Thread Number: 39830
/ Tag: 50s/60s/70s Vacuum Cleaners
Have you ever missed out on a machine but got another chance? |
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Post# 422822   4/5/2020 at 14:18 (1,452 days old) by fan-of-fans (USA)   |   | |
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One time I went to an estate sale near my house, and there was a Hoover Slimline. Lime green and seal griege. I didn't see the hose or anything else to it with it and they wanted $8 so I passed on it.
The last day I thought about going back to see if it was there still but I just decided against it because it was no use with missing parts. But it really bothered me and I wanted it so I called up the company running the sale, and they said it wasn't worth their time to go back to sell it to me. So I just kind of forgot about it. Until a few months later I went into a thrift store, and there was another lime Slimline. The hose, wand and floor tool were with it, but not connected to it. I grabbed it almost immediately and headed for the checkout counter. It turned it out was half price day so I got it for like $3.75 with tax! The funny part was a friend of mine who is a city councilor was in the store, with a bunch of other high ups, because I guess they were having a tour or something, so I was a little embarrassed that he saw me buying an old vacuum cleaner. But I didn't care. LOL But after I got home I took off the price sticker, and under it was an another purple sticker, which was obviously from the sale. So that proved to me it was the same vacuum from the sale. Has anyone else ever had an experience like that where you passed something up, regretted it, but then had another chance? |
Post# 422868 , Reply# 3   4/6/2020 at 08:28 (1,451 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina)   |   | |
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I don't know that I've had exactly that experience but once a few years ago, I hesitated on a nice Electrolux Epic upright but didn't want to pay the $35 the thrift store wanted for it. I went back the next day and it was gone. But the day after that, I was in another thrift store and there was an Electrolux Discovery Plus, essentially the same machine, for $25. I bought it, figuring the universe had just thrown me a bone.
Of course, since the Discovery Plus has holders for on-board tool storage, I spent way more than the $10 difference in price to fully kit it out. I guess the universe gives with one hand and takes with the other--if you let it. |
Post# 422904 , Reply# 5   4/6/2020 at 21:24 (1,451 days old) by MadMan (Chicago, IL, USA)   |   | |
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Post# 423660 , Reply# 6   4/17/2020 at 13:26 (1,440 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)   |   | |
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I'd do my regular Thursday "haunts".... amazing the finds I got! Now that I'm home permanently, I RARELY go to any around here. I don't even think about them. Maybe it's the Hoover "snob" in me, olol. That name was given to me by others, among a few others.
Tom A. and I go every time I'm in N Canton, on my summer "pilgrimage". Because it's the home of Hoover, it's amazing what can be found there. |