Arcade Collecting > Pinball
A really tough call and info needed
ChadTower:
Meanwhile here there are guys who have realtime CL monitors set up and call any ad within 2 minutes. They'll lie, berate sellers, scam them, show up physically and try to intimidate women after being told the game is sold with deposit... that EBD would have set off a little shitstorm of 5 guys after it within 10 minutes and stoogelike infighting among them.
Flake:
If you come across a $200 cyclone in that secret network of yours I'll pay you double and then drive down to TX to come pick it up.
ChadTower:
Well that's the point, isn't it? You can't pick your titles when grabbing opportunity buys. You buy what is out there and eventually one of them is a top title like that.
ChadTower:
I have long since learned not to tell people what I've paid for anything, high or low. Especially if you ever want to sell the thing. I've had too many people get pissed off at me because I wouldn't give them a game for $100 more than I paid despite having put a 25 hour shop job and $75 in parts into it.
I've gotten that "must be nice" crap, too. Then the peson gets into a car worth 3x mine and drives back to a house twice the size of mine while complaining that they don't have money for things like a pinball machine.
FrizzleFried:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on April 17, 2009, 02:31:55 pm ---Yeah, cause Craig's List and E-bay are top secret sites.
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You guys are nuts... you can get $100-200 complete pinball machines all the time. You have to be able to repair boards or know someone that can do it for you cheap. Clean it up, slap a new rubber kit on it, replace what's broken, and you're looking at maybe $300-400 invested in it. Turn it around on e-bay for $500. Done. Like I said, you're not gonna get rich but you get to play a game for awhile and move it along to someone that's thrilled to get it.
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The cheapest I've seen ANY pin go for around here on CL is $400. That said, I managed to pick up a beater of a pin for $250, but I knew the guy.
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