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Advise on a No Good Gophers

By drag0nball

12 years ago


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#10 12 years ago

You can try offering $800, but be ready to be laughed at and shown the door. The boards alone are worth close to that. You are offering parts machine money for what sounds like a fairly typical route machine. If you are serious about the machine, I honestly think you should be offering at least $1500. Even that will be a stretch.

No offense, but I think you are expecting way too much value decrease due to it being a reimport and having a dirty playfield. If a little wear under the ramp is the only playfield issue, that's really not a big deal. That's very typical on this game. A banged up cab is par for the course on a route game. Hard to judge the extent without pics, but honestly I'm not hearing anything to make me believe this is only worth $800, much less double that.

#11 12 years ago
Quoted from drag0nball:

Thanks for the comments all. It is much appreciated. To further detail the situation, it 's not for a NGG game in decent condition, it is beatup and banged up on the cab and some of the playfield, as in missing some headboard wood from the sides, from hitting walls it appears, damage under the ramp on the playfield, ect.
Since I don't have time and i'm not into restorations, I would have to pay someone to fully shop it, restoring it from it's filthy condition, fix the wood situation and other scratches, ect.
I apologize for leaving out the part where i would have to pay someone to restore it and phsically fix the banged up parts. It does not sound cheap to do all that, I'm thinking a grand, which would put it at $1800, around where you guys said.
With this new info, where do you think i should start on an offer? Im still at $800 + $1000 to pay someone to restore the poor thing and bring it back where it should be.

So even with paying someone $1000 to fix it up, you are still expecting to only be $1800 into a fully shopped and at least semi-restored NGG? That is a nice goal, but completely unrealistic. Sorry. If you are expecting the cabinet to be all fixed up, playfield to be repaired, and fully shopped, you are talking about a ~$2500 machine, maybe more.

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