Good Jotul deal in NH on CL?

[branchburner]

http://nh.craigslist.org/hsh/1945063691.html

3 years young, $750 seems fair, but is that the original color? Seems kind of glossy.

 

[Later]

I have an F400 from the same year. This one looks too shiny to be the flat black and not "rich" enough for the blue/black enamel. Just my 2 cents.

Oops, forgot my price comment, seems to me to be an OK price if it's sound.

 

[stoveguy13]

if it was a blue black it should have a crome handel it must be a re-painted matte black

 

[cmonSTART]

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!

 

[begreen]

The old model was probably the Jotul 8 which is similar, but not identical to the F400.

One has to wonder why a 3 yr old stove would need repainting. The price is good, but the stove bears careful inspection.

 

[Skier76]

That's been repainted IMHO...looks like they used a gloss finish from a rattle can.

We bought our Castine last year. I could have sworn it was $1600 and not $1800.

 

[cycloxer]

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.

 

[Fsappo]

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.

 

[firefighterjake]

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.

 

[branchburner]

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.

Good formula!

 

[btuser]

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.