I have been a flipper for my entire existence in the hobby. For me, a lot of my hobby is funded by the hobby. I often will only sell machines I completely go through first. But on those machines that I do sell as projects, untouched, I give a complete honest assessment of the issues with the machine. I also will only sell at a price that will still leave some meat on the bone for the buyer if they run into issues I wasn't aware of.

A lot of flippers that get poor reputations, have zero idea what they are actually flipping and shoot from the top pricing wise trying to compared shopped games pricing with their unshopped flip for sale.

I think the OP has a history with some people on here. Here is the listing that originally caught some people's attention- https://pinside.com/pinball/market/classifieds/archive/83773

I think he ended up relisting at a different price, but the "sell at market value" is what may be the part that is up for debate. I don't recall the thread tied to the listing, but I think he mentioned that price because he wanted to trade, and not sell outright.

You are a flipper on both, you just priced one too low and one too high...

When it is a hobby, this is exactly what it is about..... When you look at your machine and go... "I need to make $xxx on this one", I don't believe you are still in the hobby world...

With 100% certainty, I can assure you this isn't the case.