Selling my Solar Fire. Located in London, Ontario.

http://www.kijiji.ca/v-toys-games/london/rare-1981-williams-solar-fire-pinball-machine/1028313198

I can provide more info and specific pics, if desired.

Feel free to contact me directly at corey {at} londonpinball.ca.

Corey

Forgot to mention that I'm driving to Toronto on November 8th and could deliver. I'm open to reasonable offers.

I'm also mildly keeping my eyes open for a Firepower, Space Station and DE Star Wars.

What price would you folks prefer?

Once again, I am open to reasonable offers.

I'm not sure I'm terribly interested in getting into a debate about pricing on this.

It's a rare game that plays very well and needs nothing aside from some cosmetics (and that's purely subjective). It falls well within the ballpark of what Black Knight, Centaur, Fathom, Star Gazer, Iron Maiden, Eight Ball Deluxe and any number of other desirable early solid state machines sell for in this condition.

Considering the lack of benchmarks on this machine (you don't see Solar Fire for sale terribly often), I set a price that I felt was fair. If I'm out to lunch, I guess I'll just sit on it for a while until someone makes a solid offer. Having said that, however, at this point, I've been offered a Demo Man in trade along with several other trade offers that I'm still considering. I've also been contacted by two individuals in California, but shipping is a bit of a barrier. So perhaps I'm not far off the mark.

In answer to your question, I think a reasonable offer would be somewhere around $2k. I don't imagine there would be many disappointed buyers at that price.

You guys are awesome.

Mr & Mrs Pac is a $500 game because it's shit. I've owned three of them and I know.

I'd rather have 20 Lectronamos than a MM but I'm having trouble determining what that kind of comparison has to do with my Solar Fire.

I'm surprised to see that in 2014, the year of holy-shit-pinball-pricing, people who aren't really interested in the game are trying to suggest what the game is worth. I'm not interested in a Cactus Canyon but that doesn't make it worth what I would be willing to pay for one. Just sayin'.

Having said all of that, I'm pretty sure that if someone stuffed eighteen hundred US dollars in my hand, they'd walk away with a pretty nice Solar Fire. The current exchange rate puts that at just about $2000 cdn. So there ya go.

Further, if someone was asking a bit more than I wanted to pay for a game I wanted to buy, and I knew that person to be a reasonable human, I would contact them and make a....

wait for it....

reasonable offer.

In summary and conclusion: I'm a pretty reasonable human and I have a Solar Fire for sale.

For what it's worth, that Solar Fire is in dire need of a healthy amount of work. Mine is shopped out and plays perfectly with serviced, clean and reliable boards, new 40-pin interconnector and new $200 LED xPin displays. Considering I've clarified that $1800 US would take my machine, I'm excited to see how much this dirty ol' thing on ebay sells for. It's at $900 now and we all know the majority of the bidding happens in the last few minutes.

Not that it really matters. I'm not out to change hearts and minds today.

Game has been sold. In the end, several people were interested from all over the continent.

I hope everyone has a super great laid-back day today. May you not sweat the small stuff and have a positive and friendly heart.

ebay.com link: williams solar fire pinball very rare arcade good condition solarfire

LOL

My machine is long gone and this one on ebay is still available if anyone wants a sub-$1800 Solar Fire. Good luck!

Of course, once it's shipped and shopped, it won't be sub-$1800 anymore. My price was clearly out of control.

Flame suit ON! Helmet, too.