I have a couple of nice loaners at my house but I don't put them in my collection. I don't want people asking me if I want to sell them.

Putting them in your collection and then moving them into "collection history" would show that you had the experience of possessing a machine without explicitly stating you had ownership. I may end up doing this after I see some other opinions.

I've put a few of these types of games in my collection history.
While I technically haven't owned them, they were in my house and I played them a lot.

It's not the first time that this suggestion has surfaced.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/search?s=1&include_basement=0&subforum=46&q=loan#results

I'm not sure what Robin's plans are on this, though.

anyone want to loan me some games

What's the expression, possession is nine tenths of the law?

Face it, all games are loaners. You can't take it with you!

I sometimes look around at my games and wonder where they'll all be in a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand years, 'cuz I know where I'll be!

Then I think I better play them while I can!

I count loaners

It seems like unnecessary functionality that addresses a fringe case and isn't really needed. Put them in your history or don't, make a choice and live with it, it's definitely a first world problem . You don't really need a special bucket on a profile on a website for a special category of games you've borrowed rather than owned and the hassle and risk of building it outweighs the value.

The most elegant solution is a text change for Robin,
"owned in the past"
becomes
"owned/borrowed in the past"
-mof

I don't think I'd put borrowed games in my collection list. To each their own, though. (Or, to each their borrow, hah)

This is about the most politically correct answer the OP will get on the thread. Well put Evan because it's certainly not what I would have said. What I would have said would get me a permanent thread eject and possibly a 2 week vacation on Pinside.

I demand a firm rule on this. We must have RULES or we will have TOTAL ANARCHY!
Cats and Dogs sleeping together.............

If a machine is set up in my house, I class that as owned, and it goes on the page to reflect such.

Latest example, Earthshaker - was delivering it for a friend who had sold it. Picked it up from his Sunday, set it up at mine Monday, played it through the week, took it down Friday, delivered it Saturday. Was long enough for me to play it enough to "discover" everything and fill HS table - Owned!

Brother I've been thinking the same thing lately

I'm about to buy a new car for the wife. Went to reach out to our salesman we used 6 years ago who is also the uncle of a longtime friend... and found out he's dead!

Well fuck. I should have paid $500 more for that last honda because I can't take the $ with me & I'm sure he could have used it.

With that said anyone want to sell me a game below market value? Might as well. "Ya cant take it with ya"