Was it the very machine you sold or you bought another one?
If it was the same one, what was the circumstances behind the repurchase? Did you pay more or less than the first sale?

Yea, a lot of us are kicking ourselves now over missed oppertunities years ago.

Was not the very machine. I just searched for another. The one I sold was sold again in very short order, and I have no idea where it is now.

ACDC premium. It never should waked out the door

There are two machines I regret selling. In 2002 shortly after 9/11 events I was forced to sell my small EM collection containing a 1972 Fireball. I bought the best example I could find off of Odin but was short some cash so I had to trade him my 1967 Gottlieb 2 player Surf Side. I miss the Surf Side and will one day own a nice example again. It is currently the only Gottlieb on my radar.

There are two machines I regret not buying back in 1998 when I first started the hobby. I was at Herb Silver's Fabulous Fantasies and he had the famous 1985 Game Plan Lochness Monster for 10 grand. My wife looked at me and said "F*** NO!" I had the money but she put her foot down. There was a 1950 Gottlieb Knockout all blinged out by Herb for 5 grand. After some talk my wife simply said "NO! That's too much...pick out something cheaper."

I wonder what that game would fetch now? 75k-85k or thereabouts is my best guess.

Guns n Roses! Hopefully will find a nice one soon.

I regretted selling wh2o because it skyrocketed in price after I sold it.

I've pretty much bought back everything I regret selling such as WH20, STTNG, JM, JD and Shadow. The good news is these 2nd copies are nicer examples over my original and some I even paid pretty much what I sold them for 2-4 years ago too.

I bought a mint, unfaded IJ that played beatifully for $1K at the auction and everyone thought I was crazy. This was 1998.

Basically I regret selling all the 250 or so games I've gone through.

My Mint Jurassic Park...and my TZ and my CFTBL...

I forgot one. I bought an engineering sample Bally "KISS". It was EKI1003. The first 29 games down the assembly line were engineering samples. They were assigned to various Bally managers. They would show up at birthday parties around Chicago, etc. They were used for feedback and viability studies. I have a list of who got what. #1 and #2 were assigned to Frank Bracha, engineering manager. The only difference between this game and a production game is the cabinet colors - red versus standard orange. I got this game (perfect cosmetic condition) a "Silverball Mania" playfield and chips, boxes of spare parts, and some Bally video game system with cartridges for $500. I can't remember the manager's name but he had jut passed and the wife wanted everything gone. I sold it to a KISS collector for $1200. That is what I regret, not the game.

I regret selling my SOF...but Ill probably look for a nicer one farther down the line.

So half the people here regretted not making more money selling their pins?

If I had to pick 1, Tron.

Also miss IM, TFLE, ACDC Premium and others. I wish I had the space and $ to keep them all.

TOTAN and Addams Family

So far I have sold off IM, TFLE, LOTR, ST, and Diner. I found that I missed IM and TFLE so much I got them back within a year. However, I don't miss LOTR, ST at all and am not tempted to try and get them back. I do occasionally think about getting another Diner but would need a Taxi sitting next to it...

TZ (the first machine I owned), TOTAN, and TOM. I regret selling them all, and my significant other will probably never forgive me for doing so. We got a replacement TZ that we're restoring, and I suspect that the other two will also be making a comeback- sooner or later.

I'm not sure I'd use the word regret... it was the right decision at the time and I'd do it over again but I miss my Fathom. Sold it in 2006. It was my first pin, I did a playfield swap on it (I still have the original PF!), it had a great backglass and new plastics and drop down targets on it. Loved that machine, wonder how it is doing or if it has changed hands again.

24. Missed it so much I got another one though!

Dr. Who.

I regret selling a lot of games over the years but I miss Scared Stiff, CFTBL and STTNG the most. Once I sell my Ironman I will be buying one of these titles again.

Eight Ball Deluxe LE.

No doubt, Batman Dark Knight. I don't think I will ever find one to replace

For fun I regret selling a mint Gilligan's Island, for beauty I regret letting Miss Barracora go.

None, but if I sold the pins Iceman did I can see his point.

Mine was Dungeons & Dragons. CC'd nos pf. All nos parts...

It was awesome.

Scared Stiff I restored I couldn't sell quick enough. Just didn't love that game.

Fathom...

More money in pocket means more pins...

My first WH20 bought NIB in 1993, factory purchase.
Second place, a CFTBL in 1998, but that was a light routed game under its first owner that was put in a wrong location, and made little income, hence the "swoop in" in Germany under private ownership.
Third place, "infant mortality" Embryon which its MPU blew up, and got boxed after 300 or so plays from an operator here in this region around 14 years ago and had been sitting in the warehouse for years. Still had quarters in the cash box, because the key was lost.

I have never made these mistakes again.

I have sold TOM, TOTAN, STTNG, CONGO, TS, BSD, LOTR and WH20. I have zero desire to ever buy back TOM or TOTAN especially at the prices they sell for. I'm not a Star Trek fan so wouldn't go out of my way to find another STTNG. I liked LOTR but at the end I didn't play it much because of the long game times. But if I had a bigger collection it would be cool to have around. I literally just sold WH20 so it hasn't been gone long enough to miss. I do miss TS, CONGO and BSD. I found them to be the most fun and the most reasonably priced.

Mephisto

Cool art work and sounds
Just did not play it enough

I would buy it back if I could

Sold Baywatch. Bought another one, and sold it when I upgraded to a HUO example. In the barn for good now.
Terry.

It's not the money, it's that now that $1K IJ I had is $10K in Canadian dollars and I will never be able to own one again.

Well since I just bought a Monopoly back, I can cross that off the list.

Definitely miss Road Show.

Hoping to get a good example of that back one day.

Shadow for me. Picked up another one last year though and won't make the same mistake again!

Star trek 25th anniversary....

I didn't sell it, but traded it in 4 for 1(FP, JL, Scorpion & BO all restored) trade to get my SM back in '09 (?)...and even though I get to play it whenever I go to his house it isn't the same. I put alot of work into restoring it, and it is a classic game...Blackout...I've since bought the Scorpion back from him but he's not up for letting BO go.
I also miss my Comet (I repainted the PF all the little people and all the grey while I was restoring it) It isn't a deep game or anything, but I had alot of time in on it as well... I sold it when I was raising $$ to get hubby his MET.
I know there are others out there, but I'm not one to sell games often, and even if I did get another one I would have to put all the work into them again, and it still wouldn't be the same...

Phoebe

JD and Taxi

Sorcerer, so I bought it back

My mom regrets me selling comet and reminds me every time she is over to play lol.

Traded an HUO Roadshow away for a ToTAN - wished I had kept the RS.

I regret selling Guns and Roses and TZ.

My family never lets me forget I sold Star Wars DE.

Andromeda Whitewood with NOS glass - Did not buy for $300 dollars.
Mint Original Big Game
Diamond Plate Serial #2 Bride of Pinbot with different cabinet
Joust - Head to Head - Could of bought for nothing
HUO Solar Fire - Could of bought for nothing

The list is ugly but you cannot keep them all.

Pinbot. But got another one.
And believe it or not I actually miss South Park.

But I think I regret getting rid of the Shadow most. Out of everything in my past owned games.

Another one comes to mind.
EBD, four of them, not including the one I built.
Problem solved, the game was returned 12 years later.

I wish I never sold my Big Bang Bar.
Also learned a lesson as to what not to ever do again.
I needed some quick money and sold it to someone close to home with the promise I can play it and also buy it back in the future when he was ready to sell it. I also sold it to him at a great price just because of our deal. While we were working out the details, and what I didn't know, he was making a side deal to sell it to someone else across the continent for a big pay day.
A few days later I was reading RGP and saw a post stating "BBB#12 in the house" The post also stated the new owner was looking to buy a BBB manual that I did give with the game. Then I saw the my manual and my spare parts sell on e-bay for quite a few bucks. The seller, or buyer for me, wouldn't return my calls.
Live and learn as they say.

Does not sound like a friend or a collector, just a flipper.
I don't cut people breaks on restored machines anymore, just projects.
Projects keep flippers at bay, particularly when board work is required.
There are other ways to push flippers out of the game, but unfortunately there is always another to replace them.

Firepower. Sold two of them and regretted both. Awesome game. And now that I have a bunch of WPC games, I have the hindsight to realize how simple it was to work on a single-level system 6.