OK haters have at it! "Overpriced for unshopped" - "can't sell it without pictures" - "pictures suck" - "I sold a nicer one 5 years ago for a lot less" - did I miss anything?

Machine is listed as promised! Pictures suck because I didn't have time to move it to the garage today. Machine will be in the garage tomorrow and better pictures will be posted then unless it rains! Maybe now some of you guys will understand why I hate listing machines that are in our basement. I can't get a decent picture down here to save my ass!

Just sick of a few guys giving me a bunch of shit every time I try to do something here on Pinside. Bad day today with a couple "haters" so I figured I would get some of the BS off the table right up front for a change.

If you follow my post on Pinside it is the same dozen or so guys constantly giving me a hard time about something. Day after day that gets old.

And here is the first of one of the regulars!

That is EXACTLY why I keep saying in my machines for sale post I need to move machines to the garage before I take pictures.

Another of the regulars!

EXACTLY! Not how I want to spend my Winter but if I don't save that warehouse full of machines they will all be headed to a landfill somewhere in Virginia. Seller only wants to deal with me or they are going into dumpsters. He is a multi-millionaire so it isn't about money to him. He just wants an easy transaction with someone he can trust and has decided that guy is me.

I have to move the machine to the garage before we get snow anyway or it will be trapped in the basement until Spring. We live in a raised ranch house and hills on both ends of the house are impossible once we have snow & ice on the ground.

As I have said on almost every post about machines I have for sale - "I do not need to sell these machines -- I am offering them for sale if anyone is interested". Once I get it moved to the garage I'll look it over and figure out if I shopped it since we bought it. With dozens of machines bought and sold over the past couple years I gave up a long time ago trying to keep track of which ones I did what to.

When I buy a machine if they needed to be shopped I shop them - if they don't need to be shopped I do what "normal people used to do" and play them.

What always amazes me here on Pinside is there are so many experts that "know" values on machines for sale who always seem to have something to say about peoples selling prices that are clueless. Since I got home from my vacation about two weeks ago I have put a total of 12 machines up for sale. Some posted here and others never even got posted because my local customers grabbed them before I even had a chance to list them. Of those 12 machines 2 are sold and gone, two are paid for waiting for buyers to pick them up 4 are "sale pending" here on Pinside (waiting for me to deliver them if I decide to make my trip South) and I have solid offers on two others. If my pending sale guys all follow through and I can work out a deal with the guy that has solid offers on the other two I will have sold 10 of the 12 machines I put up for sale in less than two weeks.

SO I GUESS THE MARKET HAS SPOKEN! Maybe you guys that know it all should learn how to get something accomplished instead of wasting time posting and trying to blow smoke up peoples asses!

To be very honest I love the "action" here. First off when I am taking breaks from working my ass off to rest my bad back, feet & legs responding to some of those people can be a lot of fun. Secondly my local guys know who I am / how I do business / and what I am all about and those are the only guys a care about.

Since I have been in the hobby I have had only 3 goals.

First is to constantly keep upgrading our collection by buying and selling machines.
Second save as many machines as possible and get them to people who will do something with them.
And lastly help as many people as I can along the way.

If anyone pulls up my feedbacks here or on eBay under PINJUNK they can see that is what I am doing.

What I don't want is a 'stash" of machines just sitting. Once we decide something isn't for us I want to see it going to someone who will enjoy it.

My user name here "too-many-pins" is referring to my parts machines. Sadly they have not been getting processed anywhere near as quickly as I would like. That is why I decided to put that business up for sale last week. Trying to find someone who has the time to do the parts right and keep stuff moving. I think I have found that guy now I am just waiting to see what he decides. He has the IDEA situation - free warehouse space and lots of free help with plenty of spare time to be doing it. I am just hoping he feels like the business is right for him because he is right for the business!

I am a big guy who needs to take fairly frequent breaks from standing. Replying to post here & responding to emails gets me off my feet about 25% of the time I am working. I am in my mid 60's and my typical day starts around 5AM and ends around 1AM. On the average I work about 16 or 17 hours a day. At my age & with my size if I wasn't sitting down that least 25% of each day I would be in much worse shape! Pinside provides an excuse for me to sit!

I think the mistake a lot of people that do not have business experience or an education in business make is they ASSUME sellers set the price of something. In business it doesn't work that way (or at least in a free market society it doesn't work that way). BUYERS ARE THE ONES THAT SET PRICES.

Once something is offered for sale to all boils down to how bad a seller wants to sell and how bad the buyer wants that item. If seller sets a price low the demand is insane - one person is very happy and a lot of other people are bitching they missed that deal. If a seller sets a price too high the item sits unsold. The "sweet spot" is the price that both a seller & buyer can agree on that makes everyone happy. That is the spot I am always looking for when buying or selling!

If you want the best example of this watch produce prices at your local market. If supply is up and demand down they are giving that item away. Pumpkins the day after Halloween is a great example! You can buy a Pumpkin that was priced at $9.95 two days earlier for $1 and most of them still get tossed in the garbage. Those pumpkins still make a great pumpkin pie but not enough people bake pumpkin pies to use all the unsold pumpkins.

Pinball machines are kind of like a Pumpkin two weeks before Halloween right now. 10 years ago you could pick up a great deal on most titles if you were willing to wait. These days the demand is insane and the supply is limited so prices keep going up. It isn't rocket science and it isn't going to change until demand drops sometime down the road. Since around 2014 it has been a sellers market when it comes to pinball machines!

If you take a look at post from people who know me or who have done business with me you will see comments like "Skip is the man" already. I don't need to give stuff away to get comments like that I just try to be fair with both sellers & buyers and I already get plenty of those.

And if my prices are so out of line how is it I sell machines pretty much as fast as I list them (without shipping)? Maybe it would dawn on you guys that knowing me and doing business with me is very different than the BS posted here on Pinside.

As I have said many times on other post - I am in my mid 60's and have been in the business of buying and selling since I was around 12 or 13. So with 50+ years of experience that has 50+ years of positive results why would I change how I do things now? Just to keep a few people who would likely never do business with me anyway happy. By the time I was 13 years old I already had more experience buying and selling collectables then half the people posting on Pinside. I sold part of my Lionel train collection when I was in my early 20's and paid cash for my first house. I am not new to how to market and sell items!

It should some people keep trying to put me through the same bull shit every time I post something. If you are implying I have a "big head" again if you knew me personally you would know better. I just say it the way it is! Semi retired at 51 years old and have traveled all over the US, have two great kids, I am very happy and semi healthy so life is good. I am not going to let a few "haters" here on Pinside change any of that.

If I am so wrong in how I do things how do I keep having machines come to me when I am not even trying to buy and keep selling them as fast as I get them. The facts are -- I am fair and honest with both sellers & buyers and people who know me know that. Yet a few jealous & clueless people here on Pinside keep mocking me?

Time to move a couple more machines then I'll be back! That is a promise & a warning!

I am happy for you! It is always nice to get a great deal! Kind of like finding a Turkey on sale the week you are looking for a turkey. But I really don't see what you getting lucky finding a cheap machines over 2000 miles west of me has to do with this listing? There was also one listed here on Pinside this week for $1200!

Great machine - lots of fun - we are just downsizing from over 30 machines in the collection to about 5 or 7 while getting ready to head in different directions in our lives. Bottom line is our machines don't get play enough to justify the space they take up or the money we have invested in them.

I follow very little that goes on here on Pinside other than what is local to me - plus trying to support our local shows and help my pinball neighbors. Other than that I try to support people who have been a huge asset to the pinball community like Tim at PHOF, Clay & his VFW, Steve Young at Pinball Resource and some of the other guys that we saving machines long before this hobby even really existed. Then once in a while another thread will catch my eye but I just don't have hours to read & comment on every thread like some people here do.

In any event sorry the joke went over my head.

I am fairly sure this one is sold but I have not finalized the deal yet so I am not marking it sale pending until I am fairly sure to is sold. I have done that too many times in the past.