Good to hear. Buddy's a good guy. My wife and I are natives of Asheville (West-Side)and now live 40 minutes east. Give me a shout if your down this way. I've been to Buddy's place and he does have an amazing collection. Great to hear your story.

I bought a NIB Tron from Buddy. He was great. Vacationing in Gatlinburg this weekend and actually played his TF at the Space Needle arcade. Something about putting tokens in that machine just made me feel good (not to mention I had fun) because I knew I was benefitting a good guy and fellow pinsider.

Darin

Yea theyre making fun of you. My brother met his wife in Florida and moved to Buffalo. He's not as smart as you. At least you didn't go all the way back.

Never met Buddy in person, but he's definitely good people. Congrats on a great pickup! I'm an hour or so from Asheville myself. Glad to have another Western NC pinhead around!

Buddy is great! Oddly I bought SM from him!

I traded him a SM for ACDC.

I missed that one I sold Stack15 it was also in the Space Needle its entire time until I brought it to the drive in. It was nice that Stack15 also took time to come eat with us while we were on vacation last Summer in GA.
I wish I was closer to that auction John as we would have fun checking those machines out.

Thanks Chad its a nice Spiderman but it must be sold to pay our US govt taxes after all its my fair share for making a profit and working.

Buddy is a great guy. We've done a few trades and he's always been a pleasure.

Interesting fact - in the 90s my grandparents owned a barber shop in a mall in Tennessee, there was also an arcade in that mall I would frequently visit. I found out last year that was Buddy's arcade. Small world sometimes.

I bought a NIB AC/DC Pro from Buddy at the Louisville Arcade Expo. What a great guy. The WOZ and AC/DC Pro that he brought to the show had to be the most played pins at the show.

I always liked that name "The House of Hair" if that was your grandparents. Nice people we would sell them tokens at discount to give to some of his customers as treats, helped us both as that old mall was dying a slow death.

Ive known (buddy) Doughslingers for a long time! maybe 12+ years, good guy! Miss those Knoxville auctions!

I sure do wish there was a better pin presence in Knoxville!

Darin

Love hearing stories of Pinheads looking out for each other. You bought yourself a sweet looking SM congrats such an epic pin!!

Mark

It was great to meet such a nice person and fellow business owner. I had to take a couple of pics. I wish you had a need for those old, as in 3 year old DTS systems or older Dolby systems. I will always try to help people enjoy our hobby. Yes I even cost myself some sales as I do try to give a honest opinion but one of the best ways is to invite people over to play the pins and let you make a better decision that just reading about them, I have been blessed to have such a diverse collection and do not mind to share. I cost myself some Xmen sales as I did not like the old code with the odd scoring and was honest, even lost a LE sale to Ohio recently with my opinion of the pin. Now with new code the pin is fun and now not for sale, go figure. Karma had to play a role in the last Xmen deal with Black Rose driving all night to get Xmen then drive here to trade for Ironman as that deal could not have been better after a rocky start in trying to do the deal. I like to try to live by the golden rule and karma when possible and really do not mind to showif I am in town. We all have to start somewhere and I have been fortunate to be doing this full time since 1988 and part time my entire life. I look forward to meeting many more Pinsiders as that is the fun of life! If I can make a sale and save you money thats another bonus too.. Happy Easter!

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doughslinger lives 20 miles North on the Same Rd as my In-laws ,, I drove up last weekend for my wife's Grandmothers funeral .. I drop'd my Buddy's to buy 3 FF speakers kits for Sterns and Just hang out a Bit .. Went to his 10 room Indoor Cinema , ate @ Mr Gettis etc .. The Man has some Rel-estate ..

I did come Home Pinless , He did offer me BDK -- Nahh .. a Few Pict's from Last weekend ..

4 weeks ago , I made a mid-night Run to his Pad and brought home a HUO IM ..

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I played his HEP HS2 ,his wife's HUO AFM , saw his NIB Tron Pro he wants to sell , etc,,,,,,,,,

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