Just a note of warning!

[bethann]

Hey Guy's

I'm sure whoever won the auction had the intention of helping out other club members with parts. From the look of that auction there are more that enough parts for everyone. Everyone one here should be glad that someone from the site got the parts! If not they could be pieced out over ebay. Plus they have to take the time,expense,cost and catalog everything and so forth. If someone one is emailing the seller they need to stop it. I'm sure after the buyer gets things in order everyone will be notified of what's on hand. There is so many different collectors on the site of all different brands I'm sure there will be enough for everyone. At this point if I was the buyer I would get a list from the seller and find out who the emails were from and tell them to kiss my ass! OK, I'm done! Shame , Shame!

 

[lightedcontrols]

Bethann, my Dear, you are a hoot! We now know who the culprits are. And yes, shame, shame, shame! Mark

 

[launderess]

Ohhhh, somebody is going to the woodshed!

L>

 

[mayken4now]

Hello From the Horses Mouth

"At this point if I was the buyer I would get a list from the seller and find out who the emails were from and tell them to kiss my ass! OK, I'm done! Shame , Shame!"

Well guess what guys and gals. These two "REAL GENTLEMEN" who placed this sale are and would be willing to tell all. Remember I spent 4 hours with them.

Yesterday, I received a call from one of them (Paul) wanting to know who would be calling him about a 3-ring agitator sprinkler. He knew he had given it to me, although I thought he had more. They requestor (you know who you are) asked him to call me to get it back so he could buy it from the seller.
1-18 heads banging is not enough. Place those heads next to a kelvy during the magic minute.

Word of advice from the redneck member. if you are a seller on flea bay, NEVER PUT YOUR NUMBER ON THERE!!!!!!!!

It is kind of the owners/sellers fault too.

I will not disclose, but will be there again this weekend to assits the buyer. As I had posted, I could and will assits if asked. ALL members will be happy with the final bidder.

I am really excited to see this case close.

Steve

 

[todde]

It was ME!

Well, I haven't posted in almost a year, and it took me about 20 trys to figure out my password, but I feel this was worth it. First of all several untruths are going on.

I. I never made a call to the seller (I used the option of ask seller a question).
2. I asked the seller if he had any 3 ring laundry sprinklers. In no way did I mention this site, or in any way ask hiim to get it back from Steve. (I mean how ridiculous would that be!)
3. The seller sent me 3 emails back (1 of which I saved in my email, as it was the only one pertaining to my question). Which I forwarded onto Steve, and from the sellers answer to my question, one would have to figure out what I'm saying is true.

Interestingly enough, his first email was that he didn't know about the sprinkler but could let me have some melted buttons (still don't understand that one), some red spinning tops, and cases of glasses. I have no interest in any of those as I only collect laundry supplies, not promotional items. After I said I was only interested in the sprinkler, he emailed me that he would have to look further for it. I than got a third email asking for my name and phone number so he could contact me when he found it. I'm sure at this point it was prompted from someone to find out who was making the inquiry.

I don't have any vintage machines and probably never will, so I have no interest in parts. I really don't like being portrayed as someone awful for inquiring about a laundry sprinkler which I wouldn't regard as (parts inventory). Why if they were thought to be part of the parts inventory, why would Steve have one, when the original inventory was not to be compromised. He only made his trip to the seller, after the listing on Ebay. I just do not appreciated being portrayed in this manner. I would not put all of my trust in the "Real Gentlemen" sellers, afterall they were offering me things I never even knew exsisted. Maybe they didn't think these item were part of the inventory. So that would make all of us in this email, "REAL GENTLEMEN."

I just hope members can look at this with open eyes, seeing I was singled out in this link. I don't know about member who wanted parts, and cannot compare, only tell what really happened, and not what Steve quoted, pertaining to "you know who you are." Please just tell the story how it actually happened, if you are going to post about it.

 

[brettsomers]

Ladies and Gentlemen, tune in tomorrow, when Lux Soap...

 

[mustangman]

E mails

I'm glad the auction stayed within the club. I'm guilty of e mailng the seller twice BEFORE the auction ended. The seller welcomed my e mails and said he would research to see if he had any parts I was interested in. I had to e mail him a second time since the first e mail was undeliverable to that address so the seller so kindly gave me a different email address.

After the auction I have not received a response back. Which is fine. I just hope this will all work out and those of us that need parts will have a chance to see if they existed in this auction and pay for them. I think that is the fair thing to do to buy them and help the auction's buyer recoup some of his money in placing the bid. Again congratulations to the buyer.

 

[lightedcontrols]

We are not talking about questions ....

We are not talking about questions BEFORE the auction ended. We are talking about emailing the seller with lists of parts AFTER THE AUCTION CLOSED AND TRYING TO GET THE PARTS BEFORE THE WINNER WAS ABLE TO GET TO THE WAREHOUSE TO PICK THEM UP. We know the two that are responsible and am waiting to see what the buyer wants to do about it. This is the last thing that I will say about this......oh Lord, PLEASE let me be a ''good Christian/Jewish woman in all this......(Betty Butterfield) Mark

 

[angus]

Well, here's my two cents. Whoever won the auction won fair and square. End of story. Nothing else should supercede that. I also think that if that person is willing to sell some parts to those of us who can't find them anywhere else, I applaud that level of democratic generosity. For those who have painstakingly collected parts over the years, again I applaud you. I can only imagine how difficult that was - and that was before there was a great appetite for vintage washers and related parts. After only a few years, supply is lower and demand is higher. Parts are harder to find than ever before so the insinuation that because some of us haven't been searching for parts over a period of years, we aren't as deserving of help is a bit skewed.

It was always my understanding that the point of this club was for a group with common interests to help each other wherever possible. It just seems that lately whenever there is an auction for vintage anything there is an awful lot of hard feelings - perhaps we need to get back to the basics of what brought this group together - the INTEREST and SHARING OF KNOWLEDGE and worry less about acquisitions.

 

[pturo]

Warehouse of Parts

Whatever our interest and offers, the seller can only make a contract with one person,and he/she can wait until that proper offer comes along. No one on ebay is REQUIRED to accept an offer from another person, even if the asking price is overbid. It's a marketplace, and some sellers start out humble and poor until they realize what they have got going for them, and the bidding and end price determines market value, not the asking price. It is an auction, albeit on line.