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Easy / Hard To Trade Pins
JeepMonkey:
In general, what are some machines that you would consider easy or difficult to trade when time to changing machines? Let's assume machines that are mostly to completely working and in decent shape, assuming a "reasonable value" for the machine.
I am curious about the ease of trading a WMS IJ. If I were to buy one, I would think that someday I would want to sell/trade it for something different. You thoughts?
Jeff AMN:
IJ is an easy game to turn around when you're done with it. It's much harder to acquire than to sell. Selling mine took all of one evening as I got multiple offers after posting it for sale, but it took me months to track one down for an acceptable price.
Really just about any pin is easy to sell if your asking price is fair. There are a few stinkers out there that might take longer to unload, but overall any pin for a decent price will get picked up fairly quickly.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: Jeff AMN on March 16, 2011, 11:49:22 am ---Really just about any pin is easy to sell if your asking price is fair.
--- End quote ---
That is so not my experience. There are a ton of games you can't even sell for parts value. Anyone who has spent 6 months trying to sell a game cheap the whole time thinking "I would get more in generic parts" would disagree.
ChadTower:
Even if you don't "pimp it out" you can easily burn $50 in parts. Any game with old Bally light sockets will either run you $1/socket to replace or a good amount of labor to pull and mod most of the sockets. It burns to spend $50 on sockets but it also burns to sell a game for $400 that you put a ton of hours into. A lot of games that are not pretty or have damaged art are going to get parted out that would have been saved before. I already see a lot of guys buying up cheap dups of their games so they can combine two to make one prettier one.
jennifer:
Replacing parts is bad? Led"s suck? com"on ..... These games need that, the upgrade, new crome, whatever. If someone doesn"t want to pay
they can go without.
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