Look I don’t care if he’s been awesome to you or gave your grandmother a kidney. Please save that. I have over 15 years avionics experience, nasa soldering school advanced avionics and advanced aircraft electrical in my background. Essentially 7 years worth of electrical schooling I know what I’m looking at. 5 years into this hobby and repair almost all Bally/stern mpus in my area .

I gave rob a good-great Bride of Pinbot for exchange for a revenge from mars. Rob described this as just needing the cpu hooked back up and that it had a “cheesy” lcd (His words not mine). I said that as long as the cpu works and doesn’t look like it sat at the bottom of a lake I’m fine with it. We set a mutual meeting point, I get to said meeting point exactly on time to have the guy say he’s running late, an hour and half late (exactly the amount of time to travel from his shop) and then asked if I wanted to change the meeting spot - I said no I’m fine with waiting.

Robs guy gets there, machine looks decent (better than I thought with not getting playfield, pcb,
Driver board pictures). But the lcd is just dangling inside the cabinet (thought this was installed). I yank it out and help make the transaction.

Get this thing home and left baller88 good feed back based on the condition of the cabinet and playfield. Tried hooking up the cpu with no joy, changed batteries..nothing. tried booting with out the prism card..nothing. So motherboard is toasted - could have told you that after looking at the cynix chip.

Grab a dell from a local computer shop for 100 spend about 24 man hours between trying to get pinbox to work, to finally finding the nucore download on a French website. Get that sorted, hook up the pc to the machine and half the solenoids won’t fire and machine keeps rebooting. I dig deeper to find that more than half the components on the driver board are corroded.

I fully understand that things happen. I called rob and was immediately told to essentially fuck myself and was hung up on. He called me back shortly after and tried to blame me but said he might have a spare. I posted up on a few local threads to avoid him as I didn’t get the warm and fuzzy.

I’ve been trying to work things out with him off this site but the blame keeps coming back to me for some reason. I took someone’s word for it and got burned. All I wanted was a game that worked, cpu aside. Nobody wants to even touch the driver board to make repairs based solely on pictures - I’ve been told by 3 people that work on these boards that it’s not worth it for them to take on, and truthfully with an infant at home I cannot either.

He keeps putting this on me and keeps saying he will fix it but will either hang up on me or if I text him he will say that I did something wrong.

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How could I, a guy that sells so much on here you think it would be fine? I’ve done numerous trades here based on reps. It’s not uncommon. If I would have been fortified the chance to inspect would have done it. So essentially your saying every person here is a scammer and should be trusted. Which is the opposite of what I’ve seen here

Knowing this clown nothing I gave him would be the same

Also don’t worry I’m now receiving threats from him since we live close, I’ve replied with we can swing dicks all day. Just so this isn’t misconstrued. Pretty shitty he screws me and than threats me

Zero batteries another reason I didn’t really check after getting it home.

also he’s into attacking mental health conditions, wrong dsm but whatever helps him feel better,

also mr smarty pants when the last time you’ve seen a non battery memory board with corrosion, hardly ever. especially one from 99-2000 never, hence my “ as long as it doesn’t look like it got dipped in the lake”

There’s always the one, hope you feel better

I wish it was that easy dealing with this member to be honest, but the pinside mentality sometimes blows my mind, that response wasn’t directed at you just some these guys that give reach arounds to each other and it’s like 2 idiots fighting, you’ll never win. Seems like if they’ve been hooked up before they’ll goto bat even when they been disproven.

Yea and hate to say it there all in this area. Was burned good on my first trade wised up and went on a good stretch till now. But as you see karma has already gotten him for 8k? He prob delt with a non-pin family as he would us telling us to pack sand and we’re pulling one over on him. Reading his thread what doesn’t make sense is the warranty, shouldn’t matter if they took delivery from you or same day. You re selling a machine to the non-hobby person you know dam well they will call about any lightbulb that’s out. I would know, had a guy call me 6 months after for this. Did it out of kindness. He might be 8k richer if he treated people differently and with respect. I can almost guarantee you that the game wasn’t 100% working when they looked at it and he knew it.

Exactly my point, thank you for the kind words. This brings up the pinside Adequate I’ve seen it all to often to blame the “buyer” of games but when you look at the root of it, it’s majority based on locAtion, and how the “bad” seller has done deals with these other members. Instead of them just sitting quit they love to try and put the blame else where,
Or bring up something you said or did more than 3 years ago that has no correlation to you. Also what I have an issue with is this is essentially fraud and wether they like or not this site should handle this. We make transactions and I pay a fee people I buy from pay fees, hate to say it some times I take less to not deal with some pinside low balls, But what am I really paying a fee for if the mods aren’t willing to mediate? This is clearly not my fault this member has used different handles in the past for this exact reason . Thought this was a safer site to sell buy and trade doesn’t seem like it recently

Knew you were going to comment, you just can’t let shit go. Worse than a women, it was a trade. Yea shit happens move on. Didn’t work out. You seem to want to comment on almost everything I post for some reason time to get a life. Like you stated let the shit go, but you can’t, you really need to step away from the keyboard. I would say more but last time you reported me. But said “someone” else did, thought the mods told us both to not comment and for us to move, not sure why you can’t? No I will not move on as this is a $500 board that is impossible to find and this board is no where near clean up and go. No repairer will take this board. As stated game was in good shape playfield and cabinet wise but board and cpu no chance. There was no way this board ever was 100% working. But both parts that were “working” aren’t so I’m left with 1k in parts that need repair. One day karma will come for you, done tons of trades both ways since then everyone has been happy. Move on and stop stalking

What kind of message is that? Get off your soap box man, if you were in my place you’d be right here as well. Stop the holier than thou mentality. Your essentially saying it’s ok to be dishonest and rewarding that? No that’s not right in any sense. I’ve always been fair to every member. Sheckler was a different story won’t go into it. Guy needs to move on, it was over a year ago. But for a guy that runs a “business” to pull this is completely unsat, I would expect this from a hobbyist but not a business owner. Talking around he’s known to do this stuff, I should have asked around but trusted someone off this site.

I was under the impression it worked just needed the cpu hooked back up and I even confirmed this in the text. He also stated he played this before he bought it. Which it might have booted with an external pc but no way you could make it through a game