Another entry about the Fantastic Flair oven. Bear with me....but you are looking at......the holiest of holy ovens.
Behold......the $4300.00 Frigidaire Flair. That's right. This baby here went for that much on eBay yesterday.
Why so expensive? Well even though the oven is over 40 years old, it's NEVER BEEN USED. It's brand spankin' new except for one small ding in the underside storage cabinet.
Yes, I dreamed.....I drooled....I even ogled the included elusive MEAT PROBE...but all I could do was watch the auction as bids went all the way up from $99 to the winning bid of $4322.20. Sigh.
I hope the new owner of this Flair appreciates every last bit of it's $4300.00 goodness. Even though my well used Flair cost me $200 on eBay (and it too came from Kansas), I love it as though it's $4300.00 and more. I actually scored a working clock and will be installing it this weekend.
My best to you, brand new $4300.00 Flair owner! All I hope is that it will be well loved and used, and not put in some sort of "museum" to never be enjoyed for what it can do and just be looked at......! The best way to enjoy a Flair is to use it!!!
Behold......the $4300.00 Frigidaire Flair. That's right. This baby here went for that much on eBay yesterday.
Why so expensive? Well even though the oven is over 40 years old, it's NEVER BEEN USED. It's brand spankin' new except for one small ding in the underside storage cabinet.
Yes, I dreamed.....I drooled....I even ogled the included elusive MEAT PROBE...but all I could do was watch the auction as bids went all the way up from $99 to the winning bid of $4322.20. Sigh.
I hope the new owner of this Flair appreciates every last bit of it's $4300.00 goodness. Even though my well used Flair cost me $200 on eBay (and it too came from Kansas), I love it as though it's $4300.00 and more. I actually scored a working clock and will be installing it this weekend.
My best to you, brand new $4300.00 Flair owner! All I hope is that it will be well loved and used, and not put in some sort of "museum" to never be enjoyed for what it can do and just be looked at......! The best way to enjoy a Flair is to use it!!!
Wow! I wonder how much we would get for our
Flair! we are selling it, perhaps on ebay. Everything works on it except the smaller left oven. If you are interested in it, email me. We are in the Buffalo NY area.
Posted by: Jeff | 04/27/2007 at 01:15 PM
The Flairs that go for a good amount of money are the ones that are in mint condition. The Flair that I posted about previously that went for 4 grand turned out to be a fraud. After the winning bidder paid the money and traveled 2700 miles to pick up the supposed brand new oven, they were faced with a dirty, well used piece of crap. Obviously the oven in the auction pictures and the oven actually being sold were two different things. The auction "winner" ended up being a big loser and is now in the process of filing fraud reports with eBay and trying to recoup their loss.
If your Flair is in "just ok" condition, you might make a heck of a lot more money parting it out. A lot of Flair owners are always on the lookout for spare parts since they are hard to come by. Me included. A lot of the optional features that were sold with the Flair in the sixties are valuable, like the meat probe, the broiler grill, the "kant-slide griddle" and the holy grail, the rotisserie attachment.
I recently obtained a working Flair clock, since the one part that never seems to work on most of them is the clock. I suspect that most of them succumbed to the heat of the oven.
I suggest you watch the auctions on eBay for Flair ovens, and you will have a real good idea whether trying to sell your oven whole is worth it or parting it out is better. Good luck!
Posted by: Annie | 04/28/2007 at 11:51 AM