Respectfully, I am blown away that you would allow roughly a $7500- dollar machine walk out the door on a Paypal F&F payment from strangers. Newbie pinball owners at that.

Maybe,...and I'm not even sure about this but maybe if it was a Pinsider that you had done business with before.

I personally would be irate and already on my way to the police dept. to file a report for fraud and larceny.
Keep us updated. I am angry for you.
-Mike

-Mike

Until you realize it's a fake Gmail acct. Connected to a Green Dot Mastercard with fake info for a Paypal acct.
All done with F&F payment.
So all I do is call PayPal and say my " friend or family member" doesn't really need the money and won't give it back, if they do nothing no big deal. They got the story and I do the same story for Mastercard and chargeback happens.
I then get my money and transfer it to another bogus card and draw of it at multiple places until I get the money off it.
Even if I lose 5% in fees here or there, I still have a very nice machine and it's sitting at a friends house for six months until smoke clears or selling it out of another state all together.
Nothing really leads back to buyer unless maybe you have a plate off the vehicle which is probably borrowed or rental with scam card.
Someone had put some thought into all of this for whatever reason and I would want blood.
Plain and simple.
I still can't believe this actually happened to you. Really hope you get revenge in one form or another.
-Mike