got a couple PVMs, possibly other brand monitors will we got a lot of pictures down here we'll look through. But this one closed. And it just closed at $618 after the fees. So you can, you know, these these things are going to be different. So for example, this one came from the University of Cincinnati. And it's in Cincinnati, Ohio. And there's location. There's some stuff about how they accept payment when you have to remove things. Let's look at some photos you'll see what somebody got for $600. Now what you're going to run into with most of the most of these is they have not been obviously tested. And you won't really know the condition if you're trying to get these from out of town. But here's one photo of a 1340 Q. And then we've got another. This is just a small JVC composite only. I know that monitor that's from the 80s. This is another older monitor that only does composite. There was actually a manufactured 87. So these are late 80s models. A lot of these another one that is very old and small. And it's a Sanyo. So there's another one. And then this one is probably the best one out of this lot. Possibly it's a 1910, which is a very early model Sony PVM. And we'll see if we have any more pictures of the front. And for some reason, just a sharp HDTV Toshiba junk TV. So that's that's pretty much what you're going to get is just random pictures. And sometimes you don't even get that many pictures, as you'll see here in their next listing. But that whole listing, that's all you get to see, you can go look at these if you're in the areas. So if you happen to be in these areas, it's definitely something you want to monitor. But I mean, that is a big lot of possibly, you know, a couple decent PVMs for $618, all old. But the prices, I mean, that's pretty, it's pretty high for what I consider for this. But it's pretty understandable too, when you look at some of the other ones that the next government deals on was just one that totally, I mean, blew me away, and it will probably blow you away too. I'm going to put it as the thumbnail. So this was the one, the 20L5 lot. And it was not just a 20L5. So lots of pictures here, thankfully, three monitors, I believe in all. So yes, three monitors, all 20 inches, we have a D20, a 1954 Q and a 20LS, which is actually 20L5. And this one, it came from the great state of Nebraska. Lincoln, Nebraska was the actual location. Let's go down here and check out what pictures we have. We have four four pictures, okay. So this is obviously the Q model, the 1944 or, you know, 1954 Q. Unfortunately, this one looks like it's pretty worn out, pretty good. It might have some screen burn, I can't tell if that's from the camera, it looks more like it's a screen burn from widescreen data on the on the tube. See that shade difference here, and then the shade difference is down there now could be just a shadow of that. But I'm not sure I'd be leery of that. There's the back of the 54 Q. And then there is the back of the lovely 20L5. We know that back. So that back also includes the 42 HD card. And just the back of the 20L5. And that's it. It just does say there's a D20, there's a picture of the D24. So that one has the mask on it, obviously, for the 16 by nine widescreen content. And none of these were powered on. I mean, it says I think that they do power on, but there's a picture two down here of the back of the BVM, which includes just one extra card, which is this HD SDI card. So it's, it's got the plates, what's our manufacturing year, I can't really tell, but this one was made anywhere from 2000 1999 to 2000 to about 2003 2004 was last year's they made that model. But again, just a I mean, those are some primo monitors, those two 20L5 and D20. And just, I mean, I'm blown away, guys, by the price here on this for a government auction. And I'm sure the government over here in Nebraska is going to go, what the heck? And they're probably going to go look for more of these monitors, which will be a good thing in the long run they come to us. But again, just unbelievable for somebody that is either going to have to pay to ship these. And I doubt that anybody in this was a local, I doubt it, I doubt it was a local win. This site does even show us some fun bid history. This one closed earlier today at 1107. So you can tell that it was kind of a bid here. If you want to look at this more, I'll leave links to this exact sale and the site in the description here. And you can see somebody, it was basically a bidding war, starting this morning. So this morning at 10 o'clock, this bid was at $1,200. Okay. And then you look at it and it just takes off between 10. And then by 11, one hour later, it's at 3550. And then it just kept going back and forth between C and M. So whoever M is just got the huge bid and just really, really, really surprised by that. So what else can we find on this government deal site? Well, I typed in a couple of things and I pulled up some just random listings that are on here. This first one is just a lot of, I think it's all, you know, consumer CRTs, no bids on this one, starting at 25 cents. You can see a lot of these are just going to be random. And again, not really anything special on this one. But when I typed in CRT, this is what pulled up and you have to be a little creative on what you're looking for. This one's in Ohio. Now I did find some other ones. So here's one, random TV production equipment. Okay. So this is one that is not actually is up to $300. So this one still has a couple days remaining, four days remaining on it. We got a bunch of CRTs here. It says three Panasonics, eight Ikegami's CRT monitors three times. So there's some, you know, nice three PVM style. Those are the 13 inch monitors for the Panasonic brand. But see, these look like more like TVs. And then there's the monitors those. So those are a lot of really nice. I mean, if those are all 13 inches, like it says, then that's a possibility of having a good lot. Of course, there's some other random stuff in here. I think a lot of those might be Ikegami, but you're also getting some really nice switchboards looks like some, you know, mixers. This is some kind of on the bottom here, some type of what is that is as a JVC professional style VHS player probably, and then two more VHS players and then some other miscellaneous power board. I can't tell this is just more or less audio equipment, probably maybe DVD burner down there or something right there. So this is some something that you can always take a look at is just try to find random stuff on these government deals because they are randomly all over the country. I found one more that said a lot of 14 various video monitors. Again, $50, no one's even bid on this one. And it does give you a list here. It looks like a nine inch, a nine inch, nine inch, nine inch, nine inch, nine inch, a lot of nine inches and then maybe even some smaller ones, five or six inch monitors. And then some other ones that I've not heard of before, which are ultra case and some other types of monitors, definitely something. You know, if you're looking for small monitors and you're in these areas, for example, this one is in Arkansas. So if you're in Arkansas and want to get some monitors, there's a good possibility to pick up a deal there. And that's been mostly the story this month is a lot of government deal auctions. There was also another one that I couldn't find listening for but I do have the monitor here I've been servicing where it was in 2950 Q and I don't have some videos coming about that soon. But that one went for 1300 dollars off of an Alabama listing on this website and I couldn't find the sales listing because it happened maybe six weeks ago. But I know for sure it happened because the person who bought it brought it to me to get serviced. I will pull up some interesting sales or sold items on Sony PVM specifically here on eBay. These are sold as early as earlier today, being some of the dates on here. But you'll notice a lot of this stuff is just lower end or more like smaller monitors, nine inch, eight inch, a lot of those, the occasional 13 inch for our older 13 inch monitor, just not a lot of high quality monitors being sold over the last month. I just really think it's been drying up exponentially. So if you do find something and it's something you really want and find a good deal on it might be time to pick it up. Here was a only one that was one of the nicer ones was one of these $700. Of course it says best offer now we'll show you some other PVM sales where the best offer has actually been shown a line through that and not just the straight price. So it's hard to tell whether that's actually the price that was paid, but not again a lot of choice here. Another 14.05 that went for $550. And the 20L2, check out this, I wanted to highlight this one. This was just a 20L2 that went for $900. Not restored or anything, pretty good shape, but still. And then a 14M2 that went for $260. So June, it's the story of the summer months where people want to get and play some games on these machines and they're having a really hard time finding some good ones. And the price is just skyrocketing on a lot of them. So let's look at one last final thing over here, some PVM sales this month because there have been recent PVM sales. Unfortunately though, you'll notice on here that they are international sales. So the data on them is kind of limited. First off, for example, we've got a D20 and it looks to have the portable card or the portable hand controller remote with it. And that one was best offer accepted. Of course it was priced at $3,500. And I'm not really sure. So if anybody who watches this one is buying this and want to tell me in a comment or send me a message and let me know exactly how much you paid, I'd be interested to know because that is a high-end grill monitor. And I'd just like to know for future pricing references how much it actually sold for. Same thing down here. So somebody in Greece has had a couple of these high-end BVMs. Here's another D24 right here. This one came with a 10R remote. The HDSD guy could get a card and the same kind of story here. This one's $4,400 best offer accepted. A lot of accessories, a lot of save-on pat accessories and repaired items that were sold. But as far as monitors go, not a large number of sales. But again, for example, here's one that was sold. And this is right around the end. See, look how quickly we got to May just by scrolling through there, $750. And that's pretty much right where we left off the last time. This was interesting. This one had been sitting around forever. Save-on pat. 14M8U. Kind of an oddball CRT. I bet somebody just finally said, forget it. I'm just getting this one since I can't find another one. And then there's another one, the 14M2 that went for $550. I think that one was checked out by Save-on pat though. So that's not a bad deal on that one at all. But that's kind of the story. Lots of limited inventory. And if you ask me the truth on what I'd expect to happen by, let's say, September, it's probably only going to get crazier. There's going to be a lot of people still looking to buy these monitors. And it's obvious it's just running up on inventory. So if you are looking to sell something, you know, it might be a good time to cash in. Or if you're looking for monitors, still just try to use these back channels and try to get something that is, if it happens to be in your area, take advantage of your location. But there are some other places you can check like Reddit for sales. And then just the last group I wanted to mention was, there is a CRT market watch group that is in Facebook. And there's the logo. There's not many members in it yet. It's just under 100. And they do post a lot of these sales that are up all over the world in here. So this is a good place because it's just basically talking about CRTs for sale. Also, people are selling some other, you know, consumer grade CRTs, which maybe if you've been waiting on a PVM and you can't afford one anymore, it's always a good idea to just try to get a decent working, decent condition consumer grade CRT to hold you over for the time being. Because again, it's just it's really expensive entry point right now. And you know, unfortunately, with the way that the economy is going and things are going, I'm anticipating that we're going to finally have some inflation here on our dollars. Power is going to go down. I think that and is just going to continue to make these prices go up considering the demand is still really high. And as the buying power of the dollar potentially weakens, these prices will just go up to reflect that. So let's just keep an eye on things again, stay vigilant and keep searching for that monitor, but don't get desperate and make a decision that you'll regret just in the heat of the moment of an auction. And I knew I do realize that a lot of these items are rare, almost similar to like Neo Geo video game carts for the AES or even, you know, vintage sports cars. So anyway, that's all I have to talk about this today. Thanks for joining me. And let me know what you think with a comment below if you had any sales that you either did personally, or if you, you know, helped anybody out get get a BVM or PVM or other model of high end CRT and you want to add that information in the comments, please do so. I'll see you guys next time with some more retro content.