www.gstube.com - Real or ripoff ?

[Dave]

Has anyone ordered from www.gstube.com and actually received product?

[John Rehwinkel]

> Has anyone ordered from www.gstube.com and actually received product?

In short, yeah, I've bought a tube from them, and received it.

In detail, if you're curious:

Yeah, I requested an AMH-10 and another tube from them back in April. They were out of the other tube, and quoted me a price for the AMH-10, and wanted to be paid by Western Union, bank transfer, or Moneybookers, with a surcharge for WU or Moneybookers. The weirdness with payment left me nonplussed, but admitting they didn't have the other tube in stock wasn't the sort of thing a scammer would do. So I went ahead with it. Then they said I had to send the money to Anton's wife, Tatyana Bodunova-Skvortsova, but there was surcharge for WU. This still seemed a little sketchy, but I went ahead with it, as I wanted that tube, and there were some other tubes I was thinking of ordering if things went well.

After a reasonable shipping amount of time, the tube showed up, packed reasonably well in wadded-up newspaper in a cardboard box of sufficient size.

- John KG4L

[JohnK]

I am interested in this seller too. There are two Russian sites that look
extremely similar and one of them has a weirdo CRT that I would like. I held
off ordering because they would only accept direct cash via a service I have
not used or know about OR via Western Union. I feel much happier buying via
PayPal [and sometimes credit card because of the International Protection
(chargeback)].

John K.
Australia

[JohnK]

Ah, that is reassuring; I must check if Anton still has the CRT I want.
Pity that stories of 'baddies' out there make us so wary of everyone !

John K

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Rehwinkel" <jre...@mac.com>
To: <neoni...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 2:03 PM
Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] www.gstube.com - Real or ripoff ?

> Has anyone ordered from www.gstube.com and actually received product?

In short, yeah, I've bought a tube from them, and received it.

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[Dave]

The reason I asked is that I have had a large order outstanding for
many many months.
I'm always told they are coming but they do not.

They have once again responded to me. There is always an excuse.

The bottom line: I have no tubes. At this time, I believe them to
be scammers.

If and when this changes, I will let the group know.

They are hard to deal with because they only accept moneybrokers which
is way harder to deal with than paypal in my opinion.

On Feb 6, 9:34 pm, Dave <ukewarr...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Has anyone ordered fromwww.gstube.comand actually received product?

[Mich...@aol.com]

That's unfortunate.

 

I have ordered 1000x IV-17 without response.

 

Michail

[Jeff Thomas]

On Feb 7, 8:28 am, Micha...@aol.com wrote:
> That's unfortunate.
>
> I have ordered 1000x IV-17 without response.
>
> Michail
>

Sorry to hear that.
Based on your quantity, there are other sources of these tubes from EU
vendors on ebay.
The legitimate sellers will usually accept paypal if you carry the
fees.

Regards, Jeff

[Mich...@aol.com]

Thanks Jeff.

 

I didn't need the tubes.   But, who could say no at $1.60 each.

At that price, I wouldn't mind buy 10k.

 

It would be like someone offering B7971 at $50 each.  I would clean them out (as would anyone else here).  :)

 

Michail

[Jon]

On Feb 7, 2:34 am, Dave <ukewarr...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Has anyone ordered fromwww.gstube.comand actually received product?

I've ordered from them a couple of times, most recently a couple of
years ago. Both orders arrived fine and communication with Anton was
good. The only downsides were the requirement to use Moneybookers or
similar and a slightly pricey shipping charge. Nice tubes.

Jon.

[Dave]

UPDATE.

All is well with GSTUBE !

While it took 9 months, Anton held my order, intact all that time.
The package arrived undamaged as did the tubes. The order was double
boxed.

It appears that most of my emails to Anton at GSTUBE.com were never
getting through. They would be returned to me with a timeout. I don't
know why.

So, it finally dawned on me to communicate to him by placing a 'dummy'
order and putting my communications to him in the order comment box.
This worked! In fact, Anton suggested I keep doing this and I now
have reliable communication with him.

So, I can now say that this Russian site is real.

For what its worth, I have now has success with these Russian sites:
gstube.com
siberian-shop.com
rutubes.com

Also, since the first order, which I had to use moneybrokers (a pain
by the way),
GSTUBE.com now accepts paypal.

The buyer has to pay an uplift for any online payment service of 5%.

Another note: Their IN-17's do NOT come with the plastic spacer.

Anyone have a source for A-106/7/8 dekatrons?

[Jeff Thomas]

On Friday, March 2, 2012 6:27:01 AM UTC-7, Dave wrote:

UPDATE.

Another note:  Their IN-17's do NOT come with the plastic spacer.

Dave, if your app requires the spacer, I can mail some out to you.
I've been removing them, and have a box with thousands in various colors.

Regards, Jeff

[Nicholas Stock]

Which begs an even more pressing question....what's the Master of all things nixie doing with thousands of IN-17 tubes? Another project in the works Jeff? ;-)

Enquiring minds want to know...ha ha

Nick

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