Westy Slant Front Dryer on ebay: A bargain at twice the price

Gather App
Automatic Washer - The world's coolest Washing Machines, Dryers and Dishwashers

Help Support AutomaticWasher.org:

FYI

Just so you all know! I am the one selling the dryer, and the reason the price is so high is because I have recently found out I have cancer! I am 26 years old and All I want is to be able to pay my medical bills and go see my fucking family in california before It's too late, but thank you all so much for your attention to me. GET A LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Sorry to hear about your situation. <br
But it would seem to me that if you're needing money, you would put a REASONABLE price on it, so it would be assured of selling. At that price, you're going to have it a long time, and just be paying EBay fees. My opinions are given freely, value accordingly <br
kennyGF
 
Maybe it comes with....

Betty Furness inside. Just press the button and "Poof" she appears in all her glory doing the Westinghouse Opportunity Days commercial.*g <br
Jo
jamman_98
 
Agreed.. We are the prmiary group who buys this kinda stuff.. Sorry to here about your health issues, but as Louis said maybe you can find some other means. Like a church fund raiser or something
 
<I>Just so you all know! I am the one selling the dryer, and the reason the price is so high is because I have recently found out I have cancer! I am 26 years old and All I want is to be able to pay my medical bills and go see my fucking family in california before It's too late, but thank you all so much for your attention to me. GET A LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!</I <br
Well first off all let me say whesleysgirl I am very sorry to hear about you recently diagnosed medical condition. <br
But let’s put some logic to all of this, so you found our website and our Discuss-o-Mat, but did you notice on our home page is a button for our Wanted/Reward Page? If not here is a link to it: Wanted/Reward Page. Please make no mistake we have been buying and selling these machines for years and this website is the one and only place in 2007 that you will find experts on vintage automatic washers, dryers and dishwashers. We know them inside and out and we also know exactly what they are worth <br
Now it clearly states in the first paragraph of the Rewards page “Rewards may be offered for early dishwashers and a few very rare dryers too“. Unfortunately vintage automatic dryers are just not as rare as vintage automatic washers. Now if you look at the listing for Westinghouse Laundromat Washers, which now you see are more valuable than the dryers, they are listed as a reward value of $200. So then listing a vintage dryer on eBay for $5,000 that is worth at best between $75 and $150 would make any person here call in to question the sellers sanity or at least the knowledge of what they really have. While I am sorry that you had to read some of the ridicule that we all participated in the above posting, you really can't blame any of us here. I don't know who has giving you the advice that this machine is worth so much money, but they are clearly mistaken. So the only advice we can offer you is if you really want to sell the dryer you are going to have to lower your price to something more in the range of the dryer’s true value.
 
An open letter to Whesley's girl also sent via email:
You can ask whatever you want for anything and we can make fun of it. I think your profanity-laced cancer sob story is a fabrication (and a very sick ruse if it is). But I would WELCOME the chance to help you if I am wrong (because I am a nice guy, not out of guilt nor because I think your dryer is worth $500 let alone $5000). Simply email me privately with your real name and phone number and the name and phone number of your oncologist. Give them permission, in advance, to verify that you have terminal (you did say 'too late'?) cancer to me. After I corroborate their legitmacy as physicians in the state of Illinois, I will speak with them. If your story holds water, I will personally purchase you a coach round trip ticket (with the requisite 21 day advance notice) from Chicago or St Louis to any major California city of your choice for the duration of your choice. I BEG you to prove me wrong and take me up on it! Step up to the plate! I will keep the bboard members apprised (omitting your personal info, of course).
 
whesleysgirl.

That's the best offer your going to get, I'd take him up on it. As for the cancer I really hope your not making that up, my Nana died of cancer and let me tell you its no joke.

Best of luck to you.
Liam
 
Eric that is a wonderful gesture on your part. I know many of the "family" here and I am sure that if this story is true that lots of us would be willing to help.
 
Pardon my cynicism gang...

Does anyone even know for sure if the person who posted here, claiming to be the seller of the Antique *1953* Westinghouse Clothes Dryer, is the actual seller? I guess I've grown cynical, but I just don't take everything someone says at face value anymore. I do most of the time, until I have reason not to trust someone, but this just seems fishy IMHO. Fabricating stories has become all too common these days. If this is the actual seller, I sure would hate to think they would make up a story about having cancer to elicit sympathy or make people feel bad about sharing their opinions.

Also, even if the cancer scenario is true (and I'm very sorry if that is the case), the seller was not forced to read this thread. She must have gone out of her way to find it, or have already been aware of its existence. And, even though I may not agree with all of the opinions expressed here, the purpose of the forum is to facilitate discussion isn't it? Again, maybe I'm off the mark, but something seems fishy here. (Could it possibly just be someone trying to cause a stir?)

Now, in the seller's defense...

Even though I too think the price is outrageous, I also believe that more power to the seller if they can find a buyer willing to pay the asking price. (We still live in a free market society don't we?) For what it's worth, the way I look at it, nobody's holding a gun to my head to buy it. Another way to look at it is that it's all relative. Yes, to most the price seems ridiculous; however, to someone from a third world country (that's probably not PC, so excuse my ignorance), spending money buying multiple washers and other assorted appliances must also seem excessive and an extremely poor use of money that could be spent buying food and supplies for the less fortunate. Just something to think about...
 
Ebay is a public forum, open for anyone to see what is available regardless of if one even has an account.

If a person is going to take the time to advertise on Ebay, or Craigs, or become a public official, or an actor, one is opening themselves to any number of results, one of which is critizism. No one, after all, yes, no one, is beyond question.

The story doesn't matter and it doesn't work. Nor does signing into a chat room with 100 people to beg for understanding.

Good luck IF they can get what they are asking. Really ! But let's face it most people, and especially the smart members here at AW.org ain't going to be buy'n whesleysgirl's blabber.

Really, we should be flattered.
 
I too noticed some of the seller's recent purchases. As a boy who has not had cancer, I can't imagine with certainty what would be at the top of the shopping list for a girl WITH cancer, however, my feeble mind thinks Bibles and Cancer-related literature would take precedence over provocative clothing. More likely, though, I probably wouldn't be spending time on ebay at all except to SELL junk I had acquired (at realistic prices) to unburden my family of having to do so in the unfortunate event of my expiration. And curiously no mention of the cancer on the ebay description? It has a much broader audience than does this. I've read plenty of auction descriptions on there with chartitable pleas for help vis-a-vis the item being sold. It also occurred to me, buffster, that, before I make good on my promise to buy a ticket, I need to verify that the email address used here AND on ebay are the same.
 
Well, my two cents

i am not a mean person, nor am I am melicious guy, but when I was sick and dying, I was not online buying clothes, and spendy ones at that.I was laying in bed, crying and hoping for a Miracle, which happened i am happy to say. That was over ten years ago, and I am healthy and happy. if she has cancer, I I hope that she gets better, although, from what I can read on her profile for E-bay, I would say that there is no doubt that there is some spin going on, and it is not in the dryer. i did not need a flatening iron, I needed something to stop my hair from falling out,I was a real mess, and I do mean real big mess. From what The evidence points only one way, it does not add up, nor make any sence.

 
Only about 2 1/2 hours left. Will a large contingent of last minute bidders swoop in an snatch (eww, I swore) this puppy up?
The suspense is building.

NA, Na. Donn-t Be metten wit da Judy.

Shes good. I like her.
 

Latest posts

Sponsored
UnlistMe
Back
Top