meegis,
I didn't mean to be cryptic. Thanks Mike for posting. I sometimes forget that not everyone knows what I am talking about.
The other part of the story is that I have previously bought about 40 pins. I have room in various places for 25 max.
So I made a rule in November that I must sell 2 pins in order to buy 1 new pin. I am @ 9 pins out, and only 4 pins in
since November. The plan is working. 1 more pin to sell, and then 1 more that I arranged to buy, and that is my last
deal requirement under these self imposed rules.
Then I am back down to 25 pins, or 26 if you count my empty widebody pin cab for pinmame project Wong will asssist me
with in 2014 or so, when we both find the spare time.
It was a good rule to stop buying and make some room. All my pins have sold through friends and from referrals. No ads posted.
I sold my pins @ my cost to get some new people into pinball, and share some machines around, or at a mutually agreed rate by
both parties for each particular machine. The only deal is if they want to sell it, I have first DIBS (at the same price) and
then I will sell them something else at a mutually agreed fair price. Repeat the same deal as long as there is interest to do so.
It maintains pin prices at a reasonable level for everyone involved, and allows collectors with only 1 or a few machines to change
their lineup when the time comes. The point is just to reassess and be fair with each other.
If a pin is at my house, or at my shop, or at a friends house, it makes no real difference other than geography. We get together
so we can play each others pins from time to time.
Everyone wins.
Scott
Selling my collection of dedicated vids may require the posting of some ads though. lol
