I recently sold 2 EM machines that were "local pickup". That pickup will be from a shipper where all arrangements and responsibility will be the buyer's from the moment the machine is touched by the shipper. Works for me and the buyer. I believe the plan is Michelle at NAVL. I remember using Michelle 15 years ago, and not sure if or how things changed, but I remember never having a problem. I searched the forum using "NAVL" as the search term and most of what I found was from 4+ years ago.
Perhaps some of you have a recent experience.
I have my machines in a detached finished climate controlled garage. If I were the one doing the local pickup, I would pull up with my sprinter van, a dolly and my pinball dolly and a number of moving blankets and check it out, play it, then load it up.
In this case, as the seller planning for a shipper to be the one to do the local pickup, who I am assuming will not be wanting to first play the machine Haha, I was planning to prepare by detaching the heads removing the ball, removing the legs and wrap the legs, separately wrapping the bolts for the legs and head, and separately wrap the ball in bubble wrap and have the keys and wrapped ball in a zip lock bag.
I assume NAVL will come and they will know how to blanket vs wrap and protect and load the machines if I have them sitting on top of furniture blankets as described above right inside of the front of the garage door.
Does that sound about right?
Thanks.