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Lara122 03-30-2013 06:01 PM

recognize this 'gem'? $180!!
 
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My local cl had an ad for an old machine for $75. Sent me this picture, and said, oops - I have two machines for sale. It was the mother's, who lived to eighty. It is OLD and terribly valuable!! It works, but that's all they know!!

I can't tell anything . . . Suggestions? [ATTACH=CONFIG]405421[/ATTACH]

miriam 03-30-2013 06:33 PM


Originally Posted by Lara122 (Post 5966450)
My local cl had an ad for an old machine for $75. Sent me this picture, and said, oops - I have two machines for sale. It was the mother's, who lived to eighty. It is OLD and terribly valuable!! It works, but that's all they know!!

I can't tell anything . . . Suggestions? [ATTACH=CONFIG]405421[/ATTACH]

It is a Japanese 15 clone. Here is something for you to read:
http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...p-t164361.html
I sell them for about $50
Looks like Grandma smoked - use it as a bargaining chip.

DogHouseMom 03-30-2013 07:07 PM


Originally Posted by ArchaicArcane (Post 5966445)
How many things can you spot that are wrong with this article / picture combo?
http://www.ehow.com/how_6830365_clea...1-machine.html

Wow. That whole article is just wrong.

I can't help but be reminded of the "everything on the internet is true" commercial where the "French model" blind date strolls up and says "bon jour"

Mom3 03-31-2013 03:04 AM


Originally Posted by ArchaicArcane (Post 5966445)
How many things can you spot that are wrong with this article / picture combo?
http://www.ehow.com/how_6830365_clea...1-machine.html


All the info must be true - after all, it's on the internet. :)

frudemoo 03-31-2013 03:11 AM

Not too many of these around these days...

http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/donal...ine/1016905166

miriam 03-31-2013 03:15 AM


Originally Posted by frudemoo (Post 5966865)
Not too many of these around these days...

http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/donal...ine/1016905166

yes there are too many in that condition.

Foxglove 03-31-2013 05:20 AM

http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/rd...713909586.html

they could have at least dusted it off but they must have thought the cobwebs added some value.

Lara122 03-31-2013 05:25 AM

Thanks Miriam. I thought that it was, but I am a 'newbie'! I emailed her (?) and said that it was priced as an antique, and it didn't have that value. I said that twenty to thirty was reasonable, and fifty might be high. If the price changed, to feel free to let me know! Boy, did that make her mad!! Like since her Mom was eighty, the machine was old-OLD! She called me crazy, and told me to have 'bless day'. I replied that it was very Christian of her to insult me. And to do her own research, and then decide who was crazy. haven't heard back. ;0)

I like that thing too!! I am just taken by the green and blue clones! The machines that were on cl last time -- I did not get them. They never answered my emails. =//.

Lara122 03-31-2013 05:32 AM

look at this guy . . .

why are they calling it a 'replica' singer?
http://charlotte.craigslist.org/atq/3657938456.html

Caroline S 03-31-2013 06:16 AM


Originally Posted by Lara122 (Post 5967152)
look at this guy . . .

why are they calling it a 'replica' singer?
http://charlotte.craigslist.org/atq/3657938456.html

These "replica" machines are made in China


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