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Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Well, the Atomic website has a new home - .
I retired a couple of months ago, and I made the reluctant decision to jettison the Atomic domain name. However, I have now reinstated the site as part of my personal website in recognition of the wonderful friendships I have formed through our shared interest in the world's best loved coffee machine. Unless my ISP complains, the new site should be around for the forseeable future.
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Hi,
Thanks for the interesting info on Atomic Coffee Machines.
I'm trying to sell a refurbished one here http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/141852493434 and your info makes me want to take down the listing and keep using it, but unfortunately we have to part ways.
Do you have any idea how much the sunburnt orange machines are worth compared to the plain silver models?
Thanks!
Mike
Typically an enamel finish will take about $50 off the value, compared with the silver finish, all other things being equal. This is partly because the enamel finish marks easily and is difficult to restore, and partly because the particular enamel colors used tend to suffer from changes in fashion preferences.
Cheers,
Tony
Fair Enough,
Thanks for your input.
I agree that fashions change.
But as a period piece - nothing says 1970's like orange!
On the flipside too, if the enamel is in relatively good condition.
Perhaps some may view a machine in good condition, as a rarer item.
I suppose running it on an electric hotplate helps.
Thanks again!
Hello, the information are really nice to absorb. This will add a value into the knowledge. I expect more article on this regard.
Hi. Great site. How did I not find this a long time ago??? I was treated to my first Atomic coffee by the woman I met in 1980 who owned the only espresso house in her small gold rush town back then. I told her that I hated coffee. She told me that was because I never had good coffee. Then she made me a mocha with her Atomic, which she sold at her store. I was hooked and she gave me one. Back then they sold for about $100. She eventually became my wife for the last 7 years of a 25 year relationship. She recently passed away and her sister called me and the machine came up. It is currently sitting in a display case with a new filler knob and a new steam wand, because the original got lost on one of its voyages when it “left me for another owner”. I carried it everywhere with my business being an audio engineer and one night a friend helped me tear down the system and haul it out. He discovered the small ice chest I carried it in and bagged it unbeknownst to me. I didn’t realize it was gone till a couple days later and he had gone back to Salt Lake City. A few years later I was passing through and dropped by. I saw the ice chest and asked “where did you get that!!!” He said “oh, that was yours? The machine is on the mantle”. Thusly I was reunited with my original atomic! Ironically, my wife had hers in a suitcase to travel with foam lining. At one point we needed a speaker replaced and were broke. I traded it to the re-coner as collateral and just didn’t get around to paying him off the $100 I owed him until I saw one of these on eBay for $400. I called him back and he said, “I sold that thing last year for $400!” We both laughed. My bad. My loss. But, I kept this one in the ensuing divorce, since it was my first ever cup of Atomic coffee and my first gift by that wife. So now I’m going to have to use it in our Toy Hauler trailer when we go camping this season, as I have become lazy: my new wife of 15 years bought me a Nespresso. To easy. But those don’t travel well and need the generator to function. So Atomic steams back to life! It looks great in the display cabinet as truly functional Italian art…. Just like my hand made Italian racing motorcycles, Vertemati!
I see these on EBay for $800 now??? Also the whole counterfeit thing. So as for the new Bon Trading Co units, I get it on the purist vintage thing before the factory burned down, but isn’t this an answer to the issue of getting parts? I got my gaskets and knob and wand there. Also for those who want one but can’t afford paying collector’s prices? I would think this would be a relished treat for newcomers to what us old folks already know? I would like to know more. Is BT buying the Sorentinos and rebranding by license? Also, bummer about the Robiati family not wanting to discuss. Leads me to believe Gio got burned financially somehow in the process. It would be a travesty if the inventor of the original and now most beloved coffee maker in the world got nothing for his design. Hence our loathing of all things counterfeit. Come up with a brilliant idea that brings a high value and price and your big nod to your brilliance is when knockoffs appear by the millions on Fleabay made of Chinesium. China and other third world countries give truth to the saying “Anything you can get away with is fair game”, the mantra of those who would be king the world over. Human nature I guess. “Rape the capitalist pigs!” I digress. Thanks for your wonderful site and info.
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