Hopkins, MN
New car show room. Person looking around at the cars. Kicks a tire.
That is a sure sign of a tire kicker.
LTG : )
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Quoted from locksmith:Is there a scale of tire kickers.
1 - tire kicker
2 - keeps asking questions
3 - keeps asking for more pictures
4 - tells what they go for on Ebay
5 - tells what they can buy a better one for
6 - makes ridiculous requests like can you hold it for a month, until wife sees it, until Haley's comet returns
7 - makes ridiculous offer
8 - wants to think on it
9 - asks to see other games you aren't selling
10 - wants to play your other games ignores purchasing the one they came to see ( you aren't running a free arcade )
11 - Then there is the person that makes a reasonable offer or accepts your price in cash and can pick up within an hour.
After time you'll spot the #11 scale people quicker.
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Quoted from RyanStl:Isn't a tire kicker someone that really doesn't intend to buy?
99 times out of 100. The one time they might come through. Ain't worth the BS.
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Quoted from Daditude:I didn't know pinballs had tires.
Bolts to the legs. It's a pin moving mod. Rumor is next Summer a light mod for them is coming out. Huge RGB show as you move the game around that slows down when you glide the game into position.
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Quoted from Daditude:I really don't know what it is worth, but I sent several pics and told them to just throw me a price.
Maybe it's me. I wouldn't put a price on another persons stuff. I tell them that, and if they find out what it is worth and figure out a price, get back to me. I am interested in buying it.
Quoted from Daditude:Someone was looking for a pretty specific item, which I just so happen to have. I hadn't really thought about selling it, but this person seemed to be in need, so I reached out.
Way back before a lot of the parts were remade for pinball and arcade. I had a lot of obsolete to my use goodies. When on the newsgroups if I saw someone in need of a part, if I knew I had it and where it was, I'd email them and ask for their address and I'd mail it to them. Free.
Many times I ran into munged email addresses or even ones that simply didn't exist. Afraid of spam or something. This was brought up on an arcade newsgroup and I made the mistake of pointing out that if someone wanted something. Make it easy to contact them. The responses to that was incredible. I'm an a hole, if I can't unmunge an email address I had no business helping people with tech support. I should make a list of everything I had so people knew ( probably 5 big boxes of stuff ) what I had. If I wanted to go to all that work I'd sell it on Ebay.
Cured me of trying. I gave it all to locals that could use it for their games.
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Quoted from cottonm4:Bored an lonely,
I've often thought that was part of it.
Lots of lonely people out there starved for any attention or interaction with people.
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Quoted from Dr-pin:So this means i'm a tire kicker?
If you are serious and intend to buy the item, no. You aren't a tire kicker.
People that make ridiculous offers and never intended to buy even if low offer accepted, are tire kickers.
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