I had a cop fly out to MSP airport, meet me in baggage and then we walked out to parking ramp to transact on a NOS playfield I was selling. Somehow he was able to board the plane with the playfield. When we concluded business I helped him find ticketing/check in and we both laughed a little about how we had our guard up doing a deal in the parking lot like that wondering if that was the best idea. In theory he could have checked (or even carried) a piece on the flight out but generally I had the advantage of knowing he was likely unarmed where I could have been. Neither of us were.

It really doesn’t hurt to do that. I’ve done it.

Also if you have pics beforehand you can usually get an idea of what you are dealing with. If there is an eBay watermark you know something’s up.

If they ask if you’d like to see pictures of the transmission you know it’s the scammers who hang out on Mr. Pinball

If you live in Cocoa you probably didn’t have to look too far to find one.

C as in ceiling cat? (That’s an old meme)

Yes people are good in general but they aren’t often talked about as much as they don’t make for the best news stories.

Seems legit. One of those keys in his hand should open the coin door.

Now for the hard part finding the back box key alone so you don’t have 10lbs of crap swinging by the top of the backbox while trying to lift out the glass.