(Topic ID: 201306)

Classic Stern VE's - How much would you pay for NIB?

By Yoko2una

6 years ago


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“How much would you pay for a Stern Classic VE NIB? (Assume it's your favorite title of the bunch)”

  • Less than $4000 34 votes
    41%
  • Between $4000 - $4500 24 votes
    29%
  • Between $4500 - $5000 13 votes
    16%
  • Between $5000 - $5500 4 votes
    5%
  • Between $5500 - $6000 1 vote
    1%
  • More than $6000 6 votes
    7%

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#3 6 years ago

Honestly with the price of restores and the time they take if you have to find a base game, buy the needed parts, etc you are usually in it for 4-5K for most of the better games. I think $4500 is a pretty fair price for a NIB QS, SG, or SW and I think they would sell a decent amount of them but not a ton. They probably wouldn't lose a lot of sales at the pro price of $5200. But I do think it would be a very limited marked and I'd be surprised to see more then a few hundred sell.

#5 6 years ago
Quoted from Toasterdog:

I'd much rather remakes of Classic Bally games. Still wouldn't pay more than $4kish though.

I would think CGC has at least talked about it. I think Centaur and Fathom both could be good options but I still don't see them coming in under 5K.

#13 6 years ago
Quoted from PW79:

Meh, forget the old Stern games if priced high as Jody warned.
I'd rather see CGC do some shit like Time Fantasy, Gorgar, Sorcerer, etc.
Man. That would be tits!
NIB Flash Gordon, NIB Black Knight, NIB Firepower, NIB Pinbot...
Oh man, I'd want one of each.

The problem with all of those is that you can buy them in pretty good shape for a fraction of what a new one would cost. A really nice original Gorgar for $1400 is going to make selling a NIB one for 4K pretty difficult. I think there are really only a few games that could make sense.

Centaur, Fathom, and Seawitch are really the only ones that come to mind that could command the price it would need to sell at NIB.

I like the idea of Spooky doing some new retro style titles. I think there might be a bigger market for that then remakes honestly. They might actually make them edgy enough were as I think other companies would wuss out.

#20 6 years ago
Quoted from T-800:

I generally disagree with this statement. Apples to apples - Finding MINT examples of those games (perfect cabinet, playfield, no rust, no corrosion, etc.) is very, very difficult to do and when they are listed, they sell for thousands of dollars. A NIB sorcerer, gorgar etc. at $4K I think would sell very well. Besides, there are many newbies to pinball who don't have a clue as to pinball repair that want a mint version of a game but don't want to have to deal with electronics that are decades old, drying out, and are ready to have issues at any moment.

True, but people would rush to pay 4K now because it's a super rare find. Will they do they same if it's not rare anymore? I don't think they would. I'd love to see it happen but I just don't see it other then maybe on a few of the top $ classics

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