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Old 04-13-2015, 08:45 PM
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[ATTACH=CONFIG]516844[/ATTACH]Just won this baby on Goodwill Online for $9.51!! Yippee Skippeeee!!! Until I saw that they're charging me $62 for shipping and handling

Note to self: check S&H before bidding on anything!

I do want a pink machine, though.
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Old 04-13-2015, 08:58 PM
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If you really don't want it for that price you can write them and decline it. When I wanted a Featherweight I bid on so many and after I got one I didn't realize my other bids were still out there - so I got a second one because I could pick it up locally but there were 2 others and so I wrote them and said I didn't want them and it was fine.
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Old 04-14-2015, 05:18 AM
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Pink is definitely NOT my color but I like the lines and the overall look of this machine. If it were turquoise and white I'd be super jealous right now!
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Old 04-14-2015, 05:34 AM
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It takes about an hour to properly pack a sewing machine. Employees have to be paid...
There are at least a dozen threads here about how machines arrive when just locked into their case and shipped.
And the postage is probably around $40.00.
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Old 04-14-2015, 05:42 AM
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if I can't get it local, I take in the drive factor cost gas. If you can get something for a few bucks is it still worth the money? I went to SA yesterday and they still had a very broken, missing parts machine for 29.99. I passed. It's been there for months. Not even close to as nice as the worst ones seen on this board. Saturday is usually 50% off everything of original price. They wouldn't mark the machine down to 15.00 because it was already marked at 50%.
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Ooops, sorry. But like you said, lesson learned.

Waving wildly from the other end of town!
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Still trying to wrap my mind around bidding on more than one machine at a time.....even a Singer Featherweight which I really hope to have someday. (do not let my 301A which I sew with everyday for 55+ years read this, 301A has my heart)
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If it's any consolation, the one machine I ever got shipped from Goodwill was outstandingly packed. To feel even better, price a low end plastic sewing machine at a big box store.
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Yes, shipping charges are so high when bidding online!!
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Old 04-14-2015, 08:38 AM
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If it sews really well and becomes a work horse I would think you still got a good deal in spite of the shipping charges
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