I just did a search on apilus to obtain it.
I don’t think it was legalities. It’s a perfectly legal sale. More so, he had it listed wrong. There was no reserve set, he had the buy it now option missing, and was asking for a 1000 Pound ‘buy it now’. He’ll probably relist it, but making those mistakes is amateurish with 900+ sales under his belt. I liked the machine, but was creeped out with the behind-the-scenes ‘buy it now’ route he seemed to indicate.
hmm no good units being sold on ebay as of late.
http://www.electrology.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=372
http://www.prestigeelec.com/cgi-bin/local-net/shopzone30.cgi/Used.html
There are places other than e-bay. PSSST… there is a sil-tone VMC for sale at Prestige. Fabulous epilator - only $2,500!
An’t figure out why it was never taken out of the box 
Dee
Learning all that new computerized stuff was just toooooo scary! 
(Either that, or it was another wife who got her husband to buy her the stuff for the new business she wants to do THIS month, and abandoned before doing any actual work. :mad: :eek:)
The Apilus SX-500 was relisted.
This is the same seller. And, I’m really not sure what’s up with this sale. Once again, the ad just looks fishy. Someone with 900-plus sales would know how to list something with Buy It Now options. They wouldn’t put it small, down in the bottom text. And why would they list for only 24 hours (yikes!) and ask potential buyers to email him first?. And, there’s no reserve, …for a twenty-four hour listing? And they seem to know a lot about the machine, yet risk losing it for twenty bucks?
He has the item in England, but he’s in Hong Kong.
Way too many questions here, and major ones. Looks like somebody bought a used computer and may have lifted an identity of another seller. I have already alerted ebay through the live chat, filed a formal on him because nobody had yet to do it, and they’re on him. Hopefully they’ll shut it down if it is a fraud.
Mantaray
Okay. Ebay investigated and has shut him down. His 906 one penny sales including the Apilus SX-500 have all been deleted. That seller (or what is the real yu_giland) now appears with 37 or so listings that appear normal. Identity theft/ hijacked account probably. Sure enough, that listing did seem suspicious the first time I saw it. We have to be careful.
…I guess all this came and went while most of you were fast asleep. 
Mantaray
So I have a machine I could sell. I actually bought it here with the best of intentions of doing this myself and even bought all the recommended books, which took scouring for months. Bought a pro machine with all the computerized bells and whistles.
Get it here, nice machine, new (sil-tone?). Got a lamp with a magnifying glass in it. Do my first look-see and it turns out I cant see a thing (I got this for my legs; I’m having my face professionally done). Try as I might, bend as much as this old body can, magnification notwithstanding, I cant see enough detail. In the closet goes the machine, and there it’s sat.
So, it could use a good home. And now that I wax my legs (I didn’t do that before, don’t ask<g>), the hair barely grows in, unlike the hormone-driven hair on my face. I don’t need the machine unless I want to do face stuff, which I almost can see in detail, but I don’t have any motivation to do that (even though I’m on my 3rd dang year doing my face! Part of me wonders if she has any idea what she’s doing<g>).
Anyway, that’s my story. Guess I should go research how much to charge for the thing. It’s nearly unused (never used by me), has a billion settings, cords, pedal, all that jazz. Just waiting to make someone with better eyesight than me happy.
amy
palisandra, can you share your electrolysis story in more detail on the electrolysis section of the forum? maybe we can help. thanks.
What does <g> mean? Am I out of it or what? The answer is probably obvious, but I can’t figure it out :crazy:
Can you be more specific about what you are selling? What model of Silhouet-Tone? Books? Magnifying lamp?
This is another example of why we don’t encourage DIY with glowing enthusiasm. Electrolysis takes more than books and computerized equipmentin order to do this correctly. However, you never know who will be capable of making this work on their own, so we are nonetheless generous with our information.
I’m am relieved that you restrained yourself and did not try electrolysis on your face. You deserve a pat on the back.
Just list what you want to sell in more detail here and maybe someone will private message you. If you want a name at Texas Electrolysis of a very nice man that buys used epilators, James or me can help you out.
Dee
You bought a new machine, at least a thousand dollars, and you’re not sure what brand it is?
Share my story? I’m not sure that I have one. I’m just having my face done, and have been going for 3 years now, steadily. I decided at one point that I thought it would be fun to be able to do my legs, too, but didn’t want to pay the money that would take (especially considering how much money was going into my face) so I thought I would try the DIY route. I read up and really educated myself, but didn’t realize how bad my eyes were until I actually tried to do it. I figured the magnifying lamp would just be enough, and it wasn’t, and I didn’t even consider how much it would hurt my back to bend over so much. I quickly lost interest and put the machine away.
That’s pretty much it.
amy
<g> is just another way of saying “grin.”
I don’t know the model off the top of my head, and the machine is in a box in the back of the closet that I haven’t excavated yet. I only posted here on a whim as I saw the thread, I didn’t have a specific need to sell it, so I didn’t go get it first. Still haven’t. I’ll go do that. But it is a sil-tone, and is computerized (nothing like the one my electrologist uses, which has dials and analog displays and all that). And let’s think… I remember buying the Galant book, and the Godfrey, and the Hinkel. There may be one more.
And yeah, I never bought it to use on my own face, though I’ll bet that if I got good at my legs I’d probably have tried it at some point since it is taking forever and she occasionally misses some that I always want to get.
I’ll go unpack it and see what it is. Here’s hoping it has a model number on it somewhere.
amy
Yeah. I bought it over 2 years ago, and only just posted here on an impulse after having read the thread. It wasn’t a formal “advertisement” or anything.
It has been in a box in the back of my closet for those two years. Sil-tone is it, from my memory.
Anyway, if anyone is actually interested in considering buy one for themselves, write me and I’ll dig it out.
amy
Amy, just to put your experiences in perspective with other peoples that had the same idea, I did exactly the same thing. I read up, thought it would be neat to clear legs and other areas, and bought a magnifier because my vision was poor. I could not do it with my first magnifier purchsed. The second and third magnifiers were stronger and on a swivel arm not attached to the lamp, they were a failure. Then I bought some Bausch&Lomb visor-headband type stereo magnifiers (1.5x, 1.9x, 2.5x interchangeable lenses). Those were a great improvement, but they failed too, and made me feel like a martian wearing them. At this point I had only performed no more than 45 minutes of ‘blend electrolysis’, or at least my hack version of it, on my new Silhouet-Tone computerized machine.
It wasn’t until I did two things that I could finally do it halfway right: first, I learned to take out my contact lenses beforehand because they were disrupting my close-in magnified vision. And second, I bought the Med-Lite 3.5 glasses-binoculars type magnifiers. My fifth purchased magnifying device! Med-Lites can be considered ‘budget-good’. The addition of these types of magnifiers was the singlemost largest improvement I have ever made. Since then I have treated myself at least 120 times at 1.5 to 2 hours per session (I have around fifty pro sessions done at this point as well). My legs are nearing complete total full clearance, no vellus hairs, none. And the payoff is now beginning to be realized.
At this point my work runs circles around my earlier first pro electrologist (straight blend with a Hinkle Classic), but still is behind my current pro electrologist in that her accuracy and depth guaging is excellent (Micro Flash with a Apilus Senior II -modified central chip), and her machine belts out power quickly. But, it takes time and motivation to get there.
At some points I used to not touched my machine for three-week spans just wanting a break from it, kind of disheartened when new hairs would grow in. But the pro sessions kept me in the game and kept me going. Whatever she does on the back of the leg, I know I have to keep up with on the front. As she’s finishing up the very tops of the legs/hip area, I’m working on the top fronts/hip area. When she switches to the back, I’ll switch to the abdomen.
I think maybe, instead of taking a loss on your machine (I’d sell on ebay, US only, starting bid $399, BIN for $550-$800, ten day list), I’d re-think it. DIY is a great reward and keeps all areas accessible maintained as well, no 15 minute visits to take out strays. Give yourself a second chance, and get better magnification. Once you get going, you see the reward. We can help you here. The magnifying lamps are seldom used anymore, and you may have been personalizing the difficulty. Just my two cents.
Mantaray
If your Sil-Tone is the VMC model like mine, you can ask at the very least $2,500 and get it. Maybe someone will pay more since these epilators are hard to buy, used, just like the Apilus SX-500. If you have one of the older style Sil-Tone models, then you will have to settle for less. They are decent machines, but the VMC is the top of the line. It is like the identical twin to the Apilus SX-500. Good products indeed for permanent hair removal.
People who think they can’t see just don’t have the right vision equipment.
I hear what you’re saying, but at this point I find I just have no interest anymore. My legs do marvelously with waxing (something I hadn’t tried before), and I do that myself. regrowth is really much lighter (yay!) and I just don’t mind the process. I might have given up too early at that time, but over time I just find I don’t care as much any more to have permanent removal there. Plus there’s always the back/neck thing. Eyesight was a big part of it, but I really underestimated how inflexible I’d become over the years and how achy it makes me to focus and bend like that. Then add that when I bought the machine I was self-employed, and taking a year off from that to decompress. Now I’m in graduate school getting my doctorate, and most of my free time (haha!) is really spent reading (talk about an aching neck!). So, all in all, it just isn’t worth it for me to really take up this “hobby” anymore.
The machine can sit in my closet forever for some “one day” thing, or it can go to good use elsewhere. If someone would have a use for it, I’m happy to sell, in other words. If not, it is still not likely to ever get used by me. I just think my interest in the subject has passed.
But thanks for the perspective on the whole thing. It’s tough to still be going after 3 years, every other week, hour and a half, face only.
amy
It is actually a something-250. S-250? F-250? (wait, that’s a truck<g>). I just looked, but now I’m back in my office and some of it slipped out of my brain, dang it. It seems like a fairly basic machine.
amy
The Silhouet-Tone ST-250 has a List Price of $2,000.00 US Dollars before tax and shipping and an average retail price of $1850.00 I would not accept less than $750.00 if I were selling this, and you really should get around $1,000.00 or more.