Berea, OH
Quoted from dung:My bf is currently out for trade
boyfriend? best friend?
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Quoted from dung:Yes, which is why context matters. You are on a site dedicated to pinball. It makes more sense that in this *context* bf would not be standing for boyfriend or best friend.
Well, if it is an abbreviation for a game title I would think it a proper noun and should be capitalized. I hate the stupid abbreviations anyway and only know a few of them, so then I have to dig around and find out what game you're talking about.
Quoted from EvanDickson:When you trade, you know you're dealing with someone who understands pins, the maintenance requirements, and how to fix them.
Boy you really are making a LOT of assumptions here! So you don't expect some average Joe with a game room that knows absolutely nothing about a pinball to ever trade for something else?
Quoted from dung:Valid point, but a quick phone conversation will tell you a lot about a person. Trading can be risky. I have had a pinsider misrepresent their machine. I didn't find this out until I got the machine home and unwraped. Another local pinsider just got hosed on a trade for what was described as a mint HUO machine that had issues and broken plastics.
We'll, you are also making a trade when you trade your cash for a pin. When you are looking at it, in person, you have to look for things such as broken plastics, play the game if it is in working order, and so on. Doesn't matter if I am trading a motorcycle for a car, a pool table for a pin, a pin for a pin, or cash for a pin. There's always some element of risk, all you can do is minimize it. If you are making purchases or trades where you are not physically in person to examine the machine inside and out, that is inherently much more risky.
I liked cosmokramer's three way trade the best:
"Found a guy with an old em pin I was interested in. I own a garage door company and offered him an installed garage door for a trade, he said he wasn't interested in a garage door but wanted a kayak. I told him I didn't have one so he asked me if he can find someone who has a kayak and needs a garage door could I do it and I chuckled and said sure, thinking theres no way this guy is gonna pull this off.
He calls me two days later and says he found a third party to do the three way trade. the following week I went to this guys house and installed his garage door. As I was finishing up the guy with the pin shows up and gives me the pin and picks up his kayak from the guy who got the garage door. Win-win-win for everybody."
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/whats-the-craziest-trade-youve-ever-done
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