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$1500 budget - what would you buy?

By MIpinhead

7 years ago


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    #111 7 years ago
    Quoted from CrazyLevi:

    $1500 is a low budget at this point, unless he's interested in an EM (which is fine by the way). I don't get the whole "play as many machines as you can" angle when that's pretty much what he's already been doing his whole life as a pinball fan already.
    Buy a game. If you don't like it, sell it. How many $1500 games you think the guy is gonna be able to find anyway on location? Likely very few if any. So why should he spend time and money trying to hunt those down to play when he might as well just buy one?

    Some EMs are now selling upwards of $1200.
    Bringing one back to life and buying the parts for them is no longer cheap.
    Project EMs are selling for $500-600.

    #115 7 years ago
    Quoted from xTheBlackKnightx:

    Yes, some EMs are selling for above $1200, if they are RESTORED, not just "partially working".
    Project EMs (that are not popular titles, or relatively unknown) that are COMPLETE is not that expensive, just time consuming.
    They still can be found for $350 or less, because most dealers/brokers/current age collectors will not touch them as they is little profit to be made, or they do not know how to fix them in the first place.
    If the game was left "open air" (example: in a barn with the glass off), I generally don't consider that complete.
    I have a collector less than 200 miles from me that is selling 6X EMs all in good cosmetic condition for $600, fully functional.
    They are all good titles as well, just not a bunch of Bally Atlantis, GTB Mermaid, or Bally Fireballs.
    You just have to be willing to drive a little distance and pick them up, which many people do not want to do.

    I have no idea where you are shopping, but projects in Florida are $500-600. I have a very nice Pioneer that I have $1000 into.

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