West Chicago, IL
For sale, as is, just off route , needs to be shopped. Game is located near Chicago. Prefer local sale to see in person. Sorry don't have any pics
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Iv been meaning to grab a friend and visit your shop GAP. Maybe in the next week or so, this would give me an excuse to bug him to drive me!
Just moving it, got it at a good price. Not going to get to it for a while. Sits there collecting dust. We're to busy with Custom Johnny and other restores to mess with it.
It needs to be torn apart and rebuilt. It plays but flippers need to be rebuilt. What do you expect for $1600.
Mike does this every once in awhile. Heard good things about those dealing with him on the quick flips. Nice price.
Hey Gap,
I would be interested in checking out the machine. I am in the Chicago area as well. Is it still available? If so do you have a show room I can check out or an email I contact you at to setup something?
Thanks.
Quoted from coasterguy:I've always wanted to play this title ...
There was one at Expo.
Mike is a good guy to deal with for those of you not familiar with him. Bought an unshopped pin from him about 3 weeks ago, at a reasonable price. Even helped me jump my truck after the battery died out after loading the pin!
sorry had to ask
Great work, but the price now? Also how did you do the touch up on the pf? Was it cleared over or did you throw mylar on it?
Quoted from dung:but the price now?
Its on E-bay for $4700.
Quoted from Kevgascan:Its on E-bay for $4700.
Wow! I had no idea there could be such a markup on a machine after 6 days of shoppin'! I bet it looks awesome now though. Great job GAP!
Quoted from dung:Yeahhh 4700 is a bad joke if you are right.
Quoted from dung:Yeahhh 4700 is a bad joke if you are right. HUO is below 2500 these days and while he did great work I would rather have an huo for the same price.
You obviously missed the thread where GAP got all pissed off at eBay. The fees have become so outrageous that it's hard to make money selling pins on there at reasonable prices. That's why people list things so high, and a large percentage of deals take place off of eBay. The bottom line is that GAP doesn't actually expect a knowledgeable pinhead to pay $4,700 for that game.
Even then realistically speaking I don't see gap dropping his price by over 2k. Looking at the pics it does look like he placed mylar in front of the flippers. There is a very faint line where it ends.
Quoted from GAP:We actually would drop the price $2,000. We stick it high on ebay for advertising. I really don't want to sell on ebay. If anyone reads my ebay auctions it states to call us for discount pricing.
Good to know GAP thanks for straightening that out for us. Hope this one finds a good home soon.
I don't know how he ever sells any machines. I've tried to work out 3 different deals on 3 different occasions with him and he acts all interested at first but then he just stops responding. Never gives an answer if he wants to do the deal or not which obviously is not but he could at least have the courtesy to say so. I finally decided that with his outrageous prices and total lack of interest in customer relations he's prolly one of those scam's who looks for what's out there for sale then advertises it for a much higher price hoping someone will pay him to buy it for them IMHO. Oh and by the way 1 of those deals he contacted me wanting to make the deal but then just quit responding.
Quoted from britrex1:I don't know how he ever sells any machines. I've tried to work out 3 different deals on 3 different occasions with him and he acts all interested at first but then he just stops responding.
I would be more willing to believe all that if your ratings did not make it seem like you are a lunatic. 
Nah J/K, I'm assuming you just wanted to bring certain pins down in the ratings. Sorry to hear about the problems you had.
Quoted from britrex1:Oh and by the way 1 of those deals he contacted me wanting to make the deal but then just quit responding.
It takes two to converse. Did you stop responding as well or are you still trying to make contact?Need both sides.
(My no heart theory is holding strong)
What do my ratings have to do with anything? I rate machines how I feel about them that's it. Also why would I make something like that up? Yeah I did try to contact him again each time about 4 days later and he always gave me the same line "oh sorry i've been busy" but still never says anything about doing a deal just stops responding again. I don't care if any of you believe it I mean I could post the emails from him but i'm not that low. I just read these posts about how great he is to deal with and from my personal experience with him he's done nothing but waste alot of my time and after reading this post I finally felt like ranting about it. I'm not here to argue with anyone and rant is over. Good luck to anyone that does deal with him I hope he treats them better than that.
Not to give excuses here, but I have a full time day job outside of pinball, and I work on my pinball business at nights and on the weekends. I usually work 12 + hours a day and probably 60 hours a week + either on my day job or on pinball. The people that know me best can vouch for this. There are actually times were I can not keep up with the e-mail demand or the demands of both jobs and that is were I have to turn it off. I never intentionally try to ignore people sometimes it happens.
Right now my priority is making sure the 25 people that ordered Transformer LE machines are getting their games shipped this week, I have a delivery Thur night after my work, and 4 this sat. Just keeping logistics straight and making sure games are being picked up with the carrier is consuming most my after work time.
I am not looking for sympathy, just giving some insight into my weekly work life.
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