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Quoted from hassanchop:AFM and MM are still the most profitable machines on location play
MM did terrible for us when it was new.
The pinheads hated it, said it had too many toys and "It's not pinball".
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Quoted from jimjim66:Not what I remember. I can link dozens of posts of people trying to pry them from operators who wouldn't sell because it was racking in money.
We gladly sold them, they were not great earners for us. If they were really making money for the operators, Williams would have made 20,000 of them.
The only reason I still have one for myself was just blind luck. It was broken, got pulled off location because it could not be fixed in the field, got moved to the back of the warehouse in the parts pile, got buried, got moved to my barn by my guys when we closed down (mixed in with a big pile of pinball and video games).
A few years ago I was digging out a pool table and there it was.
I'm certainly not the only operator who knew that they did poorly on location, LOL.
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NOWADAYS, of course they do better because there is a mystique about them.
We all know where the local ones are, because they are valuable and that does not go unnoticed by bar owners, casual players, innocent bystanders....if you see one, you point it out to others around you "Hey, that game is worth $12k, and a NIB one once went for $29k on Ebay!"
Just like BBB, every time one goes up for sale, it becomes an event and someone points it out.
Quoted from goatdan:If your MM that you were operating was a guaranteed 25% increase over every other pin you put into every location, would you want to sell it or replace it with a new machine?
With MMs selling for $10k+ right now, honestly I would have to sell it rather than make $30-50 a week on it.
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