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For sale: F.S. In Ga. HUO Stern Pins

By elcolonel

8 years ago


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    #1 8 years ago

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    F.S. In Ga. HUO Stern Pins

    Added: 2015-05-21 01:35:53 UTC • Ended: July 15th, 2015
    Condition: HUO - Documented (Home Used Only)

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    An older guy here in the Atlanta area just downsized, and took up a new hobby. All were purchased NIB from the old Greater Southern Distributing, and were in a finished basement from when they were unboxed. They are everything you would expect, but if there are any blemishes whatsoever, they were either like that out of box, or in my transport from his place, to mine, as I was alone, in a pick-up truck, and had elbow surgery, last week.No leg felt, so inside legs have whatever paint loss happens. Today was the first time legs have been off. 7 pins total, and I will clasify them as A-B-C titles. Flat priced in each class. 1 will be sold to a local friend of mine, and he has 2 youngish daughters, so it will be one of the non offensive themes. I will create a photo album in a day or 2, but like I said, they are exactly what you would expect.
    A titles - $5500.00
    Family Guy

    B titles - $4500.00
    Ripleys BION

    C titles - $3500.00
    Nascar

    Please reply to
    __________@_______ [email removed]
    Tom

    Not 1 of the games has over 350 total plays.


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    #2 8 years ago

    Wow Tom - haven't seen you since the good old RGP days - buy with confidence from this gent.

    Scott

    #3 8 years ago

    I bought a machine from Tom maybe five years ago and shipped to LA. Great seller, easy to deal with and everything was exactly as described. Deal with confidence.

    #4 8 years ago

    Wow....sounds like a nice deal for SM and LOTR....if only it were different circumstances and he wanted trades

    #5 8 years ago

    Scott,
    It has been a very long time. Have been out of the loop for quite some time, but this popped up, and I had to jump. Other than a NGG, that I ran across about a month ago, this is the first bulk find for me, in probably 5 or 6 years.
    Tom

    #6 8 years ago

    Since you have been out of the loop Tom, you may want to consider dropping your prices $500 to $1000 on each title you have listed. You are shooting on the high side of a falling market for many of these higher end titles. I know you are happy for the bulk purchase and going for the quick flip, but if you look around even at Pinside recent sales you will see that many of the titles can be found quite a bit cheaper than your current asking prices (off pinside often even less).

    Given your top dollar prices, most people here are also going to ask for high quality photos of each game which specifically point out and flaws or blemishes. You best bet for a sale at these prices is to proactively post up lots of photos and also specifically highlight any issues.

    #7 8 years ago
    Quoted from Whysnow:

    Since you have been out of the loop Tom, you may want to consider dropping your prices $500 to $1000 on each title you have listed. You are shooting on the high side of a falling market for many of these higher end titles. I know you are happy for the bulk purchase and going for the quick flip, but if you look around even at Pinside recent sales you will see that many of the titles can be found quite a bit cheaper than your current asking prices (off pinside often even less).
    Given your top dollar prices, most people here are also going to ask for high quality photos of each game which specifically point out and flaws or blemishes. You best bet for a sale at these prices is to proactively post up lots of photos and also specifically highlight any issues.

    Would also agree with this. Prices are way too high. From the sounds of it these have never been shopped either. Old rubber is not fun rubber.

    #8 8 years ago

    Obviously not any pics yet, but wouldn't you guys say a single owner HUO game generally is worth a premium of 500 bucks to most?

    #9 8 years ago
    Quoted from yzfguy:

    Obviously not any pics yet, but wouldn't you guys say a single owner HUO game generally is worth a premium of 500 bucks to most?

    The things that threw me off were mainly NASCAR and Sopranos. I feel like the value for good NASCAR is around $2000-$2500 and a good Sopranos around $3500.

    These may be so beautiful that they can get the extra premium, but we haven't seen any pics as you mention.

    #10 8 years ago
    Quoted from yzfguy:

    Obviously not any pics yet, but wouldn't you guys say a single owner HUO game generally is worth a premium of 500 bucks to most?

    nope, especially not in the case of an obvious original owner that it seems just bought the new Sterns and likely knows nothing about maintainence.

    HUO means very little when talking about modern Stern games as many are home use and not very old in the bigger spectrum.

    Aside from that condition is all that matters.

    I have seen single owner HUO game with rotten rubber, filthy, and plenty of issues.

    The prices are quite high even if they are perfect condition. For a quick example the last 3 HUO FG in perfect condition I have seen for sale were asking ~4500.

    I don't have time to do the linking for all of them but here are a few quick examples for FG
    Chromed out appeared nice good photos asking 4800
    https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/for-sale-fs-family-guy

    nice looking game with mods and lots of photos asking 4500
    https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/for-sale-family-guy-stern-2007

    there are a few other recent example in some of the regional FS thread but I am not going throug the effort to dig them up.

    Across the board I would say prices are ~1k high to start 'asking' assuming he is looking for a sale.

    #11 8 years ago

    Hmmm, the machine that has been played the most out of this bunch has less than 350 plays (probably Monopoly) prices could very much be in line not enough info or pics to even comment on pricing at least not for me. Love price policing without the proper info, pretty typical.

    #12 8 years ago

    Simple, don't buy them.

    #13 8 years ago

    SM and LOTR at 5500 are good deals... FGY HUO is around 4500 I'd say... SOP should move at 3.5-4K, dunno about NASCAR.. 3K?

    #14 8 years ago

    Woooooo..... RBION is now a $4500 game ...... time to sell mine with the New England premium cost on top of that

    Would love to get that HUO Monopoly ..... the ones I see now all seem to be a little beat up

    #15 8 years ago
    Quoted from twinmice:

    Simple, don't buy them.

    only a few would...

    #16 8 years ago

    I agree on the SM. It will sell at that price if pics are provided. I don't ship pins though. The other games are priced a little bit above what I realistically see them selling for in the summertime. Around the holidays, it could happen.

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    #17 8 years ago
    Quoted from yzfguy:

    Obviously not any pics yet, but wouldn't you guys say a single owner HUO game generally is worth a premium of 500 bucks to most?

    For LOTR and SM he isn't off except that these may not be shopped. Even if it has low plays a HUO game with 10 year old rubber is not worth the same as a huo from a collector who shops it regularly.

    #18 8 years ago
    Quoted from dung:

    For LOTR and SM he isn't off except that these may not be shopped. Even if it has low plays a HUO game with 10 year old rubber is not worth the same as a huo from a collector who shops it regularly.

    ...and plays it regularly? My game is HUO since 2003 and has thousands of plays on it. I'd say his is probably worth a little (just a little) bit more than mine, crummy rubber and all

    #19 8 years ago
    Quoted from metallik:

    ...and plays it regularly? My game is HUO since 2003 and has thousands of plays on it. I'd say his is probably worth a little (just a little) bit more than mine, crummy rubber and all

    Condition is what matters. If the balls rusted at all and he has run them around the playfield yours might be in better shape.

    #20 8 years ago

    I would like to buy the monopoly

    Please contact me

    #21 8 years ago

    Tom was moving pins in the 90s. I think he knows what he's doing.

    Got a perfect afm from him in 2001 for $3200. That was top dollar for a pin back then. sigh...

    #22 8 years ago
    Quoted from MarcG:

    Tom was moving pins in the 90s. I think he knows what he's doing.
    Got a perfect afm from him in 2001 for $3200. That was top dollar for a pin back then. sigh...

    Yep, I bought a POTC back in '08 for $2700. I remember passing on a WH20 for $800 that he also had at the time...

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    #23 8 years ago

    Just checking in to say Tom is the real deal and a great guy to work with. The number of plays on these games in my opinion was LESS than the audits.. likely alot of start buttons pushed with no play.

    Heres some "you snooze you loose" pics..

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    #24 8 years ago

    Monopoly.. all I had to do on both games is replace flipper rubber.
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