I am verified but I am not allowed to post about machines I have coming up for sale since a few "bad apples" started a bunch of shit on a couple of my post a few weeks back. Blocking people from posting about pinball machines on a pinball machine forum just doesn't make any sense to me? Why not block the "bad guys" and let me tell the community about nearly 100 machines that are going to be coming up for sale shortly?

My beef isn't with Robin or the moderators - my issue is with the way things got handled when I asked the pinball community for some help and advise. I am still planning on listing machines for sale here on the marketplace. But I am seriously wondering how successful a pinball site is going to be long term when it doesn't allow people to talk about pinball machines coming up for sale?

In any event I don't blame Robin for trying to make a few bucks with all the work involved in running a site like this and I think overall he has done a great job with the site. I just am sad to see where things have gone with the "pinball community" and I think this is the beginning of the end for the future of this hobby. There are way too many negative people involved in the hobby these days and way too much "sour grapes".

Thankfully my son & I have decided to head different directions and we are going to be walking away from this hobby shortly. But it really saddens me to see where things are headed.

I started a total of 3 threads - all asking for ideas & advice - and all I got was "how much - where are the prices - etc". I have never tried to sell a bunch of machines all at once before and was just looking to a forum for some help. I still don't understand what was wrong with that?

But people like you just had to keep giving me a hard time about trying to figure out how best to sell a bunch of machines quickly. And because of "all" the help I got now I am going to have to do things the hard way and list one machine at a time which was what I was trying to avoid in the first place!

Robin,

Keep up the great work! One thing for sure in life is you will never keep 100% of the people happy so as long as the majority are happy all you can do is what you think is best.

Over the past month I have had some issues here & your moderators have been great to work with. I messed up trying to do something outside the box and quickly learned it is impossible to make everyone happy. All any of us can do is the best we can.

Thanks again for the great site!