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Pinball Parts Search site that searches all suppliers

By spadfa

8 years ago

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Latest reply 6 years ago by spadfa
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#1 8 years ago

MAD

Hello Everyone. I am restoring a sys80 Gottlieb Spiderman and one thing that jumped out at me when sourcing parts is that you have to search lots of sites or many pages of google to find what you want and you also miss some very small suppliers.

So I thought I would change that. I have setup a small searching site that pools every supplier I could find. This includes just over 80 suppliers at present. Give it a go. Tell me what you think.

www.pinballsearch.com

I have an ebay search in there too but the primary point of it is to search parts suppliers via the homepage.

I have got all the major electronics players in there as well. For that reason I have got categories as well.

If you get some weird results when you search for 'acdc' for example (related to electrics) you can just pick mods or reproduction. This way you can cut down to just the types of parts you are after.

#2 8 years ago

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ForceFlow

Pinside Moderator

9y 238K 31,366 268 14

This is a really neat idea.

Is there a page somewhere on the site that lists all the suppliers that are already listed in the database?

#3 8 years ago

MAD

spadfa

Pinballsearch.com

9y 19,900 9

No there isn't but if you check out the about button it provides some great lists.

#4 8 years ago

JEF

jeffc

Pinside member

12y 91,550 2,168

Looks great. Bookmarked.

#5 8 years ago

ABH

acebathound

Pinitech

12y 89,050 2,585

Could be missing something but just looks like it's a "Custom Google Search" (Adsense)?

https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/9879?ctx=as2&hl=en&rd=2&ref_topic=1705820

#6 8 years ago

MAD

spadfa

Pinballsearch.com

9y 19,900 9

Hi acebathound,

It is a custom search because Google do it best. This will give you different and hopefully better search results than standard google as it will search just parts sellers including many small sites that would be buried. The categories help as well.

Regards.

#7 8 years ago

AXL

Axl

KristianiaFlipperselskap

10y 84,050 1,226

This is fantastic!
With time, love and Maybe with some commercials this will absolutely be my go to site for parts.
Would it be possible to have a checkbox for the different sites, so I can rule out MAD amusements and more?

Maybe in the future, you could have the stock listing as well. At least in stock, not in stock, if that is at all possible.

With integration of the Moll similar parts database this would be excellent!

Axl

#8 8 years ago

DAJ

angus

Pinside member

Highlands Ranch, CO

11y 65,900 578 34

Really cool. Any chance you could make the number of items listed per page a user control? I'd rather scroll than page so normally set it to 100 or more.

#9 8 years ago

MJA

Mitch

Pinside member

Wellesley, ON

10y 131K 5,030 18 38

very awsome idea

#10 8 years ago

JIG

jwilson

Pinball Art Prints

Toronto, ON

9y 106K 5,052 6 7

It would be nice to have a price comparison for common consumables like flipper rebuild kits, etc.

#11 8 years ago

MIC

msj2222

Pinside member

Mansfield, MA

10y 67,650 1,701 9 14

great idea and great job. This will save people a lot of time. Thanks!

#12 8 years ago

MAD

spadfa

Pinballsearch.com

9y 19,900 9

Thanks for the feedback everyone. I will see what I can work out. One problem I see with more information from suppliers is that they can be vague on what they have and their information isn't stored in a standard format. But I will have a think.

Thanks.

1 year later

#13 7 years ago

BMH

Vanapult

Inactive member

11y 38,650 242 7

Too bad this went down! I found it very useful on occasion.

#14 7 years ago

JEF

jeffc

Pinside member

12y 91,550 2,168

oh bummer, I used it often myself.

If it was just a custom google search, couldn't we replicate the search syntax and just paste into google search on our own???

#15 7 years ago

AXE

YeOldPinPlayer

Inactive member

Unknown

8y 111K 6,454 4 12

It still works for me. Throws a couple errors at the top but that doesn't seem to impact the functionality of the search.

7 months later

#16 6 years ago

MAD

spadfa

Pinballsearch.com

9y 19,900 9

Just a heads up, I have rebooted this site again and am now over 140 parts sellers, there is a facebook page for it too.

www.pinballsearch.com

www.facebook.com/pinballsearch

#17 6 years ago

JDS

swinks

Swinks Pinball

12y 136K 10,573

awesome site and made a small donation as was able to find a few parts that I struggled to find prior...

wish I could give lots of thumbs up

#18 6 years ago

JDS

swinks

Swinks Pinball

12y 136K 10,573

hey, I didn't know that you are a local

double the lots of thumbs......

#19 6 years ago

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Ballypinball

Pinside member

Melbourne

19y 77,550 2,213 43

OP
Quoted from spadfa:
Hello Everyone. I am restoring a sys80 Gottlieb Spiderman and one thing that jumped out at me when sourcing parts is that you have to search lots of sites or many pages of google to find what you want and you also miss some very small suppliers.
So I thought I would change that. I have setup a small searching site that pools every supplier I could find. This includes just over 80 suppliers at present. Give it a go. Tell me what you think.
http://www.pinballsearch.com
I have an ebay search in there too but the primary point of it is to search parts suppliers via the homepage.
I have got all the major electronics players in there as well. For that reason I have got categories as well.
If you get some weird results when you search for 'acdc' for example (related to electrics) you can just pick mods or reproduction. This way you can cut down to just the types of parts you are after.

Not every supplier missed Australian ones with parts nobody else has

#20 6 years ago

MAD

spadfa

Pinballsearch.com

9y 19,900 9

Quoted from Ballypinball:
Not every supplier missed Australian ones with parts nobody else has

I have just added mrpinball (I recall their store wasn't online when I looked about 2 years ago), what others are missing?

Thanks.

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