Quoted from TheNecromancer:Ok, so I'm really torn and I kind of understand that being the
LOTR club it may be somewhat biased opinions but I have the chance to trade my 7 month old (450 plays) 1 owner Jurassic Park Premium for a well optioned
LOTR.
My heart really wants the
LOTR as it's my favorite books and movies since high school. I'm a huge fan. Jurassic Park is also a favorite of mine but not at the level
LOTR is. I've never played the
LOTR pin, but I've read enough to know that I doubt I'll be disappointed. The hang up comes to the value. With tax and shipping and a couple mods I'm in
JP for $10,200. The
LOTR game has a lot of cool add-ons such as the path of the dead, palantir, eye of Sauron, power blades, speaker grills and a color DMD. There may be other small things but I don't know the game well enough. The cabinet does have some scuffs on the lower left side, not bad but there. I also realize the game is 19 years old too. It's said to 100% working order.
The reason I purchased
JP in the first place is while originally looking for a
LOTR a dealer talked me out of it as I was knew to pinball and kind of scared me away from an older game as a first machine. I've since added a
POTC and while still a noob I'm already a lot less intimidated by an older machine. So when this somewhat local
LOTR surfaced recently as a trade I've really been thinking about it. In 2016 I looked at buying a
LOTR and they were trading for around $4000 - $5000 at the time which seemed pretty high and I backed down thinking if I wait a few years they would be cheaper. Well, that didn't really work out for me. I can't help but wonder if I wait another couple years will I be looking at these machines for $12k or $13k? More? I feel that if I take the trade I may be losing around $1000 on my end but I guess you don't really ever recoup tax and shipping. Maybe it's worth it to get the Holy Grail pin for me? Should I just be patient and save up for another year or so and find one then? I will like try to find another
JP in the end as those were the three goal pins but who knows, maybe I find something I like more than
JP too. I find
JP as a noob to be a hard game.
what are you're thoughts? would you trade even if it favored the seller?