The whole saying you'll bring a technician by to check it out to make sure it works 100% is what strikes me as weird and would bring up red flags as a seller. What's wrong with your own ability to evaluate a pinball machine? I doubt you would've had a problem if you showed up and plugged it in to make sure it was in the condition described in the auction (which you don't link to or say what the *auction itself* describes as the working condition). Talking about bringing your guy in to go over every nook and facet just makes it sound like you're going to try to get a discount because a bulb is out.

Do you bid on something and win at your local auction, then come back to pick it up with a tech to make sure it's in exactly the condition the auctioneer described? Of course not. You'd be laughed out of every auction house in the country.

The line to apologize to me forms here <---------