Theres a dealer thats offering “school model” sewing machines or machines which were accidentally bought as excess by a school, at a huge discount. Should I buy one?
This sort of thing is often heard from sewing machine dealers. Unfortunately, it’s usually some sort of tactic to make money rather than necessarily the truth. There’s generally no actual school involved – if there’s even so much as a box which says “school model” or anything like that, it’s probably just that the manufacturer stuck some machines in that box. In some cases, they have a bunch of really basic model machines that they’re trying to get rid of. In some cases the same model can be had cheaper elsewhere, and the “discount” is phony. (If they don’t usually offer these machines, how can whatever price they’re offering them at be a “discount”? What’s it discounted from?) In some cases there aren’t even actually any such machines – the advertisement is really just a method of getting you into the store so they can try to pressure you into something more expensive. If there are actually machines, often the dealer will try to pressure you into buying at once with no time to think a
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