I own a garage door company in So Cal. and periodically put a listing on craigslist to trade garage door installs or services for pinball machines. I have gotten a few EMs from this and also got a Phantom Of The Opera a few years back.
I posted an ad last week and a guy contacted me and asked if I would be interested in trading for a dirtbike, I went to his house and found out he already had a roll up door but some of the sections were cracked. He showed me a Pitster Pro x2r 125cc dirtbike that looked as if it had just come off the showroom floor and asked me if I would trade 4 new garage door sections straight across for the bike. I agreed and the following day went to my supplier and spent $205 on the material, went to his house and installed them in about an hour, then loaded up the bike and brought it home.
I then listed the bike on craigslist to trade it for a pinball machine and had a guy hit me up to trade for a really clean No Fear. I just got back and am very happy as we did another straight trade.
Here is the bike I got for the $205 worth of material and a bit of labor...
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here is the pinball I got for the bike
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It needs a good cleaning but is in real nice shape
he had it for about 15 years and never knew how to take the backglass out so best case is I need to change the batteries, worst case is there is battery corrosion and it may need a new board. It turns on and lights up but the display only reads "factory settings reset"
Im going to clean it up, drill out the backbox lock and check the boards and see if I can start playing it tomorrow...
I will post pics after the cleaning.
Tronville, WI
Nice work man, congrats.
SUPER trade cosmo. 
Salisbury
