5-6 hours each way

Based on game

Usually about the same as you but to find Bally's Bigfoot I'd go to the ends of the earth.....LOL.

John

2 to 3 hour drive there. So really a 4 to 6 hour drive round trip.

For the right game I'd go up to 10 hours each way. But I'm gonna factor in time, one hotel night, and gas when deciding if it's worth it..

I love road trips. 1200 mile round trips is the limit. Norfolk being the furthest. Nice area.

I wonder what it would be like to cross back over the border with a pinball machine in the back of the car? In my work I have traveled to a lot of countries and by far the one that gives me the most grief is Canada. Maybe they reserve that treatment for Americans coming over.

I've driven to Ottawa / Gatineau a couple times for pins. The supply well is pretty dry in the Maritimes.

Personally I feel like it's a dry well here in southern Wisconsin. Could have to do with certain nearby business's in Chicago that buy up everything, who knows, I am guessing. There are always a ton of ads on Craigslist in my area asking to buy pretty much any pin in any condition. I see so many pins I would buy If I were willing to drive more than 4 or 5 hours, just very few good ones around here.

For a grail-type, hard to find title, I’ve done the over-night pin trip with a friend.
Often, the high end restored pins, don’t come up too often locally in Toronto.

I'm about 20 inches from my screen.

That is how far I look.

LTG : )

2-3 each way for me also, unless it's something special...

Worldwide! I have brought and shipped games from the US a couple of those games from awesome Pinsiders.

I have also done a couple of road trips my longest was a 26 hour round trip from England to Germany.

I usually am willing to drive up to 7 hours each way for a game I really want.

I flew from Australia to Europe for a single machine a few years ago plus a majority of my collection has been attained in bulk through personal container imports from either Europe or North America over the last 15 years.

You can't afford to limit your search radar when you live down here or you will be forever chasing one or two units at most.

8 to 10 hours each way. Can't wait to get out of the deep South.

Do people come to you, to try to sell you their old pins and pool tables? If so how many in a year?

Found out my "limit" a couple weeks ago after 16 hours round trip in one day. Anything more would be overnight and depend on the title/seller but I would seriously consider shipping or just being patient

I've never counted. It happens occasionally. Very rare if it's anything good. Usually junk they don't want to pay to haul.

They get hurt too when you tell them their $6K pool table is worthless because anyone wanting it will have to pay $500 to take it out and $500 to put it in their house. They don't want to hear the value was in their using it.

If the pin is anything, I usually pass it on to people I know.

LTG : )

For the West Coast it's really 2-1/2 metro areas and you're done, travel time be damned. There are far fewer choices within 8 hrs than, say, east, of the Mississippi. (Man, if I lived east of the Miss I would have completed my wishlist long ago.) From Sacramento, you've got the Bay Area (1 to 2 hrs), Reno (2 to 3 hrs), and then it jumps to 6- 8 hrs for So Cal and that's it. After that you're looking at 12+ hrs to northern Oregon, Vegas or Phoenix. I haven't gotten that desperate yet.

If I can get the round trip done in one day, I’m gonna do it. Obviously the deal would need to be pretty sweet to do a ten hour each way type deal.

For something on my "grail-level" list, i'll fly/drive/walk/crawl to get it.

Belgium....where I had my Fathom shipped from

It seems as if demand > supply here on the west coast. I’ve shipped games here from the east coast, picked up games in both Canada and California, and every rare once in awhile obtained one locally. I remember back in the day when it was 2 for 1 shipping on NAVL for pins, you could get 2 shipped for say $350-400 total. Now it’s $500 to ship east coast to west coast. ;(

3-4 hours seems like my max. Most the time closer to 2.

Thanks
Blake