Agree. These are largely priced at or above market for many of these title for starting bid.

They also lack any CPR rating which means by random draw you are going to possibly get a dud or possibly get a gold level.

I suppose a few of these are priced to sell, but none of them are priced to get interest. Missed the whole point of an auction.

Kevin, I suggest pulling all your auctions and just listing on Pinside with BIN prices
Save the fees and make is easy on all.

I have decided the CPR team is the most verbose of all pinball businesses

Nothing wrong with that... I say it as a guy that often also uses too many damn words.

for a bit more clarity and some important protips...

While they are drilled and dimpled, I am yet to find a pf (from anyone) that does not have an incorrect drill or dimple.
I have done quite a few pf swaps and in all cases you need to take your time and check/double check all placement. Some things have been way off and are obvious errors (it happens... but they will always claim it is normal variance). Just measure and fix as needed. CPR is still BY FAR the best in the business (it is not even close to be honest).

Also worth mention that CPR topside holes and dimples are commonly filled in with ink and clear so can be completely buried and need to be measure in some cases. They are there, but can be shallow and then filled.

Just need to remember, there is no such thing as a perfect pf. Be happy for what we have and thankful to CPR for having the best product out there (despite me still being pissed that they completely biffed the last screen printed pf; Meteor; by completely forgetting a layer of text )

I would say he technically is disagreeing with what was written on some old notes and nobody really knows what they actually used to print with...
We also know there is tremendous variation back in the day, so nobody was very precise in their mixing back then either.

Personally I dont care if Fathom is different because it looks way better in Blue to me.

You are making the assumption that those notes were followed , no changes at last minute, etc...

Reality is that you followed the notes you had.

Reality is that the colors on fathom are all over the place. CPR are great, but also look nothing like anyone has ever seen or remembers. Yellowing cleat? Loss or memory? Does not really matter was the point.

Nobody knows 100% unless you were the screen printer back in the day that did the work.

Again, CPR blue looks great.

Nah, I am going off the opinion of years and years of pinheads that all say Fathom was never that blue.

I personally played fathom in the early 90s and don’t remember that blue.

I also own tons of bally games from early 80s and none have yellowed clear to the level it would take to change that blue hue to the green we all know.
Reality is that screening, ink composition, technique was all different 40 years ago. All those things likely contribute to why consistently we see different reproduction colors than what old games had.

Again, reality is... the blue looks better. That is what matters.

How many end with zero bids is my question.

Yeah eBay is all about the snipe bid

Let’s see the cab colors!

Congrats on the sales!

lesson is NEVER bod on ebay without a sniper account.