"THAT!" comes from my good Sir when someone pops in here and would like to get an idea of a machines history or value so to speak, and no offense to you, but as an example quote a price like you do, with out stating the facts of everything you must do to get the price that you are asking for one of your said sets...
picking up a set off CL, giving it a good going over, cleaning and scrubbing it inside and out, replacing any broken or worn parts....yeah, your very close to the mark someone should be asking....
but your giving someone false hope and unrealistic expectations of a set that someone may be selling off from an example of a estate sale or in this case "came with the house"....
let's not shoot down this threads potential of a nice looking set of machines, not the TOL that most would look for, but decent enough to consider as a daily driver...and with a little care would probably last many years....
actually when I think about it, and we seen these all too many times on something like CL ads.....when someone wants a quoted price, info should be given as a range of pricing they could possible get, that would be more realistic....
for example......someone finds an old machine in the back of a basement, hasn't been run in years, or they have no clue that it runs.....pricing should be given from scrap value and go up to what its potential if its works, maybe has been checked out by a repair guy or themselves, parts replaced and/or cleaned up....
what you didn't tell this guy here was to get THAT price you quoted, is what he must do to the machines to qualify asking of such a price.....
I still stand with he should be asking 75.00 to 100.00 for the set...and thats detail sight unseen.....but as for me for anymore now, when looking at a machine.....I am taking a screwdriver and popping a few panels, then negotiate price from there....I have paid a lot less for a 1974 Maytag, IN THE BOX!...unused!
