Why are people paying these stupid tube prices?

Try and keep up here @ketchup I paid $139 at The Tube Store. Viva Tubes is selling the same KT150 for $350.00 and Upscale is in the $190 range, 

I know I can talk in circles and I confuse and confound myself quite often.

$1400.00 plus for 4 KT150's is insane. 

So no I will not ask myself that man, I will find the best price and HORD like it's TP at the peak of COVID 19.

Did you pay $139 or $350 each?

And then there's your question "why are people paying these stupid prices?"  Perhaps you should ask yourself?

It's not my fault that your single sentence post did not make sense and was riddled with grammatical errors.  I mean, the second post was simply a question mark, so I'm not the only one.

Try to make more coherent posts next time.  But thanks for clarifying, I guess.

We need American tubes. Any word on new production?

Western Electric just started thinking about making something other than 300Bs, but we're probably years away from actual production.

Yes sure thing dude. 

I had a great conversation with John at Tube Store today and bought two KT150's at $139 each after my back-up stash of eight KT 150's purchased three years ago from another source turned out to contain one cracked tube (lesson learned-open the box and check your tubes even if you have no intent to use them soon-no matter how good the outer box looks). Since my ARC Ref 150 SE requires matched pairs, buying just one new KT150 was not an option. John mentioned Tube Store is getting low on KT 150's at the moment. And-the source I bought from three years ago has no Russian tubes at all which I find amazing given their otherwise huge inventory. It seems to me that distribution is uneven and depends upon connections though that is just my assumption.  

And yes OP, I had the same impression as the other guy-that you were accusing Tube Store of price gouging.