In all fairness though, you were prewarned in both cases and opted to ignore the information provided.

PBP and I go way back and this was pre-pinside days.

I told him about the Bumper Action WOZ deposit embezzlement that was happening well before the shit hit the public fan and secondly that there was not a chance in hell he was going to receive a Thunderbirds machine in 2015 as it had been contractually stipulated and originally advertised at the time.

PBP won't concede to either of those events publicly though due to who might be reading in the shadows here as it will affect his forum standing locally.

If a comparison were to be made, let's just say pinside is a font of information compared to what we have down under.

Should have stuck it out then in hindsight. JJP was committed to delivering and had setup a facility dedicated to making pinball machines for that purpose. 3 years it took for mine ordering direct but it did get here and with regular professional communication updates the entire time.

Not like it was some fly by night manufacturer done on a passing whim as a side interest.

Speaking of which, I'm preparing this now for the anniversary at the end of this month. Another milestone reached with no end result in sight.
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Actually Bumper only jumped on board as a supposed distributor well after WOZ was first announced so anyone who had ordered in the initial stages did it direct with JJP like I did.

Some of us subsequently were asked to make the switch over at a later date to the local distributor but after doing due diligence on their trading practices and the actual structure of their WOZ depositor "trust accounts" most of us steadfastly refused to do so.

Ordered and paid direct, received direct - no Bumper involvement whatsoever.

For future reference one company cannot legally force a consumer to deal with another 3rd party company.

How's that current refund situation progressing anyway? Still getting the runaround?