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Buying Alien LE

By pinlawyer

6 years ago


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    #22 6 years ago
    Quoted from pinlawyer:

    I'm happy with Lebowski and BoP2.0. I'm happy with Dialed in and was happy with WOZ. I'm happy with TNA. I'm happy with Houdini. Was happy with BBB. Am happy with my CGC AFM. Yep. No complaints about these. No bad code. No ghosting or QC fails. So far, so good. Now, I played Full Throttle and did not like it at all. But Alien? LE, in green trim? Made AFTER the management turnover? Absofknlutely.

    Hope it all works out for you. But ordering a Alien that is not already made and at cointaker in a box is nuts. I guess if possibly losing the money is no big deal to you then why not. No way I would support them when so many customers have money in and have not received their games.

    #24 6 years ago
    Quoted from pinlawyer:

    I bought one already on its way to CT.

    You do realize that half the current people that paid forever ago have been told theirs are on the boat also.

    If it really is on the boat maybe you can take it to one of the guys that paid for it 4 years ago since Heighway is not going to do the right thing on their own. At least let them try it out to see what the 4 year wait is about. (this last sentence was a joke, I guess I should have made that more clear. I obviously do not expect you to give away something you paid for. Maybe you could let them play it though)

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    #26 6 years ago
    Quoted from delt31:

    Why are you getting angry at this guy who bought a product available for sale? Jesus relax. Totally uncalled for. Now you want him to give the game he bought to someone else like he's the pinball robin hood? Seriously?
    Oh that's right - he should boycott Alien and not buy it. This way HP gets no money and the folks that decided to pay in full for a pinball machine not even built will definitely get nothing b/c now the company is out of business. I like your logic. Let's stick it to HP....oh wait, you would also be sticking it to the fellow pinsiders as well. Might want to rethink that.

    Not angry at all, you might want to relax a little. I think it's BS that people like you jump to the front of the line though. I've got no skin in the game at all and Pinlawyer can risk his money however he wants. Unfortunately Andrew screwed a lot of people and lied constantly. A couple of years ago at TPF he looked me right in the face and said Alien will be shipping in 4 months and tried to talk me into ordering one. I'm glad people took over and are trying to dig out of the whole but not communicating with all of the people that are owed games like iceman44 and attempting to fill new orders is BS and I wouldn't trust them at all.

    I completely get that they are broke and new sales may mean they can eventually fill the old ones. That's something they need to be communicating to the people that have been waiting for 4 years though. Those guys shouldn't see you posting about your Alien that you just decided to get with nothing from Heighway when they paid forever ago and are getting nothing but the middle finger.

    I'm not saying that is your fault or Pinlayer's fault. Neither of you are doing anything wrong. But you can't be tone deaf to the people that are getting screwed.

    #29 6 years ago
    Quoted from delt31:

    Who's ignoring that though? I mentioned many times that it sucks and that giving a full payment for a unreleased machine is always dicey and that the situation is very frustrating. What I don't like is people like you who are rude to the ones that are just buying a game for sale and essentially being blamed for buying one when others are waiting
    That argument is tone deaf to common sense which I've already articulated.
    So yes I suggest you relax on attacking others. Let's just be a little less aggressive towards others that have done nothing wrong. You have every right to be pissed at HP.

    Then put me on ignore. The last sentence in my second post was a joke. After reading it I agree that it didn't come across as one so I updated it. I obviously do not think that Pinlawyer should have to give his game to anyone if he gets it. I haven't attacked anyone. I do think anyone sending money to Heighway at this point is nuts but it's their money and they can do whatever they want with it. That's just my opinion and nothing else.

    Quoted from CrazyLevi:

    What was the point of the original post though?
    While there was a little "what should I buy" tagged on to the end, it really seemed like a gloat over all the Alien people who so far have been royally screwed with a little stern-bashing thrown into the mix.
    This stuff always works out in the wash though. Anybody buying a Heighway machine at this stage of the game is getting exactly what they deserve.

    You are tone deaf and lacking in common sense, I say good day sir.

    #42 6 years ago
    Quoted from delt31:

    Gentry - I rather not put you on ignore b/c I think you mean well and I respect differing opinions it's just that you have trouble sometimes communicating. You've already admitted this twice now, including here. Maybe take a little more time so that you get it right initially and avoid having to edit what you don't even agree with. Just a suggestion.

    I don't know man. Maybe so, but I'm afraid we may both suffer from the same affliction if that the case I'll buy you a beer sometime at a show.

    Enough nonsense anyway, back to pinball

    Quoted from pinlawyer:

    Didn’t mean to start a fire here. Not even a hint of gloat was intended. Just trying to get a feel for whether anyone had info I was missing and whether mods or parts were available. I took a gamble. But I paid a distro, not a manufacturer.

    I hope it works out for you and that you enjoy your game.

    #43 6 years ago
    Quoted from wdennie:

    I don't have a horse in this race, but if heighway is shipping games to new buyers and you have money tied up on a old deposit, and waiting for ever,
    why not purchase a new one and then sell off the one that is being back ordered, when it finally get shipped?

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