Yup, thats Chatt Pinball for sure, I know it well. I have frozen the account as possible spam and sent to Robin to investigate. Thanks for letting us know.

these are popping up more and more here. I hope Robin and the Mods are working out behind the scenes how to curb this. Pinside ads are the only way I look for games anymore. The other venues I used to look got too scammy and full of people trying yo make big $$$.

Maybe a forum post threshhold before someone can post an ad to the marketplace?

^^^^^^Great idea. I just noticed a HUO LOTR for sale for $3750 on Pinside from a user that just opened an account. If it didn't say pick-up only I would have been very skeptical.

Yes we are actively working on this! For starters, I have just added a "new user" warning message to any ads that are placed by members < 30 days. But we are thinking of other ways to help you decide the trustworthiness of a seller on the market place. Stay tuned, more info coming soon.

Maybe requiring a few months of membeship before being able to sell a pin. That would help curtail the people trying to make a quick buck off the great people here on pinside.

A better alternative is a refundable deposit? I am sure that the scam ads would disappear overnight.

Seller feedback system would help with that and those grossly misrepresenting for sale items.

if you had a waiting period of one month and had to have at least x number of post on forum first i am sure all bogus ads would disappear as well.

there is also some other wackjob trying to sell a Star Wars Trilogy by posting it (I think it was....) 6-7 times!? what-up-with-dat?

for the last year, some crazy guy says he has a thousand NIB MM's. he's taking payment on them too