Not necessarily . The listing could have just expired . Give it a week or so and it probably will come back like a bad rash ! 

Yeah, let's wait a week and see if it'll come out of the woodwork again.

Now if you can afford to buy this light, buying a pair of NOS preheat ballasts and the correct Leviton Y slot sockets with starter sockets are a drop in the bucket.

The listing is ended now, so I have moved the thread here to keep the discussion from being deleted.

I have merged the second topic started about this listing, "Dreaded LED conversion of vintage halfpiper fixture" with this one in order to keep the discussion in one place. It's not an active listing now, and in any case discussions really shouldn't be in the Web Finds board.

Or like me, old and unreliable 

Ria, you may be old, but you are most certainly not unreliable. You do an exceptional job of administering Lighting-Gallery. I can't even explain how well you know your lamps.

Ria, you may be old, but you are most certainly not unreliable. You do an exceptional job of administering Lighting-Gallery. I can't even explain how well you know your lamps.

Awwww, I've come over all embarrassed now 

Actually I do look like my avatar picture, so watch out 

(Sadly not, but hey, I can dream.... )