I've been after an IM for a while now, but unfortunately they're pretty rare over here in the UK. Recently I've been in touch with someone who has a nice one that he's willing to part with - however, currently both flippers are dead. From what he's told me they were working fine one day, and when he next switched the machine on they'd just given up.

I've had a flipper at a time go before, but never experienced both dying simultaneously - has anyone experienced this issue with a modern Stern, and if so what is the fix? I'm hoping its something fairly simple like a fuse gone somewhere, but I'm worried it could be something else. Any input would be very much appreciated, as I really do want to go for it - it's unlikely I'll find another anytime soon!

Thanks for the reply - the only issue is I won't be able to diagnose the issue myself until after I buy it, and having never run into this problem before I'd like to get some sort of idea what I'm getting myself into!

That's what I was thinking - what are the odds that they'd both go simultaneously?!

Wouldn't the machine give the warning that the coin door is open if this was the case?

Thanks all for the replies - a potential board issue is my biggest concern as that isn't an easy or cheap fix. I'm slightly disheartened to hear that no-one has run into a similar issue before, I was hoping it would be a relatively simple issue as I've wanted one for a while and they never seem to come up for sale over here. If it was fully working I wouldn't think twice!

Sure you can - but to clarify, the machine wasn't listed for sale. I messaged him as I knew he had one and was at one point in the past thinking of selling it, so it isn't so much the asking price as it is the 'I'll let go of it for this much' price.

So, with that out of the way, the price is £4k, which works out to be around $6700. However, to put that in perspective, in the UK a NIB Stern Pro costs around $7700, and a Premium/LE costs around $11,000/$12,400.

Regardless, £4k is probably on the high side especially given the flipper issue, but with IM it's very much a sellers market over here!