Tony sounds like a douche who is selling pins that don't work.

Are we REALLY arguing about whether or not it's good practice to deny buyers of a supposedly 100 percent working machine an opportunity to turn it on and play it before buying it?

Anybody who is saying it is is either arguing for the fun of it or an idiot. Any machine sold as fully working needs to be plugged in, turned on, and tested at the request of the buyer. Any seller who refuses to do this is obviously acting in bad faith and shouldn't be trusted, ever, with anything.

Do you bid on a supposedly 100% working pinball machine on ebay, and then go to pick it up, have the seller refuse any attempts you make to test it, and then just hand over the cash and take it?

Of course not. You'd laugh the ebay seller out of his house and come here and post about it.

Not sure why you are confusing eBay with an auction house. They are different things.

I'll admit I didn't read this one too closely. Thought the buyer showed up and seller didn't want to let him test it.

Clearly this thread never should have been made. The buyer wasn't wrong in wanting to test the game, but upon finding that the seller wasn't gonna allow it, decided to press the issue for no good reason.

The seller also wasn't wrong in getting a first email that was riddled with warning signs, and immediately canceling a deal with a buyer he didn't want any part of.

So the deal never happened, and this thread served no purpose. What was he warning us about, exactly?