Well since we only seem to ever really hear about how some of us have been scamed in the past, thought I would post this to show some of the positives in this hobby.

As most people saw, I had my TAF for sale, a guy in Peterbrough contacted me said he was interestead, he sent me a $100 depoist and worked out a Delivery date.  As for payment, he wanted to put the machine on his credit card but defer the payments for 30 days so he asked if he could paypal me the money rather then take a cash advance.  I agreed just as long as he paid the fees, he agreed so I delivered the machine on Monday Aug 18th.  

Show up at this new house, he hands me half the price of the machine in cash and after I setup the machine, show him how it all works, go over everything with him, we had back to his old apartment (new house doesn't have internet) to finish up the transaction threw paypal.  He goes to send me the remainder of the balance only to find since he isn't a verified paypal user there is a limit on how much money he can send via paypal.  At this point it's about 6:30 pm on a Monday so no way to get him Paypal verified today.  He asks if it would be ok to pay me the remainder of the cash once the paypal verification comes threw, the remainder was $1300.  Him and his wife seemed like good people, so I said sure and left with only his assurance that he would pay me the balance once he got verified.

Fast forward to today and I contacted him and asked him if he heard any news from PayPal, no sooner did I send the message did the payment come in for the remainder of the balance.  I made the cardinal sin by walking away from a deal without the full balance knowing that if I got scammed I'd have little recourse but a little faith in some people was rewarded and everyone was very happy in the end.  

So proof positive that not everyone is out to scam you and good people still do exist.  

Only in Canada, my friend...

Umm, the good people here is you Vengeance, not the buyer. The buyer is an unorganized dude that wasn't a scam artist. People shouldn't get kudos for NOT being scam artists. At the same time, you took a risk, and luckily didn't get burned.

You're lucky. Personally, I don't take the game out of my van until cash is in my hand. I know one person that helped load a game on someone's truck only to have the person zip off without paying.

Duane

I knew it was a stupid risk, but it worked out in the end.  Was just trying to show that not everyone is out there to screw you, sometimes people just need a little trust.  Every situation is diffrent obviously, but figured a bad deal gone good would be nice to hear rather then the usual, I got scrwed that we usually hear about.  

It's true, you usually don't hear about a situation where trust was well placed because it's common and boring. We just hear horror stories, and no wonder people think that everyone is out there trying to screw you.

Quoted from Vengeance

I knew it was a stupid risk, but it worked out in the end.  Was just trying to show that not everyone is out there to screw you, sometimes people just need a little trust.  Every situation is diffrent obviously, but figured a bad deal gone good would be nice to hear rather then the usual, I got scrwed that we usually hear about.  

Who are you and what have you done with Adam? Is this the same sh*t disturbing "bull sh*t" calling GetAway High Score Vengeance?   When did you go all care bear on us?

Duane

Still here, just had some of my faith in humaity restored for a moment, I'm sure someone will pi$$ me off on the drive home and I'll go back to hating everyone and everything  

Quoted from TwilightZone

Who are you and what have you done with Adam? Is this the same sh*t disturbing "bull sh*t" calling GetAway High Score Vengeance?   When did you go all care bear on us?

Duane

Like most people, he's just a private on the internet ^_^

So more importantly when is TSPP coming?

It sounds like a totally unethical deal. How in the end can you sell your own family? Bad joke of the day... get it "Adam's" family.

That's a nice story and I'll agree that both the buyer and the seller are good people here.  Maybe the buyer was unorganized, but until you know about the paypal issues, you just don't know and it's an honest mistake, though I'll agree it would have been cool of you if you'd just walked away, cause you never know.

Thanks, I now feel all warm and fuzzy inside .

Quoted from Vengeance

As most people saw, I had my TAF for sale, a guy in Peterbrough contacted me said he was interestead, he sent me a $100 depoist and worked out a Delivery date.  

I made the cardinal sin by walking away from a deal without the full balance knowing that if I got scammed I'd have little recourse

The Peterborough boys would have had your back.  All we would have needed is an address and an excuse to try out the new tire irons.  

Quoted from necro_nemesis

So more importantly when is TSPP coming?

I pick it up tommorow

Thanks Bish, good to know I have access to my own personal hit squad  

Quoted from Bish

The Peterborough boys would have had your back.  All we would have needed is an address and an excuse to try out the new tire irons.  

Quoted from Bish

The Peterborough boys would have had your back.  All we would have needed is an address and an excuse to try out the new tire irons.  

  yep.  we have a tattoo shop full of clowns that love pinball.  so if ever needed we can do repo easy enough.  as long as we get to play the machine for awhile afterward.  

  too bad you didn't drop in while in town as well Vengeance.  we are starting to get a nice collection in the shop.  it will be worth stopping by soon enough.  glad to hear the deal worked out fine.  

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  too bad you didn't drop in while in town as well Vengeance.  we are starting to get a nice collection in the shop.  it will be worth stopping by soon enough.  glad to hear the deal worked out fine.  

I thought about stopping in, but it was late in the evening on a Monday, wasn't even sure if your shop was open or if you would be around and I still had the drive back and it was piss pouring rain as well so that didn't help my trip back.  

I'll have to buy something and get you to transport it so I have an excuse to come that way again