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Someone's Reality Check Is Over Drawn (Vintage GE Range)
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polkanut
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Yes, I agree it is a nice range but, they're going to be trying to peddle this one for awhile I think at that price. I wouldn't pay that kind of money, not even at gunpoint.
lightedcontrols
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This is the site where these people are getting these crazy
Take a look at this site. Just unbelievable! Mark
http://www.antiqueappliances.com/unrestored.htm
Take a look at this site. Just unbelievable! Mark
http://www.antiqueappliances.com/unrestored.htm
Without any real moving parts tpo speak of, these vintage stoves can theoretically last forever.
These high prices seem to be the going rate.
These high prices seem to be the going rate.
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knitwits1975
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Well they do have a "Make Offer" option. If it were in as good of shape inside as it is outside it would probably be worth the full price. But this is just my opinion.
I think I'll just stick to buying appliances at the local swap shops and thrift stores and yard sales-you can inspect the items better.The high prices are what happens when the old appliances become "chic".At one of the swap shops here-when he gets older washers or whatever-he sells them at a lower price!
Do not think it tis just "chic" driving up prices/sparking interest in vintage appliances.
One factor is the tail end of the baby boom generation and Gen Xers are buying refurnishing homes, and the 1970s and 1980's are "hot" now. For one group it reminds them of their youth (Brady Bunch, Bewitched, and all those kitchens of their mothers, aunts, grandmothers etc in harvest gold, avacodo, and poppy). For the other goup it is retro "revival".
Finally with more and more "major" appliances sold today one step up from highland cattle, or just poor quality and design, they are discovering vintage appliances were built to last. The fact that one can find quite allot of these "vintage" appliances still around, many, many in working order speaks volumes. Today's "made in Asia" garbarge is lucky to survive the warranty period.
Also there is something nice about owning applinace that were truly "made in America", when that slogan really meant something.
Just my two pence, do with it what you like.
L.
One factor is the tail end of the baby boom generation and Gen Xers are buying refurnishing homes, and the 1970s and 1980's are "hot" now. For one group it reminds them of their youth (Brady Bunch, Bewitched, and all those kitchens of their mothers, aunts, grandmothers etc in harvest gold, avacodo, and poppy). For the other goup it is retro "revival".
Finally with more and more "major" appliances sold today one step up from highland cattle, or just poor quality and design, they are discovering vintage appliances were built to last. The fact that one can find quite allot of these "vintage" appliances still around, many, many in working order speaks volumes. Today's "made in Asia" garbarge is lucky to survive the warranty period.
Also there is something nice about owning applinace that were truly "made in America", when that slogan really meant something.
Just my two pence, do with it what you like.
L.
Toggle, while the ranges have no moving parts to speak of, the controls on many have moving parts inside of them and they do go bad. That turquoise 1959 GE has the Dinner Dials for both ovens. The OVEN SET dial has a small rectangular temperature scale that appears in the window for each operation: Bake, Time Bake, Broil, Rotisserie and then the OVEN TEMP knob on the other side moves the little red line up and down the scale. These have been No Longer Available for over 20 years. Very nice wall ovens have had to be replaced because of this control's failure. Far newer electronic range controls like that beautiful blue vacuum fluorescent display on those TOL GE wall ovens in the late 80s--early 90s were unavailable within 5 years of the end of production and it meant you lost an oven. So these prices are a bit steep when you consider the age of the range and that even if they can scare up a new or used replacement part to fix something that was found to be broken at the time of restoration, that does not mean that anything could be done if that same part or something else should fail after you have had the range a while.
The parts for the Sensi-Temp are almost impossible to find. GE used several different systems for this feature, so finding the one a particular stove used complicates the search.
The antique stove place will probably sell these things to people with more money than brains, but the guy on Ebay will probably have his treasure right there with him to enjoy for some time.
The parts for the Sensi-Temp are almost impossible to find. GE used several different systems for this feature, so finding the one a particular stove used complicates the search.
The antique stove place will probably sell these things to people with more money than brains, but the guy on Ebay will probably have his treasure right there with him to enjoy for some time.
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And another...
They are beautiful, but I doubt I could ever bring myself to pay that much for a range...
They are beautiful, but I doubt I could ever bring myself to pay that much for a range...
Looks like my Mom's stove.
This looks almost identical to the stove my Mom has in her basement kitchen. Yes, folks, very Italian family here with the second kitchen in the basement. This is the stove we had in our kitchen in New York until we moved in about 1962. At that point it became the second stove in the basement and has held that honor ever since. It's in really nice shape and I think it also has the burner with the well and a plug for a griddle and an electric plug for a coffeemaker or something like that. I'll have to check it out the next time I am home.
This looks almost identical to the stove my Mom has in her basement kitchen. Yes, folks, very Italian family here with the second kitchen in the basement. This is the stove we had in our kitchen in New York until we moved in about 1962. At that point it became the second stove in the basement and has held that honor ever since. It's in really nice shape and I think it also has the burner with the well and a plug for a griddle and an electric plug for a coffeemaker or something like that. I'll have to check it out the next time I am home.
There is nothing wrong with the prices at anitqueappliances.
May I point out that those prices you refer to in their unrestores section INCLUDE THE RESTORATION!!!!!!!! If you read the services section where they describe what they do to each range and fridge during a restoration you get an understanding of why they sell them at those prices and why they have a long waiting list of clients waiting to snap up the latest restored units. PATRICK COFFEY
May I point out that those prices you refer to in their unrestores section INCLUDE THE RESTORATION!!!!!!!! If you read the services section where they describe what they do to each range and fridge during a restoration you get an understanding of why they sell them at those prices and why they have a long waiting list of clients waiting to snap up the latest restored units. PATRICK COFFEY
HOORAY for them. I was able to read that the prices were for restored items and that they will not sell unrestored appliances. Everyone is free to spend his or her money in any way that he or she wishes. Many of us can do our own restoration work. Custom work is always expensive. Long may they prosper. However, since they do so much to restore their appliances, and many of us have put lots of time and energy into just such work, it is insane for somebody with an old stove to look at those prices and think that just because the stove is clean and mostly works that they can expect to sell their kitchen klunker/treasure for the same prices. Nothing or no one is advocating that Ebay would-be sellers can't advertise ranges with those prices. We all need comic relief from time to time. And the businesses are likewise free to charge all that the traffic will allow. When it comes to Ebay asking prices on old appliances we are victims of our own affluence.
Do not think anyone would begrudge someone who as restored/refurbished a vintage appliance from getting all they can from the sale.
IIRC the appliance restoration website linked to was featured on "This Old House" or some other television program and they do really excellent work. Every item is taken totally apart and rebuilt, including bringing parts up to code where necessary for saftey. I'd rather buy a vintage range from them KNOWING it is going to work as opposed to spending money from a Fleabay seller with no promises other than "it looks good".
Mind you, those with the skill and know how to do their own refurbish work, need only to find the vintage item at a decent cost. Sadly these days everyone is selling everything on eBay and everyone thinks their items are "RARE", thus worthy of a high price.
All the above not withstanding, there are people out there paying IMHO some pretty outrageous prices. Boxes of "vintage" detergents going for $40 or more. I like old FAB detergent as much as the next gal, but am not going to pay that kind of money for 20 or 30 year old detergent. Maybe if one collected such things for display, but not just to wash my langerie. *LOL*
IIRC the appliance restoration website linked to was featured on "This Old House" or some other television program and they do really excellent work. Every item is taken totally apart and rebuilt, including bringing parts up to code where necessary for saftey. I'd rather buy a vintage range from them KNOWING it is going to work as opposed to spending money from a Fleabay seller with no promises other than "it looks good".
Mind you, those with the skill and know how to do their own refurbish work, need only to find the vintage item at a decent cost. Sadly these days everyone is selling everything on eBay and everyone thinks their items are "RARE", thus worthy of a high price.
All the above not withstanding, there are people out there paying IMHO some pretty outrageous prices. Boxes of "vintage" detergents going for $40 or more. I like old FAB detergent as much as the next gal, but am not going to pay that kind of money for 20 or 30 year old detergent. Maybe if one collected such things for display, but not just to wash my langerie. *LOL*
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