Just a very nice very original cabinet. Actually the entire machine is just about as nice as the cabinet.

My biggest mistake was deciding to shop it for my buyer and then after getting it about 75% finished getting an email that he "found one closer to home". In any event it will be newly shopped & done the right way with everything removed including disassembly of time expander for proper shop job. Should be a great looking & great playing machine by Tuesday or Wednesday. It was nice before I started shopping it so it will be even nicer once finished.

THANKS!

I have never had it listed for sale until today and it has already been tentatively sold 3 different times for $3200 prior to me listing it today. My issue was EVERYONE wanted it fully shopped at that price (instead of needing shopped at $2800) and I just didn't have time to do it until this past Friday. Now one buyer has "flaked out on me" my original buyer had emergency dental surgery and can't purchase it right now and my 3rd buyer decided to by the project Doctor Who I had instead of this one. So once I finish shopping it this coming week I think $3200 is more than fair.

I honestly think it is a $3500 machine because you just don't find them with little to no cabinet fade. So between that, the fact is will be completely & correctly shopped, and the overall condition of this machine I think it is under priced at $3200 but I am looking for a quick sale. With the exception of the one little chip on the lower corner of the head this machine is about as nice as it gets!

Taking this guy apart really wasn't something either Wayne or I was wanting to do but you can't sell a machine as 100% working if it isn't. As far as getting it together 100% correct - I really am not worried about that with my mechanical experience. I just hate the time doing things correctly takes but like my dad always said "if you don't have time to do it right you sure as hell don't have time to do it twice". So I have learned over the years - do it right the first time!

Rob,

Don't worry too much about it the one I have sitting here for you will look just as good with just a little work put into it. To me they are nearly twins if it wasn't for the couple minor issues on the one we are holding for you. And before you ask - no I don't want to shop yours before you come grab it Monday - just kidding, I would have time to shop it correctly before a week from Monday anyway and you will be here in less than 48 hours! Typically a decent shop job take me over 20 hours.

Doctor Who is tentatively sold pending pick up Tuesday. The rest of the machines I have up for sale are still available at this point but I am holding Doctor Who for yet another buyer. I have had some serious interest in my Diner machine but no one has pulled the trigger yet on that one.

We happen to be pretty darn busy selling off machines and getting them ready for people. I have been doing the best I can to keep up with pictures, emails, etc but between trying to get several machines ready for sale, shopping out machines people asked to have shopped out before picking them up, having people picking up machines, etc our world is far from perfect right now.

When I said "buyers flaked out" I didn't talk about anyone specifically and I emailed you and told you I was happy you found one closer to home. But I also had to explain why the machine was back up for sale again and "buyer flaking out" just seemed like the easiest way of saying this. This was not a negative comment specifically at or about you it was just stating the fact that someone else that voiced an interest in this machine decided against it and machine was back up for sale. Sorry if you took my comment personally. All I am trying to do is get a bunch of machines sold off quickly to be done with it!

Rob,

I don't know what you think the pictures showed other than a machine in the process of being 100% shopped correctly with a full tear down but the only issue with this Doctor Who is a dime size chip on the corner of the backbox. Playfield is perfect, plastics & ramps are good, etc. But almost a full day into the shop out I realized I forgot to send some pictures and since I had put you off in the past I at least wanted to get some pictures off to you.

I PM'ed you a few minutes ago saying I was sorry if you took the "flaked out" personally. It wasn't meant to be negative about anyone - it was just a quick way of saying another potential buyer decided against the machine without ever seeing it in person.

Sorry for any misunderstanding! As I told you yesterday - "I am truly glad you found something closer to home".

This machine just doesn't seem to want to leave? Another person scheduled to pick it up never contacted me tonight like they were suppose to so it is back up for grabs again. This is number 5 without one person even coming to see this machine in person. By the end of the week - or over the weekend - I'll just move it back into the collection if it isn't gone!

I have had one or two people not show in the past but 5 no shows on this machine is a record for me. So here we go again!

In and working great! After building Street Rods & Muscle Cars when I was in my teens & twenties, and owning dozens of race cars, muscle cars, street rods, etc back in my younger days I find most of the mechanical stuff on these pinball machine very simple to work on compared to most of what I have done in the past.

The electronics on SS machines is a totally different story - but thankfully I have a son that handles all of that end of things for me! Our biggest concern with the time expander wasn't getting it reassembled and working well - it was weather or not we had the correct optical switches for it in stock. But once again my son came through on that and machine is now 100%.

I just had someone email about getting together for a machine in a couple weeks and realized I have about 8 days of selling before I need to get ready to hit the road for Florida. My very last day for pick up of machines will have to be sometime around March 8th for things to time our OK for me to make the trip and still get back in time to load for the Allentown Pinball Show.

So if you have any interest in anything we have up for sale we have just over a week to finalize things and get machines picked up and gone or it will be sometime in May before I am back to selling again.

Thanks,
Skip

Thanks Rob!

Keep us posted as far as that "project" machine goes. I wish we had the time & energy to do all of them but sometimes it is better to just pass them along as projects! And these days there seems to be a shortage of decent project machines around anyway so I think that will be our direction for the balance of 2017 once the last few machines from the collection are sold off. As long as our warehouse deal comes together there will be about 60 to 80 project machines for sale in central PA at some point in 2017.

As far as this machine not selling so far I blame myself. I had 4 or 5 buyers all wanting it shopped and working 100% and up until this past week I just didn't have time to get it to that point. So it is only logical some people would get tired of waiting for me. But now it is FINALLY finished and ready to go. As nice as it looks and plays now I really don't care if it sells or ends up back in the collection.

And for anyone with concerns about the fact we tore the time expander apart to replace the switches I have over 50 years of experience doing mechanical repairs on just about anything that moves so the time expander wasn't even a challenge for me. It is actually a very simple system for all that is involved and they did a decent job of designing it so it wasn't bad to work on.

Well here we go again - after holding this machine for several days for a buyer that didn't follow up two times it is back up for sale for the 5th or 6th time. If it isn't sold - picked up - and gone it will be moved back into the collection next Thursday (a week from today -- 3/9 to be exact). I am really getting tired of people screwing with me on this machine and so far this has really been the only machine that has been an issue with?

Anyway - I am not personally blaming any of the buyers that didn't follow up I just can't believe the machine I though would have been one of the first to go is still here thanks to no shows and people changing their mind without ever seeing this machine in person. 52 other machines sold and 49 went to the first person that emailed about it and this one has never even been looked at in person? Maybe it just wants to stay in our collection longer? I have not had one customer who voiced an interest in this machine actually show up other than a buddy of mine that stopped by to take a look at it on the outside chance he had a buyer for it.

I totally forgot about you guys coming to see it before I shopped it. When I just saw your post I had to think for a minute "who showed up and looked at this machine" because I really didn't remember anyone coming to see it in person. Sorry about that! I enjoyed BS'ing with you guys when you were here but for the life of me I can't remember you names. I remember you saying you lived a few blocks from Lloyd (COW) and that you cut grass for a living. Anyway - this post wasn't intended to single out anyone - just saying as nice as this machine is I am shocked it is still here.

I don't get upset when someone shows up and doesn't buy a machine I have up for sale what gets to me is the guys that say "I'll be their at 2 PM Thursday" and never shows up or calls. I know it happens to anyone selling but it does get old!

Weekend bump - still trying to sell as much as possible before Thursday 3/9. On Thursday I'll be taking listings down for all unsold machines and getting ready to head south for a 6 week - much needed - vacation. Then I'll return to set up at the Allentown Show. After that the craziness will start all over again with machines from my warehouse deal.

Any interest in this machine please let me know ASAP because I want to move it from the garage back into the collection if it doesn't sell before I go away. It is much too nice of a machine to have sitting in the garage while I am away.

You must be looking at a different machine! There is one little chip on the bottom of the head on this one and everyone who has seen it in person is amazed how nice it is for an all original machine. There is very little cabinet fade - cabinet looks lighter in pictures because sun was shinning in garage door when I took that picture. And mini playfield doesn't have any chips? I have it sold for $3000 when I get back from vacation if I want to sell it for that price but I was hoping to sell it before I went away. (See post #25 above if you want to see what someone that has seen it in person thinks).

I think my prices on machines are very fair. I have sold 53 machines in 7 weeks only having to drop the price on two to get them sold. One I missed a couple things one when I posted it and buyer pointed them out to me - I adjusted the price accordingly. And the second machine was a machine buyer & I were $50 apart on so I agreed to his offer to get it sold quickly.

As far as price point - I might be a little high but I just sold a project Doctor Who in much worse shape for $2400 a couple weeks ago. I am really thinking this machine just isn't ready to leave yet and that is fine with me. If someone wants it for $3200 CASH they can own it otherwise I'll just move it back into the collection - no big deal either way!

What has been driving me nuts about this machine is I could have sold it two or three times over during the time I had it sitting waiting for me to shop it for a buyer I promised it to wanting it fully shopped. (That buyer got tired of waiting for me to get it shopped & bought something else - and I can't say that I blame him because it was several weeks before I got it shopped for him). And now that I have it fully shopped I can't get $200 more for it than I was offered for it unshopped? Anyway - like I have said above - I just don't think it is ready to leave yet!

That is your right and if you were a buyer or customer for this I would have no problem with your high standards. I would just tell you to go buy something from someone like HEP for 4 times the money if you want a perfect machine. Some people buy machine to polish and keep perfect. Other people buy machines to play and enjoy. I just happen to be one of the people that buys machines to enjoy and as long as they are not totally trashed I have no issues with some imperfections on the machines in my collection.

My track record over the years speaks for itself and I am always very fair with my prices according to lots of repeat customers as well as first time customers. My goal when I started selling off machines was to sell as many of the 60+ machines we decided to sell as quickly as possible and then take a much needed vacation before setting up at the Allentown Show. I was hoping to sell off at least 50 machines but thought that was a stretch. With almost a week to go I have exceeded my goal by almost 10% so I really don't care if this machine or any others sell at this point. But I still want to try to sell a couple more prior to taking all my listing down this coming Thursday so I have bumped all my listing once a day for the past couple days hoping for one or two additional machines to sell.

I would have sold it for $2800 before we put over 15 hours into shopping it!

Pictures actually make that wear look much worse than it is. Typically I try to downplay the condition of machines I am selling so potential buyers are not disappointed when they see machines in person. So instead of taking pictures at angles that hid imperfections I try to take pictures to show off imperfections to be fair with buyers.

Take a look at my feedbacks to see what I am talking about as far as this goes.

To me is is all about condition and nothing else when it comes to an exceptionally clean original machine. When comparing it to the car hobby this one is a survivor not restored ("lipstick on a pig"). Not knocking high end restorations - but anyone with money can buy a fully restored machine that looks new. But a super nice all original machine just doesn't come up for sale often at any price.

Bargain hunters - I fully understand where you are coming from because I am one of you. But after owning nearly 500 machines over the years I have been in the hobby I realize just how unusual it is to find a near perfect original machine. Maybe the "correct price" on this is closer to $3000 but to me it is worth every bit of $3250 and maybe more.

If it sells great - if not it will be returned to the collection and remain one of the nicest original machines I have in my collection - plain & simple. Until you see this machine in person you just can't begin to understand just how nice it is - not touched up nice - just a exceptionally nice original example of a popular machine I am not going to give away just because some people think I am a few hundred overpriced on it. Show me another one near as nice that has sold for less!

Thursday - if it isn't sold - it will be returned to the collection and will not be for sale at any price. I don't need to sell it and at this point - now that it is shopped out and working 100% - I would almost prefer just keeping it.

I don't really care! This is a hobby for me - hobbies are suppose to be fun - when a few people on a forum try to take the fun out of the hobby it is time to move on. So if anyone wants this Doctor Who you have 5 days to come get it - if not I'll continue to enjoy owning it!

We now have both the space and money we need for the warehouse deal and I have been communicating with the sellers nephew about hooking up again. At this point I have two chances to hook up with him either March 25 to March 28th or June 2nd to June 5th. March is right in the middle of my vacation so now I need to decided if I want to break up my vacation to finalize that deal or do I just want to wait until June. Either way those machines will be up for sale once I get back from vacation. For now I am just trying to wind things down before we move unsold machines back into the collection and I start enjoying some time off.

Have a good day!

Saturday evening bump! See my other machines for sale also - I would really like to get one or two more machines sold before my Thursday deadline. But if not it isn't for lack of trying!

THANKS!

Bump to make this easy for someone replying to my Craig's List ad to find

I realize what you are saying is correct but it just really doesn't make any sense. In any event if my buyer follows through this time the machine is tentatively sold for the 10th time. If my buyer doesn't follow through I am just going to take the listing down and return the nicest original game I currently own to my collection.

THANKS!

I actually just completely cleaned and shopped the machine but I don't go crazy trying to buff a mirror shine on playfield when I clean them. I just hand clean them to get anything nasty off and then put a couple good coats of wax on them. Personally I prefer my machines to have the "old used arcade look" as opposed to being over cleaned. I guess since I am an old school antique guy I really don't want to remove the "patina".

I figure a buyer can LED a machine, flame polish ramps, machine buff the playfield, etc but once that is done it can not be reversed so I just hate to do it in case a buyer thinks like me. If someone wants to buff the hell out of their machines that is their right it just isn't something I like to do or see! And personally I am not an LED guy either.