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Message:: [QUOTE="Shangas, post: 9905757, member: 360"]Antique sewing machines WILL sell, if you're lucky, and sometimes for quite good money, but PIANOS are a NIGHTMARE to move. In most cases, you can't even give them away. The cost of moving, the cost of tuning, the cost of re-housing, the cost of restoring...urgh... I'll never forget, when I was younger, I used to go to my local flea-market, and almost every week there was this furniture-mover guy there, and he'd show up with a huge truck full of antique furniture, and usually one or two upright pianos inside. He'd plonk one on the ground, and he always let me play on it, if he had one for sale, because in his mind, that was free advertising. One day I was playing one of his pianos, and these two girls...maybe in their 20s or 30s, showed up, wanting to buy it and he gave them a pretty reasonable price (I think about $300?) and then he said: "Delivery is free, but for every step, that's an extra $50". "OK!" "So how do I get it inside?" "Well you carry it up the front steps..." "Steps?" "Oh, just two..." "OK, $400..." "$400!? You said $300!" "+$100 for two steps. Every step means more effort, more care, more time..."[/QUOTE]