Why are people paying these stupid tube prices?

Starting to feel like there’s a "go green" agenda or something! 😉  Politician: "Just go out and buy a digital/solid state amp."

Wow, I own a DS2 preamp, a Levinson 27.5 amp, and I own Schiit headphone amps, one has Siemens tubes, the other a E-6SN7, with good Focal headphones these cheap Schiit amps are pretty formidable in sound quality. The E-6SN7 tubed amp is the best, but these are not NOS. The Siemens amp is collecting dust, and the tube was before I bought the amp. I have a lot of old tubes, 12A?7s, 6DJ8s, 6SN7s, and more collecting dust. I have probably listened to all of them for at least a short time, so I can't sell them as NOS, other than a few Chinese 6SN7 and Russian KT88, and various 300Bs, so I must be the worst of the worst, listening to alleged NOS tubes, and making them slightly used just to determine how they sound, and them sitting on them. I also have a home made KT88 amp I haven't even plugged in...

Once a week I get the Audiowaygone update. Today this caught my eye and caused quite a bit of amusement. So people who are accustomed to bragging rights prices and 60k audio cables are now complaining about high prices. IF you idiots had not paid these prices to begin with and act like money is no problem you would have found the scalpers would not have shown up to begin with. Stick your hand out flat on the table, hit it with the hammer again and tell me it still hurts when you do so.  You can't teach the unteachable.

There is a Darkstar amp for sale local to me….  Comes with hundreds of dollars worth of “NOS” tubes …. $350

Makes no sense to use unobtainium holy grail tubes in stuff like like that ….not being snobby, just practical.   

Viva tubes are the only ones that I see who are out of line and I would bet they aren't selling any.  Surely no one has lost their mind and are paying $350 for a KT 150.  

I have purchased from Viva in the past but will not forget their strategy here and will never shop there again.