Quoted from TheOnlyest:No bash here, just a "hands over face" moment... WHY oh why do SO MANY people keep dumping tons of money into pins they don't plan to keep, thinking they can recover their full investment PLUS? Especially when they do it a million miles from original to suit their own specific taste? Its the same thing with totally stock restorations, if the average value of a game is $2000, and you put a new playfield, plastics, ramps etc into it... it doesn't make it suddenly worth $8000 in the free market!! DON'T INVEST TONS OF MONEY INTO PINS OR MODS UNLESS YOU PLAN TO KEEP IT! All the parts, work and time you spend doing it is only worth the time and money you spent, TO YOU! I am upside-down in almost every pin I own because I spent whatever it took to bring them back to mint (100% original), and NONE of them will EVER be sold, because i'll lose my ass on them... But that's NOT an issue, because I bought them and did all the work to them with the intent of KEEPING them!!
Don't bash me on the cargument here please....it's the same with cars though. I have 1970 VW Karmann Ghia with color changing paint job, custom interior and motor build. A lot of $ sure....but I like it, doesn't mean if I put it up for sale I'll find a buyer with same taste though....any custom work is for a small niche market. Seller may find someone who will pay this, but I think it is a small market he/she has to find. I see the dollar value on some of these mods like the apron, they aren't cheap. Mentioned earlier, give the option of stock parts and sell the mods separate, quicker sale I'd think.
