Buy the Premium, lose $1000 in a year after you've mastered it, create a new post bitching about it on Pinside.

Rinse, lather, repeat

Only on Pinside would someone expect to buy a product, use it for a year, then sell it for the same price they paid for it.

$6k or under would be a good deal.

Otherwise, it would just be better to buy a brand new game that no one has messed up with Cleaner Wax, sticking dolls on the top, or bedbugs.

Are you telling someone that $6500 for a used Maiden is a good deal???

If you have people skills, you can also add your machine to an operator's order.

Ops get tasty discounts because they buy a dozen machines at a time.

You adding your machine to their order lets them get a bigger discount, you get to share that discount, win/win

Real ops only deal in cash, so don't try to hand them your plastic, they will slap it out of your hand.

You will need a vehicle to take the game from their warehouse, bring your own helper.

It's not a thousand dollars, but a few hundred dollar savings is certainly real money.