Quoted from wantdataeast:

ment in quote makes it read as if that was something I was had said. I did not say that "all 6 games were $4k" on every instance I included the word average... quoting BostonPinballBiz and their empirical data.
The reason you found no listing for those JP sales is because older sales migrate out of ebay completed sales history. If you don’t believe the BostonPinballBiz folks about their stats you need to take that up with them.
A fun lively debate none the less. And again.. my point was that a few playfield p

Quoted from wantdataeast:

Sorry bro, I am not “hyping” anything. I could care less what the pinside price is or the ebay price is. I have ONE JP and it is not for sale even at $5k. Because it is it pretty much flawless. Your accusation that I am "hyping or price pumping" is about as ridiculous as me accusing you of suppressing prices on JP sales. Neither you nor I are in JP resale market so neither have vested interest in attempting to sway some market price.
How exactly am I not reading the boston pinball biz chart correctly? Thank you for posting it BTW, it just buttresses my original statement. With all due respect, I think you must be the one that is reading it wrong. Does it not say that in the past 6 months there has been 6 machines sold at an average price of $4099? Six games in six months is a good sampling.
In your scenario you said “you could have one crazy high priced game for some strange reason” you could just as easily have had one crazy low price for some strange reason. What "could" have happened is utter guesswork. And lets pretend that you are right and one sold at $7k if the 5 other sold at non-crazy prices they would average out at $3500 each. $3.5k is pretty darn close to $4k. And there is nothing indicating that one sold at the crazy high price you suggested.
I said “and 6 people shelling out an average of $4100 each on ebay agree.” That was “average”, not each. You quote someone (not me) in saying: "all 6 games were $4k" your use of that statement in quote makes it read as if that was something I was had said. I did not say that "all 6 games were $4k" on every instance I included the word average... quoting BostonPinballBiz and their empirical data.
The reason you found no listing for those JP sales is because older sales migrate out of ebay completed sales history. If you don’t believe the BostonPinballBiz folks about their stats you need to take that up with them.
A fun lively debate none the less. And again.. my point was that a few playfield parts and missing board set is no reason to scrap a DMD pinball machine that is worth thousands....IMO.

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Quoted from Haymaker:

Great American Pinball has never had a game they couldn't grossly overcharge for.
Somehow this has sold though? I made an offer of 1500 and I thought that was high.
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Quoted from chad:

Blasphemy...Baby Pac Man

Quoted from Isochronic_Frost:

As one of the rare Captain Hook owners, I can safely say that is Game Plan’s best machine behind Cyclopes. Gameplay is awesome, the strategy of having to manually reset the drop targets is very unique, and the sounds are just so damn cool!!!!
Please save it!!

Quoted from PoBoyPinball:

That’s what I was thinking reach out to him and see if he will share the seller’s info if you want it. You never know.

Quoted from cottonm4:

14-15 months or so ago, a warehouse 40 miles from me opened up. There were several pins. And a whole lot of trash. No pin was destroyed. All found homes.
This is/was the Cyclopes that was buried under loads of cat poop. The guy cleaning out this warehouse kept the Cyclopes. The play field cleaned up nicely is what I was told. There was no back glass.
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https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/how-do-you-sell-a-warehouse-of-arcade-games-and-pins
See post #42 for all the pins.
The Seawitch is a good parts machine, but SW back glasses, play fields, and plastics are being reproduced so it can be made to live again.
And that Captain Hook with the glass on, I'm betting the play field looks good. If it comes up for sale and you don't want it I would make the drive.

If the circuit boards are in there, those are hard to find.
Are you sure that's a Seawitch? I don't recognize those big yellow spots on the cab and back box. How can you tell?

Quoted from aamauzy:

You think one of the units with a net or cage over the "playfield" would be a good middle ground that? When I was a kid, most arcades had wised up and put cages over the playfields. I assumed at the time it was to prevent cheating ("oh no the kids may get 5 extra tickets!!") but as an adult I realize it may have been to stop ball hurling, more than anything.
As a former 7 or 8 year old boy who thought throwing darts directly into the drywall and ceiling tiles was WAY more fun than using the dart board, there's no way in hell I'd put a skeeball near anything valuable
Something like this:
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Quoted from RyanStl:

Aren't those two games prone to fires? Glad everything was OK and the pins were not the cause.

Quoted from Pinkitten:

Ah, Police Force. The only pin featuring the word “cocaine” on it. (as far as I know)

Quoted from Riefepeters:

I mean, if his apron was a pile of crap then I think he had a creative idea here on a budget and a bit more selectivity on the ads/colors could make it work better. It’s not the worst thing I’ve seen. But I probably wouldn’t cover a perfectly nice apron with this myself.