New York, NY
100 bucks?
Why so generous? People are gonna start getting greedy!
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Quoted from fredsmythson:I think any Pinsider who was driving that particular route and had room in their vehicle for a machine would do it for $100 on a "terminal to terminal" basis like at a rest stop or Walmart parking lot. Doing a door to door event might be a lot tougher to find using this method. I've done a few transports this way - picked up the machine in a supermarket parking lot and then drove 500 miles, and dropped off the machine at a rest stop. These pickup and drop off points were within my trip route, so it worked out good...
For must of us it just ain't worth the trouble and the opening lowball offer was so ridiculous nobody is gonna want to even start a conversation with someone making it.
Do these "are you going from X to X this weekend and want to help move a game?" requests EVER work?
It's one of the shitty parts of this hobby but pinball machines are real big. If you want to do a deal, you are gonna have deal with moving it, by paying someone fair market or doing it yourself. It's just not something you can usually farm out to the lowest bidder for 50 bucks and some KFC because someone happens to be doing the same thing on the same weekend to the exact same places you are with extra room for your machine as well.
Quoted from northerndude:You know what, if I was making that route personally and someone asked for a favour I’d jump on it. I have been helped by the pinside community for shipping parts, getting a pin packed up and taken to a terminal when they said no shipping in ad, and I appreciated it. I have helped others with shipping parts because I had been helped also.
He’s not asking someone to do some big paid job, he’s asking a favour. I’m not in the area or making a trip down that road, so I guess I can be on my high horse but jeeez.
What can I say, Canadians are friendlier.
I have had luck on this once, but it was in May so it was "hey can someone from NC bring a game to Allentown?" Turned out they could.
Tacking something like this on a show isn't a bad idea but I think these shot in the darks are usually never gonna bear fruit.
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