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Offline pinnies4me

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Pinball Moral Dilema
« on: January 02, 2013, 04:25:03 PM »

Your mate scores a couple of games on Ebay, both are relatively rare and they were a very good price.

You mention to your mate that they are both games you were interested in, so he lets you have them instead for exactly what he paid (although he actually spent more $ collecting them).

A year or so later someone offers you twice what he passed them on to you for.

What do you do?

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Re: Pinball Moral Dilema
« Reply #1 on: January 02, 2013, 04:37:37 PM »
Business is business...

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Re: Pinball Moral Dilema
« Reply #2 on: January 02, 2013, 04:39:42 PM »
Business is business...

Agreed.

But neither you nor your mate are in the pinball business - you are both just collectors.
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Re: Pinball Moral Dilema
« Reply #3 on: January 02, 2013, 04:54:55 PM »
Go to him and say, "You would not believe.....

Then take him and his wife out for diner

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Re: Pinball Moral Dilema
« Reply #4 on: January 02, 2013, 04:56:35 PM »
I chose "offer your mate" - but that's just 'cause I'm a nice guy  %.%
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Re: Pinball Moral Dilema
« Reply #5 on: January 02, 2013, 05:02:05 PM »
Also, if he is a fellow collector he knows prices rise and fall


Who bought the Asteroid Annie?

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Re: Pinball Moral Dilema
« Reply #6 on: January 02, 2013, 05:23:46 PM »

Also, if he is a fellow collector he knows prices rise and fall


True, but the prices really hadn't changed - the original purchase prices were low by luck and that he was prepared to buy sight unseen, and they turned out to be cheap.
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Re: Pinball Moral Dilema
« Reply #7 on: January 02, 2013, 05:25:40 PM »

Who bought the Asteroid Annie?



All hypothetical.......No-one's bought the AA mate, still here - interested?? ;) I actually bought that from a dealer five or six years ago.
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Re: Pinball Moral Dilema
« Reply #8 on: January 02, 2013, 05:27:39 PM »
What goes around comes around may one day you'll get hold of a couple pins your mate wants and you'll look after him. That's how it works isn't it?

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Re: Pinball Moral Dilema
« Reply #9 on: January 02, 2013, 05:58:19 PM »
You have not set out to rip your mate off, so the profit is yours

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Re: Pinball Moral Dilema
« Reply #10 on: January 02, 2013, 06:30:03 PM »
$1.00 Indy's or $1.00 TAFs??

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Re: Pinball Moral Dilema
« Reply #11 on: January 02, 2013, 06:30:50 PM »
It also depends if you told him you were keeping them forever, or if u would keep them for a year or two and then u might flip them like u might do to all your pins, but if he knows u generally flip machines, then sell the machines, make the profit, and throw some of the profits back towards your mate.
If he wanted those machines back, he would have mentioned it to you. If u promised to keep them forever which is why he passed them to you, u should halve the profits.

He was generous to start with which gave u a good deal. The new buyer thinks its a good deal as well as he is paying the money to acquire those pins from you.

If you dont at least offer your mate something as a gesture of good faith, he may never do pinball business again with you.
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Re: Pinball Moral Dilema
« Reply #12 on: January 02, 2013, 06:35:12 PM »

Where is the option to "Keep the machines regardless of the offer" ? Why sell them ?

As long as the original sale to you covered all the additional costs, then I see no issue. An offer is an offer. The prospective buyer that made the offer should have done a bit more homework.

I have been offered crazy money for some of my games. But I don't want to sell them. Took me years to find them, so I intend on keeping them.
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Re: Pinball Moral Dilema
« Reply #13 on: January 02, 2013, 06:41:48 PM »
sell the pins for profit and take your mates wife out for dinner.....if you're gonna screw him over, you might as well do it properly  :lol :lol :lol

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Re: Pinball Moral Dilema
« Reply #14 on: January 02, 2013, 06:43:34 PM »
offer half the profits after deducting your costs for any fix ups.

In the end do what you like done to yourself
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