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Author Topic: How much is a Gottlieb (Premier) Genesis Worth?  (Read 1982 times)

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How much is a Gottlieb (Premier) Genesis Worth?
« on: September 22, 2006, 04:52:37 pm »
Might be buying one as an investment. Can get it for $150 working. Could possibly sell for more. Could I?
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Re: How much is a Gottlieb (Premier) Genesis Worth?
« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2006, 02:05:17 pm »

$400-600 if it's 100% working, shopped, and warrantied.  That means all moving parts cleaned, all consumables replaced, new rubber, all plastics present and in reasonable shape, backglass still decent.

pinballjim's advice about a job is solid.  The only people who make money flipping pins nowadays do it by ripping people off on one or both ends of the process.

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Re: How much is a Gottlieb (Premier) Genesis Worth?
« Reply #2 on: September 24, 2006, 12:53:53 pm »
Is that the one with the robo-woman under the playfield?

I remember playing it alot as youth. Not the most fun pinball compared to Williams of that era, but I kept playing just to try and awakenthe robo-chick.
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Re: How much is a Gottlieb (Premier) Genesis Worth?
« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2006, 11:12:51 am »
I think that game has the worst backglass "art" ever.  If you're looking for an investment pin - and won't heed the sound advice above - then do NOT make it a Genesis. 

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Re: How much is a Gottlieb (Premier) Genesis Worth?
« Reply #4 on: September 25, 2006, 02:09:18 pm »
I picked one up for 400 CDN (fully shopped with new rubbers bulbs etc) I just had to replace some things and do a few other tweaks.  As far as play goes, I like it, but I like ramps and sequential targets etc (reminds me of the bride of pinbot)  As for the backglass art  I ditched it and put in a movie poster from the movie the game was so shamelessly ripped off from--fritz lang's metropolis. 

(http://images.movie-gazette.com/revimg/metropolis.jpg) I got the poster for 10 bucks, trimmed it and I think it makes the machine waaaayyy classier looking that that nasty gottlieb ---Cleveland steamer---.  If you can get it for 150--get it you might get 400 if you clean it up nice and get the bugs out (grounding issues big time need to be addressed)  On the books you'll have made 250$ but you will have spent some time to do it--your call i guess...
« Last Edit: September 25, 2006, 02:22:24 pm by menace »
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