I always wonder what these guys paid for their machines. Some probably overpaid, by a lot.
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Quoted from gdonovan:westernmass.craigslist.org link
I looked at this several months ago and offered the guy $50 after inspection.
The playfield looked like it had been underwater, it reeked of mice and rot bad and when I opened up the coin door could clearly see where wiring had been cut up and several parts were missing.
If I needed a pf glass or backglass (which is only fair) I might have met his counter offer of $100.. as it was did not see wasting my time further.
Hot Line is a fun game, right near the top of the Pinside fun for the money rankings. Set one up this past winter. You spell out HOTLINE, letter by letter, on a dot matrix of rollovers.
2 weeks later
Quoted from wamonkey:portland.craigslist.org link
James Bond for $7k
That game wouldn’t be worth $7k with Roger Moore’s last will and testament inside it
Terrible pictures too.
1 week later
ebay.com link: HUO Home Use Only Gottlieb EM Pinball Machine Top Score
Could be a case of must be "HUO" because it is so clean. It is common to see a late model EM with a "low mileage" playfield. They were retired early when SS games came along. Strange that a home owner would put a pricing sticker on the apron. Not so strange that an operator would remove coin mechs before selling a game to the public.
2 weeks later
Slightly OT, an Ebay scammer whack-a-mole, who keeps relisting an "HUO" Black Hole through hijacked accounts. Been up at least 3x so far. Below market "buy it now" comes up in an image when you open "see full item description". Other Items on offer: cameras, high end bikes, etc.
ebay.com link: GOTTLIEB BLACK HOLE PINBALL MACHINE LEDs HUO
EDIT: $5.49 to start, can still see the game on the 1st page of results, but the listing was pulled (again).
"...new reproduction real glass inner backglass. It powers on and plays great..."
ebay.com link: GOTTLIEB MARS GOD OF WAR PINBALL MACHINE ARCADE GAME
Priced to sell, with a weird backglass, and maybe other issues. I have the dark cabinet version, a fun game, which shopped out nicely & survived an Allentown show.
1 week later
That is a regular Addams Family pin. Perhaps it is running the Collector Edition game roms. It has some problems (keys missing among other things). The seller seems to believe that the signature makes the game more than twice as valuable.
1 month later
Quoted from darcangeloel:God those legs are sexy...
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"RUNS GREAT BUT COULD USE A GOOD CLEANING
CAN NOT FIND LEGS - SET UP ON BLOCKS"
And the score and credit displays are all dead.
3 months later
Little Chief $1100, some kind of damp household, home use only.
allentown.craigslist.org link
"... Bought it around 1979 from a private owner who bought it new. It was NEVER used commercially... It's been in living room since i bought it and it has been barely used. "
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4 years later
Quoted from RCA1:I want a pinball machine with tubes now.
Here you go...
https://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=1573&picno=37299
The Bally Mercury has two vacuum tubes (an "80" rectifier tube and a 12A7 iirc). You can see high voltage sparks when the pinballs touch a bumper skirt.
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