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"Stunning!!" Vintage 1919 Wireless Vacuette Vacuum Cleaner Sweeper Scott & Fetzer
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Post# 438161   2/4/2021 at 10:23 (1,147 days old) by electrolux137 (Los Angeles)        

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This Wireless Vacuette, a STEAL at $950.00 (not saying who is stealing from whom) lacks the rubber tires on the wheels. So it's hard for me to understand how, despite the seller's gushing description, it works properly. You need the rubber tires to grip the floor or carpet and make the fan run. The bag does appear to be in great condition.

 

"Buyer Beware"



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Post# 438163 , Reply# 1   2/4/2021 at 12:51 (1,147 days old) by myvacsrock (USA)        
WOW

This was posted as mostly a joke considering one is currently listed and bid up to a whopping $1020.

I’ll take my machines elsewhere. Good lord.


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Post# 438170 , Reply# 2   2/4/2021 at 15:37 (1,147 days old) by electrolux137 (Los Angeles)        

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Well, I see that the wheels do work somewhat without tires. But you'd be amazed at how much more powerful the cleaner is with tires on the wheels.

 

I had a Vacuette Wireless New Improved Model C once upon a time. It had a tremendous amount of suction power. You can clearly see the tires in the Vacuette ad and in the photo of mine as shown below.

 

(btw the wooden wheels on the ends of the brush roll also had tires.)

 

Kyle, I had no idea the machine on eBay is yours, so there was nothing personal about my post. I will say, that seems an odd sort of joke.......


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Post# 438173 , Reply# 3   2/4/2021 at 16:21 (1,147 days old) by myvacsrock (USA)        
Does it matter?

That the machine is mine or not?? The reality is the machine is RARE and in stunning condition.
The reality is there is one for over $1000 and still going.
The reality is I work my ass off to restore these and am 100% honest and forth coming about everything. Ask anyone who deals with me. I’m beyond gracious.
I don’t appreciate the negative ad on this public forum with false information that my machine wouldn’t work.

Despite my “gushing description” what a laugh. It’s called SALES. You entice a buyer. The difference is my machines also deliver what is offered.

It’s been removed and sold privately.
Peace.


Post# 438174 , Reply# 4   2/4/2021 at 16:38 (1,147 days old) by electrolux137 (Los Angeles)        

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My goodness. Come down off your high horse! I didn't say it wouldn't work. I did say I couldn't see how it could work PROPERLY.

 

So let's stop flinging false accusations about my "negative ad on this public forum with false information that my machine wouldn’t work."

 

Members of this forum routinely post reviews about eBay listings, including comments about apparent flaws. To me, the lack of rubber tires constitutes a pretty big flaw.


Post# 438269 , Reply# 5   2/6/2021 at 21:30 (1,145 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana)        

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myvacsrock - there is no reason to be that sensitive about something so trivial. There was nothing at all posted to get that riled up about. Who was anyone supposed to know it was you selling it? We ain't psychic. Of course, now we know because you brought it up. But if you get this agitated over someone pointing out flaws in your eBay auctions - and rightfully so for that price - how do you function in public? Imagine if your boss calls you into the office and talks to you and points out your flaws in job performance - how would that go? Imagine selling a house and the buyer calls in a home inspector to look it over, and finds numerous flaws with it and tells the buyers not to buy it - would you kick them out? A buyer has every right to inspect and pick apart an item they see and look for flaws with it and to test the seller, to make sure they are on the level and nothing is amiss. Keep your composure and address their critiques.

electrolux137 is 100% right on this one. You are portraying this vacuum as being "Absolutely stunning and restored" and "This machine functions exactly as it should!" which is not true. The video clearly shows it slipping and sliding across that carpeting more than it is being pushed, and it is not spinning up smoothly and has a worrying amount of rattle. At several instances in the video you can see it lurching jerkily as it is being pushed, which is the gear cog slipping and skipping teeth. From what I can see, the rubber is missing off the wheels, and who knows if the tension spring and wind up mechanism is still good - was that addressed and lubricated after 100 years? On this "Restored" vacuum? If no, then it has not been restored and cannot be claimed as such. Just polishing something is not restoring it. A vacuum being "restored" is something like chicagomike does, where everything is taken apart down to the last screw and washer, and precision cleaned, lubricated, and reassembled. Including the motor down to the windings. Nothing missing, skipped over, or left broken. In that same breath, a classic car can not be sold as "restored" when its all pretty and cleaned up freshly repainted and layered in Simoniz but the engine is locked up solid and it doesn't run. Notice the Vacuette that sold previously, it had the rubber on its wheels still (which was not cracked or flat spotted so far as I can tell). It was all intact and original.

When listing something, before listing it, do all the homework you can on it, make sure what you are selling is complete and intact and if there is anyhting you have a concern about or believe is missing - state this in the auction. Make the buyer aware of it so they know what to expect. Also - no eBay item should ever be posted "as a joke". eBay is a serious business platform. If you are selling it - sell it. It's not OfferUp or Mercari or whatever people use now where they can just list something, take the money, then decide if they want to ship it or not. As a buyer of eBay items - I get sick of people that list things "as a joke" that I am serious about buying and then have them cancel the sale because of some trivial reason. If I bought that vacuum and found out the rubber tires were missing and the spring tension was gone, on something advertised as "fully restored", I'd be properly cross. I was cross when I bought a Concept Two, and the seller said it "worked perfectly". I paid over $100 for it, but when I got it I found out that the transmission was shot, and the cord had a short at the end of the plug that almost electrocuted me when I grabbed it to unplug it. I at least got half a refund out of it - another one for the project pile.

PS: What something is being bid up to and going for - or final sells for - does not mean that is what it is worth. People bid on things just to say they won it, and they also use bot accounts to drive bids up and then they will never pay for it at all. It will get relisted again, and the process repeats until the seller gets tired of the games and stops listing it altogether and it gets pawned off to an antique store or Goodwill box. I recommend that for high dollar items like this, if you see it sold for that price, wait about 1 month after it sells, then contact the seller about it, and ask them if the buyer actually paid for it and completed the sale. I would not be at all surprised if they said "no". Nobody is attacking anyone here - just being truthful and pointing things out. If someone is paying over a grand for an antique vacuum, they have every right to critique it.


Post# 438272 , Reply# 6   2/6/2021 at 23:08 (1,145 days old) by Lesinutah (Utah)        
Hmm

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I'm not going to reread the posts.
The kirby is in very good shape. If it was my vac and other people knocked it IDGAF
If you got paid good money for the vacuum sweet.
There really isn't any good topics to post on. If I see the vacuum I want . I would post about it.
It's hindsight it's opinions and you got paid nothing else matters.


Post# 438275 , Reply# 7   2/7/2021 at 01:34 (1,145 days old) by gregvacs28 (U.S.)        

So-o-o, what happened to it?

Will it be relisted with errors removed or?

 

Did someone make an offer for an off Ebay sale?


Post# 438331 , Reply# 8   2/7/2021 at 22:26 (1,144 days old) by Lesinutah (Utah)        
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He sold it somewhere other than ebay

Post# 438360 , Reply# 9   2/8/2021 at 13:49 (1,143 days old) by myvacsrock (USA)        
Anyone like my new

✨rubber tires✨

I bought them while I was functioning in public :)
Now off she goes to the new owner.


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Post# 438367 , Reply# 10   2/8/2021 at 16:21 (1,143 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana)        

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Ah bravo, good on you for making it right. Wasn't so hard was it? Hope they enjoy it!

Post# 438457 , Reply# 11   2/10/2021 at 07:56 (1,141 days old) by vacuumlover11 (Duluth)        
Let’s go down to the tennis court and talk it up like yeah

So many bitter queens it’s unreal.

We are telling Kyle to get off his “high horse” yet here we are.. getting on our little soap box “warning” buyers about a missing component that doesn’t really matter in the first place. THIS VACUUM IS ABOUT AS EFFECTIVE AS A BROOM. Complaining about the missing rubber wheels for “performance” legitimately made me LOL. It’s a COLLECTION PIECE. Having the rubber wheels really doesn’t matter to someone who just wants it as a piece of history in their collection.
This has proven true since it sold to someone with GAHT damn ORECK BELTS ON IT.

As for the price, here’s what I’ll say: The price is the price is the PRICE. That’s the beautiful thing about freedom of market and capitalism. We can sell things for what we want, when we want, how we want.

Don’t like it?
✨✨✨✨✨Don’t buy it babe✨✨✨✨✨
Since you all have so much time on your hands maybe you should take up knitting or scrapbooking. 💅



Post# 438462 , Reply# 12   2/10/2021 at 09:10 (1,141 days old) by luxz80 (England)        

Either way that was a great example of a Vacuette. Well done Kyle. You did a great job bringing a vintage piece back to life now to be enjoyed by a fellow collector.

Gary.


Post# 438484 , Reply# 13   2/10/2021 at 13:40 (1,141 days old) by OhioVacuums (Ohio)        
myvacsrock

Nice !
I had a friction vacuum that was missing tires. I went to HomeDepot and found the exact size rubber in the plumbing section (they are couplers for PVC pipes)...
is that what you did ?
Also, what is the old old vacuum in the back ? It looks like a first model
of something.


Post# 438485 , Reply# 14   2/10/2021 at 14:01 (1,141 days old) by myvacsrock (USA)        
That one is the...

1908 Hoover model O (0) whichever you prefer. Haha :)


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