Sorry to hear.

Jump on DP with all those accessories.

...of course I am biased towards R&M, when it is dialed, one of my favorite games.

Oh crap, I am so sorry to hear this... if you look at the statistics, there are, in fact, some that make it in spite of the grim prognosis - that longshot could easily be you.

You know this already but focus on your family, have fun and enjoy each other. I'm going to go hug my wife and dog then play some pinball. Life is too short.

Maybe there is a CAR-T or CRISPR trial.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28346697/

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03323944

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6813368/

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04426669

Can search clinictrials.gov for them.

Send me the bill and if anyone else wants to chip in they can.

I sent surfsidedetail a pm

surfsidedetail got back to me. They sent an invoice for $4000.

That's not a typo. They want to sell the topper for $4000 to a terminally ill cancer patient. Let that sink in for the community.

I might be generous but I'm not a fool.

Anyone have one of these toppers? Maybe someone can ask in the Munsters thread if I could temporarily borrow one or if they could scan the plastics for me and I will reproduce one ASAP - I have plenty stern serial registers and node boards to reproduce the ghostbusters toppers, not very hard to remake a one off and screw the IP holders for someone with terminal cancer.

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Yes and your decision to invoice me for $4000 is for business and not for the community, you've made that abundantly clear.

Sell your topper for 4k to the other offer you have, the rest of us will come together and figure out something for @goldenbeard.

For anyone with a topper, I will spend between. $1500 and $2000.

Cancer sucks and is only made worse when you are a completionist and lack a topper for your Munsters.

This is probably the case if outside the OEM packaging. It is hard to ship things like this without USPS UPS and FedEx dropkicking fragile stuff across the warehouse.

Starting a "chipping in list"

P1nhead $1500
TheBeefSupreme $100

Holy hell! Great!!

P1nhead $1500
TheBeefSupreme $100
thekaiser82 $1500

P1nhead $1500
TheBeefSupreme $100
thekaiser82 $1500
rogerdodger $100

This is great!

P1nhead $1500
TheBeefSupreme $100
thekaiser82 $1500
rogerdodger $100
TAVsPlace $100

Running total: $3650

P1nhead $1500
TheBeefSupreme $100
thekaiser82 $1500
rogerdodger $100
TAVsPlace $100
Bryan_Kelly $100
Concretehardt $50
Enchantress $100
cookpins $100

Running total: $3850

P1nhead $1500
TheBeefSupreme $100
thekaiser82 $1500
rogerdodger $100
TAVsPlace $100
Bryan_Kelly $100
Concretehardt $50
Enchantress $100
cookpins $100
VALIS666 $100
insight75 $100

Running total: $3950

P1nhead $1500
TheBeefSupreme $100
thekaiser82 $1500
rogerdodger $100
TAVsPlace $100
Bryan_Kelly $100
Concretehardt $50
Enchantress $100
cookpins $100
VALIS666 $100
insight75 $100
CLEllison $100

PM me. I've shipped internationally a couple times now. Very, very generous of you.

I think we could use DHL and get it here before Christmas maybe. Besides, they'd probably handle the parcel better than the others.

Running total: $4000

P1nhead $1500
TheBeefSupreme $100
thekaiser82 $1500
rogerdodger $100
TAVsPlace $100
Bryan_Kelly $100
Concretehardt $50
Enchantress $100
cookpins $100
VALIS666 $100
insight75 $100
CLEllison $100
Happy81724 $50

Another message just came in from EUROPE. I have a line on a NIB topper from somewhere in Germany.

Really hopeful this will work out.

Running total: $4025

P1nhead $1500
TheBeefSupreme $100
thekaiser82 $1500
rogerdodger $100
TAVsPlace $100
Bryan_Kelly $100
Concretehardt $50
Enchantress $100
cookpins $100
VALIS666 $100
insight75 $100
CLEllison $100
Happy81724 $50
LTG $25

Running total: $4100

P1nhead $1500
TheBeefSupreme $100
thekaiser82 $1500
rogerdodger $100
TAVsPlace $100
Bryan_Kelly $100
Concretehardt $50
Enchantress $100
cookpins $100
VALIS666 $100
insight75 $100
CLEllison $100
Happy81724 $50
LTG $25
metallik $75

We may have positive movement without any word back yet from the German distributor (they pulled the listing for the Munsters topper from their site... or it was just a listing error, hope not).

ForceFlow can we get any extra visibility to this thread? Pinned for a bit maybe?

No updates

Gabbo75 is going to give a call to the distributor today and see what the story is.

Do they have a Munsters prem or pro?

Running total: $4200

P1nhead $1500
TheBeefSupreme $100
thekaiser82 $1500
rogerdodger $100
TAVsPlace $100
Bryan_Kelly $100
Concretehardt $50
Enchantress $100
cookpins $100
VALIS666 $100
insight75 $100
CLEllison $100
Happy81724 $50
LTG $25
metallik $75
Enron64 $100

Send him to this thread, maybe he could chip in $1500 and only charge $2000? They would still be making money.

The Germany nib was a mistake listing on the distro's site.

I have a few leads now.

Another will let me borrow his to make a reproduction.

Boof-Ed has someone to come look at his game for sale next week and will let us know

Another must have saw this thread or knows Mr. Cali and said $4000.

Hoping for someone to step up, sell it for $1500 or $2000 and the rest of this money can go to GoldenBeard

Running total: $4250

P1nhead $1500
TheBeefSupreme $100
thekaiser82 $1500
rogerdodger $100
TAVsPlace $100
Bryan_Kelly $100
Concretehardt $50
Enchantress $100
cookpins $100
VALIS666 $100
insight75 $100
CLEllison $100
Happy81724 $50
LTG $25
metallik $75
Enron64 $100
Strummy $50

Collage fund? Oh like a scrap book. I think you can just buy him a gift card to Hobby Lobby for that.

Alternatively, he has a fund set up for his son. He has a death benefit for his family. He may just be spending a little for happiness right now and his wife might just sell off some games when he dies.

But hey, go ahead and be a judgmental tosser in the open.

He has a failed pancreaticoduodenectomy and is going to die... let him enjoy things.

Running total: $4350

P1nhead $1500
TheBeefSupreme $100
thekaiser82 $1500
rogerdodger $100
TAVsPlace $100
Bryan_Kelly $100
Concretehardt $50
Enchantress $100
cookpins $100
VALIS666 $100
insight75 $100
CLEllison $100
Happy81724 $50
LTG $25
metallik $75
Enron64 $100
Strummy $50
ClarkGriswold $100

Keep digging that hole.

You can see yourself out of this thread.

Boof-Ed agreed to sell his topper for $2500
thekaiser82 - I guess we can just PayPal him each individually?

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I cannot use my shipping account here in USA to set up the carrier. However, Australian Post is $94 to $174.05 AUD and FedEx International is $450 something AUD (Wednesday the 20th delivery if shipped today).

I don't know how Aus post works but we will go that route. I assume it gets delivered to USPS for the final leg.

Correct.

And I was thinking of taking delivery and bringing it to goldenbeard in person, I have some other surprises that will lift his spirits.

My part of the topper monies sent Boof-Ed

Yeah, let's wait to see what the final shipping cost is from @boof-ed.

Then after all is said and done we can all (privately) come together and discuss some things without GoldenBeard - but if he is set on just donating the excess to project pinball, I'm down with that too.

Not decided yet. We will use some to fund the shipping costs. Then the surplus we can leave it up to beard if he wants it or would like us to donate to project pinball in his name.

Also, we will not know till it hits US customs if we will get hit with fee. Shouldn't with the right HTS code since it is reimport of American made product. But that could be a 33% tarrif (did not look it up for actual tarrif but that is what I get hit with when importing from China).

Yep!

People that would like to take part of the something extra you can PM your cell and I will start a group chat about what I have planned so far.

You could then determine if you'd rather the money just go to bo or if he really doesn't want anything else it would go to project pinball or whatever he wants.

Boof-Ed has the $2500 for the topper, thekaiser82 and I split it right down the middle.

So happy we (all of us) can make this happen for GoldenBeard

Couple things:

How old is your child?
Got any doggos?
Is there anything you and your wife LOVE?
Is there anything you and your wife hate?
What street did you live on in the third grade?
What is your oldest brother's middle name?

Just kidding with the last two questions...
If you want to send answers in a PM that's okay. Don't need any bots trying to open a credit card in your name lol.

I came close to overpaying for an LE just to rip the topper off of it.

One thing I would like to use the money for is to provide GoldenBeard with the unlimited plan for $499 I think @

https://life.storyfile.com/

I can make an offline LLM based on Bo, it would be very invasive (I need lots of data) but would be pretty damn cool as a custom ai chatbot. They'd own it forever. It would improve with use over time.

I really like the ornament idea - all of pinside can come together year after year and select an ornament to display on their tree. We could set aside $500 for a Hallmark ornament fund and it could give us 10 to 20 years of ornaments.

The remainder we can just gift to goldenbeard and he can "do what thou wilt" with it.

Thanks for helping!!!

Who-Dey !

That's easy for me:

-Addams Family Gold #30 (was my father in law's until he sold it)
-Indiana Jones (the good one, maybe cgc will remake)
-Medieval Maddness
-Theater of Magic
-Junkyard
-TOTAN
-Funhouse
-Diner
-Taxi
-Creech
-Metallica Premium/LE (would love the road case cab)
-Tron Premium/LE
-Munsters Premium/LE (I wasn't kidding before about buying one to rip the topper off it for you if I had to)

Rich guy in California.

Not too far from GoldenBeard

Since the topper will most likely be here this week, wanna hang out this upcoming weekend? Maybe some others from the Ohio area can swing by and we can play a couple games together?

The eagle has landed.

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You did a great job protecting this

There is no damage that I can see.

Thank you again for helping us out!!

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I was planning on delivering it to him this weekend but he said he is locked down with his wife ( to isolate from everyone ).

Update:

It will be dropped at a safe distance this week vs waiting a few weeks to drop it off.

My part is done.

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Don't forget that about $250 to $500 of what is pledged should be held in trust to deliver an ornament each Christmas from pinside.

The rest funding a 529 is an excellent idea

So far I have $25 for the pinside ornament fund.

Also, as an FYI

https://www.investopedia.com/how-to-make-529-plan-contributions-as-a-gift-5205866

So establishing the 529 first and then accepting funds for it would be superior to GoFundMe.

https://www.morningstar.com/news/business-wire/20231206130343/ohios-529-plan-the-perfect-holiday-gift

If she sets up the 529 we can directly contribute to it

https://www.collegeadvantage.com/

The financial advisor would know that information already.

Setting up a 529 is pretty easy and donating gifts to 529 directly has been as easy as sending an amazon gift card to someone for quite a long while.

Ohio has the following 529 plans off the top of my head:

Direct-Sold Savings Plans
-Ohio's CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan

Advisor-Sold Savings Plans
-BlackRock CollegeAdvantage Advisor 529 Savings Plan

529 ABLE Plans
-Ohio STABLE Program

Special 529 physical gift cards (these can only be redeemed to a valid 529 plan) exist in stores and there are digital storefronts as well to purchase gifts to 529 plans (like at https://giftofcollege.com/)

All anyone here needs is the first name, last name and email address in order to send a 529 gift card donation to Bo's son. The e-card (or physical card) can then be redeemed to the 529 plan. You can even turn unwanted gift cards into 529 donations.

Maybe you can send out the email /information via PM to everyone on the list I assembled before so they can send the 529 gift directly. Cutting out GoFundMe as the intermediary is a much more robust and financially sound solution.

I should add that Ohio's preferred e-gifting platform for 529 plans is found at:
https://www.ugift529.com/

She already has a 529 set up for her son (which is where the gofundme monies are slated for). Ugift codes have to be initiated and shared by the 529 plan account owner. Bo's wife can share the ugift code number found on her 529 account and anyone could directly donate to the 529 plan that has already been set up.

I do pretty well in financial planning. If you raise as much for the UTMA as you did in the other gofundme (anything in excess of 15k, there will be an income tax vs no tax with 529)... though I am sure the tax rate of a minor is rather low.

It also may be problematic when using the funds at age of maturation since it will temporarily increase the income level and typically knocks most federal student aid options off the table.

But the advantage of the UTMA is your son can use it for whatever they want, a pinball machine, a trip to Europe, or college/trade expenses... the choice is theirs on what they want to spend it on vs the 529 that requires any funds to be disbursed for qualified education expenses.