The tale of the pinball wizard7/26/2023 It looked great from first glance and proceeded to try the machine out. We performed some initial inspection of the machine. We arrived at an old house the Machine was being stored in the garage. I had prior to going down tried to organise a visit with Martin who I'm sure most of you know performs collections and deliveries but he wasn't going to my neck of the woods for at least 2 weeks. The seller lived less than an hours drive and we drove down to inspect the machine. I responded with an offer of £6300 and he accepted. To which he responded 'I have a dealer offering in excess of £6000. Naievly I asked 'What have you been offered so far' for the machine. He knew very little about it and was asking for pricing. The person selling it had come into possession after a death in the family. Fate would have it that such a pin the very next week appeared on UK Pinball Group. My wife studied Pinside's top 100 and we settled on Star Trek as the pin of choice. Space and money has meant I never got to have a Pinball machine until now. I've always been interested in Arcades as a kid my Dad used to go around fixing and repairing Fruit machines, pinballs and Arcade machines. It never worked and was given to someone to repair who then ended up stealing it and never returning it. I had in my Garage when I was a child a Bally Pinball Wizard pinball machine. It all started in late March when I decided with the wife that we were going to get a Pinball machine. So as promised here is my first every pin purchase documented is all its (ugliness) glory.
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