What is a flipper?
People are buying and selling pinball machines all of the time. Sometimes for a profit. Sometimes for a loss.
1) Is a flipper someone who drags a pin home, does nothing to it, and puts it up for sale the next day?
Maybe he is guilty of trying to make a quick buck?
What if he just has 2nd thoughts and want to sell it for what he paid for it?
What about if he really has 2nd thoughts and he is going to take a loss to move it on?
2) What about if he drags it home, leaves it folded up, and then while still not doing anything to the pin, he puts it up for sale 6 months or a year later?
Does the 6 months time shift make him no longer a flipper? Now, instead of a quick buck it is a slower buck. Does that make it OK?
3) What about if he drags it home on day 1 and wipes down the play field and puts new rubbers on? Does 30 minutes of elbow grease and $15.00 worth of rubbers mean he is not a flipper?
4) Does he not get any credit for locating the pin, either by actively working a deal, or just by good luck falling into a sweet deal?
If he lumbers the pin up from the basement or drags it down from the attic, does he not get credit for that labor?
What is acceptable in your mind?
By your definition, what is a flipper?
Why do so many get PO'ed because someone made a sweet deal on a pin? If he decides to keep it then he is called a lucky SOB. But if he decides to sell he now becomes a dirty, greedy bastard?
Are you jealous because the sweet deal did not come your way?
What is a flipper?
What say you?