Where's a featherweight?
#43
I think the price of a Featherweight depends on what part of the country you are looking in. North they seem to run really high. I have 2 and paid $350 for each of them. They are both in excellent condition and sew like a dream. To me well worth the price and a lot less than a plastic Bernina which I also love!
#44
Huh, it is. Sorry we gave you the run around Amelia. Pulling up your link gives us Americans the Australian site and all the converted numbers. The price is correct but it tells us strange shipping prices. And the location is in a tiny tiny font.
Here's the American link: http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-1947...-/291064101815
Here's the American link: http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-1947...-/291064101815
#46
Huh, it is. Sorry we gave you the run around Amelia. Pulling up your link gives us Americans the Australian site and all the converted numbers. The price is correct but it tells us strange shipping prices. And the location is in a tiny tiny font.
Here's the American link: http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-1947...-/291064101815
Here's the American link: http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-1947...-/291064101815
.....It was just kind of surreal following the conversation and nobody seemed interested! However, I understand a lot of people aren't into bidding on these sites. I was looking out of my own interest - didn't expect to actually find one. I wonder how the clips got busted off the case?
#47
I've only purchased one machine from an eBay seller. My experience was positive but for the most part I'm turned off by the shipping rates.
But that's my personal beef with USPS and the fact that I'm getting old enough that I remember what it used to be.
But that's my personal beef with USPS and the fact that I'm getting old enough that I remember what it used to be.
#48
I think the price of a Featherweight depends on what part of the country you are looking in. North they seem to run really high. I have 2 and paid $350 for each of them. They are both in excellent condition and sew like a dream. To me well worth the price and a lot less than a plastic Bernina which I also love!
I have been actively trying to land a white one and today I started bidding on them over on Ebay and making offers. I was instantly shot down on bids and offers. Discouraged I made up my mind I would just have to wait until the next round of white featherweights hit ebay and try again.
Then a box pops up on my screen and says PAY NOW you have won a white featherweight! WHat!?? Wait!!? I freaked out because I thought one of my bids had gone haywire and now I was going to owe 700.00 or some ridiculous price on a white featherweight. I forgot I had made a low offer a few hours earlier for one asking $450.00 with free shipping...He accepted! YIPPEE after getting shot down on all of the others I had written this one off too.
So now I have the white featherweight I have been drooling over. I have no more machines on my list. I am done, I am happy. Now to start sewing and take up quilting again.
Don't give up and don't be afraid to offer a $100.00 less than they are asking, you never know they might just surprise you and accept your offer.
#49
Why are they so hard to find? Made by the hundreds, never wear out, stuck in the bottom of our Grandparents and Parents closets. Yet, they are elusive if you don't want to pay $400 for them. I have an itchy finger to have one, but can't find one for a reasonable sewing price. Do they actually sell for $400?
http://daytona.craigslist.org/atq/4368977584.html
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