Vintage Giggles aka What are they smoking????
#4291
Getting back to the funny stuff I saw this. Where are the legs on this "Brand New Condition" "Stand"? http://chicago.craigslist.org/nwc/app/4002798530.html The price makes me cringe. This is 10 min from my house. I might just go over there and start asking questions.
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#4292
I don't know if it's funny or not, may be just strange? I wonder where the ?foot and needle are?
http://kpr.craigslist.org/bfs/3916390397.html
Fur sewing machine, maybe not pc any more?
http://kpr.craigslist.org/bfs/3916390397.html
Fur sewing machine, maybe not pc any more?
#4294
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Join Date: May 2013
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For $400, I think they could have made a nicer photo...
http://ontario.kijiji.ca/c-ViewAdLar...Keyword=sewing
http://ontario.kijiji.ca/c-ViewAdLar...Keyword=sewing
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#4296
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Join Date: Mar 2011
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Posts: 15,506
Good old stupid people. They sell because the bobbin area hasn't been cleaned in 30 years and they balled up the tension because it wouldn't sew because the bobbin area is too full of lint. It can be had cheap eventually... LOL
#4297
I don't blame a lot of sellers, I blame the service guys who tell them it's not worth fixing, and they should just by a new machine.
Some of my best scores have been 70 - 80 year old machines that appear to be almost unused, and they have something jammed up into the bobbin case - once removed, they sew perfectly!
I've also gotten a few prestine parlor cabinets and machines. I know these weren't cheap when new, so I like to imagine the wealthy husband being talked into buying one for his wife - and then having her look at it and say 'Me? Sew? That is what I pay my seamstress to do for me!" And the machine got put in a room and never used.
Some of my best scores have been 70 - 80 year old machines that appear to be almost unused, and they have something jammed up into the bobbin case - once removed, they sew perfectly!
I've also gotten a few prestine parlor cabinets and machines. I know these weren't cheap when new, so I like to imagine the wealthy husband being talked into buying one for his wife - and then having her look at it and say 'Me? Sew? That is what I pay my seamstress to do for me!" And the machine got put in a room and never used.
#4298
That's why I don't upload pics from my phone. That, and I don't think the world needs to see a 3000x2000 or whatever sized picture of the machine. Though I prefer that to the 100x100 pics we often see.
You can take a picture in 4 different orientations, but only 2 of them are "right" without manipulation, and the phone "hides" the fact that your 50/50 gamble didn't settle in your favor when viewing the images.
#4300
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Somewhere
Posts: 15,506
I don't blame a lot of sellers, I blame the service guys who tell them it's not worth fixing, and they should just by a new machine.
Some of my best scores have been 70 - 80 year old machines that appear to be almost unused, and they have something jammed up into the bobbin case - once removed, they sew perfectly!
I've also gotten a few prestine parlor cabinets and machines. I know these weren't cheap when new, so I like to imagine the wealthy husband being talked into buying one for his wife - and then having her look at it and say 'Me? Sew? That is what I pay my seamstress to do for me!" And the machine got put in a room and never used.
Some of my best scores have been 70 - 80 year old machines that appear to be almost unused, and they have something jammed up into the bobbin case - once removed, they sew perfectly!
I've also gotten a few prestine parlor cabinets and machines. I know these weren't cheap when new, so I like to imagine the wealthy husband being talked into buying one for his wife - and then having her look at it and say 'Me? Sew? That is what I pay my seamstress to do for me!" And the machine got put in a room and never used.
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