I'm sorry but I just have to ask, if you make $500,000+ a year on gambling alone, why bother with being a route op and deal with trying to sell used pins here?

Just wondering, as I'd find something less stressful to occupy my time.

Sorry about your dog as well.

Amen RonB. A few months ago he was selling a Transformers and stated "Just need cash for another opportunity (my business) only reason I'm putting it up on the cheap. "

That is either a lie, or his money is all tied up in Swiss bank accounts and it inaccessible due to the tax implications when repatriating the cash.... or as unlikely as it sounds.... maybe he is living paycheck to paycheck... nahhhhh, impossible!!! Not with that kind of income...

*Note to self*.....Start gambling!

Quick hypothetical-only calculations:

$500,000 of ordinary income, presuming no tax-sheltered investments equates to about $230,000 in income-tax due include SE tax & FICA, presuming 46% total tax bracket at that income.

If $800,000 as gross income flow through to schedule C, assume 50% of that as deductible expenses (way overestimated but this is all hypothetical anyhow), so $400,000 bottom line income on Schedule C taxed as ordinary income would equate to another $184,000 in income tax liability.

total tax liability per year: $414,000.00, or quarterly estimate payments of $103,500. Actually I think at that level, monthly estimate payments would be required, so $34,500 per month due the IRS in estimated tax payments. THAT'S a lot of quarters in pinball machine just for taxes.... 138,000 of them to be exact!

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I have no idea what you said sir, but I like it.

I think it means he's interested in the game?

Sorry bout the dog.

I beleive you stated that you put another cpu in to test but didn't look at the DMD? why not you could of tested all the switches at that time? Then you stated that you tested the DMD in another game. Just doesn't seem like the moves someone with your experiance would do.

Actually, IIRC, blackjack is the 'best' odds in gambling. If you play a "perfect" bjack game, the odds run 51:49 in the house's favor. "Perfect" being defined as both 'perfect' play with hands and 'perfect' betting strategy.

I am always quite amused by people who claim to consistently have "big winnings" from casinos. That usually means one of two things:
a) the statements are disingenuous;
or
b) their "big winnings" are accompanied by even bigger losses.

Think about it - trillions of dollars invested into a city built in the middle of the desert was not built upon casinos paying out big winnings to people.

Have one, but it is missing the undocumented playfield aerodynamic improvement shown circled in red in the picture a few posts back.

(No wonder I'm still bald!)

Time to put this dude back on ignore - and drain.

Ok so what I have gathered so far....

We are talking to a millionare gambler.
That gets hand-me-down pins and arcades from pops.
That mentally snaps at any judgement or questions. (confirmed now on 2 sites)
Brags about his income to strangers who don't care.
That has no job but states he makes $400 an hour.

If any of you believe this I have a very lucritive plot of land I would like to sell you.

This thread gets my vote for "The Best of 2014". Some pretty funny/bizarre stuff in here

Thanks

OOO..... I want it. Is it a Home Use Only plot of land?

That's a horseshit claim. JD and JM are both fun games. Even Baywatch is OK if you can get past the theme.

No worse than any machine in your current or previously owned list

I really don't think you want to open up that Pandora's Box about your sale of the "HUO" PoTC (replaced with the second "HUO" PotC) to me debacle.

Closed by OP request.

Sorry about your dog. We just had to put down one of ours a week ago. He was a former pit bull bait dog, severly abused, physically and mentally broken for awhile, then got congestive heart failure. He was given 6 months to live but lasted over 3.5 years, so he gave it all he could. The house is still too quiet though, even with 7 more rescue dogs to keep us busy.