I'd guess someone has a much better spare playfield left over from a restore than the one in this machine, shouldn't cost too much going down that route. A lot of work to swap over of course.
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No Longer Available Whitewater £4250
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Really good to know that people have good experiences with Mirco playfields - incase I want one sometime. I’d read (and seen) a tonne of negative stuff on the internet about mis-cut holes and poor customer service but, of course, people don’t grumble on the internet about good experiences!
Mate to be fair, all those things definitely DEFINATELY still apply. The guy has a rep and it's not unfounded, he's threatened legal action more than once behind closed doors. With regards to quality, I think it all depends on the game, and when it was produced. His process may have changed or been impacted by business scale, so what was good on one game might not be the same for the next. Certainly, it's more than likely you will have a good experience (and he has sorted out playfield issues for Andy in the past) but proceed with caution.
So let’s ask the BIG question here “should we comment on sales ?” I think this thread has answered that question don’t you think !
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Undoubtedly. Chris B's encyclopedic knowledge of the exact whereabouts of this particular pin over the last 10 years including owners, longitude and latitude and elevation above sea level has been a particular stand out moment. We'll done forum as a whole.
Went out for a meal in Basingstoke Saturday and came home with this
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Ah your pin-mobile, it doesn’t really fit, I was winding you upWent out for a meal in Basingstoke Saturday and came home with this
I always use 2 large bits of card on top of each other to slide one in, as the seats down quite go perfectly flush. Loads of room though mate
Ah your pin-mobile, it doesn’t really fit, I was winding you up
I always use 2 large bits of card on top of each other to slide one in, as the seats down quite go perfectly flush. Loads of room though mate
I will find out one day
Ive read people use those swimming noodles underneath to easily get them in and out but you would need to chock it in so it doesn’t move about.
Cardboard or a sheet of wood sounds better though.
Wrong unfortunately, mine went to Nevin
Mine went to Nevin, he restored it and sold it on.
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I think that's very fair indeed
members only commented after taz said that we could
because he`s sold it already
Netflix's next title: Don't Fcuk With Pinball
Just to be clear I don’t do refunds, hence it comes with a can of paintbecause he`s sold it already
On a serious note I’m really pleased that both parties have reached an amicable resolution.
Oh how times have changed back in the day I would do a 12hr round trip to view a pin in the flesh and many times came away without it.
I once went to pick a RS up but it was a very misleading ad on eBay and nothing like how it was described.
Anyhow the guy offered me a really nice WH20 for £750 to save my journey but I was a big lawyer fan at the time and asked if he’d knock £150 off the RS and Id take it anyway.
This he did and I regret to this day not because I disliked RS as I love that pin but more the fact WH20 is one of the very few pins I’ve never owned but since played and enjoyed.
In the past 30 years I’ve had litterally dozens of buyers collect pins from me, play my collections and even had a couple stay over the weekend to decide while sharing a few beers and even a nice meal made by the wife.
In fact a few of these maybe enjoyed the experience a little too much and back time and time again to unburden me of my over populated collection.
One thing I always show buyers who visit is my imaginary warranty line! This spans the width of my garage door and before they cross this line with there newly purchased toy I point out that they are crossing the point of no return and this line finalises the deal. In honesty though I’ve always tried to help when they new to the hobby and have a problem here and there it’s the done thing I guess.
Roll on to present day and it’s all too easy for us to just drop 6-8k in a bank account then martin rolls up and takes it.
I’m guilty of this too but touch wood always been happy with the outcome due to the great community we have going on here.
I’m glad everything got sorted in the end and hopefully we can move on with some important lessons learned for both sides as this has been a small hiccup in an otherwise great forum for buying and selling pins that we should all be thankful for!
Just imagine trying to sort this kind of transaction with an eBay seller they just put you on ignore and leave you to pick up the pieces.
Happy you got sorted Taz and I dob my hat to you Jake for doing the right thing to resolve the matter.
I once went to pick a RS up but it was a very misleading ad on eBay and nothing like how it was described.
Anyhow the guy offered me a really nice WH20 for £750 to save my journey but I was a big lawyer fan at the time and asked if he’d knock £150 off the RS and Id take it anyway.
This he did and I regret to this day not because I disliked RS as I love that pin but more the fact WH20 is one of the very few pins I’ve never owned but since played and enjoyed.
In the past 30 years I’ve had litterally dozens of buyers collect pins from me, play my collections and even had a couple stay over the weekend to decide while sharing a few beers and even a nice meal made by the wife.
In fact a few of these maybe enjoyed the experience a little too much and back time and time again to unburden me of my over populated collection.
One thing I always show buyers who visit is my imaginary warranty line! This spans the width of my garage door and before they cross this line with there newly purchased toy I point out that they are crossing the point of no return and this line finalises the deal. In honesty though I’ve always tried to help when they new to the hobby and have a problem here and there it’s the done thing I guess.
Roll on to present day and it’s all too easy for us to just drop 6-8k in a bank account then martin rolls up and takes it.
I’m guilty of this too but touch wood always been happy with the outcome due to the great community we have going on here.
I’m glad everything got sorted in the end and hopefully we can move on with some important lessons learned for both sides as this has been a small hiccup in an otherwise great forum for buying and selling pins that we should all be thankful for!
Just imagine trying to sort this kind of transaction with an eBay seller they just put you on ignore and leave you to pick up the pieces.
Happy you got sorted Taz and I dob my hat to you Jake for doing the right thing to resolve the matter.
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i paid £3000 for a rough one with no topper ....Yeah in a perfect world original seller should refund then resell at 3k or what ever it’s a actually worth. But this is not a perfect worldand someone is gonna get shafted here
