Lol. Just sent this message to this guy, guess he took to the forum instead. There you go. Can't win them all. I would not normally submit a PM, but this was mine to him. I display it here so that the community can see where I am coming from:
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I am not sure what you are asking of me. You want me to pay for a tech to come look at the machine? To my knowledge, CDC and all 5 weapons insets lit when I was playing. I didn't notice multiple lights out when I played it. You had the ability to check it here and I would have preferred that so we both knew what the issue is/was. There are MANY possibilities here including:
- An unseated cable from moving it (have you traced the cables from the problem lights down?)
- Code update messed up Refinery upgrades
- Something else that somebody smarter than us would know (I guess a tech if that is the only person in the hobby you know who could troubleshoot it)
My issue is that I did not know of any problems with the machine during my SHORT ownership of a BRAND NEW machine. I would prefer we contact Gio straight out the gate to see if that is a known, easily fixed issue.
Our trade was not at all skewed in my favor either brother. Your machine is a $3000 machine. I know you don't want to hear that, but the cabinet damage makes it much less desirable and current asking prices and sales point to that amount. You may have payed $4000, but that is not what it would sell for in my honest opinion. Add $2500 and I got $5500 for a $6500 purchase. That's a wash for both of us at best.
The long and short of it is that I am not certain what the issue is. If you were local, we could hunt it down together and I have (multiple) friends that could help us trace it down. But when you immediately point a finger at me and (indirectly) ask me to pay a tech ("...wouldn't it be ironic if it cost $250 to fix...") to come look at a brand new machine which was playing fine so far as I could tell when it was in my possession doesn't sit well. I offered the first thing that came to mind (assuming you had already tried the obvious and traced down the cables associated with the problem lights) which was to check with Refinery and see if there was an issue. You went straight to paying a tech (hint hint, maybe I should pay for it).
I did not dodge you. I texted directly after receipt of your message. Called when the texts were heading in a bad direction. If you want to cuss me out and hang up, that is on you. This is probably a simple problem (can't imagine it isn't given the age of the machine.) I just wish we could have handled it a such before asking for money to pay a tech. That has never gone that direction in the MANY transactions I have made.
Hope it works out, let me know if I can help.
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Post edited by dapperdan24: Took out names as I believe it is against pinside rules...