You’re a pinball wizard

--FT
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> On Mar 26, 2020, at 5:35 AM, dan--- via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> I had a nice side business years ago buying and selling electromechanical 
> pins. I’ve often had a couple around the house for entertainment, but like 
> cars, the darned younger people with more money than brains have driven the 
> values up, even for the old EM machines, to the point where they’re often 
> unaffordable. That’s caused a bunch of opportunists to come out of the 
> woodwork to buy these things up at any price to clean up (“shop”) and resell 
> to these people.
> 
> Go look on your local CL under “pinball” and see how many listings there are 
> by people who will pay “top dollar” for your old pinball game.
> 
> This is a nice Williams single player “Klondike” machine:
> 
> https://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=1388&picno=66466
> 
> Needs to be shopped and some minor electrical repairs. Most likely just a 
> good cleaning. Single player games are not typically as desirable as multi 
> player games for the obvious reason, so they often command less money. I’m 
> getting this one for $450 and once shopped and working 100% it’s probably 
> worth around $800-$1000, maybe more. I’ll disassemble the play field, relamp 
> everything and install new rubbers. That will cost maybe $75-$100 in parts. 
> Everything else is labor.
> 
> -D
> 
>> On Mar 25, 2020, at 10:15 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes 
>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>> 
>> What in the heck do you need with a pinball machine?
>> 
>>>> On 3/25/2020 9:12 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote:
>>> Just got a deal on a pinball machine I made a lowball offer on to a guy 
>>> that only lives about four bocks away. Guess I’ll be picking that up 
>>> tomorrow. Now if I can just get a deal on the mini-split I’ll have a cool 
>>> garage to work on the pinball machine in…
>>> 
>>> -D
>>> 
>>>> On Mar 25, 2020, at 9:25 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes 
>>>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Cash money talks.
>>>> 
>>>> --FT
>>>> Sent from iPhone
>>>> 
>>>>> On Mar 25, 2020, at 9:15 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes 
>>>>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I lowered my offer to $350, stating that since it’s not working I have 
>>>>> no way of knowing if it’s functional, and the lines and compressor are no 
>>>>> longer precharged, either.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Doubt that will garner any sympathy, but we’ll see. Worst thing is the 
>>>>> guy either counters or blows me off.
>>>>> 
>>>>> We’ll see. I closed on the old house today, I feel lucky.
>>>>> 
>>>>> -D
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Mar 25, 2020, at 9:12 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes 
>>>>>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Mitsubishi is probably the best
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> --FT
>>>>>> Sent from iPhone
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Mar 25, 2020, at 8:58 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes 
>>>>>>>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> Did someone say Mitsubishi was a good brand of mini-split? I ask 
>>>>>>> because someone on my local FB Marketplace group has a 9,000 BTU unit 
>>>>>>> they took out of service after six months they’re looking for offers on.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> It’s an MZ-GL09NA
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> https://hvacdirect.com/mitsubishi-mz-gl09na-9-000-btu-24-6-seer-ductless-mini-split-heat-pump.html
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> <https://hvacdirect.com/mitsubishi-mz-gl09na-9-000-btu-24-6-seer-ductless-mini-split-heat-pump.html>
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I’m thinking I should offend and offer $400. No guarantees since I 
>>>>>>> can’t see it working.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> ??
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> -D
>>>>>>> 
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