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Pinball Value Website
pinballjim:
Gotta love 3 letter initializations of 4 and 5 letter words.
TopJimmyCooks:
This continues to be a good guide to what's up. They're not getting the info from my meager few sales because they're not ebay. However, I've been in the right range on the few I've bought.
nickbuol:
I guess I should feel pretty good about my $1500 purchase of Theatre of Magic back in 2002. I was also able to pick up a full set of plastics and parts too. I never installed them though. I am using my own "reproduction" plastics in some areas, and a beat up trunk. I figure that if I ever parted with it, I would offer the buyer the parts as is, or install them so that they all were perfect in the game.
I doubt I will be able to ever talk my wife into giving me a little more space in the basement, but I would love to build (from scratch) a virtual pinball machine to go with my Theatre of Magic, MAME cabinet, and pachinkos... Of course, to do it the way I would want to would run a pretty hefty price.
pinballjim:
Updated the link to the latest set of figures. Prices continue to increase slightly while volume drops off a cliff. Figured this hobby would have bottomed out by now but this looks like as good as it will get.
I urge any of you considering a specific machine available locally to go ahead and purchase it. We are well into the 'may never see it at a reasonable price again' days.
TopJimmyCooks:
I'm looking at everything that comes on CL locally (eastern NC). Everything except the $8000 attack from mars, that is. there's not a lot of volume but there's also not a lot of responses to the ads compared to some places.
Machines i've encountered but didn't buy lately:
4-5 working EM's - Hocus Pocus, Dipsy doodle, old chicago - all $450 range likely still available
Mystic working $500 (already had one bought for $250 ish) available
AFM - $8000 didn't bother looking.
Hot tip $1200 WTF! didn't call
Mousin around, working, looked, passed up, sold 900
Pinbot complete, nonworking sold 900 (regret passing up) broken ramp.
Meteor nonworking, sold 350, which he had previously turned down $300 from me. said the buyer got it working by fixing a drop bank switch.
anything A or B list tends to be someone fishing for a high price.
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