eBay Pinball & Arcade Lot - $425,000

[wp34]

Not mine. 

I was searching for something else and the price caught my eye.  Wow.

http://cgi.ebay.com/600-Video-Pinball-Machine-and-Parts-Lot_W0QQitemZ250547886977QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item3a55d15b81

[Billy_Goatfeet]

  Awesome, you know what this means!  Let's start a BYOAC pool and buy it all up, i'm in for $20!!!

 

[JMB]

Free shipping!!!

[drventure]

Hehe Was just gonna mention that free shipping!

[HaRuMaN]

Hmm...  I wonder if I can get a small business loan for that amount...

[Herk]

"Every buyer gets a MyStoreRewards invitation for 1% cash back" 



How does that work when the auction is for everything in the store?

Herk

[bkenobi]

$708/machine, but they don't list the titles.  If it was 600 Medieval Madness, it would be worth it!  Well, that's only true if you can move 600 of them for $5000+ each.  I don't know how hard it would be to offload that many big ticket pinballs.

[HaRuMaN]

Yeah, and out of those machines, only 45 pins and 105 vids are shopped and "retail-ready".  No telling what condition the other 450 games are in.  

[CheffoJeffo]

I wonder what RLEVIN (KLOV UserID) is up to ... I tend to agree with pr0k.

http://forums.klov.com/showthread.php?t=114377

EDIT: FWIW, I presume that some of the cool dedicateds would be included.

[wp34]

$875/machine, but they don't list the titles.  If it was 600 Midevil Madness, it would be worth it!  Well, that's only true if you can move 600 of them for $5000+ each.  I don't know how hard it would be to offload that many big ticket pinballs.

I was thinking along the same lines.  That is just a huge dollar amount.  Not sure how you would get your money back if that was your intent.

If I understand the comments in the listing they are selling everything they currently have listed on eBay in the lot.  I clicked on the "Visit Store" icon and then sorted by "highest first" just to get a feel for the selection.  I'm not an expert but it looks like their prices are above retail to me.  They do have one of the nicest Smast TV's I've seen for sale in a while but $1,500 is a lot to me.  $9,500 for Medieval Madness.

[Ginsu Victim]

Yeah, and here's another example of their overpriced stuff
http://cgi.ebay.com/Ms-Pac-Man-PCB-Manual-WORLD-WIDE-SHIPPING_W0QQitemZ250485906833QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item3a521f9d91

[Knave Jack]

Dont forget the 1000s of boards and montors!!!
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2491/4180366978_0cb923714e_m.jpg
I went and looked at the pictures in the link. There is a sit down Missile Command, 6 Galaga's
The picts of the pins are too hard to ID everyone. No good closeups.

[Knave Jack]

In re-reading my post im not sure the sarcasm showed through.

[CheffoJeffo]

I don't know what it is ... maybe the moon is out of cycle ... for those who are unaccustomed to me being a voice of reason, speaking for the not-so-cheap, I apologize ... or not.

One of the things that happens A LOT when you have been in this hobby for a while is that retailers, and the prices that they charge, come up and cheap folks like you and I tear into them.

I don't know Dale (the seller), nor have I ever bought from him.

I do know my local retailer, who is much bigger than Dale (they bought Sony out) and has similar, if not worse (actually, WAY WORSE), pricing.

FWIW, from that same retailer, with their insane pricing, I picked up a working Rygar boardset (with JAMMA adaptor) for $20. I have picked up at least a dozen trackballs for less than $5 each and then recycled them to NOS condition, including several gifts to local scholastic programs. I have also picked up some nonworking boardsets for a completely reasonable price. Add to that a bunch of stock purchases on NIB stock that rival the deals offered here.

If I start ticking off machines, then I find that I have 9 machines, in various states, that I obtained from this supplier (who is "worse" than Dale). I would be surprised if there were many folks who could match the deals that I made for those machines, even with the retail pricing.

Next closest provider of games to casa Cheffo is 3 machines whom I got from a guy who would, in a thread like this, be labelled a dirty opportunist for the fact that his prices are far higher than we would accept here. At the last auction, where I clearly didn't have a vehicle suitable for the purchase that I made (it was a mostly-working Cheyenne ... was I supposed to leave it there ?), the only guy who lent (actually GAVE) me a strap to close the van door was that guy who people ---smurfette--- about. B1 -- you ARE the man!

It's easy to tear Dale apart for his pricing and to think that the $475K is a "real" price for his business. OK, so it's easy ... but give your head a shake.

And, FWIW, $9500 for a MM is high for hobbyists, but isn't entirely unreasonable for retail (Mr Pinball price is what, $7500 or so ... don't have the new guide, but I expect it is within $250).

[Vicious Burger]

Thats a heck of a lot of stuff,you'd need a big place to store it all !
Edit: But it seems that they are for sale individually also. So what if he sells some of them and then someone buys the big lot,they are going to be short some machines as described.

And if any of you are in or near Broomall nr Philadelphia,PA , this other guy has a bunch of arcade cabs for sale cheap !! i wish he was near me i'd have a couple of these for sure !
Here's one.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Arcade-Empty-Cabinet-for-mame-or-multicade_W0QQitemZ230409403833QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item35a5787db9