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Quoted from rollinover:great price
for the record I never thought you were trying or being annoying but rather sharing the deals one by one with year and prices
whatever some people respond whack for whatever reason, ive encountered it before myself
If we are comparing prices from years ago, then my first BOP was $500, my first SMB was $600, and I got my first Paragon, Space Invaders, Super Soccer, Jurassic Park, Eightball Deluxe, and RBION for free
Quoted from RobKnapp:Topic: What is your best find
Answer : Relevant Yes. No time frame mentioned in "Heading" of this topic.
Issue : Your attitude . It is not friendly. If you are annoyed . Envy not a healthy mind set.
Be glad you have a good career . And you have the means to purchase 17 pinball machines since 2016.
Be (cool). Respond with (tact and diplomacy) or keep your thoughts to your self . Golden Rule.
LOTR Limited Edition $ 5,595.00 NIB with shaker motor installed . 4/23/2012
Technically your best find would be just one deal or maybe a couple/a few if they were really close. The OP wants to hear others brag about their sweet deals and others (myself) find those interesting as well. You post "deals" that aren't really that great for the time you bought them and then include huge pictures of machines with nothing visually special about them. I was having to scroll through multiple posts from you with these big pictures, taking the time to read about the price and game, thinking "that doesn't seem like it was probably that amazing of a deal for that time/game" and then moving on, repeatedly.
But I apologize for being rude and calling you annoying. I seriously thought you were intentionally being obtuse. I didn't know that you were seriously posting with the belief that your posts were in the spirit of the thread. Probably 50%+ of the posts I've made on Pinside were useless so who am I to judge?
Price doesn't come into the equation as to what is a great deal as much as the condition of the machine. I consider my purchase this year of a Fireball Classic my best find. Spent a few Months in a gas station in the mountains of NC before going into a home where it would stay till I purchased it. I owned a Classic before in the mid-90's and never thought a clean original still existed. All I found in the interim were faded out beaters. I paid 1050 and its worth every cent.
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Quoted from RobKnapp:Topic: What is your best find
Answer : Relevant Yes. No time frame mentioned in "Heading" of this topic.
Issue : Your attitude . It is not friendly. If you are annoyed . Envy not a healthy mind set.
Be glad you have a good career . And you have the means to purchase 17 pinball machines since 2016.
Be (cool). Respond with (tact and diplomacy) or keep your thoughts to your self . Golden Rule.
LOTR Limited Edition $ 5,595.00 NIB with shaker motor installed . 4/23/2012
True that!
Quoted from chubtoad13:A year and a half ago I got a nice fish tales with no fade for $900.
It just fell into my lap. A friend of mine bought a house and the previous owner had it in a trophy room. He wanted to sell it to make space for more taxidermy.
Taxidermy...he might have had a hard time parting with Big Buck Hunter. Gross. Great find!
$200 Spy Hunter (1995)
$300 Space Shuttle (1994)
Since Ive gotten back into the hobby in 2014, I'd say my $1,300 Popeye (needed some work) and my $350 Space Shuttle (bad power supply, and chewed up playfield).
Star Trek TNG HUO 1400.00
$20 Ballly Eight Ball with a busted backglass. Fully working. Beautiful cab and coindoor.
I am now upside down on it after installing a CPR playfield and CPR backglass if you include my labor!
Quoted from Bryan_Kelly:Me and a buddy bought out an operator in Spurges SD about 5 years ago. Twenty two games for $19,000.
The deal wasn't final until they threw in a MM and LOTR for $4500 for the pair.
Is that Sturgis, SD? That is where I am at this exact minute.
Quoted from TRAMD:Is that Sturgis, SD? That is where I am at this exact minute.
Yes it was. And they have no pins left.
We did, however, spend the night at a Super 8 in Rapid City.
recently $600 CV, only needed a little cleaning.
Quoted from Bryan_Kelly:And they have no pins left.
No wonder there is nothing to play in the black hills.
I did find a mostly working shrek at Mustang Sally's in Deadwood a couple years back during bike week.
Quoted from brenna98:No wonder there is nothing to play in the black hills.
I did find a mostly working shrek at Mustang Sally's in Deadwood a couple years back during bike week.
There are about 12 pins on route around Rapid City. They range from T2 to Aerosmith. They are at the theaters or Press Start (the barcade).
Vector $100 needed one resistor
Fathom $400
Fathom $800
TOM and No Good Gofers for $3500...both pristine
Scared Stiff $1500 (Was listed for $1000 but was bid up and I matched)
Creature $1500
High Speed $400
High Speed $450
Cosmic Gunfight $350...Beautiful and perfect back glass
Big Hurt $300
Pinbot $300 Needed power board
F-14 $350 Early Production
Flash Gordon $350...nice
Many others....those were the days
Have only purchased one machine in the last 5 or 6 years.....South Park for $500...only 10 minutes from my house...bid up to $650 by the time I got there. Just needed a new ram chip (obsolete chip, but Digikey had suitable replacement for $3). Got it going and hated it...Only machine I ever flipped.
Quoted from Bigbad:High speed from father in laws friend that wasn’t working and he wanted me to fix, I fixed it, and it’s been at my house going on two years now....
High speed - $0
he didn't come back to get it or you're just 'testing' it
Back in 2002, I bought WWFRR for $150. It had $175 in the coin box. I returned the coins as I couldn't live with myself if I kept them.
A buddy of mine just scored a working Dr. Dude for $300 bucks this afternoon. Then he turned around and told me he would sell it to me for $1500. Yeah....
Quoted from gac:Back in 2002, I bought WWFRR for $150. It had $175 in the coin box. I returned the coins as I couldn't live with myself if I kept them.
I would have definitely kept them. Can't fix stupid, fool and his money, etc 
Quoted from davjoszie:I would have definitely kept them. Can't fix stupid, fool and his money, etc
Yeah, but Karma always seems to have this way of leveling the playing field. Would rather have her working for me than against me.
Quoted from calico1997:I'd like to start a different thread called "What games did you grossly over pay for?" I could list most of mine. Such as $7,000 for a TOTAN that when it showed up at my house, turned out to be a flood damaged machine.
And sellers get POd when buyer/prospect start asking too many questions.
Free tommy in almost perfect condition. Bought a house in Virginia in 2007 and the previous owner left it in the basement "man-cave". He took a beat up 1000lb slate pool table that cost more to ship than it was worth, but just left the tommy behind. Go figure. It was my first pinball machine and, after putting new rubber on it, I sold it for $3800 a few years later.
$500 Fathom off of a back patio back in '06. Knew it was valuable but traded it off because I didn't want to fix it up. Oops!
In the last 3 years I've bought a ton of great deals. Some of my best were 22 solid state games for 7200 dollars, an F14 with 2 full sets of boards for 500 AND so much more.
Quoted from RobKnapp:$3500.00 I will arrange shipping . PM Sent
This is why I don't list my collection.
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