Boulder, CO
Quoted from Bugsy:Not to be too nosey, but can you give us some figures on the amount of games played on some of your pins, and the price it costs to play them? That may give us some insight as to how long it takes to recoup the initial cost of the game.
Nearly all of my pins have an annual return between 40% and 70%. That includes location split, but does not include the cost of parts or my time. The way I look at it, that's a hell of a lot better than most other safe investments*...but I wouldn't do it if I didn't love pinball.
Those numbers are for my best location (main pinball destination in my city), and it brings in 4-5x more per pin, per day than my other location.
* (When you factor in parts and maintenance, (and possibly even if you don't) pinball has the worst ROI of all coin op devices from what I can tell. Pool tables, skee ball, jukeboxes, and video games are all significantly more profitable).
