Originally Posted by
jillaine
Cathy, thank you for sharing your experience. What you say about general condition seems to align with what I'm seeing. I see some machines that look great, but aren't priced that high; then I'll see something that looks absolutely awful, condition-wise, going for 5x the price. Fascinating.
And don't forget, what someone is asking for a machine isn't necessarily what they're going to get for it. Some people think that any old sewing machine is a "rare and valuable" antique(usually far from the truth). Others put a high price on sentiment(it was great grammas). Others look at high asking prices on Ebay and think their machine must be worth that much.
If you watch Craigslist for any length of time you'll begin to see the same over priced machines over and over, these are the ones who refuse to come down to a realistic price for whatever reason.
And sometimes you just get lucky. I had a Singer 401 on CL for $50 a while back and got no bites. As soon as I raised the price to $75 I sold it that day.
Cari