Depends what non-working means. It's very hard to answer this without knowing more or you knowing what it will take to fix it. For all you know several boards are out. Or just one. Or you fix the boards to find a whole bunch of other issues in the playfield internals. Or it could be just one CPU board you repair. I guess $2000-$4000.

I just got one that needed pretty much every board but was clean and the playfield is great on the east coast for $2700 you just need to deal with a reasonable person.

Well it wasn't clean but it cleaned up well i meant**

Total up cost to replace boards and DMD, labor included(to clean as well) and subtract that from what you think is a fair price for a decent TZ on the east coast. I'm thinking you be closer to $2500 in the end. Could be a simple fix, or you could end up chasing down the problem for weeks, replacing parts as you go. It's your time and effort you're haggling for, not overall price. If you get it cheap enough, you CAN just go out and buy all new boards and a DMD and end up with a great pin at a very low total investment.

Either way, when you go see it, open up the backbox and check all the boards for loose connections and power and ribbon cables that are corroded or burned at the ends.

I got mine for $2250 with just a dirty playfield, nicotine stained translate, broken buy-in button, and an opto board that needed to be replaced.

Just picked up one for $3300 in Ohio GI connectors burnt boots and plays nice playfield, optos out on the mini pf because they hooked up the wires wrong no board damage if that helps thought I stole mine

Wow, makes me feel better and better about mine. Everything works, plays nice and fast, new clock board w/LED's, superb playfield, $3400. It had the trough error but I did some minor adjustments and now it works just fine. Still trying to hunt down my switch 71 error.....but that's it. Everything else works 100% and it looks great, no cabinet fade.

Guess I stole mine, too. I feel great about what I paid vs. what I got, and that's all that really matters, right?

I'd say $2-3k.

That's odd.. Switch 71 is "not used".

$4k is insane for a non-working TZ. Sheesh!

I've got a whole thread I started for that issue alone. Some pretty good input so far, too. I just haven't had time to do the testing that's been suggested over the last week or so. I'll get to it soon enough and post what I find there in that thread.

If you do a search for "Switch 71 Error" you'll find it....

I've already provided Chris Hibler with one new entry in his PinWiki, this might make it two/too!