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My Midevil Madness Hunt

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JeepMonkey:
Thursday I read an ad on Kansas City Craigslist for a local garage sale.  Listed was a "Midevil Themed" pinball machine.  The person later clarified that the machine title was Midevil Madness.  They said that they had the original receipt from 1998 for ~$2600.  It did not say anything about the condition of the machine.  Asking price $1000.

I had to leave for work at 5:00am Friday morning, so I couldn't get by there first thing.  I left work around 3:00pm and figured I would go by and talk to the guy.  I sent an email earlier in the day, but no response.

When I get to the address on the directions, I find out that it is a complete neighborhood wide garage sale event.  Crap.  I stopped by every house that had stuff out.  No one knew who had it, but some of the people I talked to said that there were a couple others looking for it as well.

After an hour and a half and 15-20 houses, I gave up and went home.  Oh well.  I only gave myself a 3% chance at success so I wasn't very surprised when I didn't take this home.

shardian:
Damn, I bet that was an exciting day! One has to wonder though if it wasn't a collector screwing with other collectors.  ;)

shardian:
And just so we are clear, I would do this after getting that machine for that price:

-Sell the game
-Buy 2 other nice games
-Take family on Hawaiian vacation with leftover profit.

 ;D

Jeff AMN:
Sheesh, at that price I'd probably give it the full high end restoration, clearcoat the playfield, and keep it for a few months before flipping it for a cool $10,000. I like Medieval Madness a lot, but there are a few games that I prefer ahead of it.

JeepMonkey:
Should I have taken this machine home, I would would have kept it for a little while as I do think it is a fun game.  Later I would give it a nice resto and sell or trade for two nice titles I like better.  MM for TOM and ???.

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