I get them, but rarely read them.

I think it has become the place for people to find first time buyers. The prices on there are ridiculous most of the time.

A few years ago, I contacted a person selling a game on PB Classifieds and eventually purchased it from them and several others after that. It was a very fair price, but I have noticed that prices seems to becoming very inflated on PB Classifieds. I think people may be building in negotiating room,it may be a game they have had no local interested buyers or they are just fishing, may not be really motivated to sell, but if someone bites and pays the higher price.....

Part of the issue, I think, is the delay in posting. These days, folks will probably post on CL, Pinside, Mr. Pinball, etc. and by the time it makes it to Mr. Pinball, all the deals have been snapped up already. So the only reason to look is to find the small percentage of posts exclusive to Mr. Pinball.

I agree with westofrome. I've bought and sold using mrpinball. It just takes too long to post. It's literally 4 days. So when I'm pricing to sell vs just posting something for sale it's usually sold by the time it posts whether I'm buying or selling. In addition, you can't upload pics which is what it's all about. The first thing anyone wants is pics pics pics. But I still get the daily and I still use it

Pretty useless given the long time from submittal to post combined with crazy asking prices.

The one time I found a good deal on a local game on MrPinball, some azzhat contacted the seller and got them to increase their price. I ended up passing, but not before making sure I had them jack the price up further to that guy from TX and educated the seller on what things to say to convince the TX to still buy and pay for shipping

Pinside and locals I have met via pinside seem to be the best way to purchase.

It's the new EBay of overpriced games

When I was looking for our first game several years ago - I emailed several people on there and never got a reply from anyone. Admittedly after that, i've never really considered it a viable buying option since.

I've used it rather extensively over the years but far less these days. It could use a makeover (instant posts, pictures)....

Hopefully! Because I have my WPT there starting tomorrow.

Unlike here where they are always perfectly sane.

I placed and ad and only got replies from people wanting to send money orders for over the amount and to just give the extra money to the guy coming to pick up the machine....
I do look all the time but way too many scammers.

No, but I usually check

Very frustrating because similar to Pinball Owners site sale capability sellers invariably do not respond-so whats' the point of using these sites.

I have noticed that a lot of machines and parts stay listed for a long time after they have been sold or not available. People are just too damn lazy to remove their adds after they sell so you end up chasing the rabbit down the hole for nothing.

Bought one and sold one on it in last three months so still finding it extremely beneficial, but maybe less relevant than three years ago. I have never had a good CL experience and so that source is dead to me.

Shout out to the guy in rockford trying to sell his 1978 world cup pinball. Nobody was interested in paying $400 the first 5 times you posted to Mr pinball classifieds, nor was anyone interested in buying it for $350 the dozen times you posted it on rockford craigslist.

Last thing I bought on Mr. Pinball was some playfield parts for my Funhouse. It was the only place I was able to locate the parts that were missing from my game. The fellow on there (old operator) just had his phone number listed from a 2 year old post. Had nearly every single part I needed. Quite shocking indeed.

I bought a very nice Whirlwind from a fellow pinsider and it was great. In general, most people forget to remove their ads and its overpriced. Not sure why. But could definitely use a makeover.

yesterday ,found a nice Nitro groundshaker fully populated playfield with wires and all Mechs, coils, everything for $200.00. Plug and play. You can still find some nice deals.

Sold my AC/DC NIB BIBLE thanks to Mr. Pinball classifieds, site is great and allows me to get a sense of market value of my pins... of course minus a little price police

I don't look regularly, but when I swapped out my Mata Hari playfield I found a post in the wanted section that ended up with a sale... And happiness on both sides...

I've bought parts from ads too...but no manuals!

-Rob
-visit http://www.kahr.us to get my daughterboard that helps fix WPC pinball resets

It takes so long for your post to appear up on Mr.Pinball classifieds that those crazy prices you see folks asking were current market prices when they pushed the submit button.

I quit posting games there but it is a good place to advertise if you are into scambaiting and want to play with the Nigerians.
I did get a nice TZ off of Mr. Pinball but that was a couple years ago.
The guy did get a few more offers from the local flippers on it willing to pay more but the guy stuck to the full price deal he made with me.
Pinside is where I list games now, they usually sell withing a few days if not a few hours.
Mr. Pinball was great back in the day but now other than checking for hard to find parts it is kinda obsolete.