Arcade Collecting > Pinball
JERSEY JACK PINBALL
TopJimmyCooks:
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--- Quote from: pinballjim on August 15, 2011, 04:08:22 pm ---I really don't understand the problem. You might spend $200 on an EM, fix it up, play it awhile, and sell it for a $100 loss? Who cares? You blow $100 on dumb crap all the time.
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Yeah, depending on how long I have a game, I don't mind taking a $100 hit on a sale. Part of the fun is fixing them anyway, so I see that as time enjoyed. Usually I at least break even or make a few bucks when I sell my stuff though.
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I bought the HGOT for market for a player, and I've got $400 in parts and tools. If I can't fix the original control board, I will never see my cash back out of this thing. If I can, I can resell my $200 replacement main board for about $175 (says ebay) so I'll be fine. Gives me some incentive to get soldering. but, it was worth it because I've got the game to play while screwing with the board. Then, once my mame rig is done, it will be easier to break the thing down for some more fun restoration to increase the $.
I will be happy if I clean it, touch up the field and repaint the case and clear enough cash to get a soldering station.
smartbomb2084:
This is entirely off topic here but I want to know... Is your red, white, and black 'Album Cover' a reference to THE WHITE STRIPES?
kastawaykid:
--- Quote from: smartbomb2084 on August 16, 2011, 12:06:20 am ---This is entirely off topic here but I want to know... Is your red, white, and black 'Album Cover' a reference to THE WHITE STRIPES?
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I thought that by his name "Top Jimmy Cooks" and the "Album Cover" (Eddie's favorite guitar), that he was probably a Van Halen fan?
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on August 15, 2011, 06:01:48 pm ---I averaged it out once... figuring what I spent on buying, repairing, maintaining, and losses/gains on sales versus number of times I played them.
It came out fairly close to about $1/game and figuring realistically I'm playing 300-400 games a year spread across all my machines, that's not all that bad.
Those guys that buy them, clean them, and flip them are making less than $5/hour doing it and don't believe another word they say if they insist it's much more than that.
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Truth. The truly profitable flips are few and far between. Maybe you break even on a really good one these days. Most you don't and you're doing it because you care about the machine.
The part that I don't get about the $100 loss scenario is the newly acquired skills involved with fixing the game. That's the main thing I get out of it. When I got into this hobby I didn't even understand what soldering is nevermind being able to do it. A few years later I'm the guy everyone gives their expensive stuff in need of repair because "Chad can fix almost anything". Granted, a lot of that is just being able to find the right forum for advice, but the electrical repair and basic PCB troubleshooting I've picked up is worth way more than $100/machine. I save more than that every time an appliance dies and I don't have to spend $100 just to get a repair guy on site to look at it. I have fixed my water heater, my washer twice, my dryer, my dishwasher, and a couple other things with the skills I've picked up from this hobby.
TopJimmyCooks:
--- Quote from: kastawaykid on August 16, 2011, 01:00:03 am ---
--- Quote from: smartbomb2084 on August 16, 2011, 12:06:20 am ---This is entirely off topic here but I want to know... Is your red, white, and black 'Album Cover' a reference to THE WHITE STRIPES?
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I thought that by his name "Top Jimmy Cooks" and the "Album Cover" (Eddie's favorite guitar), that he was probably a Van Halen fan?
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I like the White Stripes too . . . and don't worry, this thread was thoroughly derailed before this tangent cropped up. :cheers:
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