Attack from Mars
Bally, 1995
Batman Forever
Sega, 1995
Big Bang Bar
Capcom, 1996
Fathom
Bally, 1981
Firepower
Williams, 1980
Hollywood Heat
Gottlieb, 1986
Judge Dredd
Bally, 1993
Jurassic Park
Data East, 1993I know that hindsight is usually 20/20, but I was wondering if there
was a pin or two that you had wish you had purchased or one that
you regret selling?
For me, I wish I had bought MM back in the day. I love the medieval
theme (look at my Pinside avatar), but it is too rich for my blood
these days to buy one. Besides my cash over the years has went
towards other things... Raising four kids can be expensive. 
On a positive note, TAF has treated me well over the years.
Quoted from blownfuse:I had a chance to buy 5 TZ's in a package deal for $500 ea. Passed on it. Later passed on 3 MM's for $1000 ea. Also passed on a BBB for $2500. So anyone that sees me pass on anything, they better buy it
holy crap! that's craziness. I don't think anyone can top that.
You're talking mid/late 90's when a lot of routes were going under and needed cash, I folded up the bussiness in the late 90's too (while I could). The Calif. aniti-smoking laws killed the bar locations. Also, when the Navy pulled out of Alameda, it became a ghost town. IIRC, the BBB was hardly played when I saw it.
Quoted from toyotaboy:holy crap! that's craziness. I don't think anyone can top that.
Quoted from blownfuse:the BBB was hardly played when I saw it.
So it was one of the 13 protos confused or is this bugs bunny birthday.
Yes, it was one of the protos. 
Quoted from AkumaZeto:So it was one of the 13 protos confused or is this Bugs Bunny birthday.
Quoted from blownfuse:... DIDN'T. When I had a route, I had a chance to buy 5 TZ's in a package deal for $500 ea. Passed on it. Later passed on 3 MM's for $1000 ea. Also passed on a BBB for $2500. So anyone that sees me pass on anything, they better buy it.
Holy cow...that is a lot of unreal deals to pass on. Wow.
Quoted from GAP:I could have bought a Capcom Kingpin for $6500 11 years ago, but that was insane money then. Could bought a Krull for $6500 same story, same time frame.
You can't even get a nice BoP for $6500.00 today! 
Yeah, that was before the rather large influx of collectors we have now came to be (back when there were more used games than people to buy them, it's flipped now). I remember seeing a lot of used System 11 and DMD games (trade ins) for sale sitting for months at C.A. Robinson and Betson without being sold.
The prices back then would make everyone cry now. Most close outs for NIB games were around $2500, even less for a floor model if it had to be gone for the next new game to take it's place. Route ops were making great package deals to dump old stock on other smaller route ops. Who knew what was yet to be.
Quoted from TigerLaw:Holy cow...that is a lot of unreal deals to pass on. Wow.
I could have kept my Tron le. Sold it after two weeks for no good reason.... oh yeah, for less than I paid for it..... oops 
I bought my first Em's from vending machine route company in 1980 for $100. There had to be several 100 all stacked on end with the heads removed. I went back a few years later, and they were ALL gone, and just some of the new fangled SS jobs in their place. The owner told me they couldn't get rid of them and needed the space, so the hired a dump truck, and a back hoe, and took them out, dug a giant hole, and burried them!
I passed on a $700 DE Star Wars a few weeks ago because I thought it was too much of a project (now I realize it wasn't.... oops).
On the flip side:
I "almost" passed on a 6 pin deal for $1,300.... but then I talked myself into it and pulled the trigger (SOO glad I did!)
Quoted from fattrain:I "almost" passed on a 6 pin deal for $1,300.... but then I talked myself into it and pulled the trigger (SOO glad I did!)
T2, R&B, 2x DE-Simpsons, BTTF, Dr. Dude
Wow, I would have bought those in an instant!
Quoted from HeyYouSir:I know that hindsight is usually 20/20, but I was wondering if therewas a pin or two that you had wish you had purchased or one thatyou regret selling?
For me, I wish I had bought MM back in the day. I love the medievaltheme (look at my Pinside Avatar), but it is too rich for my bloodthese days to buy one. Besides my cash over the years has wenttowards other things... Raising four kids can be expensive.
On a positive note, TAF has treated me well over the years.
$850 Judge Dredd or a $725 Batman Forever. Both from a couple of years ago.
Hollywood Heat....I loved that game and it was working perfectly. I sold it when I started to condense the collection to less games but better titles. I miss it
...why not??? 
I shoulda bought mm back when i didn't think i had enough room for pinball in the house. Along with the other titles that are almost impossible to get now. And as far as recent missed out on a clean ss two weeks ago, and now can't find a mm for 10 or less. Oh well good thing xmen will tide me over while I wait for woz and search for the woulda coulda machines for a fair price. Oh well new life, new house and girlfriend whose as big of fiend as me.
I was super green and it was before really got into this - about March last year. I made the mistake of offering $500 on the STTNG - I was being greedy and it sold to someone else.
WCS: Guy listed a 1994 Bally Pinball machine for sale @ $400 and I emailed and asked what it was, he replied 'World Cup Soccer' , it thought, 'Icchh Soccer! Pass'
I'd like to think I learned from those mistakes!!
Quoted from herbertbsharp:I was super green and it was before really got into this
It happens.... I passed on a RBION a year or two ago for 1,200 for this same reason...
Ripley's??? Ewww... what a turd (Now it more like, "oops! shoulda got it)
Quoted from herbertbsharp:I was super green and it was before really got into this - about March last year. I made the mistake of offering $500 on the STTNG - I was being greedy and it sold to someone else.
WCS: Guy listed a 1994 Bally Pinball machine for sale @ $400 and I emailed and asked what it was, he replied 'World Cup Soccer' , it thought, 'Icchh Soccer! Pass'
I'd like to think I learned from those mistakes!!
Gotcha...that sucks, man! I don't blame you about the soccer theme, either!
I passed on a Firepower for sale for $500. This was probably in 2010 some time. I went to check it out and had to think about it overnight. The guy said it wasn't working but it actually started a game for me. The sound was coming in and out, probably just a flaky pot. I didn't know how to open the backbox
Well it was gone the next day of course.
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