http://user.xmission.com/~daina/classified/data/machines_for_sale_recent.html

Scroll down to September 2nd postings and see the infamous Danny Barnes

Given that the Mr Pinball ad places him in Texas and the address for the Chase account holder is Indiana, I would say no.

So the thing is that Mr Pinball is just teaming with scammers. I have posted wanted ads for parts and every single damn time I get some scammer from somewhere claiming they have the part. Ask for photos and inevitably the photos are from the internet easily found by a google search. It would be nice if google actually scanned emails for images already on the web and posted a warning about that. Would save all of us alot of time. I would not be surprised if Danny Barnes is the new alias for one of the well know blacklisted names on Mr Pinball. They will take down ads if reported, but its like swatting flies. Kill one and another 10 keep buzzing around you. Its too bad you cant trace that number to an actual locale and get the guy arrested. Though as others have said may not even be in the US

BTW that number is a VOIP number (Skype, google voice, etc). Not tied to a real location probably.

THIS is hilarious. Look what the reverse lookup says. Umm nope !

Danny Barnes (resized).jpeg

Jesus give the guy a break. We've all done stupid things that in hindsight were clearly stupid. He's trying to help us all out, not claiming that this was totally and completely unexpected. I think the problem is that people feel if its on pinside or they are contacted by pinsider its all good. Its not all good. Scams happen on pinside all the time and I have in the last month helped identify multiple instances of fraudulent marketplace listings.

Hell I've even tried to take things down on ebay where they were using images FROM PINSIDE no less. Even contact Ebay directly and their response was that they encourage people to post images from the internet when listing product. Yes ... that was their actual response. They wanted me to prove it was fraud, not the other way around.

We all live in a world where people are trying to scam us all the time and we will all at some point fall victim to it and realize there was some step here or there that could have prevented it. If this just raises all our warning flags up a little its all good by me