Every machine I have ever bought has needed work ,now granted I don't buy 5000 dollar machines but in many cases I have asked the seller ,does it work?. Then they tell you yea everything works and you drive three hours get there and find out its a different story. Then you have to decide whether its worth it or not to try and fix it. I don't know how you guys that have been in this hobby for years deal with this shit. People that own machines think that just because its standing on four legs and lights up its a piece of gold. When you tell people the truth of their machine and what its really worth they think that you are low balling them and that your a prick. The fact of the matter is facts are facts and that is the going rate for that particular machine in working order. Let me say this ...I am not a flipper .....I buy machines fix them up and play them till I get tired of them and sell them and then find a new one, but lately I'm thinking I should just keep the machines I have and walk away from this hobby because I'm quickly losing faith in humanity and the definition of honesty

I've had to deal with two of them so far but really wasn't able to determine that off the phone ,then when I got there one dude definitely needed a tin foil conspiracy hat

I've done that and had good experiences but the problem is pinside does not always have the machine that you are trying to get

so you buy a machine fix it up and decide it sucks .....you don't like it ......sell it and get something you like better ......that doesn't make you a flipper in my book ....flippers are people who buy a machine hit it with some windex maybe new rubbers and sell it for a profit. I've gone thru all my machines and put a hell of a lot of work into each one. Haven't made a profit on any of them and your gona judge me ....screw off

no what bothers me is that people can not be honest about what they have. If I have something that is not quite right I will let them know up front. and as far as what a Chinese restaurant smells like .....I couldn't tell you ...I have no idea anymore ......I lost that one of the 5 senses serving in Desert Storm

not so much burned but you know you are going to have to work on something to get the game right. My frustration comes from this......
About two months ago I took my son in law with me to pick up a game on the way home he asked me to stop at his uncles house on the way home an pick up a pin that was given to him. My son in law has brain cancer and at the time he still had tubes in his head. The pin was an old shoot a line Bingo machine that was at his grandfathers house when he was growing up. The game was in an outside shed and was not in good shape, matter of fact the lower cabinet was falling apart on the way home. Got it home and looked at it and everything was rusted to the point that none of the score motor and score reels would even turn. I told him it was beyond repair and I could tell he was disappointed. I sensed it was some child hood memory or some connection to his gran dad.
I couldn't believe there was actually one of these on the net
I grilled the guy and asked him if everything worked his answer was consistently yes
so I drove three hours to get the machine and got there and the score credits didn't work ....to me that's 90 percent of the machine
and he was like yea that doesn't work
unfortunately I'm in a time crunch cause I don't know how long this kid has to live so I gave the guy the money and took the machine
did a bunch of work on it today and did get the credits to work somewhat
still have problems with it locking up occasionally but some how some way I'm going to try and get this working and give it to the kid for his birthday next month
the upside is the back glass from his old machine is one of a kind and fits in this one
I may need to find a bingo guy on this forum to give me a hand

thanks I have to take some pictures and post them because there are quite a few hacks on this machine. found one that tied two wires together and caused the credits to count down immediately after they counted up. got rid of that and now it scores on card 2 3 and 4 .....1 does nothing 5 locks up the score motor and 6 works sometimes ......the schematics for this thing are horrible