You're currently viewing posts by Pinsider crazylevi.
Click here to go back to viewing the entire thread.
Seems like an absolutely terrible idea.
You buy a game now, even if it's a stinker you can sell it in a year at a $500 loss. So why throw away money every month on a lease with no equity? Depreciation on a NIB pinball game these days is very, very small even on flops.
It seems like it would only kind of make financial sense for someone who can't afford a NIB game, in which case they probably shouldn't be leasing one either.
Quoted from jawjaw:You would have to pay for plays but wouldn't have to worry about maintenance and dealing with buying/selling while getting all the latest games.
Here's the part I don't get.
Who is going to be doing your on-call maintenance on these games? Who is gonna drive over there and attach a loose flipper coil wire?
You're currently viewing posts by Pinsider crazylevi.
Click here to go back to viewing the entire thread.
Wanna join the discussion? Please sign in to reply to this topic.
Great to see you're enjoying Pinside! Did you know Pinside is able to run without any 3rd-party banners or ads, thanks to the support from our visitors? Please consider a donation to Pinside and get anext to your username to show for it! Or better yet, subscribe to Pinside+!
This page was printed from https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/pinball-lease-would-you-see-a-value-in-this-direction-in-the-future?tu=crazylevi and we tried optimising it for printing. Some page elements may have been deliberately hidden.
Scan the QR code on the left to jump to the URL this document was printed from.
New York, NY