Michael Pupo - Flipper Fidelity

I second Gio at Pinball Refinery.

I always buy from....oh wait, dang...errr...someday I will prolly buy from Pinball Refinery. Just gotta win the lottery first or raid my kids college funds.

I though your kids were going to Sandwich University?

Any specific reason people go with their choice of company?

Price
Better shipping
Customer service
Extras
Something I can't think of

I tend to go with best service. I've burnt in the past by a party that is generally the cheapest option so it makes me weary of just going off that.

Ah thanks, this is the kind of stuff to know when your new to the whole nib shopping

Pinball Refinery in Templeton .. Zdoor on Pinside (Giovanni)

Gio. Stand up guy. Professional all the way.

I don't have a target in mind, but if they really do a Game of Thrones pin I may need to have a conversation with the wife...

I'll second Trent. Have purchased 2 from him, plus MMR on the way someday. Will definitely buy from him again.

Has anyone found a powder coating service, preferably in Greater Sacramento, that they recommend?

Anyone going to join in on the feeding frenzy at the c/l sale/ silent auction on wed?
2,000 for a tspp or potc.
2,100 for spiderman.

Spencer, shhhhhhh. There goes my low ball offers, dang, LOL.

I was thinking of trying, but get the feeling the prices will be about normal due to exposure.

Or anywhere in the Bay Area for that matter?

I got my bike powder coated at West Coast Powdercoating who was highly recommended by the guy who built my first bike and they did nice work. Not sure how it applies for pinball stuff vs a bicycle, but they had all sorts of stuff laying around they had done and I am very happy with my bike.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/west-coast-powder-coating-south-san-francisco

Hi-Life is still cash. Pins at Legionnaire either are already all on card readers or will be in the very near future.

my buddy andrew just told me he had his Theatre of magic legs powder coated gold at some shop I think in turlock. I can ask him for the name.

I heard a lot of the Oakland pins have been getting broken into lately. You've gotta be pretty stupid to risk jail time for what, $20-$30-$50? I get the need for credit card readers, but it's a sad day when you need a credit card to play some pinball.

Thanks for info much appreciated.

Sure wouldn't hurt to know the name of the place. Thanks for the reply!

Re: legionaire is that legionaire saloon? Love that place (the only place around with a totan. but pricey

Powder coating there used to be a place in Rhonert Park that did powder coating we used to send all sorts of signs and posts there for coating. Also you may want to ask around with the coke restoration places to see who they use or hot rods shops

Yes TJ is the best OP and takes great care of his machines. It's still cheap to play pinball on location and compared the the LED'd out machines that Rainbow now prices at $1/play in SF it's a good deal. Support location pinball

Yeah MB is color dmd as is totan both look great (haven't played MET there yet)

Unfortunately under Proposition 47 this sort of crime would likely result in a citation with no arrest or jail time. Shoplifting items under $900 doesn't even result in an arrest from what I understand and have seen on the news. "Petty" crimes are definitely on the rise in our area and probably all around the state. It's only petty when you're not the victim.

I'm okay with credit card readers, but when will they start attaching card skimmers to those too? I guess I shouldn't worry since Target, Home Depot and Anthem Blue Cross already gave up my personal info in various "highly sophisticated" data breaches.

Sorry to be a downer, I just can't stand f'ing thieves and vandals.

Amen, brother. Scum of the Earth.

Aww, thanks. A rare visit to pinside and this is what I see?

Happy to give back to local tournaments with the pinball coupons, and bringing obscure games to the bay area pinball landscape.

A note on the credit card thing - Legionnaire is the only location that's getting them for now, as a test location. 3 pricing options are $1, 3/$2 and "hourly" -- trying to figure out an hourly pricing structure for more casual players. Obviously not a good deal for expert players. Not many places have an "all you can play" option on newer pins, this would make for a great practice session for novice players. Here's a prototype of the card reader coin(less) door. Install of the finished product on all 3 pins there should be within the next week.

And a plug for the TOPS tournament on AC/DC at Hi Life. Pot started at $100, top 5 paid, runs through 4/12/15 11:59pm.

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I'd be interested in hourly for totan it's the only one on route in the bay area and we sometimes travel from Santa rosa to play it so putting some time on it would be beneficial for us

+1, tj is a super nice guy and his generous ball saves make playing on location slightly more affordable for noobs like me

For anyone that goes to this please post the prices everything actually sells for. I feel like they under priced everything on purpose to draw a crowd and start a bid war

I was told pirates went $3050, simpsons $3500+, and Spider-Man $3800+ Plus tax. I hear that the pins looked hammered..

Yeah a student told me that the SM that someone paid over 4K for was there for four years and got very heavy use. No deal there that's for sure. I was pretty sure after seeing mrgone's post that no great deals would be had at that auction.

Don't shoot the messenger, it was all over Craigslist.
I can't fathom anyone in our community paying that much for a blown out spiderman.

Did someone say Fathom? Where? I'll take it.

See what I did there?

Ya not worth it at all. Glad I stayed home. I went out last week to check the games out. SM had wear at the pops to the wood, needed new ramps and plastics. POTC was probably the best of the bunch, so at 3k probably the only "deal" out of the three.

I was interested in a bunch of the arcades for sale for my route I am putting together. I found out about the ad this morning (3-4) at 8:30am and the games went on sell at 9. I knew I didn't stand a chance. I saw they were open from 9-1 so at 12:30 I called and asked what was left, cause if some decent stuff was still there I would have made a early morning trip. I was told at 12:30 every single arcade piece had been sold.

I'm hosting a women's tournament on Saturday at Scarlet City Espresso Bar in Emeryville. $10 entry fee, 2pm start time. Format is three hours of head to head match play followed by playoffs for the top 8. Awards to first-third, plus the highest placing novice player (world ranking no better than 2000) and first time tournament player.

More information at Hella Heart Pinball.

Legionnaire's card readers are installed and active now on their 3 pins (Metallica, MB, TOTAN)
(+) and (-) buttons change pricing options. (1HR) button chooses the hourly option. (x) cancels.
During the hourly play option, any button on the card reader will add a credit to the game.
$1.00 = 1 credit
$1.50 = 2 credits
$2.00 = 3 credits
$2.50 = 4 credits
$15.00 = 1 hour

I'm interested in feedback (Public or PM) about the interface from people that actually use it. This is a product that's currently in development, so there's still a lot that may change in the future based on user feedback.

And before I get complaints about $1/game, Metallica was $1/game before, and actually got less expensive with the 4 for $2.50 option (previously, 4 games was $3.00).

I don't understand the $15.00 price. Can you say more about what that is aimed at? Is the goal to park a person on 1 machine for 1 hour? Confused.
-mof

personally, for me here's my view on the hour idea:

I'm driving at least an hour away to com eplay this machine (TOTAN specifically) now I'm not that great with it yet, heck, at an hour drive to come play it I can't get there too often to invest the time needed to dial it in playwise. factor in that I will be traveling with a buddy or my wife and I'll be playing two player. So we'll be there for at least an hour, the last thing I want to do is throw quarters into the machine then walk back over to the coin dispenser by the front entrance and get more quarters (I lost $ .75 last time into the trach can that sits directly under the coin tray) then you have to factor in the odds of a machine eating a quarter or a few (I lost another $ .75 on MB, sorry im the guy that got those quarter stuck in there) so having the ability to play for time is a great option, I'm not worried about losing balls to try and get shots down and can practice accordingly, whereas with paying per game I may eat through several games just to get some shots down.

Now that being said, I can easily see not doing that with MB as I have most of those shots down and can last quite some time on a game so paying by the hour wouldn't be worth it for me on that title.

At any rate Im just happy there's this variety there and in great shape. Love em. gotta plan a trip there for some ramen and pinball

What about if other people want to get a game in?
-mof

So you can play doubles for an hour? An hour seems like a long time. Perhaps 1/2 hour pricing?

True though personally if I see someone wanting to play I'll offer to play with them, or let them take a game and play a few of MB.

Good for operator's take. Not good for someone waiting to play.