I hate to burst your bubble, but this title tends to languish when it carries a price tag of $1k+.

What type of restore is it? High-end restore or shop job? What exactly has been done to it? Do you have high-res photos available?

Are you looking for a straight trade, or do you plan on adding cash?

Metallica is a fun game. GLWT

I have a restored one of these as well, with an original prototype backglass just restored. If this fetches interest in a trade for a game like metallica, count me in as a competing seller.

Looks really nice!
As a huge Star Trek fan and Metallica pin owner, I think you'd have a hard time finding someone who will trade a Metallica for this. Maybe if it was a HEP restoration.

Don't mean to be rude...but, seriously..
You wouldn't get a Metallica for 3 of these.

All the upgrading in the world does not make an OK game great.
Pinball just doesn't work that way, and neither do Pinsiders.
Does look nice though.

What he said!

I call B.S. but if you really have 2 metallica owners who contacted you, tell the other one to contact me.. I'll give them a plus cash deal

there are also more people that can restore well. some people choose to only restore their own games.

Knockerlover,do you get the idea???Good luck!!Peace!!

Maybe I'll play devil's advocate here....I don't think I ever saw him post that it was meant to be a straight up trade? Perhaps it's Star Trek plus cash?

I just finished up a high end restore on a Bally Star trek. Even if the OP's ST was for sale at 5K, I don't think he's out of line. Just the board set and displays run $700 or so. PF, plastics and back glass another $1000. Then you have all the mechanical parts. Drop targets, new bumper bodies, lamp sockets, bulbs, the list goes on. Chrome if he did any, which is super expensive. You can easily spend $3500 for everything to do a nice restore. Plus the cost of the game itself.

I go a little further with rebuilding the cab, new floor and replating mostly all of the metal parts for the cab and pf. Re-pinning all connectors and rehabbing the coin door. If I got $5K for mine, I might just break even.

People never understand how much work goes into a restore. If this was posted by hep or Kelly, there would have been no flak at all.And it possibly would have been more.

For most in the hobby that do restores, it's labor of love. HEP and Kelly do amazing work so the cost is justified IMO.

Same here, but we can't pretend that the money we put into them is what they are worth in resale.

There is no "target market" for a $5,000 Star Trek. It doesn't exist.

Yes,all you say about restoration is true,BUT,you can't make a steak out of hamburger,! Thats why if you do all that work,its a labor of love for a pin you want to keep forever! Even a nib Bally ST,still wouldn't be what your DREAMING about,sorry!

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