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ChadTower:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on June 08, 2009, 06:19:47 pm ---Well, there IS a middle ground. 

If they don't drop the price (enough) and you still want it, it might be worth poking your finger in it a little bit.  I looked at a motorcyle once and the owner couldn't get it to start or move and wouldn't drop the price any.  We tinkered with it for 30 minutes and got it going and suddenly it wasn't for sale anymore.  No big deal since the price wasn't good enough to take a risk (it was all stupid amateur crap but could have been major).

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The motorcycle guy is being less of an a-hole, though.  Doubling the price, then refusing to pay for your time/skills while still clearly demanding to profit from it, is what would piss me off.  Raise the price but still pay for the repair, meh, it's annoying but I could deal with that.  I'd probably want to be paid for my time and then walk.  I guess it's the refusal to value my time that would get me the most.  I suppose the best lesson here is not to work on a game before buying unless you come to an agreement with the owner before you touch it.  The closest I've come to that is a Jungle Lord I bought for $150 - it was half dead and didn't speak.  I got the speech working again and most of the game functions working by reseating connectors and jiggling the interboard.  Luckily the owner did recognize that it wasn't going to stay working from that (plus it was a total beater) and the price didn't change.

akoz:
I keep coming across NOS playfields but when i search NOS playfields or NOS pinball in Google i cant find their web site. can someone help  me out with this?

Jeff AMN:
I'm confused at what you're asking. NOS stands for new old stock, meaning it's a part that has never been used in a pinball machine that has been around since the game went into production originally. If you find a NOS playfield for a game, it means that it's never been used. NOS isn't a brand.

Lots of people still have NOS parts and playfields that they'll be willing to sell, but in most cases they're not available from the companies that originally produced them.

Did I totally miss what you were asking?

ChadTower:

It also doesn't mean the playfield is perfect.  It usually means the playfield was rejected at the start as a second so it has some problem somewhere.  And it could have picked up any amount of wear and tear sitting on shelves in the mean time.

Jeff AMN:
Sure, NOS means never used, but it can also mean never used because it wasn't up to par. NOS can be anything from a pristine and amazing piece, or it can be a scuffed up and/or flawed piece that just hasn't happened to ever have been put into use.

When you buy NOS parts, ALWAYS get pictures first.

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