Re: Advice for Inspecting Boema at Auction tomorrow
Hello again blokes.
Sometimes a bit of bluntness cant go astray, please dont take it the wrong way......
Ok let me make it simple because this topic is going round in circles and I would hate to see some one buying something they didnt need or didnt really want.
Iain....decide whether you want a coffee machine or a project.
If you want a project, do you want a running project or a basket case?
If you want coffee, forget the auction. Even if you could test it, you really dont know what you are looking for, or what you are looking at, and you wont get coffee straight up.
If you want a "running" project, wait until someone is privately selling a running coffee machine so you can get a demo, touch and feel it...and make coffee, and have it explained to you.
If you want a basket case ie didnt want coffee straight up, by all means buy at auction but pay peanuts because you have to budget for worse case scenario.
If you are luckly enough to pick up one of the better model Bo_Emas you will eventually (after you have finished your project) have a niice espresso maker. If you pick up the wrong model, it will always be a dog....but that is no different to any other brand machine. And this is what I mean about knowing what you are looking at.
Bo-Ema has been around a long time so there have been a number of internal design changes through time as R & D permitted, just like with other brands.
The price of their machines when new has nothing to do with second hand value, particularly when you are effectively looking at coffee machines that should be going to the dump because machines of a certain age are already well past their effective useful commercial life. remembering, they are a commerical work horse.
If you go down the path of a project getting help is very easy...forget everyone else and go straight to either the local Bo_Ema agent OR toBo_Ema themselves in Sydney and as other have said, they are nice people to deal with and give very prompt service.
With respect to all here, the danger with getting advice here is I doubt you will be allowed to turn them on anyway, and depending on the models presented for sale most of these machines are plumb in jobs, and if they have external pumps I will bet my bottom dollar they are missing...and the machines are only siitting on a bench and not rigged to operate even if you get to turn them on..... so plugging in and turning on wont prove a single thing if you dont have the expertise.......so you have to budget for worse case which is for a non running project and whatever that will eventually entail including the possibility of spending more than the particular model is worth (if budget is important).
Repeating...you have to decide what you want. Buying a project as a result of influence from sites like this, doesnt get you a cup of coffee if that is what you are really looking for.
Regardz,
A.
Hello again blokes.
Sometimes a bit of bluntness cant go astray, please dont take it the wrong way......
Ok let me make it simple because this topic is going round in circles and I would hate to see some one buying something they didnt need or didnt really want.
Iain....decide whether you want a coffee machine or a project.
If you want a project, do you want a running project or a basket case?
If you want coffee, forget the auction. Even if you could test it, you really dont know what you are looking for, or what you are looking at, and you wont get coffee straight up.
If you want a "running" project, wait until someone is privately selling a running coffee machine so you can get a demo, touch and feel it...and make coffee, and have it explained to you.
If you want a basket case ie didnt want coffee straight up, by all means buy at auction but pay peanuts because you have to budget for worse case scenario.
If you are luckly enough to pick up one of the better model Bo_Emas you will eventually (after you have finished your project) have a niice espresso maker. If you pick up the wrong model, it will always be a dog....but that is no different to any other brand machine. And this is what I mean about knowing what you are looking at.
Bo-Ema has been around a long time so there have been a number of internal design changes through time as R & D permitted, just like with other brands.
The price of their machines when new has nothing to do with second hand value, particularly when you are effectively looking at coffee machines that should be going to the dump because machines of a certain age are already well past their effective useful commercial life. remembering, they are a commerical work horse.
If you go down the path of a project getting help is very easy...forget everyone else and go straight to either the local Bo_Ema agent OR toBo_Ema themselves in Sydney and as other have said, they are nice people to deal with and give very prompt service.
With respect to all here, the danger with getting advice here is I doubt you will be allowed to turn them on anyway, and depending on the models presented for sale most of these machines are plumb in jobs, and if they have external pumps I will bet my bottom dollar they are missing...and the machines are only siitting on a bench and not rigged to operate even if you get to turn them on..... so plugging in and turning on wont prove a single thing if you dont have the expertise.......so you have to budget for worse case which is for a non running project and whatever that will eventually entail including the possibility of spending more than the particular model is worth (if budget is important).
Repeating...you have to decide what you want. Buying a project as a result of influence from sites like this, doesnt get you a cup of coffee if that is what you are really looking for.
Regardz,
A.




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