After being housebound all day I decided to take an evening jaunt to the thrifts before closing time. Nothing of interest out on the floor but as I walked by the swinging doors to the back whse area I saw this Kirby sitting there alongside the wall so I rushed right in where two guys were checking out a home water cooler and asked them how much for it. They plugged it in and it started right up and I quickly turned it over and the belt was off which I noted the brushrool wasn't turning,LOl.. $24.99 and I was walking out the door smiling.
Why someone turned this in is beyond me, it's in absolute mint condition, clean as a whistle other than where they stuck a price tag on the handle for me and wrote their secret code on the other part of the handle that washes right off.
Put a bag in it when I got home and it works very well although the power self propelling isn't quite as smooth as my Lady K or Hoover. Will I keep it? I dunno, I'm not that enamored with it so I could probably resell the thing for a few hundred bucks easily. But I'll have some fun playing with it for awhile before that happens.
Why someone turned this in is beyond me, it's in absolute mint condition, clean as a whistle other than where they stuck a price tag on the handle for me and wrote their secret code on the other part of the handle that washes right off.
Put a bag in it when I got home and it works very well although the power self propelling isn't quite as smooth as my Lady K or Hoover. Will I keep it? I dunno, I'm not that enamored with it so I could probably resell the thing for a few hundred bucks easily. But I'll have some fun playing with it for awhile before that happens.
