Mechanical Memories Magazine

The Bad
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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.
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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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