December 4th 2013 5:20:23 am

A pinsider from Vienna was looking at a post on his space shuttle for me as mine had a wood screw in that location.

Trying to buy a Black Knight but the seller never responded

I use the same username on many different forums
someone from another forum noticed that I was posting on Pinside and PM'd a hello

"Where did u see the tfle for 5500. I'm in same boat as you. Got cheap pin 1 mth ago and am trying to gr something nice."

Good thread! My first pinsidemail was asking another pinsider if he still had his Mousin Around available for sale. I was looking for my first pinball. ... he never replied.

Awesome original thread...

5+ years ago, Lou Ferrigno's BFF Fireball2, PMed me about picking up a "San Francisco" pin.

Wow! I actually checked after reading the topic of the thread and my oldest mail is from 6 years ago...

I was inquiring about a SWEP1!

If the guy I sent my message to ever came up to me at a show and said "you are the guy who was asking about me SWEP1" I would have told him he has the wrong guy.

18 months ago, someone responded to my TSPP that was for sale.

I deleted my older PMs awhile back.

Don't even have to look...signed up for pinside account specifically to respond to an ad for what became my first pin...Apollo. Now I have 5 more...odd.

8 years ago when I finished my Evil dead custom pin. PM from a pinsider that knows John Treadeau saying he liked it.
And an attached message from JT about it.
Not too proud of that now. Ugh!

6 years ago. I offered my F-14 as trade bait for TOTAN. I was a real pro back then.

My first was a "I will take it" about a time warp. It turned into a auction and "how much is your offer". Needless to say I didn't respond.

Tuesday June 19th 2012

Member had PM'd me about which dealers where the best to go to for NIB pins at the best prices. I must have been looking for dealer suggestions for an upcoming NIB in a thread at that time.

Most of those dealers are still the 'go to' ones today so he gave me some solid recommendations!

7 yrs ago I contacted NimblePin and he replied with instructions on how he installed a lighted balrog topper on a LOTR. I was new to pinball at the time and was impressed on how helpful the pinball community was!

Not sure I sold it to GAP 6-7 years ago. Not sure where it is now.

Joined pinside as a noob and sent a message to a distributor because I was dying to get a xmen pro NIB. They charged me msrp + shipping. Live and learn...

"Hi! I'd like to buy your Sea Witch."

Ended up buying it for $1200.

Your request was my first PinsideMail too

My oldest PinsideMail message coincidentally is also the very first PinsideMail message ever sent

Translated: Here is your first PinsideMail message!

Sent to Martijn on March 31st, 2008

My 1st PM recvd was in Dec 2011 from Pinsider pinmike (who used to live in Shreveport, LA, but now is in Michigan).
He was asking if I had any other machines for sale {other than the 68 Gottlieb e-m Spin Wheel that I had put up for sale}.

About 6 months later, shortly before Pinmike moved to Mich, he ended up giving away a project machine (an 84 Bally Black Pyramid) to Nevus who is/was local, and the pin eventually ended up with me for a while, then on to two other LA Pinsiders. Machine is still in LA, and is working and playable.

Wow how times have changed in 3 short years.
Mine is someone inquiring about my newly purchased $4700 cdn taf. Damn:/

Mine was 4 years ago when I was contacted to see if I wanted to look at trading my Bride of Pinbot for a Nitro ground shaker. From memory it was a very nice Nitro too. Only problem i’m In Albury, Australia and he thought I was in Albany NY....can’t remember why the deal fell through.

What is this box thing with a ball rolling around in it?

August 24, 2012 from @rabscuttle. My Pinside Join date is August 23, 2012.

Hey, just wanted to say welcome to pinside. I'm pretty new to the hobby, too, and you are going to LOVE owning a machine! It's a lot of work, but so much fun, there's nothing like it.

Good luck, and happy flippin'!

This was mine, to AttilaK for an Addam’s Family he was selling. Couldn’t have been nicer to deal with. I ended up buying his Ripley’s instead, and things quickly escalated... every square inch of my basement is now accounted for and I have since undergone major demo to widen those stupid doors!

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how can we compete with that.....

over 5 years ago to Bowen with suggestions of a format for a major pinball comp in the UK.

He replied with feedback and some further suggestions.

THAT comp didn't happen, but I've ran over 40 different comps since then.

March 15, 2013. I was trying to buy a tee’d off topper. It was already sold. (I no longer have that game)

A year ago from Robin. Before I was verified there were accusations that I was Special K under a secondary account. This was our faithful leader telling me to get my ass verified.

Wait a minute...I forgot about page 2!

Almost 7 years ago, Practical Steve pmed me about buying my F-14. (He bought it).

I tend to clear them out about once a year. So my oldest one is 9 months ago. And it was about having a extra ticket to the pinball life fund raising party. My friend had to back out so another gentleman got it!

It was replying to an ad for 130 Pingame Journal and Gameroom Magazines which I met the seller in Ct to pick them up. Still have them all as well!

2/13/2014
I was asking about a funhouse for sale. It was 2900 from the seller's response.

“Did you ever make the mountain mods for The Getaway?”
Hoping that someone who was planning to re-create the "deleted" mountain mod from (my first pin) Getaway had some available. He never made any.

I commented on a for sale thread for a BK2K and the seller contacted me offering to ship for a reasonable amount. Ended up buying the game. Later on replaced it with a nicer copy.

I normally delete most of my emails, but this is my oldest from 2013-10-18. It was a scoop on what remakes are coming.....

"Remaking full games

MM AFM CC in that order.

8K (not sure on shipping)

MM example playable at the show.

MM ships by end of Q1 2014.

Supposed to have extras. LEDs. Trim. Maybe a topper. Stereo sound."

Buying a shadow from a guy in Rockford Il in 2012, which I ended up buying.

My first email over 6 years ago was to kevin at skitb adding my name to the predator list. luckily after sending in my $250 deposit, I was able to get my money back before the shtf.

I've been active since Nov. Of 2006, but my oldest pm shows 2012. I can't remember deleting any, but I'm pretty sure I had pm's before that

The pm in 2012 was after I lost a PAGG raffle for a pinball league poster. I pm'd the artist asking if he had any for sale. He sent me a free one, and he signed it.

2012-03-14 4:09:34 pm UTC

From a buddy about coming over to his place to play games that night. Thankfully he is still a buddy and he is not gone.

I believe my first private message was someone who wanted to stop by and look at a Comet machine that I was going to part out or sell. I am glad that I did not part it out. Hopefully someone out there is still playing and enjoying that game. That was over 5 years ago.

Oldest saved, was from Jan 15th 2014. Messaging regarding a Gottlieb Solar City, and arcades in Calgary Alberta back in 1974 and 1975.

Sex stuff.

Obviously.

Six years ago...I was looking to trade my LOTR for a nice Getaway and WCS94 plus cash. Pinsider contacted me with those exact pins plus cash and we ended up meeting for a successful trade. To this day I still think it was a good trade. I noticed however in reviewing the email that he also offered up a Dr. Who and CFTBL as trades...that might have been even better. I got $1300 in cash on top of the Getaway and WCS94 though.

4+ years ago I called out a prolific CL poster for always adding pinball as a keyword in his non-pin related listings. After all, who wants to see a listing for a universal remote when they are looking for pinball machines?

From Kevin Kulek, 6 years ago:

Then Nibbles offering up his TSPP Bear Can with Foam Flasher Mod.

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