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[gewasher1980]

I was on craigslist and came across this and wanted to get your opinion's about how some people who are selling old appliance's think that it's made out of gold or something.

http://greenville.craigslist.org/app/2380376787.html

 

[mtn1584]

They are crazy but...............................

I think that was the range that was in Lucy's kitchen for many years on
I love Lucy.
Mike

 

[surgilator_68]

If someone wants it bad enough they will pay the price. It's rather difficult to find stoves that are chip free and in overall good condition. I suppose it also doesn't hurt the sellers price that there is a website out there with vintage stoves approaching 8-10 grand.

It's only worth what someone is willing to pay. I have a feeling he might be sitting on this one for a while.

 

[gewasher1980]

I agree it is in good shape and yes someone might pay that much,and yes he might be sittin on this one for awhile.

 

[westingman123]

Yes, the price is ridiculous. I have that range, except mine is the double-oven model (Commander). It is, to my prejudiced opinion, the BEST baking range there is. And no, the clock doesn't work (grrrrrr). But I love it, and it's just like the one I grew up with, and it was worth every penny of the $75.00 I paid for it. LOL

 

[tomturbomatic]

That good baking was due to their Miracle Sealed oven according to their ads.

I remember passing the exit for Easley off I-85. It would mean I was getting closer to home when driving from here to Atlanta.

I am sure that if these people asking these high prices knew what was involved in a full range restoration, they would not think that their ranges were worth so much. On the other hand, lots of people are broke and in need of money and are probably trying to sell off at the highest price anything that might be of value. I would not probably be interested in a single oven 40" range because it is not an efficient use of space now, but back then it offered storage and work space in kitchens that often lacked both.

 

[rp2813]

My mom was an avid baker.  Her '49 Westinghouse cranked out perfect results until just a few years ago when she could no longer do things for herself.  It's happily serving a fellow AW member now.

 

The Corox burner elements on Westies of this vintage are nearly worth their weight in gold, but $1,500 is kind of ridiculous for the subject stove IMO.

 

[3beltwesty]

Not everybody is just treading water money wise like you and me.

I know a few folks who have so much money that they are always bored.

Heck they might be in the dog house with the wife since they sold that old stove eons ago. Paying a few grand to them is like 20 bucks to normal folks.

Here in Katrina land I have seen many folks go to great lengths to buy the old "stuff" they lost as a part of putting their soul together. I did this myself but on a smaller scale too!

Some of this weird pricing is folks are trying to fill some missing childhood memory; not really all that rational but still done sometimes.

Look at old cars. My grandmothers 1955 Chevy had 22k miles on it in 1963 when she died. In Detroit this can was then considered a joke; garbage; we sold it for 150 dollars. Today old farts buy these and spend small fortunes and think that they were always something special.

Stuff goes out of vogue and drops in worth; then later many cry that the old stuff is now over priced! A lot of the old stuff went to the junkyard when it was just old junk!

 

[petek]

If they can get that money then all the more power to them. It's unlikely but not totally unrealistic to think they just might get it. If they don't, they don't and they just may have to settle for less, but it's worth a shot.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Where I hail from, a 55 Chevy, especially a Bel Air, never went outta style. I remember my kindergarten teacher kept hers, a white and light blue two tone coupe until she replaced it with a new Mercury Cougar when I was in high school.

 

[3beltwesty]

A 1955 chevy was once just an old out of style car worth lit

When I lived in the auto capital of the USA in the mid 1960's; one got laughed at if one drove a 1955 Chevy.

At country fairs they had them as junkers where one paid 25 cents to hit them with sledge hammers for charity; raising money. One took these unwanted obsolete unwanted cars and beat them with sledge hammers for charity.

They were as popular as a turd in a punchbowl, or as collectible as 2400 bps modems or a 386 computer.

At some Michigan ski areas; they used the trunks and hoods of obsolete 1950's cars for giant sleds where a mess of folks got on them at once.

In southern Indiana in the mid 1960's one fellow use to buy these unwanted cars and cut them up and use the trunks to make a trailer where there were two chevy trunks connected together on a trailer frame. The custom trailer was worth more than the 2 old running out of style cars.

These cars also were the ones where in southern Indiana kids drove them while tanked up on beer and the steering column when through the driver and through the front seat too.

Since the cars were so out of style they were cheap cars for demolition derbies in the mid 1960's.

When we sold my grandmoms 1955 Chevy in 1963 it was just an old out of style car that nobody wanted; ie more like dead fish. It was valued as 250 bucks; but got downgraded due to a slight dented font bumper to 150 bucks. It took us 1/2 year to sell it; most offers were in the 50 buck range. This was for a garaged car in mint/great condition with few miles.

Collectors often think that products were always wanted, often they older item is just considered old junk, out of vogue. Thus many are scrapped. *THEN* decades later there is this dreamy nostalgia think where all this scrapped out stuff is placed on a pedestal as great. They forget the screwing around with crummy 6 volt systems in the winter and poor generators. They forget when a mint car with a dented front bumper is a turd and takes 1/2 year to sell. They forget the laughing of the masses in driving such an old clunker.