Mike is a nice guy.

All of his stuff is WAY overpriced and takes advantage of noobs so he can build a business. You can view it as he has overhead, retail space, blah blah blah. i view it as a guy that makes it a full time gig out of flipping pinball machines. He hunts down the goods deals making ot harder for hobbyiests to find them. HE shops them out and then charges almost double value in some cases. His buyers are more and more of the new people coming into the hobby that have more money than most of us and are happy to have his "service".

I agree that I would like to be able to filter his junk from the market and not see it. IF it means I need to ignore Mike altogether then so be it.

Again, I think Mike is a nice guy. however, I don't care for his business or business practices. i think it is fair to have both oppinions as the same time.

Retail guys unfortunately have a place in the hobby and that seems to be growing based on the influx of ritchie riches.

Nope,I just want a pinside feature to block me from seeing retail crap.

As for noobs, will continue to provide assistance and warn them which retailers to avoid completely and why.

I have no disdain for rithcie riches, just pointing out the reality of our hobby. I actually am thankful of the uneducated rich dudes that have plenty of money to buy whatever they want. those are many of the guys supporting the NIB portion of the hobby and helping to ensure more new games come out. WIthout rich dudes and operators the current state of the hobby does not exist

Just to be clear, I never was interested in a Stargate from GAP. I dont remember ever talking with him about one, sorry...he must be thinking of somone else. IF I did inquire, it was years ago, before I heard first hand from people that overpaid and what realistic prices were compared to retail.

I asked at one point if he had a real price on tha Banzaii that had been sitting and told him what i thought it was worth. He said it was already sold. THe fact tha a dealer will come here to publish a private offer, shows more of his business accumen.

I sold my AMH for face value when it was worth thousands more. SOrry, but deal with it. That is the reality.

Like I said before, Mike is a nice dude. Find his retail business to be worthless and clogs up the local marketplace with overpriced titles.

If anyone wants to go reaseach some of his "restorations" that is some good history on GAP. In particular focus on the playfileds.

Nope.

Listed it at the top to get the clicks. SOld it at face because it was the right thing to do. I had numerous offers over face, but chose to sell it to a good person that deserved to have it at face.

The reality is that flipping is VERY different than buying a game, owning it for a year and then advertising it later for FMV. I am not sure why the concept of intent is so hard for some to understand???