I posted a couple of weeks ago about my new arrival, a spin out I picked up off of Craigslist.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/new-arrival-spin-out

As soon as I got it home I began the restoration. I started with the playfield. As of yesterday, I had almost completed the touch ups.

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So far so good. Then, yesterday evening I get a phone call from the former husband of the woman I purchased the game from. She apparently sold it with out his permission and now he wants the game back. He is filing a police report, and has a lawyer involved.

Awesome, just awesome.

I spent 225 for the game, and have already purchased about 75 dollars worth of parts for it.

I share this, I guess just to reiterate that you can't be too careful when purchasing anything off of Craigslist. If anyone has any advice for me, the innocent victim, I'd be happy to hear it.

Thanks, and beware of Craigslist, people suck.

It's his ex wife, I don't know if that makes any difference.

All I did was answer the phone.

Apparently it does have sentimental value, according to this yahoo, he was awarded the game by winning a pinball tournament...

That is a good suggestion. I will do that from now on.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking at first. My concern was if they treated this as a case of receiving stolen property, or something like that. I don't know about any of this stuff. It seems easy for people to say don't worry about it, but that's easier to say if it's not happening to you.

Hmmm... I find it interesting that you are in the minority with your point of view. I am actually somewhat conflicted on this one. Do I assume that this guy is just a jerk trying to crash my buzz, or like you say, try to put myself in his shoes and put some validity into what he is telling me.

I know I will get hammered by most, based on the majority of the responses, but whatever...

Touché!

I don't really understand the tenor of your comment, but I have not made any decisions as to what I am going to do, to be honest with you. I am going to wait and see how it plays out. Probably won't be too anxious to answer or return phone calls right away, however...

Thanks for that. It seems pretty clear from reading that, what my legal rights are.

Wow, that's my guy... Shit. And no, she was not hot.

Totally embarrassed to admit it, I'm a total idiot. That's how he got my number. I responded to the add. Just shoot me now and put me out of my stupid embarrassed misery.

Nice....

He wasn't completely rude, my issue is that his suggestion was that I should give the game back to him and I would have to go after his ex wife for my money back. That seems wacked to me.

I was reading the latest responses just now when the door bell rang. I just about jumped out of my shorts!

Of course not.

Sorry, I know if I had found something that this thread would really blow up, but no such luck. I think I looked everywhere there could be anything. Not really too many places to hide stuff.

15 years in the home according to the woman I bought it from...

No, I really don't want to deal with either of the two right now, but I know this is not over...

Thanks for that acpinlover12. I never thought it would come to this when I posted. Just naive I guess...

There seems to be a misconception here, that this guy was rude and lost his temper, that is not the case and I never characterized it as such. I stated that he was getting a lawyer involved and that he was going to file a police report. I also stated that he was indicating that I should just give him his game back and that I would have to go to his ex for my money back. That didn't make much sense to me. If you read all of my posts, that is what I said. It is interesting how things can get blown out of proportion.

I don't know if I believe this guy or not, but if his story is true, and it may be, the game has some sentimental value to him. I'm sure he is pissed off at his ex, but he didn't get belligerent with me. I have two issues. One is that he got my number on false pretense and two, I'm just really bummed because this situation is making it hard for me to enjoy what I do most, which is to take an old machine and bring it back to life.

By the way, the asking price of the game was 300 and I talked the seller down to 225. I probably got a bit of a deal because the game turned out to be in pretty good shape after I gave it a thorough inspection.