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Victrola XX on Ebay

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Not mine but I have seen it in person. I can attest that it is a straight as found machine. So if anyone REALLY wants one as found - here you go! And if I did not already have one - I would be a buyer for sure. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Victor-Phonogra ... OSw~AVYt38

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Re: Victrola XX on Ebay

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John,

You are indeed correct, it is a beautiful machine. If the one I got last year at auction in Maine was anywhere near as nice, I would have left it as-is. But that wasn't to be the case, and I had to do my best to restore it: http://www.ebay.com/itm/VICTOR-VICTROLA ... SwTuJYs3Qs

This was the topic of an earlier Forum discussion, with interesting pro and con comments. However, one of the contributors to that thread took it upon himself to contact me directly this week, and, among other things, called me "deceptive" and a "pimp". Interesting enough, he is a past customer who was always well satisfied with similarly restored phonographs he purchased from me. I don't mind a disagreement now and then (after all, I was born and raised in Brooklyn) but one would think that hysterical name-calling is a little over the top. Perhaps it's a sign of the times.

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Re: Victrola XX on Ebay

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Raphael,

I don't understand the name calling... obviously if he doesn't like something, he shouldn't buy it... some people are lunatics. :roll:
"The phonograph† is not of any commercial value."
Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.

"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
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