All I want is.....
ONE MILLION DOLLARS!
But yeah, I've seen what people ask for these things in Europe! Thousands is toooo much! I got a TDS794D for $350, just needed some new RAM chips, and a TDS784C with pouch and 4 P6425 1.5GHZ probes for about the same price, fully working. Those accessories are now on my TDS784D, that I got for a few hundred bucks too.
Once shipping ain't so ridiculous, I'd send one to you for an order of magnitude less than Euro prices.... Hurry up and find that highly paid but cushy work-from-home job so you can buy all my stuff!
One million Dollars ?: No worries, lemme dig out my Monopoly board game !
High paid job no, not happening in France, unless you work in finance/banking/insurances/politics. Industry/technical jobs don't pay. Nothing pays. Even with the silly inflation we are having here, and every worker going on strike for a raise, they won't cough the money, or for the lucky ones, just a bag of crisps, like 50 Euros GROSS not net, which doesn't even remotely covers for the inflation we are having right now, never mind what will come next year and the year after that...
I don't care, I will get my scope anyway, I will just save on food and sell my TDS544A. Bought it for 500 Euros 5 years ago, which was a good / very fair price here (working / fixed, leaky caps and corrosion already attended to). That's 500 USD today, but would have been 600 USD before the war, so might be worth 600 again once the war is over...
The tricky bit is finding someone to actually buy at that price nowadays.. seeing how people have lost so much buying power because of COVID and now the war.
Hopefully in a year or two I can sell it for a decent price.
Stay tuned !!!