Mechanical Memories Magazine

Issue: 2012-May - Issue 66

If this is understood, you can send it to my personal paypal account at**** Don' t
write to me on that account though because I never check email unless I am expecting
something. It was only set up to get paid for my jobs. If you decide to do that, drop me
a line here and let me know. Then I will look in the other email account and go
tomorrow for packaging. I have a question though. How do we keep the balls from
rolling around during shipping since we have no key to open it up and remove them?
J
Hi ****, Good deal; we're on at $450. Plus shipping costs. Your plan about
having UPS pack and then checking to get the lowest cost shipping is much
appreciated. Tomorrow morning after getting your OK, I will make the Paypal
payment of $450 to your personal account, marking it as a present. Once you know the
packing and shipping costs, I will then send the remaining amount thru Paypal again,
all before you ship the game. Don't worry about the balls rolling around. They're
inside a closed space and will do no harm. I think you're right about it formerly having
some type of sign or top piece. The different coloration of the wood show where it
would have sat. Thanks for accepting my offer,****. I write articles for several coin-
op magazines, both here and in England. I think your game is going to be a future
article, assuming I can get some more information. If you need to call, my telephone
number is: ****. Thanks, and have a good meeting! Regards,
§_
Thank you. worried about the balls rolling around under the glass, but I don't
think the balls are metal, and I guess they roll in the game anyway. Yes .... once UPS
packs it, I will have exactly weight and dimensions to get quotes. That is what I did
with the wheat mill. This is the UPS Store. UPS themselves don' t pack. The UPS store
wanted $184 to ship it ground. I only got $130 for it. I ended up paying $20 for
packing at the UPS store and $52.30 for USPS parcel post mail. It went to Alaska.
They UPS store adds to the shipping cost to make money. Once it is packed, I can
check my UPS account, my Fedex account and Mail, and print the shipping and go
drop it off. I will let you know as soon as I get the prices in the a.m. Well, I am out of
here. I don' t have time to end the auction right now. I will do it when payment is
received. If anyone bids, I can still cancel it. Not to worry. Oh, and my phone number
is ****.
J
Hi ***, Plan #2. I just sent you the $450 which you will see in your Paypal
account. That should allow you to get to the shipping portion with no delay. My
Address: **** Thanks, ****
§_ I will go out in the morning and email you as soon as I find out who I am sending
through. If it is Fedex or UPS , I can have them email you with tracking updates. I just
cancelled the auction. There were 13 watchers now, but no bidders. If they wait till the
just before an auction ends like most seem to do now days, then they will lose out
most of the time. to you tomorrow.
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I just had two of the watchers write and ask about the game and why I took it off
line. One asked if it was still available and offered $650. I really debated whether I
wanted to take it off after only having it online for 2 days, but I did. Anyway, I told
them I sold it to someone on Craigs List.
§
This morning I got up and had all kinds of interesting emails (people are coming
out of the woodwork now that I cancelled). I had several inquiries, two more offers,
and more information on the game. I am debating on whether to return your money
and give this another try. I don' t want to be a flake and cancel the deal, but my sister
(who by the way gets half of the money because it had belonged to her husband) said I
should have listened to the dealer who said it was worth up to $1200. Now she is mad
at me. Before I accepted your offer, I wrote to a guy in England who deals in vintage
games. He hadn' t answered me until this morning. This is a cut and paste of what he
said:
"It was made by BMCo, who made lots of similar games to this in the 1930s. BMCo
machines are well sought after in the UK, particularly the rarer ones like this. If this
were to come up for sale in the UK, I would estimate that it would fetch around 1000
GBP. "
I looked up the conversion, and this is what I found : 1,000.00 GBP = 1,520.06 USD . I
am going to get it packaged anyway, and will think about it some more, and talk to my
sister again. I may just have to relist it with a much higher buy-it-now. I hope you
understand if I decide I can' t do it. I have sold stuff for years, and I always stuck to
what I have said, except this is a lot of difference in price. If I decide to go thru with
our deal, I will let you know this afternoon. It seems it is worth 3 times the $450, and I
hate to just let that go.
To be continued next month.
John Peterson, USA
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