It looks like I am going to be away most of the next three months and I was wondering how best to handle incoming emails? Does Pinside have anything like an auto reply feature? Should I just close my account for three months? What would you do?

Here in my dilemma. Next Friday we are suppose to leave for vacation and on the way to Florida I am suppose to stop in Norfolk, Virginia and FINALLY finalize my warehouse deal I have been working on for 3+ years. We will be on vacation for 3 weeks, then starting April 12th I'll be driving about 9000 in 19 days (I estimate 10 trips with my van & trailer to get everything back to PA and each trip is just over 900 miles). My plan is getting everything out of that storage unit before the end of April so I don't have to pay rent until July. Then the first weekend in May I'll be set up at the Allentown Pinball Show. We will be tearing down Saturday night then I'll be leaving on vacation Sunday May 6th for about 5 weeks.

This wouldn't be any big deal for most people posting here but I get as many as 10 or 12 emails a day with people looking for specific parts for machines. I will not have internet access while I am away and will not have time to answer a bunch of emails anyway. So I am trying to figure out how to let people know I am away and not just too lazy to reply to them. Typically I answer ever email I get so it is out of character for me not to get back to people.

THANKS!
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ANYONE?

I was hoping either a moderator or forceflow would see this and reply.

Worst case is I'll just close my account Thursday before I leave but I have a ton of PM's to work through before I can do that.

THANKS! That sounds like a "better plan" than closing my account.

That is one thing I see that could be improved on Pinside. Overall Robin & his crew have done a fantastic job here but it would be nice to be able to set an auto reply or some type of vacation settings when someone can't be online for a period of time for what ever reason.

Thanks! See ya at Allentown. Wayne & I should be in our normal two spaces.

Kind of complicated because I need to meet some buyers their, I need to bring smaller loads home an deal with them a little at a time compared to all at once, and I did the math on a rental truck (2 trips) and using what I own still works out cheaper even with a night in a motel each time down. I don't mind the driving but I hate dealing with huge loads coming in all at once. Since I work solo smaller loads just make it easier for me.

I plan on bringing all the pinball machines & pinball machine parts home but I am hoping to give all the jukeboxes away while I am their loading and also sell most of the arcade machines instead of trucking them home.

Regardless of what I do or how I do it I have 19 days to get it done. That is all that really matters to me.

I just turned off my emails I think? Anyway - if anyone looks at my recent post that is trying to find out why they can't email me anymore I am away until just before the Allentown Show. Then we will be away again until mid-June. So I doubt I'll have me emails on again until the middle of June if all goes as planned.

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