lookee what showed up again in DENVER....PINK GE WASHER & DRYER

[agitatorboogie]

Some time ago, I posted these beauties on sale at an antique store where the lady gave me the run around about how much and when she would sell it. Well, i think they found a new home for a hot minute.....because now they're being sold at an astronomical price.....ugh....

http://denver.craigslist.org/atd/4960738883.html

 

[agitatorboogie]

here's the link to the old thread

could they be the same ones?

PINK GE? W&D

Here's a pink pair in my neck of the woods....I called the seller but no answer; left a message. My instinct told me "ALL FOR IZZY, ALL FOR IZZY, TELL NO ONE" but i simply must share with ya'll...it's the only pic http://denver.craigslist.org/for/4170261030.html

www.automaticwasher.org

 

[ken]

Looks like they'll have them awhile at that price. Get real.

 

[turquoisedude]

Ignorant fools...  Those look like 1963 (perhaps 64...) models not 1953's.  I wonder what combination of pills and liquor make people think they can randomly pick a year to put in a craigslist ad??  EEEESH!!!

 

[bluejay]

People seem to assume that if an appliance is turquoise or pink it's always from the 50s.  I don't get it.

 

[arris]

Nice Machines

Nice machines, but not for that price !!!

 

[norgeway]

Four thousand dollars!!!

I bet the hell they would!!!!

 

[ovrphil]

Those panel designs are so 60'ish - I want to know 1) If you have the gumption to ask a king's ransom for appliances then, 2) what moron are you looking for that has money to burn and doesn't know a hole from a donut?

"How High The Moon? "They're beyond Mars.

 

[bajaespuma]

Appliance Roadshow

I'm already pissed at these people for wasting lots of my time when I tried to get in touch with them last year or whenever it was.

 

I have to keep reminding myself that this is a free and unregulated market and that means, especially with Craigslist, people can behave unprofessionally and can ask whatever they want (it doesn't mean they're going to get it).

 

Fact is, these ARE rare and desirable collectors' items in a rare finish. We have no idea what condition they're in because we haven't seen the insides. Maybe a Colorado member can go see them and sneak a few pictures. Even if they are in mint condition, according to us they're not worth 4K.

 

I'd love to be able to buy them and bring them on an Antiques Roadshow and see if:

a. There is even an expert on the show that knew what they were

b. If that expert could evaluate them

c. What value would be assigned.

 

Are we mainstream yet?

 

[firedome]

Ridiculous...

and it's the same in the antique car world. The problem is there are a few idiots out there with the desire to own and the wherewithal to pay whatever they want for the things that they really really want, and blithely do so. It only takes an occasional instance for that to happen for a few greedy nuts think that kind of pricing is the norm. You see it happen all the time with vintage cars.

 

[turquoisedude]

I'd venture a guess that the 'complete servicing' meant they were plugged in and the motors of both machines started up.  I would further bet that their 'technician' would not know the meaning of ANY of the following words:  transmission boot, agitator shaft seal, spin clutch, friction drum rollers, etc....  

 

These are the sort of people that I wish would find a buyer at their crazy price, who would then sue the pants off them when the washer leaked oil or water all over the floor!

 

[agitatorboogie]

bajaespuma

I live in Denver not far from where they were originally sold....i kept calling the lady to get some photos but after two cancellations, she stopped taking my calls. Several months ago i went back to her store and someone else was running it and that person had no idea what had happened to them.... I'll see if this seller would be interested in entertaining me with a demo....

 

[launderess]

Easy to see what happened here...

Local used appliance dealer swooped in and purchased the set. He then put *some* work into them and is now looking to mark-up and sell on making a profit in the process.

Have said it before and not wishing to cast dispersions but sometimes our little group can be its own worst enemy. Expressing too much interest too soon bad for playing cards as it is for vintage collectibles.

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[agitatorboogie]

i didn't think i was being aggressive for info and pics

....but i totally get it....the appliance company that worked on my Maytags were very interested in them and wanted me to sell it to them for only $200....lord knows what the mark up would've been....

 

[rberryiii3]

Pink GE's

HA, HA , HA $4000 PLEASE'S....................

 

[everythingold]

prices

The prices on vintage machines is climbing fast. I used to get stuff for nearly free, not the case anymore.

 

[launderess]

Asking Ain't Getting

What sellers want versus what someone is willing to pay are two different things IMHO. We all have seen "vintage" appliances sitting on eBay, CL, estate sales and so forth because the asking price was simply too far divorced from reality.

Truth to tell even when those wonderfully elusive *NIB* vintage items turn up that some sellers think are worth $$$, it does not translate they will work right out of the box and reamin trouble free for years. Some do and then again some do not; that is where someone either must have the skills/knowledge or find someone that does in order to set things right.

Over the years more than several NIB or nearly so items have passed through this group. Some went for big money (a pink Maytag set IIRC still in boxes, ditto a Philco Bendix), others for average prices. More than a handful of "new" wringer washers have been on eBay or elsewhere that failed to sell or sold eventually.

Four grand is quite a lot of money to ask even for a vintage washer and dryer set "serviced" or not. Now if they were NIB and came with several boxes of spares, had been stored in a clean, dry (but not too much so) environment, then maybe we could do business. Not 4K worth but perhaps....

 

[bvf]

hey guys get ready for inflation even in the junk world….A new pair of washer and dryer is 2 to 4 thousand and they only last a year or two..and with warranty for extra 100 dollars the effort to replace a brain and another time a pump than they take another month to get your new machines…money means nothing anymore …something that lasts a life time is going to get higher…sadly its the facts I hope everyone gets what they want soon…for time waits for no one.. thousands of people every day in america are sick of the crap they just bought a year ago and is already broken…I have the best of everything vintage for it lasts forever…even my truck for picking up appliances…...

 

[doug]

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