Whysnow? Is that you?!

It's a way cooler theme than most of what they have come up with lately.

Maybe I'm too pragmatic, but after Dutch and Cointaker sell my game to someone else, I don't care if they play it or scalp it. Either way I'm robbed of my money and the experience, or heck, the option to scalp it myself! Whatever the new buyer does causes me no further harm. My beef is still with Dutch, and maybe Cointaker, and to a far lesser extent the buyer, no matter what he does with it.

I don't really care what you do with your game, but the fact you have a price in mind, and made an ad, and are responding means you DO want to sell it, and for the highest possible amount.

A while back someone asked me what I'd sell them my Mousin' Around for, and I told them 4k. They went on some huge rant about how that's insane and the market isn't close to that etc etc etc. My response was well, you asked me what I'd sell it for. I don't have it listed, it's one of my favorite games, I didn't offer to sell it to you, and I don't want to get rid of it, so $4k.

I don't care what goofball price you ask for but don't make up some story about how you don't want to sell it when you're making a for sale ad for it. If you "don't want to sell it" you'd have kept quiet about it until someone made you an offer you couldn't refuse.

Does the game come with a lifetime supply of white russians?

I just got this via email so I am posting for a Facebook friend:

Dear Sirs, I am exteamly liking youre penball machine and want to buy it. As soon as I have confamation you ship, I wire you the money.

You have zero desire to sell it at no or a small profit. You have non-zero desire to sell it for 45 grand. I'm not some moral authority on if that's right or wrong (and that is not what I'm commenting on) but it makes it easier when you make my point for me.

A new TBL listing just popped up on the marketplace, $25K.

GLWS

Um. Ya.

That’s karma

BM SENT

I give you credit for making it four pages in and sounding basically unscathed.

Spot on.

OP should sell the game for $25k and then give $4k to three different randomly selected EAs and keep $500 profit for himself. Done!

His ad says "May be able to deliver for a fee" LMFAO!!!

Serious? $45k and want to charge a delivery fee? What a joke LOL

Delivery cost on this must be in $32,500 range then?

If you sell this thing for $45k you should deliver it, set it up, mow the yard, clean the pool, and do the dishes for free!!

Any chance you would just end your listing then? You don't want to sell it and people here aren't willing to meet your ridiculous asking price. Maybe you could move on to Ebay or Craigslist instead of a pinball collector board where people have been burned by this whole fiasco. You are not a pinball collector after all and are more likely to find a wealthy sucker to buy your game on other platforms.

Now I know why all those lottery winners have such a hard time.

I'm confused, are you an early achiever who is just now receiving your game? Or did you simply move fast enough to get one from CT for 12.5k?

True

He is not an EA.

Did ebay close the doors?

And you are offering it to the unlucky masses at a mere 260% profit. How kind.

you can list anything you want at any price you want what I hate about this is that's it's more than obvious it's someone from the community we all know but doesnt want to come out of the closet and ruin his reputation.

When you are confortable with something you can come out and say it the same way if it was your girl, your friends, the president, the pope or god.

When you create a tempo account is because you know it's wrong.

Anyway good luck with the sale and your conscience

I know right, last thing I’m going to do is send the most important member of my team into the most powerful slicing and dicing device of my enemy.

What do people feel these will ACTUALLY sell for. 45k is nuts and this wont sell for it, but what profit will these grubby flippers actually net?

Congratulations on being on CoinTaker's deposit list (as opposed to those not on any such list like Kaneda) and actually getting the opportunity to acquire a game! You might be selling the TBL that I supported development of, paid DP for in full as an actual EA in 2014, and was supposed to subsequently receive in 2016 until I learned it was being held by ARA in their factory.

What the hell though eh? At least I get to see pictures now of what should have rightly been mine and revel in others' exorbitant profiteering vicariously!

I think TBLs were fetching ~$20k before this newest batch of 40 games were released. Hard to predict how this affects demand. All else equal, doubling supply should decrease prices. But it's possible people will look at how events have shaken out and see even less likelihood than before that DP will ever resume production and ultimately make hundreds of TBLs as they'd promised. And if people think supply is capped at 80 for the foreseeable future, they'll be more willing to spend.

All that said, I'd be surprised if these are routinely changing hands at $25k anytime soon, but $18k-$20k seems likely. Before the remake rumors started BBB was selling in that range with almost 200 games in existence, and without a licensed theme to help sell it, so it seems plausible TBL will fall into that same rarefied pricing band.

The only ones at fault are Dutch and ARA. Or whatever the heck happened there.

Sucks for those that got burned, but this is not those that ended up with these machines fault.

This is just capitalism at it's finest and has had more twists and turns and is playing out like any other Coen brothers movie. Those boys would be proud!

Is it you posted it on fb page "Pinball for Sale" for 25k?

Well if we keep looking after few more ads perhaps we will get it for 5k afterall

I can abide (see what I did there Dude?) by another pinhead taking advantage of the opportunity to purchase one of these TBL's that we EA's already paid for if they are doing so to own and enjoy it out of love for the game.

But to do so just for profit, and an obscene profit at that, is both uncool and bad for the hobby. Anyone who takes pride in such behavior does not deserve to own this game.

That's still not enough. I would expect him to bring along at least 2-3 hotties with limited clothing and even less morals.

I here ya and feel your pain!

But it does kind of remind me of that song by The Sweet called "Someone Else Will". Especially the live version.

What you now do with this TBL, that you were fortunate to have been able to obtain, is very much within your control. Good luck with your decision moving forward.

Ouch... Another "look at what I have and you don't pic". I feel really bad for the guys that got screwed over on this because it's hard to look past the in your face nature of this ad and the follow-on comments.

Tuna I feel for ya brother, and all the other EA's. If I ever see Barry or Jaap again I promise to bring ya some teeth. They were douchebags anyway.
Hope you get yer machine one day bub, I really do.

Couldn't agree more...I know one of folks that got screwed and seeing this ad must be painful to him.

A reputable company should buy the license/game and produce these if it's such a great game...

No interest in lusting after a game obtained in such a shit show!