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A good pinball month for MameMaster....

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ChadTower:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on August 27, 2012, 11:27:02 am ---Haw, good on you for beating the price down.  Personally, I won't deliver unless the machine has been paid for.  Nothing to stop a spouse from throwing a fit or finding out it's too big for their living room if they don't have any skin in the game.

(oh, and if you don't want people commenting on what you paid, then stop bringing it up)

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Yep, yep, yep.  And I make it clear, very clear, that moving a pin can cause issues during setup in the new location.  They're usually easy fixes but they do happen and there may be a certain adjustment period before we get the game 100% working again.  It will get to the same working condition as it was before we broke it down before the transaction is complete but there is an outside chance that will require a second trip on my part.


This is why I usually will sell, for a lower end collector's market price, to other collectors.  That way you can sell it cash in hand with a tail lights warranty.

MameMaster!:
I offered to pay our original price if he would fix it- he said no.  :cheers:

TopJimmyCooks:
That sweet moment when the pin you're looking at stops working.  A sigh escapes the seller's lips.  Your eyebrow slides skyward.  Your hand pushes your halfway extracted wallet back home.  Just like in this case, the sellers overwhelming desire to consummate the deal and be done with it clouds good judgement.  Fun for the buyer, oh so painful for the seller.

Of course, I've seen the other side too.  Get a pin home, play it 5 times and the MPU croaks on you. 

MameMaster!:
Well the parts are ordered and the shopping has commenced.....I always start with the easy stuff, buttons, coin door etc.

I've rebuilt the gun plunger (the spring was squashed and the handle as beyond messed up), and I just put in all new flipper buttons, start, continue etc.

Here's the newly refinished coin door, w/its new inserts and fixed plunger/gun.

.....there's a lot to do- but the machine is 100% working (fingers crossed I don't kill it)..... :afro:

jasonbar:

--- Quote from: MameMaster! on August 23, 2012, 10:03:20 am ---(cue the "Stern Indy sucks comments  :afro: )  ::)

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VirtuaPin sucks.


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