Sorry Jon :'( at least you have lots of other westy's to play with 
1950's Westinghouse comercial Laundromat washer
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Jon, I'm so sorry you didn't win that Jewel!!! Hmm, I thought Al watched Ebay bidding during the day when you're at work.
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I tried the shipping calculator for this auction. Item is in Long Island, and I'm in northern New Jersey. I checked the box for "loading dock", since we have a dock at work, and the shipping would be $450.27. That's just plain nuts!
Ken D.
I tried the shipping calculator for this auction. Item is in Long Island, and I'm in northern New Jersey. I checked the box for "loading dock", since we have a dock at work, and the shipping would be $450.27. That's just plain nuts!
Ken D.
So Just How Much Did It Go For?
Never could access the auction so didn't see the final winning bid. Just how much did the unit end up going for?
As for being "fleeced", one man's meat is another's ......
If someone wants a vintage appliance bad enough, then there is no rhyme or reason to price. Ironrites are an example of this, with some paying $$$ others just $. In defense of the final bid price (whatever it was), it's not like units like this are an often occurance on or outside of fleaBay.
Jon,
Sorry you didn't win, but every dog has it's day so don't give up hope. You never know what is waiting for you around the corner.
Launderess
Never could access the auction so didn't see the final winning bid. Just how much did the unit end up going for?
As for being "fleeced", one man's meat is another's ......
If someone wants a vintage appliance bad enough, then there is no rhyme or reason to price. Ironrites are an example of this, with some paying $$$ others just $. In defense of the final bid price (whatever it was), it's not like units like this are an often occurance on or outside of fleaBay.
Jon,
Sorry you didn't win, but every dog has it's day so don't give up hope. You never know what is waiting for you around the corner.
Launderess
Brent-Aucoin
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WOW!
That is such a great looking washer!
I wonder if it runs?
Just kidding.
orami
Brent
That is such a great looking washer!
I wonder if it runs?
Just kidding.
orami
Brent
Ken I got the same thing!
I tried the shipping calculator and got $454.00 to Boston so I figured you could conservatively knock $300 off the $1,000 I expected it would reach which put me at $778.00. I don't know who this "sneaker" guy is since we have not seen "him" around the club but I am wondering if he is a Coin-Op Collector not a washer collector. When I was in Chicago last month at the Coin Op show I learned first hand that the CoinOP market is a VERY MATURE market unlike our Washer Market. It would not surprise me to see it turn up there next year for $1500- $2000 bucks! Being sold as a coin op machine not a vintage washer.
Jet
I tried the shipping calculator and got $454.00 to Boston so I figured you could conservatively knock $300 off the $1,000 I expected it would reach which put me at $778.00. I don't know who this "sneaker" guy is since we have not seen "him" around the club but I am wondering if he is a Coin-Op Collector not a washer collector. When I was in Chicago last month at the Coin Op show I learned first hand that the CoinOP market is a VERY MATURE market unlike our Washer Market. It would not surprise me to see it turn up there next year for $1500- $2000 bucks! Being sold as a coin op machine not a vintage washer.
Jet
Wonder sometimes if we are shooting ourselves in the feet by posting "rare" auctions here in the group. Don't get me wrong, think it is swell everyone tries to look out for other group members, but since posts here end up on Google and probably other Search Engines it could cause more attention to an item than one would want.
Not saying it would have affected this particular auction, but the thought does cross my mind that people would "troll" automaticwasher.org to save some leg work.
The above is especially true of fleaBay where sellers do not always list items correctly, and many of us take the time to correct and identify appliances in our subsequent posts. Mayhaps a little stealth or "comando tactics", (got that one from a Bugs Bunny cartoon), is in order.
Must say this is one of the few if not only forums that so openly embraces members posting live auctions. Other forums will have members out for one's blood for posting such information. Glad people here are so nice about it, sort of like "Pleasantville" (which I'm watching on TBS at the moment).
L.
Not saying it would have affected this particular auction, but the thought does cross my mind that people would "troll" automaticwasher.org to save some leg work.
The above is especially true of fleaBay where sellers do not always list items correctly, and many of us take the time to correct and identify appliances in our subsequent posts. Mayhaps a little stealth or "comando tactics", (got that one from a Bugs Bunny cartoon), is in order.
Must say this is one of the few if not only forums that so openly embraces members posting live auctions. Other forums will have members out for one's blood for posting such information. Glad people here are so nice about it, sort of like "Pleasantville" (which I'm watching on TBS at the moment).
L.
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I bought it
I bought the Westy laundromat. I am having shipped to my new home in Tucson, Az where it will be bolted down to the garage floor and put to work. Cant wait for machine to arrive. A Christmas present to myself.
I bought the Westy laundromat. I am having shipped to my new home in Tucson, Az where it will be bolted down to the garage floor and put to work. Cant wait for machine to arrive. A Christmas present to myself.
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