Unlimited appliance store NY anyone knew about?

[macboy91si]

Am I Nutz, are You Nutz?

$200 for an "unknown" Lady K, or $750 for that Whirlpool. Sorry folks, sounds like a little collector gouging to me. I'm not against spending money on a machine, anyone can spend anything on a machine I suppose, but what are you getting for your money? For me, and I have discovered that I am in a shocking minority, the fun is getting into the machine and taking it back to what it once was. I'm not a purist necessarily, I think machines have flaws and it's nice to overcome little things here and there to make the machine more viable. But usually machines that need love can be obtained at a reasonable price <$100 IMO. That may vary by location around the country. Charging that much for some of these machines makes us a bunch look like schmuks. I fear eventually, that like any other collecting interest, old appliances will go up considerably and we will see more gouging like this. If the machine is "unknown" and you don't have someone with parts and skill to fix it then that $200 machine is worth $15 scrap minus space to house it, so that I can't understand. You could cut the price in half and still make a good profit and be more likely to move it. If these were restorations it would be different, but from curbside to $200, sorry that is a rip-off most of the time. Clearly I'm in the wrong line of work...

 

As for the $750 WP, I think it's steep. There are only a couple of people that I would trust to do a restoration that would warrant anywhere near that money. After seeing the work that John Lefever does, I can say I that he is one of those people that I could spend that kind of money with and feel like I got my money's worth. Even with the smaller things I am amazed at how much work is put into what would seem like to most "quick" jobs. Might seem like a bump for John, but if I was going to give someone my money for restoration, I'd much rather it be John than this guy. So anyone looking for a quality restored machine, check him out.

 

-Tim

 

[firedome]

I've talked to Hans III, he seemed very nice.

They've in the appliance sales and repair business for something like 60+ years. I think some of the prices are sorta high, but keeping all that old stuff warehoused for years isn't free. Paul here seems to think they are good folks, and I too intend to visit this Spring, I go right through Queensbury at least 15 x a year on the way to our Champlain place in VT, so I just have to make sure at least one of them is w/o the wife LOL ;-)

 

[kenmoreguy89]

Yes of course I agree that some pieces are a little too high as I've already said, especially that Whirlpool, do not know what they mean for reconditioned a brand new motor? Never used replacing pieces? They could justify it's price, would be nice to know what's their standard for reconditioned and know a bit more of that machine..... it's also true that as some said keeping that stuff for years is not free and I'm sure that he stayed high on the listings as then you could negotiate the price or get some discount once there face to face.....
Same thing is for the "unknown" you must also consider that maybe he got them from other places and there're shipping costs also he had for transportations.
About costs would be nice to hear the opinion of who already went there.......
Of course if I think of having good chanche to find another one for less elsewhere I would not buy a washer there, this depends by model to model and situation by situation....