“Your ad has been up for 3 days now, so your price is obviously too high. So are you ready to accept my lowball offer?”

I seem to never have this experience, but i avoid FB marketplace, craigslist etc. Prefer to deal with reputable Pinsiders. I’ve been lowballed before sure but those convos end quickly. Never been asked why i was selling but the short answer would be “because i want your money more than i want this game” haha.

Selling pinball machines is the easiest thing ever. If I don’t like the terms of the first buyer, I go down the massive list until I get to the guy with no conditions who comes with a truck, breaks it down himself and leaves without much chatter.

Those are first time buyers. I only list on pinside. Every transaction I’ve done has been painless. Just price it right and be cool as a seller and you are good.

Why are you wasting time with talkers? Make me an offer or fuck off. This is the biggest sellers market in history, no need to coddle buyers.

Will you take half,I can get it cheaper at auction.

You are pretty spot on... pinball buyers are super annoying.

I once had a guy come over with a flashlight and go over the game for a hour before passing on it for some arbitrary bullshit cosmetic reason. This mind you was a game that was about 30 years old at the time and un-restored.

I got to the point I would only deal with people i knew... but these days if you are looking to squeeze the most $$ out of your transaction be prepared to deal with every tire kicker/low baller and other moron out there.

Sounds like your price is too high and are only attracting tire kickers. Never had a problem like you describe since I price to sell.

Here’s what we get sometimes. Funny how anal some folks are

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What a douche flute

Wow, that’s pretty pathetic.

This is on you. If they haven't made arrangements to pay for and pick up the game by the second message day one you are just wasting your time.

Op, you have nerve!!!!

Those idiots are out there ...I had a guy want to lowball me because he said he would have to rent a truck to come pick up the pin so he wanted to take 250 off the price ...I said no then he said he would give full price if I delivered it ....I said no ..told him the first one to come and pick it up wins ....sold it to another normal buyer ....then the stupid sob had the balls to msg me and ask what I sold it for.....that is Facebook for you ....

Take your Kobe NBA, and your expert assessment, of my CL ads(game sold for asking price off of CL) and F yourself! YOU went back and back snarkily telling me that the 0% CC offer that I purchased the machine with, was about to expire, so I better sell to you, or I would regret my purchase... You are not only a cockasaurous rex, you are a limp, cockasaurous rex! Your speculation that the purchase was made on a CC, was about as lame and inaccurate, as your assessment of the pricing in general! You sure your last name is not Grizzard? What a tool!

As soon as something like that happens, the price doubles.

Insert popcorn meme

What ever happened to Tom Grizzard? Should of saved the emails we exchanged years ago, quite entertaining.

Get your emotional passport ready, cause you're going on a guilt trip!!!

What a lame ass way to try to make you feel badly for selling a game at market value. "When children are involved..." GTFO of here with that.

I’ve had more issues with sellers than buyers frankly.

My favorite is when I have a buyer whittle me down on price over messages then show up and try to get me to knock another ten percent off. I ended the sale right there the few times it happened.

You are funny. I will not post them but I should, because you are not only way off on the truth about the content of YOUR email solicitations, but the only reason they went on for 2 days(not a week but why let facts get in the way of a good fantasy), is because my first cordial reply that I would not take your offer, was met with YOUR CONTINUED EXPERTISE ABOUT HOW I NEEDED TO TAKE YOUR OFFER OR I WOULD BE DOOMED!

Tell you what, heres a screenshot of the CL ad, to show your "accuracy" on details there. I need not go any further, since you crying to mods, already got me moderated in this thread! LOL...You have no clue of what you even said in the exchange, based on the inaccuracy, of your "facts" so far!

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If you can remember who had one for 32k, I shudder to think the abuse they got, based on your belligerent exchange with me!

You can counter with. " The only reason I'm selling my favorite pin is because a family member is facing dire consequences with health costs and may lose their house.

I'm sorry your kids won't have a nice Christmas. But maybe you could talk to them and in the spirit of Christmas contribute any money you were going to spend on Christmas and send to me so I can forward it to my relative. After all this will likely be their last Christmas and it would be nice to relieve some of their burden and worries.

I know you are a caring and generous individual and will help all you can.

Bless you and yours",
LTG : )

I try to remember that this is a hobby. If I’m getting stressed about it I’m doing it wrong.

I go by my golden rule. Anything worth doing is worth having fun.

Someone tries something wrong or crazy, they unleashed the kraken. Game on.

LTG : )

I am a "no hassle" type of guy, but I can't promise I won't talk pinball. I love pinball. I eat, breath, and sleep pinball. If I am buying or selling...we will likely be swapping stories. Sorry, not sorry.

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A good portion of my transactions have a tendency to end up taking a couple hours longer than they should for no other reason than the other person is stoked to talk about pinball.

Candidly, if buyers are asking that many questions via email or text, it’s easy to move on and find a buyer that’s easy to deal with. It’s only when I’m asking top dollar and pushing the market that I get buyers asking a lot anyway. Other times when I want to move it and price as such…very easy. It’s a sellers market unless you’re (the royal “you” / me ) asking at the high end.

The worst is when a buyer says he’ll take it, you provide detailed commentary and 40 pictures and a video as you don’t want any surprises, agrees on price, then they show up and want to haggle “just because”. Nope. I’m sorry you drove here.

If you think pinball people are wishy washers, I can tell you have never sold a Neo Geo cart or a collectible car !

Sold a game yesterday.
Buyer was great to deal with, and we were both (I think) very happy with the transaction.
YMMV

Nah, most folks seem pleased to chat about a common interest whichever way the transaction is going.

It's not too difficult to tell the difference between someone who shows interest and wants to chat for a bit and someone who doesn't. Sure, some people just want to finish the transaction an get on with their day, but I'm happy to accommodate whichever approach the other person wants to take.

This is why I buy NIB whenever possible and hold onto games for a long time before selling locally.

Well yeah no doubt read the room. Much to my teenage kids chagrin I can, and will, strike up a 10 minute conversation with any rando person at any time. But if I’m getting the “give me the money and gtfo vibe” that game will be out the door and I’ll be on my way in 5 minutes. But as a seller, I agree that the “why are you selling it?”, “I’ll take it but it’s gonna take me a week to get the money together”, “my wife…”, blah blah blah gets so old. Dealing with no nonsense “here’s a deposit, I’m on way” or repeat customers will always get my best price and my help hauling it out of the basement.

I bought 2 games recently from an atlanta operator (“my parents basement”), and made the 2 hr drive down and picked them up in person. He was a super nice guy and when he was in my area with another pinhead picking up a machine in my area, i had them over to see and collection for a couple hrs before they headed home.

Ive made more friends sincejoining this hobby. I think most of us are nice guys and we all have pinball in common! Dont let the few oddballs ruin it for you.

Oh totally. I’ve made many friends buying/selling games and always offer that if they’re ever in my area to message me and stop by to flip at any time. I also message guys before I’m listing games to see if they want them if I think it’s something they’d want or like, especially their old game. I’ve sold/traded a few games back to the people that I got it from

Anyone who knows me knows I love to talk but on the "flip side" I hate wasting time. So I quickly filter out buyers from tire kickers and quickly pass over the tire kickers. Typically when selling a machine I find you get about 6 to 8 tire kickers before you find a buyer. What never made a lot of sense to me is why tire kickers waste their time or yours?

Once in a while something sells quick enough you don't have to deal with the "tire kickers" but normally that is part of selling so I just accept it. I think the key is to get good at figuring out who the buyers are and who is wasting your time.

I’m just confused about why anyone would be a tire kicker? I think I’ve bought every game I’ve ever messaged someone about and can’t imagine wasting someone’s time when I wasn’t a legit buyer.

Same. Don’t get it at all. You either want the game or not but it’s not so cut and dry for many it seems