This is the reality in Tucson. I have a location with 8 machines and they are all priced at .50 a play, but with no bonus buy. The replay scores are tough, but reachable, and all but Mario has the extra balls turned off. Mario can't, or it would be as well. I run a lot of events, and I don't feel like turning all the EBs on and off all the time, so that's how things are. My friend has a location with ~30 machines and it's .75 for A-listers and new Sterns, .50 for other DMDs and SS, and .25 for EMs.

Mine is a hobby business and his is his real job. I know in Phoenix, new games are $1 or $2/3 in most areas. There are a few newer places though and I don't know what their pricing is.

I wanted to go in fully, but didn't realize that it's not the $49 they say to set up pins, it's $69 because of an additional kit you need. Not a big difference, but something that wasn't budgeted for. As we are still a new business/location, we are still dealing with other startup costs. This one is not high on that list. But... I want to order a few soon. Was hoping to this month, but that's not happening. Maybe mid next month. Just finished paying for tax prep and other costs, so have to build back up a little.

They run ads for them, but have said many times that they get nothing out of it. They do get beta access to hardware Payrange is looking to test in the wild, but I wouldn't consider that a perk. Tony has said that they bought the units that are in their machines.

Also, it says you have to buy 12 at a minimum in the dropdown, but I've seen people say you can get fewer if you contact them.

Problem with a token machine would be that it's a 1 transaction and Payrange has the 4% fee. So if you could find a way to hook one up to a token machine, you are always losing money when that gets used.

On top of that, if you are set up for tokens, you are more likely that people will be using Payrange instead of stuffing a 20 in there. A location with 4 machines locally uses tokens. If you put a 20 in, you get $25 worth of tokens out. On top of that, they have 3 newer Sterns and a WOZ, and the Sterns are set to 2 tokens a play, 3 plays for $1. If you do the $20 in the token machine and the bonus buy, you are playing new games for .25 a game. Don't do this, anyone. This place is a kiddie fun center and just do a token collection and so they don't really care.