Quoted from woody76:Just being honest here and I have been on the site for years now. I have tried to buy 10 games in the last month with no luck because I like to ship games. I hate driving and the thought of driving 10+ hours for a pinball machine makes me just not want the game. I enjoy pinball but not that much. I finally found what I was looking for within a 3 hour drive and sent my son to pick it up. I dont really understand the NO ship thing. Once you get the money via wire or whatever and it clears who gives a crap. A lot of these guys do not want to answer 500 questions about the game and just want a easy sell and they see your new and just ignore the possible headache.
As someone who's bought and sold about two dozen pins via bank wire/paypal and a 3rd party shipper, I don't get it either, but thankfully there's a lot of people out there who do ship. A lot of the newer and higher end stuff usually has shipping, while mid and lower priced stuff doesn't. Which makes sense, the $300-$600 cost of shipping isn't very practical for a machine that costs a grand or two.
Also, of the six pins I sold last year, every single one was to a person who barely posts here, and all of them were great to deal with. The vast majority of pinball players and collectors will have an account here but barely post. I know when I meet other players/collectors in real life, 9 times out of 10 it's "yeah, I have an account there, but I don't post much." There's other ways to get to know the buyer, like trade full names and addresses and talk on the phone.
