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I can't imagine posting such a nasty-looking range and having the nerve / audacity / balls to want $400 for it.  Looks to be a nice range with analog controls so no worry about computer chips or motherboards leaving you stranded; self-cleaning and even has a work light on the console.  But four-hundred dollars???????????  At least clean the nasty thing up.

 

lawrence


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Electronic!

That's a fairly recent model, and it does have a digital timer/control.

I agree this one is overpriced for the condition it's in, but it should be noted that the current model (very, very similar) lists for $1600. If someone really needed this size, and didn't have that kind of money, this could represent a decent buy.

The thing I'd worry about is the electronics on it; as an Atlanta native, I'd be concerned that Georgia Power's legendarily cavalier attitude towards maintaining infrastructure would have subjected the range's motherboard to any number of power surges. One of the great things about living in Iowa is that the electricity stays ON; in three years here, I have had fewer interruptions than in a typical month with Georgia Power.
 
If you cleaned it, you would remove the seasoning, he he. Maybe it is not grease on it. Maybe an overhead sewage pipe burst. I'll bet it looks even worse under the griddle. It is a WCI, Kelvinator, Frigidaire, Electrolux product as is most any recently built 40" domestic electric range sold here. It is galling that people cannot even bother to clean up something before trying to sell it. They probably can't wait to replace it with a gas stove because they can control a flame they can see more easily than electric current they can't understand. They probably only used HI and OFF and boiled and burned their way to infamy in the kitchen; the kind for whom the smoke alarm works like the minute timer does for the rest of us.

Friends in FL referred to the power company as Florida Flicker and Flash.
 
I wonder

what the rest of their house looks like? That stove top really doesn't look like it's seen any kind of soap in years. I'll bet when they do wipe it, they use a cold damp dishrag and just give it a quick wipe. I'll bet the smell of old grease is overwhelming.

I'm shocked enough seeing the price and the dirt at the same time that I just had to comment. I couldn't stop myself.
 
Tom:

I'm not sure you understand -

This looks to me like a scenario I've seen many, many times:

When you've been neglectful of an appliance long enough, it's much easier to sell it or give it to someone or donate it or just plain damn put it on the curb - at whatever loss - than it is to clean it.

This unit will be relisted soon at a lower price, betcha. Anyone who let it get this way in the first place is not about to clean it.

If they even know how.
 
I imagine that the top is not actually stainless steel; more likely to be brushed chrome plating.  Even so, the close up makes the crud look like just nastiness that's not even been cleaned.  Try taking some Cameo to it and applying some elbow grease and see what miracles can be worked?  The ad doesn't say why they're selling.  Often the seller claims they've just bought a house and the item for sale came with the house, but since they don't say that one has to assume the grease belongs to the seller.  How tastey can food be knowing it was prepared here?  Yuck!

 

lawrence
 
Kenny:

If the top is real stainless, not brushed chrome, there is still corrosion that can occur from salt left on the top - boilovers are a common culprit.

The good news is that if Cameo Stainless Cleaner is used after a good de-greasing with oven cleaner, the corrosion usually doesn't come back if the surface is kept free of salt thereafter. Even brushed chrome benefits from this treatment. You use a heavy paste of Cameo and scrub in the direction of the metal's brushed effect.

One of the stoves I miss most was one of the nastiest when I got it - a 1973 Westinghouse 40-incher I bought used in '77. It was caked and encrusted with every vile substance known to man, including a big spill of oil-based paint on its top, and its continuous-clean oven was a horror. It took all of a long weekend to get it really clean, but afterwards, it never gave problems connected to having once been dirty. And it cost me all of $39.
 
The little oven looks fairly clean.  People are buying up older homes, the real estate market is coming back little by little.  I bet it's out of a "flip".  alr
 
Joe:

"Who the hell would eat from that nasty stove! Looks like pure filth to me."

Joe - you just clean it up. Assuming you get it at a good price (not the $400 asked!), it's well worth the effort. The '73 Westy range I mentioned earlier in this thread was every bit this nasty - and it cleaned up like new, with a couple of replacement knobs.

I passed it on to my sister and her husband, who were still using it up into the '90s.
 
Don't think it's dirt

Maybe it's just rust so don't condemn the owner too early. If it's really grease then the controls and the two ovens must be that dirty, too.
 

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