The market sure is changing.

not sure this would be an example of that. I'll leave it there.

It’s overpriced. Shopped or not.

That's my feeling too. I'm glad someone spent time on fixing up a machine, but that's none of my business. The machine just isn't worth anything near this amount. Really this game should be like $3k even with the fixes.

Every JP for sale ad should have a pic of the A-hole (the one in the play field, you dirty buggers) and other high wear spots. Otherwise it’s really hard to assess how fair the price is

Even if the A-hole is pristine and freshly waxed ( ) it's still not worth $3900

I like the transliste.

Nice pictures

Good seller, rough crowd.

Ive dealt with Lou many times, never had an issue with him, very easy to deal with. I know he loves this game and am surprised he’s selling it, so maybe this is just the price it takes for him to let it go.

Looking at archived and current ads, the range is very wide, most go for between 2600-3200, but some have gone for a lot higher.

Posting more pics would be helpful.

Some nice high resolution photos would aid you greatly in your attempt to sell your JP. You need good photos of all three scoop holes showing the condition.

Gord

A while back a year or 2 ago, someone on here was looking to buy a JP and asked me what I'd want for mine. I said it'd have to at least be $4500, but I'm not considering selling.

Then they got all crazy by telling me that the game wasn't worth that much, even with the mods.

To which I said, "like i said, you asked how much i would want, i told you the price I'm currently in it for and that it's also not for sale."

So any price that I had given would have meant absolutely nothing. Should have told him $10k.

But I'm always surprised at how defensive people get when they see a game for sale just a smidge over what they feel the value should be. It doesn't matter what people what list their machines for. They'll either get it, or not. The only reason to beat someone up because you think a machine is too much is because you either sold a game for much less and you are jealous. Or your just someone who like to correct people every chance you can get.

So to the OP, if I was interested in selling mine, I'd be right there with you. It's only a starting point.

No color DMD, and no new TREX...even with those items I wouldnt list mine for over $3500 max. This is a $2800ish machine sir. GLWTS

I just bought a JP that has quite a few miles on it. All I can say is the movie integration is awesome, sound clips are awesome and it is generally a very entertaining game. Full disclaimer my first dmd machine, but it's worth what someone is willing to pay for it and the game play won't disappoint. New code rocks btw. Glws

I've seen videos and can verify the T-REX works 100%. GLWTS!

He's modded to eat ya money too!!

Sure we understand that, but how aboot this thread?

Pics are up!

Just sent a PM with a cash offer of $2,900. Others should feel free to best my best offer.

He should grab that and run.

Rejected...

GLWTS!

3k all day for this one. color DMD would fetch 3500.

*correction 3400

Feel Free!

Ah yes, the $100 labor costs

I think you're gonna wanna check your math there...
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Last year mine went for $4500 with pinsound, color dmd, flipper fidelity, yellow trim, tons of mods..

Here it is

I often wonder if anyone out there understands the term OBO... Sure price is up there but make an offer or don't buy it.

This game is one of the easiest games to shop imo. Once you get that ramp off everything opens up.
With a colordmd, open gate mod this machine is like 33-3400 and I wouldn’t pay that.

Well the weird thing is it means diff'rent things to diff'rent people. We just had some threads go into this and I was sort of shocked to that a lot of people think it means the price starts at 3,900 or best offer over that; true story.

Anyway, you can chalk up a few posts to the smidge of smarminess in the OP.

Let the guy sell his game, i never understand price police. Market dictates the price, if its to high he will lower it.

I wouldn't pay more than $1200 bucks for JP, but thats because I have passed on JP at that price years ago, but there is no way I am going over 3k, or even 2k on a JP, the game is fun but, like not THAT much fun.

Lol

Bublehead all of a sudden all over the place and I can't tell if he's just being super sarcastic or if he's serious. I hope it's the former bc i think it works.

I mix it up... keeps people guessing... but when you get bitten by the “waiting for my NIB pinball machine” bug, you will do anything to pass the time.

As for JP... is it $3900 bucks worth of fun? Thats like 7800 games at $0.50 per game and average ball time is about 3.5 minutes and 3 balls per play... thats 1365 hours or 56 days of non stop pinball minimum, not including free games, extra balls, or matches. Now lets say you play it half an hour a day every day, that means you would be able to enjoy your pin for 7.47 years minimum before the cost to own it pays for the cost to play it. Will I get bored of JP in 7.47 years? Yes, yes I will. So to me, JP is fun but not 7.47 years of fun...

Figure that one out...

Bahaha one way to pass the time! I need to start doing what your doing now with this new delay update.

Just when I thought you got the last laugh (I agree you took an unnecessary beating) you had to go and post that ....sometimes it's best to just take the high road. Congrats on your sale.

Well with that type of attitude congratulations that some sucker agreed to buy that overpriced JP. You'll probably continue posting overpriced pins and have more suckers come knocking but good to know for any future purchases to avoid you completely.

Whoever the buyer is - you basically paid at least 700 more than you should. That sucks.

Guys, this is stupid and I'll take the hit on alot of this. I emailed SpikeLou2 out of the blue with an offer to trade my WCS94 for his JP a few weeks ago. After negotiations fell apart, Spike put his machine on the market. It was a negotiating tactic. It got me to up my offer a bit (but not to the winning offer) and was a very successful tactic. I thought that all the negative comments on the price would help my position, and made semi positive comments when the thread was dead to bring attention to it and hopefully garner more negative comments, helping my bargaining position. This backfired spectacularly, as someone beat out what I thought was a very generous offer. Spike even offered to work with me a little bit. If you put your machine up for sale and someone offered the asking price, there is nothing wrong with that. The market will bare what the market will bare.

I will further state that the price on entry level kid friendly machines is going to continue to rise for the forseeable future. I bought my first pin 3 months ago. When I sold it last week, 2 of the 3 competitors for my pin were first time pin buyers. I sold the pin for more than I paid for it, but not more than I had in it. More people in the hobby means higher prices for pins. I think this will effect prices back to the 90s DMD level, as that is the era that most people having young kids remember. 2 of those 3 buyers had young kids they wanted to introduce to pinball in the home, because they could... part of the reason I bought my first pin.

Long story short, neither Spike nor the buyer did anything wrong. A nice recently serviced pin can be a big deal to someone who doesn't want to mess with it.

Furthermore, playing price police will likely have the opposite effect as intended as it will just bring more attention to the machine. Yes, it's fun, but there is no such thing as bad publicity.

Congratulations SpikeLou2!

And if anyone near Maryland has a JP they'd like to sell me at a reasonable price let me know.

Congradulations on the sale. Once again the "pinball appraisers" are proven wrong. DE values are going up, because people are finally getting a chance to play them. Last Action Hero was on the "Best Pins Under $2k" list, mine sold for $2,600. Unless you've bought or sold a game in the last 6 months you should really keep to yourself..

Hey I said JP was fun, what more do you want?!? If you found a buyer at your asking price, that is awesome. But the math kinda works out here... I would put $1200 into a JP for home, maybe go as high as $2200 for a real nice clean working machine. But I don't pay somebody else to fix or rebuild a machine for me by starting with a $2200 machine and put in $500 in parts and 40 to 80 hours of labor and then expect to get $3900 out of it. You may think your labor is worth something, and to someone who doesnt have the time or the expertise it may well be worth it, just not to me. People seem to think that because I am willing to pay $8k for a NIB MBrLE that I am a sucker for a used DE/SEGA pin from the early 90’s, well I am not. That machine is worth $2200 tops to me and those who think otherwise, have fun fixing and repairing your 25 year old DE/SEGA JP that you bought for $3900. That sounds like a great deal to me.