Quoted from TheFamilyArcade:

Apologies for my late arrival here! I was sorting through all my negative buy/sell reviews on Pinside and that took awhile. Of course I’m kidding! I don’t have any negative reviews.
In truth, I was playing my Wonka, and despite the sluggish, shallow flippers I was really lighting it up! Kicking total ass on Violet in Kid Multiball and smashing my PR in the “World Record Gum Chewing” mode. I played those modes an extra, extra, extra long time, feeling super studly, like that dude in between those hot blonde twins in the old Wrigley commercials! Yowza!
But here I am, and what do we have here? Quite a sticky situation by the looks of things. Which, thankfully, has been brought to the attention of the Pinside masses by venerable member Crazy Levi.
Crazy Levi (by the way, using your full name here just seems so darn formal, so I’m just gonna call you Crazy, OK)? Crazy, you’ve spoken your piece. Shot your wad as it were. Bringing a Bazooka to a war of words with an ordinary “Joe” like me. And you’ve really over-chewed it in my opinion, to the point where your argument has lost its flavor. Since you don’t want to spit it out I feel obliged to pop your bubble, being the blow hard that I am. Hopefully with a little more dextrose-ity. Oops. I mean dexterity.
Before I launch my retort. Id like to welcome our peanut gallery here to partake in a little audience participation. Humor me here, because this is life or death. Stop what you’re doing right now and go look underneath all your pinball machines, and check if there’s any petrified gum under any of the cabinets. No? Hmm. Ok. How many of you have ever found a piece of gum under your games, in this new, golden age of pinball where people don’t even play their games yet wax them weekly with cloth diapers? None? What about a game you’ve purchased from a fellow, trusted Pinsider? Now, of course I’m talking modern times, not some rando route game you bought back in 1992 or recently found in a barn.
Gum. That’s what this is all about. Used gum. A big fat wad of it, stuck underneath the cabinet of a pinball machine. As Crazy reports, I had minor buyers remorse on a game purchased from Levi, because I felt he’d been a wee bit disingenuous about the game’s description before I showed up to buy it. The piece de resistance (grape flavored!), after all the other disappointments, was finding a used piece of gum under the cabinet, just placing an indelible exclamation point on the entire experience.
Yes, Levi and I settled our differences thereafter. Privately. As it should be. That’s what we “ballers” in the pinball hobby do. Besides, we’re fellow NY’ers, middle aged, and at least one of us is a very attractive man.
And yeah, to this day I haven’t let the gum thing go. And why should I? The gum thing is just a special, unique and totally singular experience for me in over ten years of successfully buying and selling pinball machines (Ive only had one subpar experience, take a wild guess). Therefore, I’ve always thought it was perfect fodder for needling old Crazy (flipper fingers) on occasion. Regardless of the situation, but certainly when he might need to be taken down a peg. God knows he could use a little needling every so often, as could we all.
It amuses me. I think it’s funny. Really funny actually. Crazy doesn’t. Once or twice a year i sneak a gum reference into a Pinside post. And he always bitches about it. On two occasions (this and one other a couple, years back) he’s gone nuclear and into generalized, borderline character assassination mode. I dunno. Maybe it’s time to retire the Schtick? It obviously hits a nerve. A better man with impeccable character would have stopped this nonsense long ago (am I talking about myself or crazy? doesn’t matter). Maybe it’s time. Hurt feelings and all.
But let me make one thing perfectly clear. I never did and do not publicly complain about the long ago transaction in question, and I’ve never been the one to introduce the topic to Pinside in any way - unless Crazy does it first. Methinks he protesteth too much!
So, bad gum jokes? Guilty as charged! But stop saying I’m always complaining about the transaction. It’s just not true dad gummit.