Sewing Machine Choice-- Payments?

[KAYAK45]

drh23.

Maybe you don't stop at the little machines like the 441 clones and just need to go to the Campbell. Wish I had, Still like my CB4500....but want the next one up.

Kevin

[BIGGUNDOCTOR]

The Adler patchers I found were both on Craigslist. The one guy also had a virtually new 441 clone that he sold for IIRC $1,200. My patchers were $400, and $350.

Look in larger city newspapers for industrial auctions-the San Fran papers published them on Sunday most of the time. With my machine shop equipment I averaged 10 cents on the dollar for new. Example; 5'x10' CNC cutting torch that retailed for $27,000, and was only used part of 1.5 years for one govt job, I paid $2,700.

E-bay (not my fave, but they have machines listed.)

Craigslist, for your city, and surrounding areas.

Check with dealers for trade ins, or refurbished units. Price out refurbishing a unit too in case you find a sreaming deal on an older unit.

With any of these options you will need some time to find the deal. If you have a time limit, you may just have to pay for a new unit.

Again, I would look at a used unit, pay cash, build up some sales, and move up if needed. Financially this is much safer than payments. Everything in my shop was paid in full, with 95%+ bought at auctions. We knew we could afford a mchine if we could lay down the cash. When we were told to vacate the building we were in due to the new owners using it for their business, it didn't hurt us. By that I mean we had zero payments to worry about , no loans, no leases, no worries. I have seen too many people get in a hurry, make a couple years worth of payments only to lose all of the equipment due to a shrtfall of income, or other issues.

Hope this helps.