FunHouse
Williams, 1990So I was searching Craigslist the other day using the phrase "pin ball" rather than "pinball" and a few machines popped up in the search that wouldn't under "pinball"
I tried to find a way to buy this machine but I don't have the discretionary funds at the moment. I haven't looked at it but I contacted the seller to make sure it was still for sale and it is.
So if you're interested, I think it's a good price, or give him an offer.
He responded with a detailed email and seemed to know what he was talking about, and it wasn't in all-caps 
He listed all of the negatives which leads me to believe he's a straight up guy. I didn't want to post it here, but I'll say there isn't anything to kill the deal for me, at all. I'd love to get it, but I'd offer $1800 if the playfield is good. I told him he might want to re-list it with the word "pinball" so it shows up in searches. I'll guess it won't be there long after that.
Quoted from Matt_johnson:I told him he might want to re-list it with the word "pinball" so it shows up in searches. I'll guess it won't be there long after that.
Umm...thanks? 
Those are the kind of facts in a deal we all wait for man.
Quoted from TheLaw:Umm...thanks?
Those are the kind of facts in a deal we all wait for man.
What do you mean? I'm not brokering deals here, just putting it out there. I gave him some advice on his listing but I don't mean to give any advice or info on selling or buying.
This is also an example of searching both the word pinball and the phrase "pin ball." There were three machines in my area that I hadn't seen because they don't contain the word. The other two were way overpriced crap. But you never know.
Quoted from TheLaw:That's what I'm saying...shh It's us against them
Ah yes, of course (eyes rolling got to me.) It's just I've been trying to come up with a way to buy it for a week and it's driving me nuts 
I just want somebody to buy the damn thing so I can get some sleep!
Well, I sent him a message on 8-7 and got a response on 8-9 in which he said it was still for sale. I did send him a message last night on behalf of a friend for more info. I guess we'll see what happens.
Sorry John, didn't know. Just saw it had been sitting there for a month and thought it had fallen through the cracks. He could just be waiting for word on another offer.
Just did a local pin ball search and found an estate sale with slots, vending machines and a pin ( WWF ). Thanks!
True story: did the "pin ball" search this morning. Found a funhouse for $250!!! Emailed but was sold already. I just about cried. Looked nice too. Cl Syracuse ny
Well he got back to me and just said "thanks for the help, have a great day." He didn't offer any information. It was kind of strange though, he sent me two messages and one was blank. IDK...
Hope you guys are having better luck with that guy.
I came across a FT at a garage sale just a while ago. I don't know if I'll make a post for it or not. I took a few of pics and talked the guy down to $1500. PM me if you're interested. I have all of his info. It's a nice machine just dirty and has switch errors. Slight playfeld wear but no fade on cab. There could be something that I didn't see in the 10min I spent looking it over.
Quoted from Matt_johnson:Well he got back to me and just said "thanks for the help, have a great day." He didn't offer any information. It was kind of strange though, he sent me two messages and one was blank. IDK...
Hope you guys are having better luck with that guy.
I came across a FT at a garage sale just a while ago. I don't know if I'll make a post for it or not. I took a few of pics and talked the guy down to $1500. PM me if you're interested. I have all of his info. It's a nice machine just dirty and has switch errors. Slight playfeld wear but no fade on cab. There could be something that I didn't see in the 10min I spent looking it over.
If the topper is there and the cab is in good shape, that's worth $1500 I'd say. CPR is trying to get a playfield to use to start the artwork for a repro. If the cab is in good you could swap in a playfield and have a nice FT. It will be interesting to see what happens with the price of FT's if that happens.
Quoted from Dewey68:If the topper is there and the cab is in good shape, that's worth $1500 I'd say. CPR is trying to get a playfield to use to start the artwork for a repro. If the cab is in good you could swap in a playfield and have a nice FT. It will be interesting to see what happens with the price of FT's if that happens.
I've only played the game through Future Pinball and even though I know it's not close to the same thing as the real deal, it just doesn't excite me. So for me it would have to be a really good price. I think the playfield looked pretty good. The wear I did see was around the edges of the inserts, but it wasn't bad at all. But you just never know with dirty machines. The three that I have shopped all turned out to be a lot nicer than I thought. Spots that I thought were wear were just dirt trails. however on this one, I'm certain some of it is truly wear.
But yeah, the topper is there and the cab is in good shape.
Ok, here's the story. I found this game on CL a month ago. Emailed the guy and it took 10 days to get a response which was basically saying he still has it for sale. I ask some questions and a phone number......another 5 days go by before I get a reply that basically doesn't amount to much. A few more short emails back and forth and after three weeks of trying I finally get some very poor and dark pictures that dont really show much. I ask for more and better lighted pics that he says he will send me the next day....4-5 more days and still nothing so I said why dont I just come look at it in person ( since getting any information and pictures from this guy is like pulling teeth) and plus its taken a MONTH to get this far. When I'm finally able to talk to him on the phone two days ago he says its got a display issue but its nothing serious.
Today I make the 2 hour each way drive, walk through a filty, packed full of crap basement and stepping over piles of clothes that are laying everywhere on the floor all around the game. The playfield is pitted from the ball and full of swirls, scratches, touch ups and mylar. Most of the GI lights are out, the display is gassing out on the top row, bottom row looked good, the ramp is all busted up at the entrance, broken plastics, Rudys jaw doesn't work and he has been taken apart and not put back together, cabinet is somewhat faded, the trap door hinge is broken. Someone replaced the GI connectors but the GI still didn't work for the most part. Lifting the display and speaker panel out causes both displays to go out totally. And the kicker was the back of the cabinet looked like it got wet at one time or another. I mean this thing is CRAP !!
So finally I ask whats the best price and he says that since there selling on Ebay for $5K this one is still $2K and he's now not taking any best offers like the ad said. I explained it will need $1K worth of parts and then there's still the playfield issues and each one of the inserts are worn off and there raised a 1/16th of a inch. Plus the playfield will need to be shopped etc...
And he thinks that replacing the display will cost $500, but I didn't argue thinking it would help get the price down, which it didn't. I didn't even want to pay $1500, and I'm thinking its a $1k game at best the way it sits and thats only because its a Funhouse.
I put the game back together, asked him one more time on the price and he still says $2K and I shook his hand and left. Total waste of time and gas money, so if your thinking about making this deal happen for yourself.....think again.
Now you know the rest of the story.
John P. Dayhuff
Battle Creek, Mi.
269-979-3836
Poor rudy!! I paid $1950 for mine in January and while it needed shopped it totally cleaned up fine and the only issure it had (being a noob I didnt even notice this till a week later when it was all cleaned up) is no flashers. Changing the bridge rectifiers fixed that right up and now its great. Id probably give $800-1000 for the one you described and it would need a total rehab!
Quoted from Dewey68:CPR is trying to get a playfield to use to start the artwork for a repro.
Oooh! Buy up the trashed funhouses boys, we can do some nice restorations and save a few of these great machines and make some cash too!
Thanks for the heads up, John. I was pretty much able to figure out from the phone conversation that I had with the guy that I wasn't going to be making the hour and 15 min. trek to see it.
Quoted from Blackbeard:Where is it located?
Lapeer, MI-- about 45 mins north of Detroit
huh, pin ball. who woulda thunk? desmoines.craigslist.org link
hmmm...THIS also came up in the search... desmoines.craigslist.org link
Good thing I read this post. I was thinking of making the trip tmrw to pick it up. Yeesh. Thanx for saving me a sick day Dayhuff.
Quoted from The_Gorilla:huh, Pin Ball. who woulda thunk?
This is one of the secrets of CL searches. You tend to find more of these in rural areas (for obvious reasons). Only problem is, you end up having to scroll through listings for stuff like ball hitches, bowling pins, etc.
Quoted from toyotaboy:This is one of the secrets of CL searches. You tend to find more of these in rural areas (for obvious reasons). Only problem is, you end up having to scroll through listings for stuff like ball hitches, bowling pins, etc.
Thats true, but its also how I found my LOTR thats HUO for $2500
John P. Dayhuff
Battle Creek,Mi.
269-979-3836
Quoted from toyotaboy:Only problem is, you end up having to scroll through listings for stuff like ball hitches, bowling pins, etc.
You can wrap "pin ball" in quotes and it will only search for instances where pin and ball appear with a space in between. It would not return, for example, the following text: "Pin shaped ball hitch"... But would return "Pin ball machine in decent shape".
Other craigslist operators that might help are the minus sign. That will return posts which DON'T have a certain term. When searching for stand up arcade machines, I'll often search for
arcade -xbox
Which will filter out xbox results and help me narrow my search, because XBox has an 'arcade' version or game titles that have arcade in the word.
I just read in the Detroit Free Press that the 337 million dollar Powerball ticket was bought in Lapeer, MI. Maybe if this guy was the winner, he could just give the machine away.
Quoted from flipperfingers:I just read in the Detroit Free Press that the 337 million dollar Powerball ticket was bought in Lapeer, MI. Maybe if this guy was the winner, he could just give the machine away.
Thats what he should do, its certainly not worth much more then free. Just glad I didn't give him the satisfaction and pull the trigger on this game. With all the games I've bought over the years there is only maybe three I've walked away from and this turd deserved it.
John P. Dayhuff
Battle Creek, Mi.
269-979-3836
Quoted from Dayhuff:Thats what he should do, its certainly not worth much more then free. Just glad I didn't give him the satisfaction and pull the trigger on this game. With all the games I've bought over the years there is only maybe three I've walked away from and this turd deserved it.
John P. Dayhuff
Battle Creek, Mi.
269-979-3836
Just saw your CL post John. Classic. I hope the owner reads it.
As for the powerball...I saw the news and started to run for my ticket to look. Then I saw "Lapeer." Barf
Quoted from Underspin:Just saw your CL post John. Classic. I hope the owner reads it
do share!
Quoted from Joshmx19:do share!
It's word for word what John posted earlier in the thread.
It's a nice warning to others...
Quoted from Joshmx19:do share!
You can find the post here until it's flagged
Quoted from pmWolf:It's word for word what John posted earlier in the thread.
It's a nice warning to others...
Hey it's the Wolf! How you doin, man?
The moral hazard of doing business on a glorified free classified ad site?
If anyone expects anything for free or for most ads on there to be great deals,
then they are nuts and or stupid!
Man there is a rash of insanely priced machines in my area. Most people are idiots. They can't spell; they can't figure out how to post pictures and they certainly do not have the slightest idea of what it is they are selling. These idiots are going to price us all out of this hobby.
I was going to call tonight on a Flash and work out an offer. Well it turns out that after searching for the post it turned up newly listed in a different town with the same pics and post but now the price went from $700 OBO to $1000. WTF? I've seen this before, though.
I noticed that the headline said "Fuhouse" and not "FuNhouse." I now and forever will call it the "F.U.House" pinball when I see Dayhuff. It was truly a F'd Up House.
Quoted from Matt_johnson:Man there is a rash of insanely priced machines in my area. Most people are idiots. They can't spell; they can't figure out how to post pictures and they certainly do not have the slightest idea of what it is they are selling. These idiots are going to price us all out of this hobby.
I was going to call tonight on a Flash and work out an offer. Well it turns out that after searching for the post it turned up newly listed in a different town with the same pics and post but now the price went from $700 OBO to $1000. WTF? I've seen this before, though.
Oh you must be speaking of the Space Mission and Splash pinball machine. Either someone is messing around with us or is plain old stupid
Quoted from Underspin:Oh you must be speaking of the Space Mission and Splash pinball machine. Either someone is messing around with us or is plain old stupid
Yeah, that's the one.
Quoted from Underspin:Oh you must be speaking of the Space Mission and Splash pinball machine. Either someone is messing around with us or is plain old stupid
Hey, that was originally in your town.
Man, I miss going up by you to fly fish. I wonder if it's still good?
Quoted from Matt_johnson:Hey, that was originally in your town.
Man, I miss going up by you to fly fish. I wonder if it's still good?
I saw middleville, then rockford, then middleville again on the posting. Strange and messed up. I didn't even bother contacting.
Tell you what though. I've already got a Flash. If you contact this....person....and manage a package deal for both machines I'm actually interested in the Space Mission. If you didn't want it I would take it off your hands for you.
They did a nice job finishing the dam downtown. Looks nice and folks are fishing off it all the time. Fly fishing is better downstream a bit out of everyones way. Cozy little town here. I'm a transplant but it's been growing on me year by year
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