Could you all just back away from the keyboards for a moment
...take a few calming breaths and read...and comprehend...in sequential order, the flow and original intent of this thread...from the beginning without skipping over any one word or phrase, please.
No, the Kenmore has NOT 'just been sold on eBay'. The single bid is at $9.99, there IS a reserve but there is no 'Buy It Now' option. Therefore, the auction listing has 6 more days to run.
Had this been observed and reported accurately there would have been no reason to badmouth Micheal, a new forum member, btw, without just cause either here in the thread or through private emails.
Full disclosure...I myself emailed Micheal within hours of his first posting about the find of the Whispertone on August 15 (as indicated by my posting & picture as response #2 above), making a private offer of $45 and personal pick-up (Remember this is before we were informed of his costs and were assuming it to be chance bargain find.) In that same friendly email I mentioned how we should all have a mini-meet soon in Sarnia, so I can hardly imagine that I am the one collector accussed of 'accosting' him via email. I suspect that Hans's email was the second one he had recieved in a timely 'jump-on-it' fashion.
I made no further offer as I assumed someone else would have met Micheal's match in the time it took for me to have any free time to continue email negotiations.
What the Freezin' Fork have you other boys been up to, anyway?
A person, getting no concrete or firm fast reasonable offers for his machine when he has suggested his costs to re-coup, certainly has the right to try his luck on eBay if the stated goal is to quickly downsize the collection hoard ... my uninformed but knowledgeable estimated early offer notwithstanding which would have eliminated the hassle of packaging and shipping costs for Mike aka hillbilly_keith, whether from Windsor Ontario or across the bridge/tunnel in Romulus MI.
Whatever the eventual outcome and disposition of this lovely Kenmore there are a few significant lessons to be learned here about jumping the gun to judgement.
Dave
