I have to leave a comment as I have in the past talked up his games - I am sorry for talking this machine up as when I played it, it was a week after the resto (yes depth of resto is questionable) it looked great (yes looked), but I must say having never looked under the bonnet, those photos tells a whole different story. I am actually disappointed with the amount of issues and non standard things that are hidden and would have thought the inside of the cabinet would have looked like other high end machines - trimmed out in black, hardly a spec of dust, everything original etc.
I suppose the difference when I got his IM, it had only done the pub circuit for 18months and then to me so everything looked neat.
I apologize to the person who bought this in the first place if my opinion had assisted in going for it.
I did hear at Pinfest that the sale fell through and that it was returned and he then on-sold it to someone else - hopefully at a lesser price or with everything fixed.
I hope the original owner MartyJ was not mucked around and everything was worked out.
No issues Swinksy. Unfortunately its one of those things and the key lesson is to always inspect a machine prior to purchase (esp at machines over $9k).
One persons view of a work standard is or maybe different to anothers.
As mentioned the transaction was reversed between the seller and purchaser, once he was notified the purchaser was not happy with machine vs description etc, however shipping costs etc are out of pocket expenses.
