I can not belive I got this for $10.00
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I don't know if all the Goodwill storeshave this or not, but here, we have a Goodwill OUTLET that gets all of the things( from the stores in town) that did not sell......in this outlet,(we call it our "dump store" ) everything is just dumped on these big long movable tables............and anything you buy is $`1.25 a pound for fabric items, the books are 59 cents a pound......and any other things, like this sewing machine, have very low prices on them.....I saw a Brother machine in a ratty cabinet, for $8.00 the other day..but the electric plug was cut off, which my hubbby says usually means it is not working, running, at all...........I was tempted, but aftraid it would cost a fortune to repair it...that is where I found this wonderful old Phaff for $10 -- probably the best buy I will ever come across........
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TenTen is beautiful! And an excellent find in the outlet store too. All I have seen is a two dial Kenmore. You all have spoiled me to look for machines by the way, I saw the cabinet and went "that is the one sewing machine in this store". :P
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I went to the website for joining through yahoo and sent an email and I have never had any reply to it..do you think they just lost me, or do they not want any new members???
I'd go even further and say that's one of the best all-round domestic sewing/embroidery machines ever made. I had a 260, made in 1959, and identical to that one. It was amazingly good at everything and has the fastest motor I've seen on a domestic sewing machine. You have there a true bargain, and she will sew everything with German engineered exactness. Do you get the manual and pattern wheel? They're both available as downloads, the pattern wheel you might have to join the oldpfaffpforum on yahoo groups.
That machine goes for a minimum of $200 here in Australia, and probably more in the U.S. (and that's for the so-called 'portable' version).
That machine goes for a minimum of $200 here in Australia, and probably more in the U.S. (and that's for the so-called 'portable' version).
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They're pretty slow on that forum in approving messages, so maybe also in approving people. Try them again if they've taken more than a week.
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