Why are people paying these stupid tube prices?

@music_is_life your post doesn't make sense.  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.

There are reputable dealers that have had only modest increases

Really?  Who is selling KT120s between $50-100 each?  I would love to know.

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.