Champ
Bally, 1974I am helping out the owner of a fairly beat-up Champ to get it going again. While poking around inside, he found this folded up bill of sale from 1978.
The machine was launched in 1974 according to IPDB, and this is from 1978. So I presume this would have been for the sale of a routed machine? Possibly sold to a private individual for home use. I'm not sure if such a thing happened in that era. I'm pretty sure a new machine did not cost $50 even in 1978.
Quoted from xsvtoys:I am helping out the owner of a fairly beat-up Champ to get it going again. While poking around inside, he found this folded up bill of sale from 1978.
The machine was launched in 1974 according to IPDB, and this is from 1978. So I presume this would have been for the sale of a routed machine? Possibly sold to a private individual for home use. I'm not sure if such a thing happened in that era. I'm pretty sure a new machine did not cost $50 even in 1978.
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It absolutely happened. I got my first game, which I still have, from an operator who had routed it. This was 1971.
That was a great deal.
Op's sold games to whoever and however they could get the most money out of them. Bally champ maybe 1,295.00 new and someone probably got 3-4x that in earnings in their 4 year use, now an extra $50 and they didn't need to dispose of it.
Quoted from xsvtoys:I'm pretty sure a new machine did not cost $50 even in 1978.
Bally NIB EM were about $850.00
Quoted from Sea_Wolf:I just like the fact that there was a company in 1978 that was named ‘Watkins Cigarette Service Inc.’.
Yeah I thought so too,I looked it up but they are long gone. It makes sense, I believe that cigarette vending machines were still quite numerous at that time, so they probably added pinball machines to their routes to make more money.
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