(Topic ID: 7594)
Enfield, CT
either? Both?
Quoted from PINBELL:How much did I pay for it, or how much do I have in it? Huge difference!
Quoted from system11:Paid for a Tron LE yesterday.
Nice, Congrats such a fun pin!
I don't even want to think about how much overall money I have in them I just know I want to continue to collect them.
Roughly 4k, but man hours is something over 100 in it on the current set of machines.
Figure an average of 10 hours driving per machine. Some more, some less and that is just the driving. It does not include being at the seller house which is usually an hour to an hour and a half.
Each machine takes 20 hours to shop. I have not done batman or rbion yet, but I have more than 30 hours in trouble shooting and repair on JP, Tommy, and BF.
Demolition Man - $1100
Terminator 2 - $1400
Terminator 3 - $1900
Dirty Harry - $1300
Total: $5700
Average cost: $1425
Hundreds more into each. LEDs and mods (mostly T2 for mods).
Wow, I need to slow down. This was all in four months.
Well over $20 Gs in total for pins, shipping, mods and maintenance. I wonder if my wife has added up the costs. I need to sell some.
Nailsea
Quoted from SealClubber:I wonder if my wife has added up the costs.
Should I ask her if she has ever stopped and added the value up?
I have spent $6,810 to purchase the pins currenly in my collection. There are no work hours or parts included in that cost. An example of one expensive part is the CPR gold payfield for Xenon. I did not include that, bulbs or ramps ect... in that cost. Just the initial purchase price.
Edit: How could I forget WOZ?!?! Add $6500 and WOZ to my list. That puts me at $13,310 plus shipping on Woz that I do not know about the cost of yet. Should be around $1100 unless I get it from Illinois next year and shipping to there will cost less.
Post edited by absocountry2 : Forgot to add WOZ!
Quoted from the96stang:Alien Star: 65
Counter force: 150
Elektra: 175
FPII: 200
Hardbody: 200
Globetrotters: 25
Raven: 250
Tee'd Off :600
how the heck did u pick pins up that cheap?
space shuttle - $450 + $700 (new playfield + plastics)
jokerz - $650
around 12k in the past 4 months when I got my 1st machine. includes new ramps for white water and leds for that and fish tales along with some other misc parts.
wife better never add it up as she wants a new car atleast we don't have joint acct yet 
Nib SM $4100 nib BDK $4100 nib FYg $ $4200 TRON LE $5699 LOTR $$3400 nib IM $$4000
Nib transformers Le $6299 still coming
HUO MM $7500
HUo AFM $5800
Restored clear coated TAF $5900
Restored IJ $5800
hUO CV $4500
Restored Wh20 $4200
RFM $2000
MB $4200
TZ $4300 + about $1200 in mods
HUO GNR $4000
About $80,000.00 Have been collecting three years. That dosent include all the mods and all the other pins I have bought and sold.
Quoted from tatman9999:About $80,000.00 Have been collecting three years. That dosent include all the mods and all the other pins I have bought and sold.
I try not to keep track of things that depress me. Like counting calories, who the heck does that?
Having said that, my machines were each way under 1K so to round up, let's say $3K. See, now you have made me depressed. Thanks.
PS - Does this include fancy soldering irons, digital thingies, and fancy waxes and polishes?
Quoted from McCune:I've got a bad ass collection but most of my money went into my Pinball Shop
Nothing at all against your collection but, YEAH, the first thing I would love to have from you is your pinball shop. Are you willing to ship it???????
Quoted from coasterguy:To protect myself I will not post that online.
For many different reasons, I hesitated myself. Mostly because the majority of my potential future buyers are on this forum.... 
So , Yeah, Uh, I invested about 5K per pin...yeah, that's the ticket.... 
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Malmberget
Quoted from coasterguy:To protect myself I will not post that online..
Coaster Guy's digital legacy intact +1. Some things better left unspoken.
Put it this way I could have paid cash for an Audi since I started this hobby just 15 months ago. Ughhhh.
I have upgraded, modded or replaced parts for more $ than many have paid for pins. I'm gonna go cry now. 
Quoted from The_Gorilla:For many different reasons, I hesitated myself. Mostly because the majority of my potential future buyers are on this forum....
Yeah I thought about that. Most of my games were/are beat up, routed pieces of shit, so the purchase price doesn't really reflect the time and money I have into them bringing them up to par. I have yet to find that killer deal that others in here seem to find. Case in point: the DW I got for $445. Even at that price it wasn't worth saving from an economic standpoint, because I have more into it now than I could sell it for. Glad I got it though... that game kicks ass! GC'ed it tonight with 917M. Getting sooooooo close to a billion!
Quoted from tatman9999:Nib SM $4100 nib BDK $4100 nib FYg $ $4200 TRON LE $5699 LOTR $$3400 nib IM $$4000
Nib Transformers Le $6299 still coming
HUO MM $7500
HUo AFM $5800
Restored clear coated TAF $5900
Restored IJ $5800
hUO CV $4500
Restored Wh20 $4200
RFM $2000
MB $4200
TZ $4300 + about $1200 in mods
HUO GNR $4000
About $80,000.00 Have been collecting three years. That dosent include all the mods and all the other pins I have bought and sold.
You do have a terrific collection. All I know is that if MM ever leaves your house it's coming to mine. I hope I'm still first in line. 
My collection is ~$50K. Painful to write, but my wife just helped me tally it up. Yes, we're still talking to each other.
Québec, QC
Wow I feel so cheap after reading everyone else's. Excluding gas and shopping materials.
Batman Forever - 850 (display wouldn't boot but fixed it, sound card was bad 83 bucks to replace)
Jurassic Park - 750 (topper was 110, blew up two dmds on it and haven't fixd it)
Tommy - 1200 (local, no gas)
Ripley's Believe it or not - 1000 (sold fh for 600 profit, bought cp for 2100, traded cp for rbion plus 600, after gas and materials I have 1k in ripleys)
Going to leave for Nascar in a bit and it will be the most I have in any of my machines at 1500.
Yeesh, you got me thinking of the nice car that I could be driving right now if I didn't have all these pins. Oh well, I think I'm having more fun with the pins than I ever had with any car I've ever owned. The authorities always seem to frown on the fun I like to have with cars, but so far, I'm flying under the radar with the pins.
Quoted from toyotaboy:how the heck did u pick pins up that cheap?
Alien Star: 65 (Auction, needed to put a rubber band on the other side of the switch on a pop bumper)
Counter force: 150 (craigslist, worked ok, had some score issues.)
Elektra: 175 (craigslist, worked fine)
FPII: 200 (craigslist, worked ok, had connection issues)
Hardbody: 200 (craigslist, worked fine)
Globetrotters: 25 (Tag sale, worked fine)
Raven: 250 (craigslist, worked fine)
Tee'd Off :600 (craigslist, worked fine)
Quoted from dung:Wow I feel so cheap after reading everyone else's. Excluding gas and shopping materials.
Batman Forever - 850 (display wouldn't boot but fixed it, sound card was bad 83 bucks to replace)
Jurassic Park - 750 (topper was 110, blew up two dmds on it and haven't fixd it)
Tommy - 1200 (local, no gas)
Ripley's Believe It or Not - 1000 (sold fh for 600 profit, bought cp for 2100, traded cp for rbion plus 600, after gas and materials I have 1k in ripleys)Going to leave for Nascar in a bit and it will be the most I have in any of my machines at 1500.
Wow, you get some pretty amazing deals! I would probably pay at least $300 more for any of those.
$ 18,000+ some of them are sold, the nice thing is I never lost any money
always sold for profit - can't account for the countless hours though or the mods, no clue on all that money.
I guess looking at its not as bad as I thought - current market is showing my collection worth a lot more then I paid for it - and some people collect cars etc - this would be one crappy car. but instead its a bunch of awesome pins.
When I look at my pinball life order history, I see a very decent pin in how much I have spent just for parts, but I have some great working and looking machines.
Quoted from TheDude:I have not spent enough.
I like that.
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