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Post by Vintage Fan Collector on Dec 17, 2014 22:12:01 GMT -5
Yeah I hate when habitats overprice fans. One store in particular here has a guy on drugs who prices fans. If you happen to find a fan unmarked you can get it for cheap. But i see $50-75 price ranges thier fans. And the fans there are very abused and beat up. They are left on the floor fully assembled or just thrown all about on the shelves. Only a few fans make it to the racks because the fans already hanging there have been there for 2 years now! Like come on people. People can buy a BRAND NEW fan for cheaper than your prices and most of the time fans are either filthy, are beat to crap and a lot of them belong in the dumpster. I was down in Ft. Meyers back in late September and I spent a day browsing the habitats there. One store in particular had a nice 5 blade Charleston that I wanted. The only trouble was i had to ship my finds back to Ohio since I flew down. After I paid for the fan I told the lady now I have to find a way to get this fan back to Ohio since i flew down for vacation. She was completely shocked and asked in a very surprised tone how I was going to get the fan back. I calmly explained that I'll have the fan packed by FedEx and sent to my address. She calmed down and said that well I guess you have it figured out then. She probably thought I was nuts but hey, a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do to get what he wants. LOL
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Post by derek anthony on Sept 26, 2018 17:58:39 GMT -5
I know this is a old thread , but I have a few relevant stories about our habitat stores here, one of them is about a few months ago, this happened at the Beaverton store, I went in to the back and used the rest room ( I had permission to,) and in the back sitting on the shelf was a older windmere oscillating fan that had a price tag on it, so I asked about it, and they refused to sell it claming it belonged to the store, even though it had a tag that claimed it was for sale, so I got the manager and, he was quite rude saying that I should have not even been back there, even though there is a directional sign in the store saying that the rest rooms are for customers, also this store had about six or seven high velocity fans in the back for store use, the end result is I left empty handed, and I also called corporate, and they said the fan should have been sold , the next time I was there the fan was gone. Second story, I used to volunteer for the habitat close to us, and I worked in the fan section, and I quit because they had people there, that after I tested a fan and priced it, they would disassemble it for the trash, also most vintage fans got disassembled and thrown away, I even found a Casablanca motor disassembled in the bin, I think it was a Panama, the fans they would put out were Hampton bays or other builder fans, , and most of them are missing the mounting bracket. And now a good story, they opened a new habitat store in Gresham, and we went out there ,and I found a complete Casablanca zephyr for 20 bucks ( the one in the dining room) and they also had other vintage fans like a wood housing thing, and some other modern fans
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