Now imagine the look on the guy's face when he unboxes his $1300 'pinball' machine, only to realize what he's done....

Someone should probably break it to the seller that adding aftermarket mods does very little to raise the retail price of a machine. In some cases, it actually reduces it if the mod is non-reversible. In any case, he's at least 3x too high...

I owned a Flipper Cowboy in the 1970 timeframe. It was OK. The playfield was pretty standard if I remember correctly, but the main appeal was the backglass gimmick, which allowed the cowboy to shoot a target which spun around. It was like a little animatronic diarama. A gimmick to be sure, but this was from the 60s!!

Its funny. Even the guy that bought his for $40 says was curious about these Zizzles, and he'll play it for a quick laugh and then take the legs off and store it...

I don't think I would even want to touch whatever the frig that machine is covered with. Looks like black mold or 50 years of soot/dust. Even the walls behind it are covered in whatever we are looking at... Maybe it was in a fire and it's the only thing left standing!!! LOL

Its a "Card Trix"

https://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=446&picno=10095

1970 Gottlieb. Probably been sitting there for 50 years!!!!

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Not really a laugh, but a smile: sfbay.craigslist.org link

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Looks like a brand new conversion kit from Williams that was stored since purchased way back when... (rubber needs to be replaced due to years of storage)

It will probably be in Nigeria and part of a dead cousin's estate before too long...

Since those pesky 'paddles' work and 'most' features work... such a deal!

And I reckon their paddles might also be purty...

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And it's 'New'... imagine that he has a NEW 1996 machine. How special is that???

Seriously, this scam gets old quick, but then again, there are so many suckers in the general USA that might waste there time trying to get this ficticious $100 machine.

Crazy priced advertisements used to catch my eye and make me laugh, but I am over it. The best part of capitalism is that people will pay what it is worth to them. In these cases, the likelihood is nobody will pay that much, and after a while of no bids, a dose of reality will set in. They will realize that their pricing is way off and do some research to figure out FMV, then make adjustments if they really want to clear it out (or they will continue to pile old boxes and junk on the glass and leave it in the corner of their garage or basement collecting dust for another 20 years...)

Now imagine the price if they had been told by someone that the "silverballs" were actually made of silver!

But it has keys!!!

I can only imagine what the wiring under the playfield looks like now, if the only goal for the old time electrician was to just 'get all the lights working'.... Ouch!

Hummm. Let's not be too harsh on some less-informed CL sellers. They are probably more familiar with how pricing works with CARS:

A 1964 Mustang cost $2400 in 1964, and the same car in 'player' condition today (LOL) is about $30K. I guess some folks think pinball machines are the same kind of collectible prices????

Uh, no...

How does one lose that amount of cabinet paint?