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Quoted from Max_Badazz:It's been 20 hrs since the last game for sale or trade .... what's going on? I need my fix of saying to myself: "Oh damn, I want this game nearby but I don't have the room or funds for it".
I just pulled the trigger on a local sale last night. Now with my funds depleted all the really sweet deals and grail pins will start showing up…
Quoted from CrazyLevi:Sandwich prices are also out of control lately.
I'd hate to be getting into the grinder hobby right now. $14 for a footlong with salami and provolone?
OUTFUCKINGRAGEOUS!!!! Glad I got into ham and cheese while the market was reasonable.
Sandwiches are for rich people only now?!
You need to get out of the city man…
I see some here complaining about non pinball vendors but personally I welcome them over empty space. I bought a few cute patches and my son scored a $35 dollar laptop with Doom on it. That alone saved my ass some huge money right there…
Quoted from CrazyLevi:Did he trick you into selling him a game?
I’d say yes he did. I have purchased a pin from Maxash. It was very fairly priced and he has that pinball passion for the hobby. When dealing with someone like that they want you to be happy as much if not more than meeting the target sale price. That is what I felt when dealing with him and from his version of the story.
Levi I love your caustic attitude here you post in ways I feel but would never dare express. I have thanked you personally for your contributions and insight. But your views on pricing come from a different set of rules than I think a lot of us play by. I’ve seen some of your listings and I could not bring myself to pay them even if it was my Grail Pin. I’ve not seen anything that would indicate any flexibility either.
I often pull at heart strings when I buy pins (Need time to scrounge money) and have met many awesome accommodating hobbyists as a result. If I did all that only to flip at a quick profit before the dust settled I think the seller would be pretty pissed too. I hate to see jaded transactions in a hobby that has been so supportive of me. For these reasons I can see where Maxash is coming from…
Quoted from CrazyLevi:I’m sorry you don’t like my asking prices or ads but I’ve been doing this for 22 years, I’ve bought and sold around 400 games, and as far as I know most people have been happy dealing with me. I stand by my record and the way I deal with others in this hobby, and I’ve had countless repeat customers buying and selling games.
Perhaps I came off to harsh in my assessment of your pricing. If you tune machines like you play them then it would probably be close to a clean bill of health from the good lord himself.
Clearly I am not your target audience. I was born with a screwdriver in my hand. Your value not being realized by me certainly doesn’t mean it’s not there. I used to do all my own car work. Now I pay someone else. It’s all relative. Apologies for misrepresenting your scene in my original post.
Quoted from arcyallen:To be honest, it was kind of irritating to see your system at first. But it makes sense, and it makes TOTAL sense now that you're putting it like that. You let me play Ultraman for the first time, and now that you're saying it yeah, I could actually hear the callouts and look at the pin better with no pressure from a line behind me. Thanks for doing that! But I still don't want it
There were a few titles I would have loved to try but in a sea of free play I wasn’t going to feign interest just to flip them. Im sure the low plays help keep the price closer to NIB. Don’t have to call them floor models if they never get played I guess…
Quoted from Yoko2una:I used to check CL hourly a few years ago.
So I have tried this as well on CL, marketplace, and here. Hitting refresh obsessively hoping to be the first one to catch a deal. But bizarrely enough the only real hits I’ve had (by now many) are when I either cannot afford or am not looking. Including my interaction with the quoted poster. Thanks again for that!
Now I have my theories on the how and why that is but it involves a lot of math. Plus a bit of sorcery and voodoo…
Quoted from BigBangBack:Anybody have a Star Trek pro for sale or trade near Boston?
This one might be in striking range…
Quoted from Max_Badazz:Someday I will own a Vector ... on my short list
Quoted from MutterFudder:No time like the present!
My friends… I think I may have this one. <high five>
Quoted from acedanger:lol yup claimed it worked great; but dusty. Too good to be true probably a scam.
Quoted from silen7ce:looked scammy but never know
I thought the JJP Wonka for 3k on Facebook a couple years ago had to be a scam until I spoke to her and verified with an internet probing. Someone ended up being very lucky that day…
Quoted from Garrett:Or, just keep bumping your ad with a price point it's not selling at. All good.
I’ll take a few sale bumps over a dozen gripes about Facebook drama. The best of the worst sales stories are pretty good though. I have a mental picture of Carl from Aqua Team Hunger Force saying “That’s my final OFFER!”…
Quoted from ForceFlow:While that's true, you can unload a game you don't want without much fuss. Uprooting yourself from living space to living space is a bit more of an ordeal.
I remember one apartment I looked at years ago where the photos looked fine, but when I walked in, the whole apartment was sinking to one side at a very noticeable angle. It felt really weird to walk around in. That certainly didn't show up in the photos.
I was sarcasticly referring to pinheads who jump on NIB pins prerelease. As usual I should have been more clear.
But yes real estate and digital pics can be wild. My old neighbor listed their house and the back yard looked like a country field. In reality it was little more than the footprint of the house…
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