Have you ever felt uneasy about a pin sale?

[Nomad]

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OK here's the story: guy comes to my house to deliver some kid
furniture. See's my pins, we get talking, blah, blah, blah. He notices
my '72 Bally Monte Carlo EM. He has a daughter who is getting married
and she works in a casino in Montana. He buys the game from me for
$500.00. The game is in great shape. Backglass is flawless, pf is about
an 8, cabinet is about an 8.

The guy is buying this game as a surprise and while I feel I sold him a
solid game I worry since he has to re-install the head and connect the
3 connectors to put the game back together. Plus he's driving the game
like 2000 miles. Sometimes moving a game across the room brings issues
much less across country.

Am I worrying too much? I've sold about 5-6 pins and never had an
unhappy customer but this is the first EM I've sold and I know how
tempermental they can be. Am I worrying too much?? Thoughts??

nomad

 

[Guest]

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its normal to worry for the sellers that have a heart like us em's do
have a mind of their own.
anyone who owns a pin should have some knowledge of how to do things or
else the littlest thing will make it "out of order".
just let them email you if a prob exists and handle it through email.
walk em through it.
it will be ok

 

[BillB]

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well i regret selling them because they ain't all that easy to go get again.

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billb
Sorry but I don't kiss ass, yours included.
"

 

[Guest]

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I think if you explained all that to him, and he bought the game
knowing he may have "those type of minor problems" he is probably
confident he can get it running when he gets it to it's next location.
I offer phone/e-mail help after the sale if he needs it, but I don't
make house calls.

zTim

 

[Guest]

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I say the same thing, but you cant keep them all. Or at least most of
us cant. If I had kept everyone I have sold it would take 3 or 4,000 sq
feet just to house them.

 

[Guest]

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You are worrying way too much. You sold him a good game for a fair
price. That's the most important thing. If he has a problem do your
best to help him. That's all any reasonable person can ask.

Mike

 

[Guest]

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I always get concerned when I'm selling a big ticket item because I
want the buyer to feel they made a good purchase. BUT, I always cringe
when someone comes and looks at a game and starts asking about warranty
or 'so how easy are these to fix'. I mean, easy is a relative term
depending on your background and skills.

But, I have had a few people call me when they got their game home and
up and running just to let me know they made it in once piece. I even
had one person tell me they were quite concerned since I seemed quite
worried loading the game up while I'm explaining the manuals, and
controls and all the little things that could go wrong. Guess I
overexplain things too much

 

[Guest]

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Yes! Some guy bought my Hardbody game yesterday. I hope he has no
wife and kids as they would probably make him bring it back. ACK!


nomad wrote:
> OK here's the story: guy comes to my house to deliver some kid
> furniture. See's my pins, we get talking, blah, blah, blah. He notices
> my '72 Bally Monte Carlo EM. He has a daughter who is getting married
> and she works in a casino in Montana. He buys the game from me for
> $500.00. The game is in great shape. Backglass is flawless, pf is about
> an 8, cabinet is about an 8.
>
> The guy is buying this game as a surprise and while I feel I sold him a
> solid game I worry since he has to re-install the head and connect the
> 3 connectors to put the game back together. Plus he's driving the game
> like 2000 miles. Sometimes moving a game across the room brings issues
> much less across country.
>
> Am I worrying too much? I've sold about 5-6 pins and never had an
> unhappy customer but this is the first EM I've sold and I know how
> tempermental they can be. Am I worrying too much?? Thoughts??
>
> nomad

 

[Guest]

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This is life in the "used" market, and it goes for just about
everything, (cars, vids, pins, boats, etc). as long as you did not
misrepresent the item you were selling I would not loose sleep on the
sale. I sold a pin two years ago and told the guy I would deliver it
for him for $50 and he said he could do it himself, so he showed up
later that day with a hatch back car and a skinny friend who had at
least 6 beers in him, and proceeded to "help" him load the pin into the
car, later on that evening he called me and complained how I should
have told him how heavy the machine was, and in moving it down stairs
it got away from he and his buddy and the pin fell on him and worse yet
the pin got damaged. I told him that is why I wanted $50 to move the
pin into his basement, so needless to say I went to sleep that night
after knowing I tried to help this guy out, and the $50 was to pay for
a friend of mine to help me move the pin on a Sunday evening on a two
hour round trip. (I was not going to make a penny on the move) Don't
worry be happy! The guy is probally very happy since he got the deal of
a lifetime, and had it set up last night and is playing it right now,
or he took it down the road and sold it to a "collector" and made $200
on the deal. All games are sold with a tail light warranty and I always
know this when I buy a pin, alot can happen when moving a pin,
especially EM's.

 

[Guest]

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Pinball machines break. It's their "nature".

Again, once they're gone, it's the new owner's
problem past the 'tutorial'.

If you've made no promises, there are no worries.

Fred
TX
CARGPB#8
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nomad wrote:
>
> Am I worrying too much? I've sold about 5-6 pins and never had an
> unhappy customer but this is the first EM I've sold and I know how
> tempermental they can be. Am I worrying too much?? Thoughts??

 

[BillB]

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which weighs more em's or ss's?

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billb
Sorry but I don't kiss ass, yours included.
"chuckster" <crrogers@ptd.net> wrote in message
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> This is life in the "used" market, and it goes for just about
> everything, (cars, vids, pins, boats, etc). as long as you did not
> misrepresent the item you were selling I would not loose sleep on the
> sale. I sold a pin two years ago and told the guy I would deliver it
> for him for $50 and he said he could do it himself, so he showed up
> later that day with a hatch back car and a skinny friend who had at
> least 6 beers in him, and proceeded to "help" him load the pin into the
> car, later on that evening he called me and complained how I should
> have told him how heavy the machine was, and in moving it down stairs
> it got away from he and his buddy and the pin fell on him and worse yet
> the pin got damaged. I told him that is why I wanted $50 to move the
> pin into his basement, so needless to say I went to sleep that night
> after knowing I tried to help this guy out, and the $50 was to pay for
> a friend of mine to help me move the pin on a Sunday evening on a two
> hour round trip. (I was not going to make a penny on the move) Don't
> worry be happy! The guy is probally very happy since he got the deal of
> a lifetime, and had it set up last night and is playing it right now,
> or he took it down the road and sold it to a "collector" and made $200
> on the deal. All games are sold with a tail light warranty and I always
> know this when I buy a pin, alot can happen when moving a pin,
> especially EM's.
>

 

[otto]

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No.


I only sell as-is, cash and carry.


Otto

CARGPB11

My web page: http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-Ottoslanding

 

[Guest]

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"billb" <sevenoutpinball@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> which weighs more em's or ss's?
>
> --
> bill

my back remembers EM's are heavier...and Monte Carlo is only beat by Wizard
and flip flop in the Plus Size categories ;-)>

 

[BillB]

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> Pinball machines break. It's their "nature".
>
> Again, once they're gone, it's the new owner's
> problem past the 'tutorial'.
>


that's how I see it.

--
billb
"Fred