Each to their own. There aren't stacks of unclaimed GoT LEs sitting around right now. I wanted to play the game and would rather spend an hour swapping out a cosmetically damaged part at some point than wait weeks for a replacement and take off work to accept another shipment.

Definitely should have popped the top open inside the truck trailer and shined a flashlight in there. Stern's inner packing material is pretty darn good and gives a lot of space from the inside of the cardboard to the actual game.

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Haha.

Twdle my man. Pinball gold thanks to Lyman and Borgie.

Nah. Doesn't have as broad appeal as tron le seems to.

These cost 7500 new at first lol not 4500

Happiness is a nice box.

I'm not one to play grammar police, but the fact that you keep writing "tell" instead of "until" is bordering on insufferable. The fact that you preface it by saying "If you can read and understand English" makes it even better.

As for the game, we have no idea of the condition because you didn't sack-up and open the box. You can't claim its broken when you didn't even see the thing.

He's talking about TFLE and they were never even close to that. I believe I paid 5400 for mine and that was about 6 months after they came out.

To OP - sure the game was fine. My only concern in this whole thread is the garage. Hope it is climate controlled. Location isn't shown and most garages arent. A lot of damage can happen in one that isn't depending on location.

All it looks like is that something rubbed up against the cardboard and there is a 6-8" air gap around the entire machine when in the box. It is not like there are fork holes through it. He should have opened it and inspected.

You want a box? I can get you a box.

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I would have probably refused it. UPS crunched my AMH. I refused it at the dock.

I understand opening the box and looking etc. Every driver and situation is different. If it's awkward to get them to open it up etc, just refuse it. A new Stern game is probably your best case scenario for a refusal. They are high volume and best able to replace it for you.

When they damage a game you purchase from another owner, you are shipping it to yourself. Your only option is to accept it and file a claim.

Yes they were I didn't say you couldn't find a deal but ipbd says 6,999.00 plus tax so bout 7,500 ish here's a pic

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TFLE was NEVER 7500. It never will be. 5400 was not a "deal". It was the going rate for any average Joe that called any of the real distributors. If anyone paid 7k for their TFLE they were taken without being given the courtesy of lube.

You can't believe everything someone puts on a website on the internet. Believe the owners that bough new....

If anyone believes it was 7500 new I have some ocean front property in Arizona to sell them.

i'd have opened it. If I wanted a perfect box I'd drive and pick it up from a distributor

I'll be damned - we found the ONE pinsider who pays full retail AND sales tax on his pin purchases.

its ok my friend..

I bought TFLE at launch for $5300 if i remember correctly. I think Automated was blowing them out for even less after a while of sitting on stock.

He was talking about when it was released. (Which Rarehero is talking about as well.) I almost bought one right away as well, and the prices I was getting was $5300-5400 for the LE's. So that's what premium NIB was back then. Quite the difference from LE's now. It wasn't that long ago either when TF was released. Not long enough to justify 2k more in a short period of time.

I owned Tron LE. Fun as hell but eventually sold it. They almost all get stale after awhile.

But yeah, bought my Tron nib, was a good ride.

That's what my wife says about her husbands.

Good news! - They're open & proved to be very helpful. They referred me to this guy:

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Hey Op, "tell" and "till". Different words.

Manufacturing defects including misaligned artwork, dangling solenoid apparatus, burned coils, scratched lockdown bar, armor, factory damaged cabinets, and a perfect box that was dropped in shipment driving the playfield into the cabinet back are reasons for opening the shipping box earlier rather than later.

There's a small risk in purchasing a NIB from anyone but the OEM or distributor as generally a private seller cannot warrant functionality or good cosmetics.

My AMH box had a huge chunk out of it....driver had no problem letting me cut the box open to inspect. All was good.

In my opinion the chances that your game was damaged from those minimal scrapes is about equal that the game you'll have sitting unopened in a pristine box has defects from the factory.

And please don't insult us by saying your not concerned about losing money when your initial response was that you were concerned the game would lose value if you opened the box but wanted to sell it later as NIB. It's fine to protect your investment but stop with the silly word games.

Based on what I've seen, I would say your box actually looked a bit above average. I've seen boxes look much worse than that with zero damage to the pin.

That's some sexy dirty talk right there.

Tight leash man, that's my thing. And handcuffs. I...may have said too much.

Til then I won't tell.

What is this, RGP again?

While this is true, I know when my friend got his machine, Cointaker warned him, do not sign for a damaged box and do not open it.
Once its open, its yours.
On the off chance there was damaged, the OP would have been screwed.
I don't blame them for refusing delivery of it.

How many husbands does your wife have?

It seems to me that you were more interested in an undamaged box for resale purposes then a kick ass game to play. If you were after a kick ass game to play you would have opened it and played it like 99% of pinsiders would have. Its apparent you plan on cashing in on your NIB purchases which you've pretty much stated. It would have taken you all of 2 min to confirm if the damage was limited to the packaging or not. I guess I know who to go to for an overpriced NIB purchase down the road.

Seriously, who stock piles NIB pins for their own recreational use without opening them? Isn't the warranty running out as they sit in box?

Me and the other one whose douchebaggery earned him an early exit.

Egads, I hope you didn't think I was seriously asking. I was just joking about your not using an apostrophe!

But nice that you know how much is too much now, though!

dad is that you?

How do you think I ever got a woman to marry me? I had to follow an act that was SO bad that, by comparison, I'd look like a god among men.

10 times out of 10 I would open the box and see if there is any damage.

All you are doing by sending the machine back to stern is to have them unbox it, look at the cabinet exterior and simply box it up again. They won't even turn on your machine.

So now you have a machine that has 3x the shipping wear and tear on it, bouncing up and down, on multiple trucks, with all that vibration, with multiple fork lifts dropping it down and moving around and it all could have been simply avoided.

I get my new sterns directly shipped from stern to my house specifically for this reason. I don't even want it to be shipped to a distributor just to be reshipped to me. To me, shipping causes more damage than playing.