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Jeff F

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only to have it work out in your favor? :)

I was watching a Freddy: Nightmare on Elm St. pinball on the Rochester, NY Craigslist but it was a bit more than I wanted to spend. I offered the guy $700 on Wednesday and he said he'd think about it. Then he said if he still had it by Friday he'd probably take it.

Friday came and about 7pm he emailed saying someone just picked it up. I was a bit bummed and got thinking maybe I should have offered $800. The wifey and I like these hokey horror/sci-fi(or is it Sy-Fy now?) themed pins and this would have been just about perfect for us. :)


Fast forward to 7:30pm when I update CraigsPal and see an X-files for $1000/OBO down in Reading, PA. It's a bit farther for me than Rochester, but for $1000 I had to at least shoot off an email. :) BTW, I should mention that the wifey and I are HUGE X-files fans... we have watched every episode at least 2 or 3 times. This would be *THE* perfect pin for us.

So I wait... and wait... and wait... and update CL to see if it's still listed and then I wait... and wait... and wait. *FINALLY* around 11:30pm I get an email saying to send my phone number and they'd setup a time for me to look at it.

Not getting too excited yet I shoot an email back and wait to hear back. I was half hoping they would call right them just so I could setup a time for Saturday morning. But no luck.

I wake up Saturday and no call... I eat breakfast... no call... I play around with the dog... no call... the kids wake up and I play around with them... no call... I tried "playing around" with wifey but she'll have no part of it so I wait some more... it gets to be about 11:30am and I finally get the call. :D

So I get the directions, hop in the car, get money, and drive 7-1/2 hours to get the game back here.

Funny thing is I don't know if I paid $900 or $880? I thought I counted the money out for the guy but I found a $20 in the car when I got home... and it was in the place I kept the $900 so I dunno? Either way we're happy!!!



It needs a bit of work, but nothing too bad and so far everyone loves it!


So... have you ever had a disappointment turn out great?
 
Not that well. I got outbid on a Megatouch recently but the guy e-mailed me afterward saying that he had another one coming in soon that he would go for slightly less on. So, waiting a week and a half, I got one for $450 instead of $485. Not a major deal but still worked out well. Both the wife and I are addicted to the thing.
 
Wow! that table looks to be in great shape. I played the x files at the roch. gameroom show and really enjoyed it.
 
Yeah, it's IPDB rating is in the mid 6 out of 10 range but we thoroughly enjoy it! First time we played it was last year in Rochester and then I think we played it again in Allentown and made up our mind we wanted one.

They usually come up for ~$2000 on CL and eBay so this was a great grab imho. Right now there is one for $1350 on the Buffalo CL. But he also has a couple others so maybe a two for $2k or three for $2.7k would work. ;)
 
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