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Servis Supertwin Mk2 value?
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Post# 628899   10/2/2012 at 02:15 (4,216 days old) by ninja2101 ()        

I'm trying to sell a working machine in the uk. Can anyone give me an idea of how much it's worth and where's best to sell it? Does anyone want to buy it?! It just needs a new hose.




Post# 628911 , Reply# 1   10/2/2012 at 06:03 (4,216 days old) by fido ()        

Sadly they don't fetch much these days but we do have a member who wants one. Unfortunately he is in Italy but you might be able to work out a deal together:

CLICK HERE TO GO TO fido's LINK


Post# 628919 , Reply# 2   10/2/2012 at 07:26 (4,216 days old) by ninja2101 ()        

Cool - thanks for that! Anything would be better than sending it to washing machine heaven. It's great! But there's no place for it in our house sadly.

Post# 628954 , Reply# 3   10/2/2012 at 10:57 (4,216 days old) by fido ()        

If you click on Kenmoreguys name on one of his posts it will take you to his profile which includes his email address. You can send him an email if he does not reply here.

Post# 628964 , Reply# 4   10/2/2012 at 11:14 (4,216 days old) by brummybear (Birmingham uk)        

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Post# 628968 , Reply# 5   10/2/2012 at 11:45 (4,216 days old) by kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.)        

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Just replied to the email thank you for mentioning me!

We just had some extra expenses this month so this is the worse time for this beautiful occasion,  but I could not ask to Nina to wait further anyway and this is such a nice occasion for me to get a Servis twin tub so I will make all the possible to have it now as it is just happend that I met a so kind person available to ship, I saw them many times on sale on ebay but most of the times sellers does not want to ship just local pick also beacuse  auctions always ends up being a low income so none would take the bother to plan a shipping, not to mention to Italy!

I do really appreciate the availability to ship to me! Thank you Nina!

Hope we can agree this sale and shipping!

Thank you again  Phil for mentioning me!




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Post# 628970 , Reply# 6   10/2/2012 at 12:13 (4,216 days old) by fido ()        

No problem, Freddy. I also posted on the British Expat. Italy section. It might be worth keeping an eye on that site to see if other people are doing similar trips from UK to Italy:


CLICK HERE TO GO TO fido's LINK


Post# 628979 , Reply# 7   10/2/2012 at 13:15 (4,216 days old) by kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.)        
Thank you Phil

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Thank you Phil, didn't understand well how that website works though, if I have understand well  it is about people moving to Italy  and having left space in the van?  is it safe to deliver my stuff with them? I mean nobody would steal it? Also where could I go to pick it up?  My father has a truck but he always need it to pick up materials as he is restructuring his farm, also if the Servis will be shipped far from here? I mean for ex in Rome? How could I get it? Rome is so far from here....

 

I'd like so much the idea to save on shipping.....just hope to make a feasible thing and not hazardous... you know.... a courrier would  deliver directly to my house, also would provide insurance if it's get damaged.....
Please could you explain me how it would work?

Thank you again phil!


Post# 628987 , Reply# 8   10/2/2012 at 14:10 (4,216 days old) by fido ()        

It was a long shot anyway as the machine would have to somehow get from Scotland to wherever in UK they were taking the van. I think the van will be going to Verona which again is some distance from you. They were not even offering to move items to Italy, their offer was to transport stuff from Italy to UK.
I still think it might be a potential way of transporting a machine though, as members of such forum sites are often in the process of relocating and are transporting furniture etc. You might find there are Italians moving to UK who have a similar expatriate website.
The website is for British people who are moving or living in other countries. I use it to get information about Hungary from other Brits who live here.
I used to be on a site for vintage radios and TVs. The site was used to operate an informal "courier service". Members often sold or gave away equipment to other members and they would post that they needed a set taken from e.g. Yorkshire to Devon. Someone might reply that they could get it from Yorkshire to Birmingham. Someone else might then be able to get it further south and it would eventually get to the new owner. I often helped move such things on my trips from Scotland to visit my family in England. It was safer than sending them by post or DHL etc. as equipment often gets smashed that way. You do need to trust the other forum members but I never heard of anything getting stolen. Usually the items did not have much monetary value anyway which was another reason for finding a cheap way of transporting them.


Post# 628990 , Reply# 9   10/2/2012 at 14:18 (4,216 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK)        
Shipping

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Here is another suggestion for you. I am in the catering equipment business and there are at least two Italian companies (maybe more) who ship equipment to the UK - Ambach Ali (based in Caldaro) is one I can think of, I cannot recall the other just now. It is possible that you might be able to get the machine shipped back to Italy as their shippers return in their lorry.

Even better, a UK company called Falcon Foodservice Equipment is part of the Ali group. They are in Stirling which is north of Lanark (Larnark is near a motorway) so it is possible that Ambach may even have lorries going there which could perhaps pick up for you.

All this would take organisation and probably a considerable number of phone calls and emails but it might be worth a try.

Note, they say it needs a replacement hose. That sounds like the drain hose which by all accounts is impossible to find as "one" hose has actually two "cores" - use the search facility on Imperial forum to find Austin's thread on how he got over that problem.

Good luck
Al


Post# 629006 , Reply# 10   10/2/2012 at 15:17 (4,216 days old) by kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.)        
Thank you!

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Thanks Phil and Al!
Well that would be nice if I can find someone moving to Italy and yes of course a potential cheap way.... Phil, but that would be a great favor to ask to strangers even if I would pay them for the favor, not sure if everyone would do that, here in Italy not so many.... also  I don't think i will find  so easily british people moving to Italy at least near to me....

About the catering that would be also a nice  cheap option, just need to contact these companies and see, it's not nice to say but this for an italian  would be the  strangest of the things......here in Italy such kindness and such favours are not usual at all, sad but this is the italian mentality..... and even if Italy is often  described as a country of  "warm" and kind people it is not the truth at all, rather most of the times it is the opposite,  I always found much more kindness elsewhere in the world and Europe than here, also here most o who would accept such a thing would  be just to take advantage of the situation and steal the stuff .... in Italy everyone thinks about themselves and stop... and also over here if I would ask such a thing to a catering company or such they would reply: " Hey did you exchange us for private courriers?'"
This is the response I would likely get...but since  it doesn't cost anything to try I will  try to contact Ambach Ali, I can see they're based near Bolzano, so almost in Austria so not completely italians,  Bolzano it is not back of beyond but anyway not behind the corner from me so I'd probably need a courrier from Bolzano to here....it would be cheap just not sure if that company would loose time just for me being just  a perfect stranger....anyway will try both the options thank you all!

P.S

I could not find the discussion about the hose, what was the title/thread?
Thanks!


Post# 629130 , Reply# 11   10/3/2012 at 01:21 (4,215 days old) by fido ()        

I suppose it is down to cultural differences but a lot of people in Britain and other countries get pleasure from helping others and I think that is one reason that forum sites like this are so popular. Those giving advice may never get anything in return apart from the satisfaction of having helped a like minded individual. I once took a Velocette motorcycle all the way from northern Scotland to London for someone and all I got in return was a weeks free parking for my van, while I went abroad on holiday. On the other hand, I have sometimes been on the receiving side. When I was touring New Zealand a member of the same Velocette forum site had me staying for a week at his main house and at his lakeside weekend chalet, took me on trips to Milton Sound and other places and lent me one of his motorbikes.

Post# 629134 , Reply# 12   10/3/2012 at 01:39 (4,215 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK)        
Hose thread

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Post# 629149 , Reply# 13   10/3/2012 at 03:48 (4,215 days old) by fido ()        

I don't think the later models had that hose arrangement but the fill hose has to have the correct shape end to plug onto a socket in the fascia for rinsing. I just had a look in my shed and found a new-old-stock fill hose so if that is the one that is needed I can supply it. Alternatively, it looks like the fitting that plugs into the machine could be transferred to a replacement universal hose if it is still present and intact.

Post# 629670 , Reply# 14   10/5/2012 at 14:55 (4,213 days old) by kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.)        

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Hi All, I've contacted Nina but didn't get any response yet......I suppose someone else contacted her before me or she decided for an easier sale.....

Wished it was the good occasion....I think will have to wait.....

Thank you very much anyway  to all!!!!


Post# 629754 , Reply# 15   10/6/2012 at 01:27 (4,212 days old) by fido ()        
Not Nina!

A ninja was a type of Japanese warrior so ninja2101 is more likely to be male than female!

Post# 629772 , Reply# 16   10/6/2012 at 03:59 (4,212 days old) by kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.)        

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In the email she sent me she  signed as Nina.......


Post# 629777 , Reply# 17   10/6/2012 at 05:37 (4,212 days old) by fido ()        
Sorry

I stand corrected!

Post# 630041 , Reply# 18   10/7/2012 at 14:07 (4,211 days old) by kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.)        

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Well, what to say at this point.....congrats to the one who snapped it under my nose!


Post# 631823 , Reply# 19   10/15/2012 at 11:49 (4,203 days old) by ninja2101 ()        

Hi there I'm definitely female!! Sorry for not visiting this page more often (I only joined in the hope of finding a new home for our machine so I'm not a regular visitor). Freddy, I sent you an email the other day and I've been contacting courier companies since then, but I've not had a positive response yet from them. I have however been given a website to look at which I'm doing right now - it's called shiply.com. If you're still interested in having it shipped I'll carry on looking, but if you've found an alternative just let me know (email's better I'm afraid).

Nina aka Ninja!


Post# 631835 , Reply# 20   10/15/2012 at 12:56 (4,203 days old) by kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.)        

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Just sent you an email, Thanks Nina! That is good to know that is still available!


Post# 631840 , Reply# 21   10/15/2012 at 13:23 (4,203 days old) by kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.)        
Oh what a heedless I am! Sorry Vacbear 58!

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Didn't notice of the link you rescued for me till now, Thank you so much!



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