Good Luck, this TAF looks like rock' and roll.!

Seems like a lot of purple to me, though.

AHHHHH my eyes are burning from Barney

The goggles, they do nothing!!!!

do you have a starting list of pins you are looking for?

I WILL own one of these someday. Just cannot buy right now...daughter getting married Monday and she and my wife keep spending my pinball money. They have some nerve, eh?

Collin, PM ME when you tire of yours. Or, maybe I will bring this thread back to life in 18 months, 17 months after Erik sold/traded it!

I just don't understand the "trade only" thing. Isn't this why we invented money? Person A has a TAF but only wants to trade. Person B wants a TAF but doesn't have any of the titles Person A wants. Person C has the title Person A wants, but does not want a TAF. Person D has money, but no one will sell him a game because they all want to "trade". Arggg...

Don't get me wrong. If you can work out a trade that works for you, that's great. But to say you will only trade can be frustrating. I recently decided I wanted an AFM. Rather than offering up two of my pins as trades for an AFM, I sold them, used that money and bought an AFM. Now the guy I bought the AFM from has the money to go buy what he wants.

There are quite a few problems if you sell outright. If you sell for $X, but you live in Tennessee (which I did), you might find there are no comparable games available for sale for $X. Instead, you have to have a game shipped to you, adding $200-500 to the transaction cost. If you wait for a trade, local or semi-local, you can coordinate transportation (perhaps meeting halfway) and not eat the shipping fee. Also, if you sell locally, your buyer inspects the game, plays it and makes you an offer (or pays full price) based on full information. If you sell your game locally and ship in a new one, you're relying on pics and, if lucky, video to ensure your future game works.

In short, transaction costs and information asymmetries are why people choose to trade.

Everything you just said to justify trading only can be done with selling/buying. I have bought many non local games and made arrangements with the seller to either meet half way or hold the game until I could go get it myself or make other arrangements. As far as "relying on pics", you run the same risk doing an out of town trade. If your worried about selling your game and not being able to find a replacement, I just don't see that happening. I've never been unable to find a game I wanted. I may have had to wait for awhile, but I'd find it soon or later and then I had cash in hand.

Not to derail thread, but crazy talk.. I don't have cash to buy pins any more (I only got one small window to buy that was wife approved)... When I did have cash I purchased selectively with the sole goal of trading. If my wife caught wind that I sold for x thousand and had that in cash ...she would get mad that I don't pay something off or build a fence.

So to keep a pin in the house trade is the only way.

Also part of the fun in the hobby is trading IMO

5days ago I traded successfully a taf for tspp. Best of luck to the find!

If I can avoid having a hole in the collection, I always will. I have flipped or traded probably
a dozen titles in the past year. When I had a particular machine that I wanted already located, I sold something to make room. But usually I am looking for a trade, so as to make it a one-step process, and avoid jumping into the pool with all the others looking to buy a machine when it pops up.

whatchoo got against purple?

Purple is where it's at!

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The purple looks fantastic to me! super!

I like it too. I might do that to mine. It actually suits the game better than the multi-colored tops.

pinster68, when you are ready to move your TAF, please let me know. I'm pretty close to you location wise and would love to own one some day. Love how the purple looks!

Thanks guys. I figured the purple and black theme looks way more graveyard-appropriate than the rainbow theme.

Also changed the flippers to white with purple rubbers.