I’ll let you know in 6 months....

I suck at seeing my FB messages for my restoration page. I've responded back to people like 6-9 months later because I didn't see the messages, as they dont' notify me with my regular page.

i had someone text me about a pin two+ years after it was sold. they refused to tell me who they were, i didnt recognize the number, nor did i even put my phone number on the original for sale post. was very odd.....

My warehouse deal last year was either 4 or 5 years after my first (or original & only other) contact with the seller. I called him a "ghost from the past" when talking about the deal. The crazy thing is tens of thousands of dollars later only half of the deal has happened so far and I am still having the same issue with the seller as always "no time to meet up with me". So now we are looking at Spring of 2018 to finalize the rest of the deal and that will be about 18 months after the first contact I had with him last Fall (with no other contact in almost 5 years prior to him reaching out to me last Fall).

I am amazed someone had my contact info after over 4 years let alone had not sold the stuff to someone else.

I know Lloyd (coinopwarehouse) has actively chased sellers for as long as 20+ years before they finally have agreed to sell to him. But he is actually contacting them most of the time as far as I understand things.

As far as normal Craig's List type transactions I think my record is about 6 or 8 weeks from original contact with a seller.

As a buyer my longest was around 8 months since the ad was posted.

My baby pac was listed on an old facebook ad back in febuary. I was scouring all postings of them for sale in general. This one seemed pretty good but the ad was one of the oldest I'd seen and I doubted it was still available... loo 9
I messaged the seller in july or august and mid-september I was shocked to actually get a response!!
Not only that but it was still for sale and he was asking even less for it. It seems nobody wanted a Baby Pac way out in the boonies... Except for, of course, my crazy ass.

Now it happily works in my humble gameroom, fascinating all who see and play it!

All in all though, that's 8 months from posting to sale and all except for a few days of that was just dead air. He was sure shocked someone even found that ad and even wanted it still.

One bulk deal too me 12 years to actually get my foot in the door, even though the guy would talk about me buying his games every year when I seen him at the local show. But man......it was worth the wait.......LOL.

John

As a buyer:

Made regular yearly contact with the operator since 1998. Actually completed the transaction in 2003 through his son as a deceased estate sale.

The old man just didn't want to sell up even though the machines (29 titles in total with maybe 4-5 double ups from memory) were in storage and the son had no interest in them.

As a seller:

Had contact from a buyer in June 2017 about a TZ I sold to him in April 2014 and wanted to make a complaint as the machine had recently developed a reset problem in the last month. He informed me I would need to repair this at my cost.

I told him sure I can fix it but I had a full schedule and wouldn't be able to look at it until August 2020 at the earliest.

Haven't received a response yet.

don't know still waiting.

Also been waiting for a local guy to get back to me for the last 11 years. Something makes me think he's forgotten about me.

John

What a dipshit... does he return his cell phone after using it for 3 years and then it breaks??? People like that annoy me endlessly. TZ is over 27 years old can I bring my car back and complain since it's a '96 with over 250k and the head JUST cracked???
Total idiots. When you buy an object used and it breaks it's your own cost. If it was 3 months then sure, call and complain. 3 years? Delusional.