I am always on the lookout for a good deal - I watch local home sale listings for pins in basements and contact the owners if they are willing to sell so as not to have to move them with them...

Doesn't usually work on the people near me - they look up new pinball machines, or sometimes stumble on here and see the price ranges and think that their old one, that barely works, needs flipper rebuilds - heck needs a full teardown cleaning and refurb - is worth near the top of the price range because that is what they paid for it when they got it.

They are usually overvalued and very underappreciated / maintained in my experience. Takes a bit of work to get them to realize that just because it exists does not mean it is worth the high end of the range.

From the looks of that thing, and based on where it is on sale from, it looks like it went through a hurricane flood.

There was one picture that I saw, legs looked rusty, the sides look warped, and the dirt on the PF looks like dried sludge and then I just interpolated that with it being from from New Orleans (user name CheriNola and location pin).