Seen these vacs at goodwill

[jmm418]

Old eureka & sanitare
Not sure of the year 70's or 80's is my guess
They wanted $25 each
I know the picture is not great there wasn't much room to take it.

 

[centralsweeper63]

I would have bought it personally. You don't see that style of machine in NZ.

 

[jmm418]

I would have bought it personally. You don't see that style of machine in NZ.

do they have any value? not sure if i would want them personally but maybe would be good to clean & resell

 

[centralsweeper63]

I am not sure as I don't have much experience with the machines we didn't get over here. They might be worth fixing and re selling. How much mechanical knowledge do you have. If you are fairly mechanically minded they could probably be refurbished and sold. If you refurbish them they will work a lot better than pretty much all box box store vacuums. Maybe worth keeping one.

 

[SeboU1]

My goodwill hasn’t had any vacuums in years, eBay has been my source!

 

[centralsweeper63]

Ebay is good too. In NZ op-shops (our name for a goodwill type shop) they cannot sell any electrical items without testing it unless they cut the cable. Therefore the nice matching cable on my g6, Hoover u1334 and a few others had been cut.

 

[real1shep]

My goodwill hasn’t had any vacuums in years, eBay has been my source!

I used to think that because I live in a small town, eBay was my only default source for old vacs. And now that I quit collecting and people know what I have....the 'stories' come in. Like a local guy who has 200+ Electrolux tanks in a warehouse, etc. Or that the local sew & vac shop has thrown out old Electrolux vacs because there was no demand or market for them. I followed up leads in the past, but I wasn't relentless. I think you have to be if you want to be a serious collector on the cheap and find what your soul demands. I finally stumbled into a large cache of vacs, but that was happenstance more than anything else. I always shied away from being 'that guy' by reputation, who has all the old vacs, and they follow me home. I've known guys like that in this hobby.

I remember on eBay when you could buy a reasonable vintage vacuum for $40 or less, and shipping was maybe $15. And even then, people were complaining about 'high prices'. Juxtaposed against what, people giving you vacs, or paying $5 for one?

But if you've been in this hobby long enough, you have stories, and these days, the stories to me are almost as important as the vac collection itself. But yeah, Goodwill here has been dead on vintage vacs for a very long time. The battle cry for such things has always been "Put it on eBay!", whether it made sense or not, or if the item had any real value or not.

Kevin