You joined today, and this is your first post?

I appreciate seeing the review but it's not really confidence inspiring!

However, Its always nice to have afresh clear coat! Congrats.

Give me a break. Pretty much everyone knows Kruzman does fantastic work. Why the hell would he need to shill for himself?

The real issue is trying to get him to accept work when you have the cash in hand ready to go BEFORE you spend it on something else.

Ron does incredible work. I haven't seen better.

Whoa calm down, I didn't say that at all. I think it's absolutely possible that the OP was a genuine customer who was happy.

I just think it's funny to see a brand new account make a single post which happens to be a review.

EDIT: I really wasn't insinuating that this was a scam, I just thought it funny. And I'm sorry but I'm not familiar with the name. I recant!

Frax,

You've got to admit both the title and the syntax of the post is quite odd.

I guess we'll see if Mike becomes a regular poster.....

Ron has too much work so I guarantee it's not a shill at Ron's request. I keep telling him to charge more

No worries, obviously we can't all know everyone in the hobby that does work, but yeah... he's pretty commonly known to be "THE MAN" when it comes to clearing playfields.

What, you mean because there's no spelling errors in the body of the post. That's kinda weird.

It's odd because:

The title starts with "RE: " like it's a reply to an email.

Mike says "I have been in the business since 1992". If he is in the business of clearing playfields, why didn't he do his own work?

No pictures or even a mention of what game it is.

If anyone is happy enough to sign up for a Pinside account just to tell the forum about getting a playfield cleared, they would certainly post pictures, or at least brag what game they are restoring.

It might be a post from one of Ron's competitors - trying to make him look bad...

Hi Mike, welcome to PS, you kind of caught us off guard with your post, we really are a good bunch here. Hope to see more of you here in the future. Where are you from? How long have you been into pinball?

Welcome Mike,

I would love to see pics!

Ron does amazing work, unfortunately I can't get him to do anything besides clears as he is too backed up. I would love to have him take on a few full pf restorations as the guy is simply amazing and an artist.

Wha.....huh?!

How would that even work? Just by attempting to look like a shill? /facepalm

Yes, Google it.

Sony got themselves caught doing exactly that.

We can't relax. This....Is....Pinside..!

Welcome.

Post some pics.

Post what game it is.

Post the experience (time frame, how did you choose Ron over others, suggested cure time, restoration or just clear ? )

You are in the playfield restoration business since 1992? Or just have sold pin since 1992? Or?

What were you under on RGP?

You've got to answer the Who What Where How and Whys or your posts look spammy.

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Mike has been in pinball for longer than most, and was a member of rgp in the day. I just went to this post for the first time because he sent me a letter sayin he gave me some praise on pinsides and had to sign up. I wrote back before reading this post, and said that pinside can be a den of vipers and I apologize in advance.
I sign on to pinside and sure as crap.
Maybe we can stay focused on this one. I promise to stay off it as of right now. It is easiest on my nerves if I just don't read them. Then I can,t get the stomach nausea.
The poster dosent spend much or any time on the net,sitting at the computer (I can relate!) but he does play a lot of pinball, and now has a beautiful tx sector.
I want to thank mike for going to the trouble to do his first post on my behalf, and I also want to thank the people who support me by publicly defending me when I cant myself, and the people who praise and pay for my work (which keeps me at it)
Cheers, r kruzman

There's a lot of lurkers on these type forums, not just this one. Ron does excellent work, and needs no promoting. That being said, who doesn't like good things to be said about them? Almost anybody would, and in the old days when I used to sell a lot, people would tell me they were going to go home and post about our transaction. I was happy to hear that.

Some people need to get a life. Todd Scott

You mean.... (looks both directions, gulp) people are watching us?

Nope.

Relax.

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Ron bitches that PF work is time consuming and people don't want to pay what its worth but when work is offered to him at whatever cost he feels its worth he doesn't want to take it. He does do great work. I have one of his necked Creech PFs and its awesome. He could take in PFs and charge whatever he wants, to a point. Of course it is his choice to take in PFs or not but it doesn't make sense to me to not take it in when people are holding open wallets in front of him.

Ron is an artist, literally. He has some incredible paintings he's done. I gave up trying to figure out why some artists do what they do. Just be thankful he's around and does great work.

I agree with you. I would just like to have some of his work.

Just want to state for the record..

TOLD YA SO.

Welcome Mike! As the saying goes.... Pictures or it didn't happen!

I contacted Ron to get some high level of cost and time for restoring and clearing a PF and he got right back to me with the requested info and with his waiting list time frame. It appears that Ron has plenty of restoral work lined up and a good bit of clear coating work lined up. Ron does not need to shill...

I can vouch for Mike Milligan. Been around since the beginning of pinball time, and I've had plenty of deals with him.