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

 

[centralsweeper63]

It is a shame how old vacuums justgetthrown away. I hope to find 200 electrolux machines in a shed soe day. I will probably have to find a new collector thatis just getting into properly collecting in a few decades. Getting rid of hundreds of vacuums in a small city of 400,000 people would ruin any market value. Not that i paid much for them. my average cost per vacuum is about $9.5.

 

[real1shep]

It is a shame how old vacuums justgetthrown away. I hope to find 200 electrolux machines in a shed soe day. I will probably have to find a new collector thatis just getting into properly collecting in a few decades. Getting rid of hundreds of vacuums in a small city of 400,000 people would ruin any market value. Not that i paid much for them. my average cost per vacuum is about $9.5.

Well, that would be me with the shed of 200 vacs & parts....lol. It all actually came from an ol' Electrolux rep who died after 45 years of service. His kid thought it was all just junk....except for a few Hospital Gs that he sold somewhat high before I fell into it all.

I don't know how many of us are left who would savor 200 Electrolux tanks. The 'flippers,' of course, would be interested if the price was right. They're in every hobby, looking for widows, the poor, and the uninitiated. But that many vacs would be work, and 'flippers' are not about a lot of work, usually.

I had access to about 30 floor polishers too....I just didn't have the room to take them home, or really wanted to.

But getting all those vacs sort of devalued the experiences of buying Electrolux tanks one at a time and for much more money. It just shows you how artificial the market really is in a lot of hobbies. Anything vintage is worth exactly what you can get for it, nothing more.

Yeah, a guy can get really depressed thinking about all the hobby stuff and parts that have made the landfills across the country.....

Kevin

 

[cheesewonton]

It is a shame how old vacuums justgetthrown away. I hope to find 200 electrolux machines in a shed soe day. I will probably have to find a new collector thatis just getting into properly collecting in a few decades. Getting rid of hundreds of vacuums in a small city of 400,000 people would ruin any market value. Not that i paid much for them. my average cost per vacuum is about $9.5.

I grabbed a few gems out of the electronics waste at a local thrift store. The bins for the e-waste were out by the parking lot and as I walked by I would spot a handle or a hose sticking up and say "oh, I know what that is" and go digging.

 

[centralsweeper63]

I have those moments too. That is how I find the vacuum department in the department store.