Arcade Collecting > Pinball
Starship Troopers Pinball Machine - Opinions?
Flake:
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--- Quote from: Flake on February 27, 2009, 04:51:59 pm ---God I just e-mailed a guy about an Operation Wolf game around here and he wants $550. That seems about $300 too high. For Gods Sake, someone must be buying these things.....and I'd wish they'd quit.
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I just bought a mostly working Operation Wolf as it is one of my grails. Everything worked except for the trigger (I know, it is pretty important) at an auction back in October for $75. If I ever get home I will have to get it working.
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Your no longer allowed to post in my thread if you keep touting these ridiculous prices. :angry:
It would make me feel lots better if you told me you paid $2500 5 years ago for a 48 in 1 multicade....
pinballwizard79:
Death by unga bunga to Jeep Monkey!!!!!!
JeepMonkey:
Flake - Did I tell you that I got a MS Pac not working in great shape for $150. Put $20 and 20 hours into it and had it working?
I got lucky on the OP Wolf. Lately at the local auctions, a lot of machines have been coming in not working, although many of them power up. No one was bidding on them. So I figured what the heck, bid the miminum as see what happens. No one else even bid on the OP Wolf. There were about 150 mpeople there. Including all fees and taxes I got it for $96.
There have been a handful of pins coming in not working, such as Stargate, Simpsons, Pinbot, and others, but they have way to high reserves on a machine that doesn't play IMO (>$1000).
If you look long enough and hard enough you will come accross some good deals, but the wait can be hard. And you can forget about that crap that one pin will be enough.
pinballwizard79 - ;D
Flake:
Well that JP you noticed in the CL ad is for sale - $1300 as is, which means unshopped and the TRex head doesnt pick up the ball. Guy says its most likely the magnet is not energized.....
Thats way too damn high, like I said earlier, the one I saw on E-bay I almost bid on in KC went for less than $1100 and that one supposedly had a completely shopped playfield - supposedly.
The T2 is shopped out but he says the back box has some bruises - $1500.
JeepMonkey:
I just read last night that there is a Super Auction in Orlando this morning. I am currently in Gainesville, but I had already set up work with vendors for today. Had I known that I would have worked Sunday and went to the auction today. Obviously I would not have bought anything, but it would have been nice to see what all they had.
I was hoping to make it to the super auciton in STL, but I will not be home in time.
If nothing else you could offer the guy $1100 for the JP. It seems like I always see T2 for sale and they typically go for $1200-$1500. That is a little more than a T2 is worth to me.
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