BEST KIRBY D80 I'VE EVER SEEN ON EBAY!!!!

[hoover_elite_20]

This is the best Kirby D80 I've ever seen! It looks like it is new right out of the box! Though I don't approve of them setting it on the grass. I thought this would be a great opportunity for one of y'all. Enjoy:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Kirby-D80-Rebui...ryZ20617QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[normvac]

Nice Kirby, top of the line price. I paid $350.00 for a Classic in 1970, with everything availble. I would have to
offer him a lower price. Yes, his work and parts are worth,
maybe $200/$250 but over $300 a little much!
Well see what it goes for!
Norm

 

[vacuumkid3]

I was able to get a $30 (yes, thirty!) one with all attachments and manual, in almost brand new condition, off eBay! It is probably one of my favorite and best PURCHASES...many of my more uncommon vacuums I have gotten for free. Here's a picture! I didn't have to do ANY polishing, which surprised me greatly!

~~K~~

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[charles~richard]

I can think of very few vacuum cleaners that are more beautiful than buffed-out Kirbys. They really have an incredibly beauty and styling that's not been matched by very many other machines.

 

[charles~richard]

"I paid $350.00 for a Classic in 1970"

Well, Norm, $350 in 1970 was a lot more money than it is today. If you go just by the cost of gasoline, there's an inflation factor of almost 1000 percent.

Before the phony, artificially manipulated "energy shortage" in the early 1970s, gas was around 25-30¢ a gallon. (Actually, when I started driving in 1971, I could find gas for 25¢ a gallon!)

During the contrived shortage, when the oil companies had every American citizen bent over and TAKING IT, gas prices "SOARED" up to an all-time high of 55¢ a gallon and, boy, there was no end to the outrage. Gas did not hit a dollar a gallon until the early 1980s.

Using that very basic (and, granted, skewed) comparision, $350 in 1970 dollars works out to about $3500 in 2008 dollars... so $350 for the D80 on eBay is QUITE a bargain!

That having been said, I know how much back-breaking, filthy work polishing out Kirbys is. I'd say that this machine is worth every penny the seller is asking! I'd certainly not want to sell a Kirby I completely restored to that beauty for much less than that.

Just my $1.37's worth on the economy.



http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,911055,00.html

 

[camelotshadow]

perspective

hmmmm
how much is time worth
We know that machine took countless hours
shuck I spent least half day doing some wiring n cleaning.

Now we all deserve minimum wage
so we can either pay someone for there time to do the machine or do it ourselves.

Some would rather not deal with the dust & callouses & broken back
& pay someone else for that...

LOL

I've been speaking with this gentleman
He knows his stuff & he is very fair & resonable....