After years of grumbling that nothing good ever comes up on Craigslist here, I managed to get two total scores recently...
First was a Skill Slot machine and Pachinko machine, together for $90. I was happy enough at that, but was
extra happy when I found out that the skill slot machine was
full of tokens! I'm guessing there's ~$50-75 worth of tokens in it, so that wasn't bad at all... paid ~$75 for tokens, got both machines for ~$15.
About two weeks after that, this little beauty came along... Super Chexx bubble hockey. I was lucky enough to read his post ~30mins after it went up, and was super excited to find out that he was local. Heck,
nobody is local out here; Victoria is a ~3.5hr drive, and Vancouver would be a ~4-5hr trip.
I arranged to meet him the next day at his place, and paid him the $200 he was asking for it on the spot. I told him that I've have to speak to my wife (in the truck at the time) to find out when we could come back out to get it as it wasn't going to fit in the truck right now with both car seats in there. God bless his soul... he opened his mouth and said, "I could deliver it for ya. Hows tomorrow at ~5p?"
My wife thought I was nuts for handing over the $$$ without taking the machine, but he seemed honest enough and besides... we now knew where he lived.
Met him at his place the next day at 5p like we'd arranged, and he was on time. My kids were in the truck at the time, and my 5yr old just about jumped out of his pants when he saw us loading the Super Chexx into the back of his truck. He drove it to my place and helped load it into the house. Truly a gentleman; by the second day he'd realized that he could've gotten more $$$ than he was asking for it from someone else, but he kept his end of the deal. Mike, I salute you for being an honest man.
Condition-wise, its worn, but definitely playable.
He didn't have a puck so I had to order one of those, and I figured I'd get a gearbox while I was at it; I was sure that I'd find at least one that needed replacement. Also seemed dumb to order a $15 puck and then end up paying $10-20 for shipping; if I'm spending that much on shipping I better get something substantial in the mail...
Only major blemish is that the rink is cracked under one goalie.
Rather than ordering a whole new playfield I decided to super-glue a small piece of plastic underneath, to hold both sides in place. Still has a bit of a raised edge on one side, making it hard to score on that side, but compared to spending another $200 for a new rink I think I'll survive.
Woo-hoo!!!
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