This Thread was famous for exposing overpriced Pins. Now on a daily basis I see a dozen candidates that would be submitted
under the old criteria. Everything is overpriced with inaccurate descriptions (missing parts, condition). Seems like pinball
machines go up by a thousand dollars at a time, no incremental increases here.
Maybe these flippers have won, though still uncertain how many sell at the Cinderella price.
Quoted from Pugsley:Id love to go to that bingo with balls and tell him to put them in and show me how it works for 10k.
Might be one hell of a story to tell.. Not sure it be worth the 10k though. But, maybe a tank of gas and some balls!
"Ask me anything....but this is all I know"
That makes no sense. About as much sense as the rest of the ad I suppose.
Quoted from PghPinballRescue:"Ask me anything....but this is all I know"
I wonder if they can elaborate on voo doo economics?
Quoted from Atari_Daze:I wonder if they can elaborate on voo doo economics?
All we need is to input the data, oh and replace the outlet plug.
"One of the very first computers made, the first random number generator, all manual, works, needs a new outlet plug"
Classic Marketing fail, though I do give credit for originality. Big pricing fail too.
Bingo machines are really deductive reasoning computers the way I see it. I'm scared of them
but know eventually one will end up in my possession. EM to the Max!
Quoted from phil-lee:Bingo machines are really deductive reasoning computers the way I see it. I'm scared of them
but know eventually one will end up in my possession. EM to the Max!
They are monsters indeed. I've seen inside and would take forever to go through one top to bottom.
But if it something that can be gambled with, I'm sure one will end up here eventually.
Quoted from o-din:I think I'll just leave this here.
bellingham.craigslist.org link
And I will screenshot the ad for posterity.
Screenshot_20191206-194401__01 (resized).jpgis that the camera bag on top of the glass? I think some one is just having fun with the ad , the description does a lot of countering statements , if you don't know what a pinball machine does how is it you understand it needs electricity and a new plug ?
Quoted from undrdog:An abacus ?
You funny!
I offered him 70$ Im hopeful he'll come around,at least he was polite
Don't mean to be rude but i think you have some bad info on the value here. If the backglass is in good shape i'll give you 70$. Sometime with these older style bingo machines you have to pay to have them hauled off, usually to the dump
Thu, Dec 5, 8:05 AM (2 days ago)
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Hardly my finding,
Thank you for your offer.
75cba65cc14f537431d0dee14f6e2035620bd48c (resized).jpgHardly my finding,
Thank you for your offer.[quoted image]
I guess that his findings are inaccurate and that is why he will sit on this one until his wife calls 1800gotjunk.
Quoted from thelazybman:I offered him 70$ Im hopeful he'll come around,at least he was polite
Don't mean to be rude but i think you have some bad info on the value here. If the backglass is in good shape i'll give you 70$. Sometime with these older style bingo machines you have to pay to have them hauled off, usually to the dump
Thu, Dec 5, 8:05 AM (2 days ago)
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Hardly my finding,
Thank you for your offer.[quoted image]
would he be willing to send or post more pictures?
Quoted from thelazybman:I offered him 70$ Im hopeful he'll come around,at least he was polite
Don't mean to be rude but i think you have some bad info on the value here. If the backglass is in good shape i'll give you 70$. Sometime with these older style bingo machines you have to pay to have them hauled off, usually to the dump
Thu, Dec 5, 8:05 AM (2 days ago)
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Hardly my finding,
Thank you for your offer.[quoted image]
Everyone just needs to constantly pester these idiots until they get a clue. But, alas, they probably never will.
Quoted from CoolCatPinball:Everyone just needs to constantly pester these idiots until they get a clue
It is not in their interest to get a clue. Making fun of them will have to suffice.
Quoted from thelazybman:I offered him 70$ Im hopeful he'll come around,at least he was polite
Don't mean to be rude but i think you have some bad info on the value here. If the backglass is in good shape i'll give you 70$. Sometime with these older style bingo machines you have to pay to have them hauled off, usually to the dump
Thu, Dec 5, 8:05 AM (2 days ago)
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Hardly my finding,
Thank you for your offer.[quoted image]
Many years ago when I had far less experience i bought a not quite working bingo machine from a guy for $100. I had worked on a few EM's at this time, and figured it'd be a piece of cake. Fast forward 5 years and I gave it away, still not working to a guy. I happened to run into him some years later, and asked if he had ever got it working, his answer was "hell no!". I felt a little vindicated because this guy was an electrical engineer.
Are Bingo clunkers good for parts to be carried over to pins? Coils I figure would match up, but any mechanical bits and pieces?
For sale is Data East Guns N Roses pinball. DMD does not work and likely needs to be replaced. Damage to side cabinet. As is. $3,500 or best offer. If you want pictures, send me an email. Thanks.
Damaged, bad DMD and who knows what else. 
Quoted from yaksplat:buffalo.craigslist.org link
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For sale is Data East Guns N Roses pinball. DMD does not work and likely needs to be replaced. Damage to side cabinet. As is. $3,500 or best offer. If you want pictures, send me an email. Thanks.
Damaged, bad DMD and who knows what else.
Can't you tell how nice it is from the stock photo? He could have posted an out of focus, over exposed picture of the actual machine but he went all out and provided a photo of what it looked like in 1994.
Hey, now, he offered to send pictures upon request. Because savvy buyers don't need no stinkin pictures, only pita tire kickers want pictures.
Don't get me wrong, this is a nice machine. It's not a 9.9 as the seller states, but if your going to ask $4250 for a Bally KISS, you could at least shop it out and fix the ball/credit display. I believe this is the famous Valpo wipe job flipper in action.
Quoted from Puffdanny:Just a little fix to the cabinet[quoted image]
I'd make an offer on that if the play field wasn't completely borked...only ever seen 1 in the wild out in Las Vegas!
Quoted from Jahkub:Only 18K for all![quoted image]
The camera is also rarely used . . .
Quoted from Gott1978:The camera is also rarely used . . .
They must be trying to keep the battery pristine as well because there's only that one photo.
Quoted from undrdog:It’s one of those great "buy three, get three" deals.
I think you mean, "Pay for 6 and get 3"
Quoted from freeplay3:Individually he wants 18k or if you buy them all you can have them for....18k.
25¢ each or 3 for a dollar?
some pinball machines owners have a scarcity mentality, and they think they can sell their crap machines for more money than reality , with a price tag of what a brand new pinball machine fetches . which would you buy black rose (in a bad photo) or unboxing the new Jurassic park in the 7k neighborhood
(note:I'm not insinuating that black rose is a crap game )
Not CL but get a load of this:
Sorry for that big dirty URL. It's an Ebay ad for "Beautifully restored! Bad Cats 1989 Williams pinball machine! New playfield!" and it's only $12,999.99!!!
edit: I guess pinside cleaned up that big ugly URL
In defense of the ad lister, it IS a beautiful machine!
However, show me at least 1 pic of it actually turned on!
Show me the boards!
Show me inside the cabinet!
Kids these days....
Got to say that the machine is in a really reaaaalllyyyyy good condition.
But I don't see how you can put a price on something like this. I could understand the price if it was a "symbolic" machine, like MM , MB , TAF , TOM , TOTAN (you got my point)
Would be a fine price, i guess, but for a Bad Cats i think it's a "bit" too much.
I remember that grand lizard for sale from 3 years ago.... price came down a little .....and now it says OBO , i guess he has a nice collectors quality collection of pins and he doesn't want to part with anything unless there's a large payout offer. he probably doesn't play them either if he is pedaling collector pins, they might just sit under blankets to keep the uv light off of them
Quoted from TDK-WPG:My absolute favourite part of the Bad Cats ad is his line "It is the best ever made in my opinion." Makes me want to cough up $13k! Or not...
more like a hairball
Quoted from Scrimmbo:Not CL but get a load of this:
ebay.com link
Sorry for that big dirty URL. It's an Ebay ad for "Beautifully restored! Bad Cats 1989 Williams pinball machine! New playfield!" and it's only $12,999.99!!!
edit: I guess pinside cleaned up that big ugly URL
and they have to say... "New Cabinet Decals can be added for 300.00. "
Quoted from bernieberg:That guy has a lot of pins on ebay right now. He really likes that staircase as a background too.[quoted image]
I'm going to assume he's really trying to get his money back from restoring these. But it seems so hard to get money back. Feels like many would rather just buy old machines they are planning to keep and restore it themselves.
Quoted from o-din:I think I'll just leave this here.
bellingham.craigslist.org link
I like the "ask me anything, but that is all I know" part.
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