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Wow, I guess they haven't changed much over the years. I just finished up a reline job an hour ago on an early 80s Jotul which looks identical. Great stove though!
msrp on the Castine was $1965 last year, not sure of '10 price. That stove was def painted with a satin black paint or he used a stove polish to shine it up (which you really shouldn't do on a painted stove). Jotul's standard matte finish is the Stove Brite flat black which dulls and greys out a fair amount with use.
Looks like flat black with a fresh/still wet coat of paint on the f400. To buy one new this year during the fall, you'd probably end up paying about $1900. Figure the tax credit and your net is $1300. So doing the Frank math I would estimate the true value of that stove as being about $650 is nothing is warped. I always take the selling price (may be different than retail) x.7 x.5 (Or a .35 multiplier) to help customers determine what to sell a used epa certified wood stove during the tax credit.
Agree . . . looks like it was painted with a fresh coat of paint since it is way, way too shiny for the matte black look . . . and too nice for being three years old. If it was the blue-black I would imagine they would have mentioned the enamel-type finish.
I always take the selling price (may be different than retail) x.7 x.5 (Or a .35 multiplier) to help customers determine what to sell a used epa certified wood stove during the tax credit.
I'm a certified craig-a-holic, but there's a few things that kept me from buying a used stove back in 2008 (Not many pickin's that year when oil was $4/gallon. I had a hard time finding a stove in the first place, even from a dealer!)
You don't get a new stove. -$500
You don't get a warranty. -$500
You don't get the tax credit. -$570
You don't get it delivered
You don't know what's been inside it.
That doesn't look like stove paint. It looks too shiney even for satin. It's a very nice stove howerver, and has me looking at my plain-jane insert wishing it would do something.