I know an arcade owner who is interested in buying a couple of new pins. However, he balked at the price of $5600 stern pro's.

Pins at the location don't earn much. It's mainly a redemption arcade with over 75 machines, and the big earners are the machines that dispense tickets.

So, for operators, prices like these are completely bonkers. For home owners, even more so. What market is Stern & JJP shooting for if it's not operators and not average collectors?

Most arcades that I'm aware of in the area are mainly focused on redemption. I haven't seen an actual video arcade in years.

People tend to feed dollar after dollar into games that spit out tickets. With pins, usually it's just one game, and they're done.

Redemption doesn't always mean claw games.

There are skill-based games like skee ball or carnival-type games that dispense tickets too.

But true, most games last between 5 and 90 seconds, depending on what it is.

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Funny.... I said the exact same thing in another thread.

But obviously there is still a demand in the market that is going unfulfilled.