Quoted from Ven:What I think about when I seen a pin in that condition selling for ~$1500 is why pay $1500 for something in that condition when you can buy one in very good condition for $2500-$3000. You can even buy a brand new stern for ~$5400 or a slightly used stern for ~$4000.
My other thing is that I wouldn't be able to just buy that pin in that condition and play it, it would drive me crazy. So when I look at it I see hours and hours of work and several hundreds of dollars in parts "if you can find the parts" and really with the PF in that condition I would consider it almost un-repairable.
I also don't mind driving to pick up a pin at a fair price I have made a few 11hr round trips to get pins and I enjoy working on pins. So problem machines don't bother me but you have to get a machine at a fair price to begin with if it needs work.
Just like everything people look at things differently and I guess many people would have no problem buying that pin and just playing it in the condition that it is.
possibly because their budget doesn't allow it... you just blithely say "spend twice or three times as much" like people can just pull 100's out of their ass...
a pin doesn't have to be a beauty queen to be fun... some people have forgotten that or never learned it in the first place... it may come as a surprise to you, but the vast majority of machines in people's collections aren't beauty queens...
"i couldn't play a pin in that condition" is an affliction that isn't helpful to our hobby...
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Leesburg, VA
