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Easy / Hard To Trade Pins
Q*Bert_OP:
--- 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.
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Bull :censored: !!!
The pins that aren't "A titles" are tough to sell to families or collectors, with few exceptions, like Capcom's Pinball Magic.
Anyone ever tried to sell:
T2
Judge Dredd
Popeye
NBA Fastbreak
Dracula
Any Sega pin
Any Data East pin
Any game with scantily clad women in the art
How easy was it?
Easy games to sell include:
Attack from Mars
Twilight Zone
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Indiana Jones
Cirqus Voltaire
Theatre of Magic
Arabian Nights
Medieval Madness
Simpsons Party
Lord of the Rings
Spider Man(Stern)
Aren't those all "A titles?"
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Jim: The LEDs I installed in route games have lost at least 90% of their intensity. These ALL came from BC's Pinball, the worst pinball LED supplier. Slow to ship, always short a few bulbs, and at least 2 bulbs are DOA in the package. BC's Pinball is also very hard to do business with...Bruce never answers his email or his phone, and it took me filing a paypal chargeback to get my order shipped. You'd think that if a buyer is willing to spend $3k on some LEDs, you should ship promptly?
Between all the games I have LED from BC's, there are 30 DEAD LEDs, and all have lost a lot of intensity, especially the 4x brights I put in the GI in all of my pins...those were almost $5 a bulb!
For anyone who wants a reliable LED supplier with a reliable product, go to Coin Taker. I installed their LEDs in a game that's been on 24/7 for almost 2 years now, and there's no noticeable drop in intensity.
Anyways, back to the point...don't mod any game you're planning to sell or trade. You'll loose at least 50% of the money spent on mods.
Jim: re: replacing lamp sockets
Never worked on a 60's-70's Bally? With those wonderful Bally factory made sockets in the head?
JeepMonkey:
--- Quote from: Q*Bert_24/7 on March 17, 2011, 05:42:18 am ---Easy games to sell include:
Attack from Mars
Twilight Zone
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Indiana Jones
Cirqus Voltaire
Theatre of Magic
Arabian Nights
Medieval Madness
Simpsons Party
Lord of the Rings
Spider Man(Stern)
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I noticed you didn't list TAF. I would imagine that title moves easily as well.
It seems a bit odd at first when it appears that the more expensive machines sell easier than machines worth one third to half as much.
Q*Bert_OP:
--- Quote from: JeepMonkey on March 17, 2011, 09:07:40 am ---
--- Quote from: Q*Bert_24/7 on March 17, 2011, 05:42:18 am ---Easy games to sell include:
Attack from Mars
Twilight Zone
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Indiana Jones
Cirqus Voltaire
Theatre of Magic
Arabian Nights
Medieval Madness
Simpsons Party
Lord of the Rings
Spider Man(Stern)
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I noticed you didn't list TAF. I would imagine that title moves easily as well.
It seems a bit odd at first when it appears that the more expensive machines sell easier than machines worth one third to half as much.
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Those games are more expensive because more people want them.
I also forgot Star Trek:TNG on that list. White Water could also be on there.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on March 16, 2011, 03:57:17 pm ---I've never had to replace a light socket that wasn't physically broken. Never had to mod one besides wiping out the dirt and maybe pinching the socket with needle nose pliers. The Clay guides are full of lots of unnecessary rip-up-the-game "fixes". :P
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I fought the sockets in my Dragonfist for two weeks. Cleaned them, pinched them, yelled at them, talked dirty to them. Some of them just would not stay reliable unless I modded them and moved the signal wire to whatever that knob is called at the bottom. After 15 of those I ended up buying a bag of new ones so I could just swap some in and mod the old ones as time allowed later on. What is bugging the crap out of me right now on that game is a 9 light common ground strip that acts the same way. I really don't feel like pulling that thing out and modding it but I'll never find a replacement and the alternative is drilling holes for individual sockets and running the ground over to them all.
I do agree that a good amount of stuff Clay's guides say are mandatory are more for "rock solid 100% NOS style reliability" and not always necessary. That stuff is for people who can't debug their games later on once they have it working.
jennifer:
When people want my pins it"s almost like they could care less about the game, it"s more the reliability of it, few would even know where to start.
They will pay more for something that doesen"t have quick fixes all over it.
What I do find however is tech"s are in short supply where I live. Anybody buying a pin/cab almost expects the "lifetime warrenty" so alas
I dont sell them anymore, I trade.
As for the LED's, I WAS pretty excited to try them......
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