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It's funny how I can go weeks without finding anything "new" listed nationally on CL, and then in two days, I can enter 5 or 6 entrees into my database! When it rains, it pours!

Thanks for the listing, rizbone...

Best,
Fran

rizbone wrote:Here's another one if you are closer to Washington DC. Not nearly as cheap.

http://annapolis.craigslist.org/atq/4998255461.html

Huh. This is less than 20 miles from where I grew-up.


"Priced to sell." Maybe I should haul mine down to my mother's and sell it down there...

De Soto Frank wrote:

rizbone wrote:Here's another one if you are closer to Washington DC. Not nearly as cheap.

http://annapolis.craigslist.org/atq/4998255461.html

Huh. This is less than 20 miles from where I grew-up.


"Priced to sell." Maybe I should haul mine down to my mother's and sell it down there...

I've seen so many of these wonderful machines that don't seem to sell for a lot or a little. It breaks my heart to think what people might do to them when they discover they can't get rich off of them (Not referring to you, Frank.)

Best,
Fran

Congratulations! I wonder what records came with it?

Well I went to go pick up the phonograph today but it turns out it was auctioned twice so it was already sold for $26. It was originally listed last fall and someone bought it but they didn't come and pick it up so it was relisted. But the guy who originally bought it finally came and got it last Wednesday. So I showed up at the goodwill store ready to pick it up and we couldn't find it. Then finally someone told me that it was already sold. The good thing is that I will be getting my money back after all of this nonsense. You would think the goodwill people would contact me before I came to get it wouldn't you?! The man who bought it turned around and put it on craigslist for $200. Unbelievable! Quite a disappointment after waiting all week to go get it.

Victrolaboy wrote:Well I went to go pick up the phonograph today but it turns out it was auctioned twice so it was already sold for $26. It was originally listed last fall and someone bought it but they didn't come and pick it up so it was relisted. But the guy who originally bought it finally came and got it last Wednesday. So I showed up at the goodwill store ready to pick it up and we couldn't find it. Then finally someone told me that it was already sold. The good thing is that I will be getting my money back after all of this nonsense. You would think the goodwill people would contact me before I came to get it wouldn't you?! The man who bought it turned around and put it on craigslist for $200. Unbelievable! Quite a disappointment after waiting all week to go get it.

Boy, that STINKS!

Fran

Victrolaboy wrote:Well I went to go pick up the phonograph today but it turns out it was auctioned twice so it was already sold for $26. It was originally listed last fall and someone bought it but they didn't come and pick it up so it was relisted. But the guy who originally bought it finally came and got it last Wednesday. So I showed up at the goodwill store ready to pick it up and we couldn't find it. Then finally someone told me that it was already sold. The good thing is that I will be getting my money back after all of this nonsense. You would think the goodwill people would contact me before I came to get it wouldn't you?! The man who bought it turned around and put it on craigslist for $200. Unbelievable! Quite a disappointment after waiting all week to go get it.

Not exactly the way to promote "goodwill," is it...?

George P.

Exactly.

Very sorry to hear about this, Nick. That's a real punch in the gut.


Most sales have a 30-day limit on being able to collect the goods.

Alright you guys are not going to believe this. I ended up purchasing the phonograph from the guy who put it on Craigslist for $115! He was actually a very kind and polite person and has a hobby of making furniture out of repurposed wood. I went to his house to pick it up this afternoon and everything on the phonograph is fine. Even the stylus!! I carefully examined it under a bright light with a jewelers loupe and it has a perfect smooth, conical tip like it should! The cabinet is just a little beat up but not bad at all. Only thing wrong with it is that it's missing the grille but I will buy a reproduction from Thomas Rutkowski (Gramps). Behind the record slats I found the Edison Diamond Disc operation manual too!