I'm so sorry you had such bad luck! I has a worse experience but I won't go into it here. I did have a good experience obtaining my 301 I know I took a huge risk but the notations with it were that it was owned by a sewing machine technician, it had been oiled and greased etc etc. I chanced it and now it's been my favorite machine! I do hope your machines only need a good cleaning let us know!