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Easy / Hard To Trade Pins

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Jeff AMN:
Sure, but the majority of pins swapping hands are late 80's and up pins these days. The older stuff is far more novel to the average collector. But still, older games do have their niche, it's just smaller. I'm constantly amazed at how many people want my OXO. 90% of pinball players out there have no idea what OXO is, and I haven't even listed it but I'm always getting asked about it.

Even the B list DMD/alphanumeric games go rather easily. I will concede that many early SS or EM games are harder to sell, but that's due to such a small market for them. It's hard to complain when you buy one of those knowing that you're entering a real small pool of buyers.

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: Jeff AMN on March 22, 2011, 11:52:03 am ---Sure, but the majority of pins swapping hands are late 80's and up pins these days. The older stuff is far more novel to the average collector. But still, older games do have their niche, it's just smaller.

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I don't agree with that at all.  Maybe in the Williams fan circles.  For every game in that circle there are twenty outside of it.

Some of us buy those older/less desirable titles intentionally because we care about the machines and want to see them brought back to life rather than get parted out.  You're right, you go in knowing you could take a loss, but that's not what we were talking about.  It's about ease of selling the game in general.  It's not a smaller market than the more advanced games.  It's the same market with a much greater supply.

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on March 22, 2011, 01:15:35 pm ---
--- Quote from: ChadTower on March 21, 2011, 10:12:52 am ---Granted, groups like this don't exist everywhere, but they all start with one guy willing to mod a list or set up a forum.

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Why needs more penpals?   :dizzy:  What are we going to talk about?  Which one of us can open up Craig's List the fastest?


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Heh.  Depends on the quality of the group.  Through the BPA I've been able to play an original Kingpin, a Loch Ness Monster, and HUO instances of all the A list titles.  I absolutely never would have seen those two games anywhere else and probably never would have seen most of the others.  I wasn't exposed to pinball on location when it was common so the ability to meet up with folks who own games I've never seen is a great thing.  That includes bunches of lesser esteemed games that I always enjoy seeing in person for the first time.

ChadTower:

Every group has its share of guys like that.  Here is no exception.  A couple "of the good guys" tried really hard to rip me off when I was a pin newbie.  I wasn't an arcade newbie and I'm not stupid.  Didn't work.  Those guys seem to have mostly disappeared these days.  You can only do that sort of thing so many times before the shallow end of the pool wisens up.

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