Opinions on this Linea 4AV on ebay?

There's this listed on Ebay.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/MARZOCCO-ESPRESSO-MACHINE-LINEA-/2607874...

From my email contact with the seller I get the impression that he buys and restores many of these.. Maybe buys a lot of old Starbucks ones.

He seems fairly proud of his restoration work, but I'm concerned about age (the pictures show a bolted group- and he never replies when I ask if it's bolted or welded (how ols would a bolted-group Linea be?)

Emailed with questions about the age/groups etc, he replied with:

" It's hard to say the year of the machine. I have tons of these units and have been building them for years. I ear apart different units and replace parts with new parts to refurbish my machines.

This picture that you see are actually about 4 years old. Since the machines are all the same I use the same ad over and over. 

I have both types of machines, bolt on and welded group heads. "

So what do you think based on what you know so far? The auctions are usually listed at $5,000 and it'd cost an aditional $1000 to ship to where I live

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Permalink Reply by Scott on December 14, 2011 at 1:42pm

It's a sbux machine. Note the missing hot water spout/economizer.  And isolation valves for the steam wands at the boiler, not stock for the age.  Also the brew boilers are from the early to mid 90's, but the steam boiler is later.  You don't want the bolted down boilers. Studded boilers are ok, I've never had a problem with them.  But like he says, the picture is 4 years old, who knows what you would be getting.  I would ask for pictures of the actual machine he's selling.  If Gazelle store can put individual pictures of used cell phones on ebay, this guy could do it.  

Heads up, none of the Sbux machines had welded brew boilers.  

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