WTF???

You’re selling crazy and no ones buying your cool aid.

Anybody wanna buy a bridge?
I have several for sale.

Somebody needs to take their tampon out before they get toxic shock syndrome.

There was a guy on the west coast a year or so ago selling NIB Sterns for below dealer wholesale.
He advertised on CL and a few other sites like that (even had ads on eBay before they got pulled).
Not exactly sure what the deal there was, but he definitely had machines and was selling them for below dealer cost.
I was told that Stern sent him a C&D among other threats and it pretty much put a stop to that.

There were a bunch of rumors and speculation as to where the machines came from.
One of the stories was that they were purchased from a Stern employee who got them at a discounted "employee rate".
The other rumor was that they were from a distributor that went out of business.
I have no idea what the real deal was, but it was sketchy as hell.

There is no scenario where this works on a reimport type situation and currency fluctuations.
Pinball machines cost more overseas than they do here.
Even currency fluctuations won't outperform the disparity in price between foreign and domestic sales (ask any of our foreign members about that).

If there is a scenario where the machines are bought at a discount, it is strictly domestic and has nothing to do with reimportation.
We're not talking about buying $5 Zpacks at a Mexican pharmacy.

There is no pinball market in Mexico and South America.
Have you ever looked at the pinmap?

Also you are talking about a domestic product. Not a foreign product.
It makes no sense to do so.

Take cocaine for example. It cost different prices in different countries.
I assure you this though, nobody is buying it abroad to import into Colombia.

Fucking hell.

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Wire fraud is not technically wiring money across state lines. It’s more the use of electronic communications (email, phone, text etc) to facilitate or perpetrate fraud.
Similar to mail fraud, and yes both are federal crimes.