Originally Posted by
buslady
An employee that knows I like vintage sewing machines brought this machine in to me the other day. He gave $5 for it. I offered to pay him for it, but he said "no" it was an early Christmas present.
Perhaps I misunderstood. You DID say that he told you it was a gift, yes? So why are you worried about paying him for it?
You might want to find out where he got this crazy idea that it was worth a lot of money. It was not even worth a lot of money when it was new. That was the whole point of the Japanese Clones, they were cheap and available by the millions (literally)