Rochester, NY
WTB: Black Hole, Black Knight, Black Knight 2000, Big Guns, Centaur, Centaur II, Pinbot, or maybe something else, if you've got any similar recommendations
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Not sure if people ever do this, but: I've got a players condition T2 in western NY (near Rochester), plays great and I like it, but it's the only machine I've got available to play right now, and I've put 700+ games on it since I bought it this spring. Would like something new, but don't want to part with T2. Would anyone be interested in 'swapping' for a few months? I can deliver within ~1.5 hours of Rochester
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Quoted from Taxman:Earlier thread complaints that too many pictures are hard to scroll through on a phone. And long to load for people without a good connection. It was mentioned that a better etiquette would be a limited amount of pics in the thread and save the bulk for a marketplace advertisement (or upon request).
And then everyone posted games with tons of pictures :/ Would be nice if Pinside had a gallery feature or something for posts with 3+ consecutive pictures at the end of a post...
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Quoted from Don44:I always did like putting out trade feelers on this thread like my recent one for my Frankenstein.
Feelers are one great use for the regional threads that aren't served by the Market at all currently. If I'm just going to casually throw something out there, I don't want to go through the entire submission process, which sends notifications to everyone on the site wishing for the pin, take pictures, think of a price, etc.
If I did get a sale through pinside after doing that though, I'd of course then fill out a market ad and mark it as sold (would be nice to have a shortcut for this), or send the donation directly.
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Quoted from TheCnyPinGuy:My buddy is looking for his first pin
Working is yes needing cleaning is okay
He has 500$ cash
He's looking with cash in hands
Let me know
He understands the limits with his budget but said he has to start somewhere
PM if you have something
SS only or EMs too?
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Quoted from ForceFlow:What size is that ball supposed to be?
Edit: looks like it might be a 3/4" red nylon ball.
Maybe these and dye it? http://www.usplastic.com/mobile/item.aspx?itemid=23941
Though I've never actually had an original, for some reason I have it in my head that it's hollow, like a ping-pong ball?
Quoted from rcbrown316:Spirit of 76: 400.00 works pretty nice condition. a couple of inserts popped out. wont start a 2 player game just one player. was gonna cut my teeth on em on this one but out of time.
I'd be more than happy to come lend you a knife
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Quoted from CrazyLevi:I scour Craigslist every morning so I already saw this and sent an email
Weird. I'd been emailing him since he posted it and he said he hadn't gotten any other interest, which surprised me
Quoted from CrazyLevi:bad gottlieb multiplayer with surf in the title also
How dare you insult Surf Champ...
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Actually have some free cash thanks to recent sales, anyone got a Whirlwind or Tommy? Projects of any kind welcome (fixing is half the fun!), but I'll take a fully working one too... If you post in this topic (NE), you're probably in range
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Buyer had to back out, so T2 back up for sale:
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Quoted from Isochronic_Frost:I have seen that ad, the fellow reached out to me.
However I'm hoping there maybe be another out there a little closer... wasn't looking too forward to driving out to buffalo
But you can stop at Pocketeer for the day too
Quoted from Ns2973:Is there a cap district league? Feels like we should create one
There's a small location league that meets in a bar in Albany, but it would be cool to have a bigger, 'visit people's collections' type of league. Most other upstate cities (Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Binghamton at least) has at least one monthly league like that. I offered my place in Albany to the host of the location league but nothing came of it 
Quoted from Ns2973:I'd be in as well. I only have a couple pins but it's growing. I don't want to derail the sale thread but there has to be legs to building a rotating community league
Make a thread! Put one together! I'd have tried to do one myself by now except I'm only in the area every other month these days...
If anyone wanted to host and didn't have quite enough games I'll lend them one
Quoted from Lermods:actual PB blaster is the best stuff to use. soak it and wait about 15 minutes. If it still doesn't move, soak it again and wait overnight...it will move.
I stick em in a vice and hit them with a blowtorch if the PB doesn't manage it
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Quoted from Isochronic_Frost:Just curious, I've seen them go for a lot...
What would a low-end players PoTC cost me around here? I really loved that game when I used to play it at the arcades... But might be a little rich for my blood at the moment...
Mine was in a flood and I still got more than 4k for it.
Quoted from Isochronic_Frost:How'd you manage that??
Not sure, but I had at least five people who wanted to buy it unsolicited. Granted I'd repaired everything and it was fully working and playable, but still, my point being that the lowest end price is still at least $4k.
Quoted from arcademojo:Pre-JJPOTC though.
True... Has there been any noticable effect yet? I'm curious to see what will happen with that, but not sure how much their markets actually overlap
Quoted from Pinfactory2000:Like, flood up and over the cabinet?
Like, mud caking the back of the translite and every inch of the playfield. Granted, it was probably the nicest routed potc around by the time I was done fixing everything, but.
I guess I lucked out too then... Maybe if you're lucky you can get a routed one below 4k now. There sure are a ton of HUO ones though
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Quoted from CrazyLevi:I've had a few scammers on Facebook already. "Can you send more pictures of The Item?" is not a message I'm going to answer in any venue.
So they are migrating over. Was only a matter of time.
Never reply if there's not some extra data in their message that couldn't be scraped directly from the ad...
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Quoted from spfxted:Was looking forward to bidding on this....but the guy couldn't even tell me if it worked! I asked him to just push start or try a coin....he said, "I don't care, I just want it gone!" Oh well.....
ebay.com link » Pinball Machines For Sale
Since the lights are on and the displays are off it's probably pretty safe to say it's not booting
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Quoted from tbaum:Does anyone know the cost to replace the broken parts? What do a new set of plastics for #WCS cost?
https://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/31-1925-XX
ramps aren't available, fyi.
All cosmetic anyway though
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Quoted from Colsond3:I was really fighting the urge to chime in...which apparently failed miserably.
The reality is I would have rather seen the game go to someone that actually wanted a Time Machine, and would have gotten it for a great price. As Beagle said, the game fired right up and was playing 100% the day of. Obviously didn't call for major repairs, and he had offered it up for a fantastic price. I was even considering making the drive up to grab it.
Instead, it's bought, listed one and a half days later for $650 more, on the same platform, and with the display issue still present. And we wonder why games are not available for decent prices anymore? I could understand some increase if a brand new Pinscore display had been thrown in it to rectify that issue.
I've definitely bought games and sold them relatively quickly, even days later. The difference? I either bought it home thinking I would like it and didn't, or I saved it from a non-pinhead, barn or garage where it would have otherwise rotted, and I pass it on for the same price or as near to that as possible that I had picked it up for. If I list it slightly higher, that's because I fixed it 100% and shopped it. Or slight money added if I drove REALLY FAR to get the game. Really just trying to keep games in circulation, and get them in the hands of actual hobbyists for good prices.
I bought a damn Pharaoh for $700 last year, shopped it, got it playing 100%, and sold it a few months later. For $850 or $900 I think. I could have skyrocketed the price on that game....but didn't. I passed it on to someone who really wanted one. (regretfully though)
If you want to flip games, do what you want. But don't grab one from a Pinside FS thread that several people are yearning over, then post an ad on Pinside one and a half days later and think people won't notice. Obviously that thought process was there, because an ad was created, yet it wasn't posted back in this thread.
Rant over guys...sorry for the temp derail. It would just be nice to find games for decent prices and actually get them, like it used to happen.
Quoted from arcademojo:Don't have the transformer. It was only used in Future Spa, Space Invaders, Kiss, Skateball and Frontier.
I know I didn't part out any of those games over the years. I do have 2 Stern 16B-3, 1 Bally E-122-142 and 1 Bally E-122-125.
PS. Got the shirt. Thanks again.
Do they use a different voltage or something for some reason?
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Quoted from Colehvac1:Congo for 3800 should be easy
Solar fire 1500 not likely unless it’s trashed, anything decent 2k+
You'd think I'd be able to find a Congo for even $4k but I haven't found any in a year
I sorta doubt I'll ever find a Solar Fire at this point but I gotta ask 
Quoted from delt31:I found two Congo's priced as expected in two weeks. You're not looking hard enough. 3800 will be nice players.
Where else am I supposed to look then? I watch every for sale forum, FB group, etc I know of. Pinside is where I get the most responses to want-ads usually
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Funhouse for sale in Upstate NY
Would trade +/- for a Congo, Jackbot, Johnny Mneumonic, Stargate, Solar Fire, Whirlwind
Project Gottlieb Free Fall (rarer add-a-ball version of Sky Jump) for sale or trade
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Looking to trade/sell some EMs semi-projects I've lost interest in
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Selling Baywatch and a project Little Chief:
Price drop on Super Score:
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Quoted from gdonovan:Always wanted one till I played it once, was a mean bitch. Colson says I have to give it another chance, just having an off day.
So tempting.
It's one of those games where you have to be prepared to play ten games any time you step up. And to laugh at your own failures.
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Quoted from Colsond3:MET lacking modes? You’re clearly joking. If you aren’t, send me some pics. I miss mine already and I just got rid of it two days ago.
Met does lack modes and is a giant grind... You can call crank it up a mode but it's still a grind to get to and you won't even see it many games. Everything on Met is a giant wood chop
Quoted from Barakawins1:Metallica is by far, hands down, the best music pin out there. Rule set, speed and all.
I'll agree with that still. Not a fan of AS or Kiss, and ACDC and IMDN are both grinds too.
Quoted from Spyderturbo007:Sparky is now set to 14 hits
That's even worse!
Quoted from Spyderturbo007:but it is much less of a grind than it was before and much more fun.
So that's... still a minimum of 22 shots (6 to set up a shot locked in for all three items, 7 on that shot to collect the items, 8 captive ball hits, and a scoop) for a mode. While other games give me a mode off the plunge or after 3-4 shots? No thank you.
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Selling my Nip It, still have Fan Tas Tic too. Need to make some room
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Quoted from hawkeyexx:I dont understand why people dont see value in pins that are repaired by someone and are working 100%. Since getting in to this hobby every pin I have purchased but 2 have needed 100 of dollars of repairs and I try to sell it for just what I have in part cost and what I originally paid for the pin and all I get is I have it listed for too much money.
I feel ya, but at the same time, every time I buy a '100% working' pin there's always issues anyway so I've bought more 'assume nonworking, as is' pins off CL randos that were actually fully working than actually fully working games from members of the hobby
Quoted from Londonpinball:Value goes down because the game is now 2 months older and passed around
You'd think so, but as a buyer, if I was second in line on a game for X dollars, and then first in line bought it, kept it for a few months, and then offered it to me for X dollars, it's not like I'm going to go "X is no longer a fair market rate for this game I would literally have paid X for a month ago". I'm going to buy the game...
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Quoted from mpdpvdpin:People will double up their sale posts. I highly doubt this forum will go dark. I personally post everywhere possible when I decide to sell games. The fact of the matter is I’ve made far more sales via FB marketplace. Just far more exposure then any other site.
I end up posting on pinside, in this thread, on craigslist, and in like 6 (now 7) for sale groups on FB... I end up getting sales pretty evenly spread out among the three sites
Quoted from Rondogg:RIP Mr. Pinball Classifieds I guess. Used to be the only game in town (besides ebay) 15-20 years ago.
Yeah I got most of my first games from there. But the last few games I listed on it got no hits at all, so I sorta gave up on it. I still get the emails, but nothing good ever pops up
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Quoted from crazypinballguy:None of those, but I've got a beautiful 1963 Gottlieb Slick Chick and a 1947 Exhibit Tally Ho.
Neither of those interest me sadly. It's gotta have flippers in the normal places, but outlanes in abnormal places, and inlanes in no places
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Quoted from mpdpvdpin:They’re all about -$500 I’d say...Congo is going to be especially difficult for under $4500....seems like they are steady at about $5500 these days.
That's actually the one I figure is most in line... I've seen multiple in the 4000-4600 range lately, just not in neighboring states
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Quoted from Grizlyrig:What? I'd like to see some real facts on that.
Everyone I've ever seen with a business has shown it in a video (youtube) to set up the flippers using those holes.
-Mike
Yeah, they literally put little roll pins in there and everything, and on most machines they're positioned *exactly* where they should be to align the flipper to the guide...
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Quoted from Isochronic_Frost:That is NOT Upstate New York! That’s Western NY. It takes nearly 5 hours to get to Buffalo from Upstate, don’t confuse them!
All of ny above NYC is upstate, as evidenced by the upstate NY championships taking place in Rochester, Albany and Binghamton :p
Quoted from Exeter:Rochester is Western NY. Albany is the Capital Region/District. Binghamton is Southern Tier. "Upstate" is the Hudson Valley.
"The Southern Tier is a geographic subregion of the broader Upstate New York region of New York State"
"Upstate New York is a geographic region consisting of the portion of New York (State) lying north of the New York City metropolitan area"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Tier
Quoted from Spyderturbo007:Interested in the following if anyone wants to part with something. Not like I'm going to find any of these, but thought I'd throw it out there anyway. Must be local.
Yukon (Special) - Not Klondike
Super Straight
Viking (Bally)
Blue Note (Gottlieb)
Swords of Fury
Cosmic Princess
I've got a light project players super straight I'd consider trading/selling, not sure if upstate ny is local enough tho
Quoted from DaveH:A sub is NOT a grinder! Come on, get your terms right.
A sub is cold and untoasted. A grinder is cooked in the oven, so the roll is toasted. Grinders are much better than subs.
here in NY we call those... 'hot subs'
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Quoted from Colsond3:Anybody want this Disco Fever I picked up last weekend? I paid $350, and I grabbed it to maybe pull a few parts I needed for another game. I expected it to be a basket case.
But this thing may be HUO, it’s in great shape. Cab is excellent. BG does have some flaking, and PF has some minor swirls. But neither horrible by any stretch. Not a game I would want to take things out of though...so I could use the slot back.
I already cleaned and polished the legs, adjusted some switches and got the sound working. Displays are a little wonky at times, but it is fully working. Figured I’d offer it out instead of storing it.
I’ll pass it on for the same price, $350 to someone else if they want it.
What parts do you need? I know someone who parted one out a while ago...
Quoted from SynthHead:Guys how rare is a No Fear table? I was playing it last night on VPX and fell in love with it. I just love how the shots are on it. Man I was up till 3am last night and didn’t even realize it was that late. I was having such a blast. I’m assuming it’s way up there for price though since its a Williams table.
I know two people in NY who have mentioned maybe selling theirs if you're interested. Idk what they'd be looking for tho
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Quoted from purbeast:Kind of off topic, but what is the point of putting out these pins that clearly aren't ready yet codewise? Like what is the rush and why not delay it until it's ready? Clearly it's hurting the game right now, since people are selling games they don't even own yet, at a loss.
As someone who is a big console gamer, this trend of putting out unfinished games and charging $60 for them has been really off putting in that hobby. I really don't even play a lot of the games I used to and that is part of the reason, because a lot of the games at launch are incomplete. One of the biggest franchises of Microsoft is Halo and they just put out their flagship title without it's wildly popular co-op mode, and it's not expected until like 2023. I get why they did it, because they are a billion dollar company with suits all the way up making the decisions, but a smaller company like Spooky doesn't seem like it would have the problem that MS does.
Manufacturing division is ahead of coding division. Do you want them to just box up all the games and let them sit there for a year?
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players Sonic Super Straight, could also bring out to Albany or maybe western mass
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Few projects I ended up with but not very interested in, make me an offer on one or both!
I guess I'm in a selling mood...
I'll be headed out to Saratoga this weekend if anyone wants something delivered
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