I generally don' go out of my way to make people angry, sometimes I manage to anyway. This was one of those times. I wonder how they saw my comments too but it is a public forum. I'm guessing he did a search pertaining to the machine and possibly found this thread, read it and didn't like what I had to say. This forum comes up a lot when trying to research old sewing machines. There's relatively little out there about them on commercial sites. I'm not that great at internet searches, it would be very easy for someone to find more info than I'm able to easily. I'm not too worried about it. I must say I don't believe I negatively affected the outcome of the bidding. People with $4000 to burn on old sewing machines really don't come to me for advice. They tend to make up their own minds about those things.
I belong to a woodworking forum that doesn't allow discussion of active internet ads or appraisals just for reasons like this. There's always someone who gets all bent out of shape if they don't like what they see.
Rodney