FREE HMV 202?!!! SFBay Craigslist

[OrthoFan]

SEE: https://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/zip/d/ ... 91947.html

[PeterF]

I was caller #2.

It almost feels like someone was trying to have a little fun with us, which is why I didn’t post it at the time

[OrthoFan]

It's gone now. Either some lucky #$#@%^ grabbed it, or the "seller" did some Googling and found out he was about to give away $5,000.00.

[PeterF]

The ad was 3 hours old when I enquired. The response was that someone was on their way to pick it up, and that they’d call me if they flaked. I went back to them saying thanks and asking for a little history of the machine, but that was the last I heard.

[OrthoFan]

Well, hopefully it went to a good home and not to some bored housewife or househusband who will gut it, paint it teal, and use it for a liqueur cabinet.
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While, for me, it would have been a "dream machine," realistically, even if I could have hired someone to pick it up, and lug it up four flights of steps, there's no way it would have fit through my front door--and even if it did, it would have eventually crashed through the aged thin floorboards of my apartment and landed on some very surprised, and probably flattened downstairs neighbors.

[HMVDevotee]

...and it had an oil bath #52 motor. We all would have a better chance of getting hit by lightning than have an opportunity like that again.

[Steve]

It's gone now. Either some lucky #$#@%^ grabbed it, or the "seller" did some Googling and found out he was about to give away $5,000.00.

And the rest......more like 8000 USD! There haven't been many for sale in the UK in recent years but less sprightly examples have sold for anything between £5,500 - £6,0000 in the past decade to 15 years.

Interestingly, those that turn up for sale in Japan are still £10-12,000!

[Garret]

Peter, are you missing that 194? You aren't happy with the electric Diamond Disc that you made me send you in return for the key that you found after I bought the machine?

Garret