The cycle of craigslist life - nugent 500

Nugent seller is back, now he's at $500.. Hmm, started at $2k:
http://bestofcraigpinball.blogspot.com/2012/07/ted-nugent-2000.html

Then he went down to $1k:
http://bestofcraigpinball.blogspot.com/2012/07/ted-nugent-1000.html

I wish most pinball sellers on CL would get a clue this quickly.  At $500, the type of buyer would have to be one of complete nostalgia factor seeing how the cabinet still needs stencil painting (oh and don't forget those impossible to replace rubbers).  I think most people would pass on a $500 evel knievel.  As boring as it is, I would almost buy one at that price point just because I grew up with one.  Anyway, I can maybe see someone negotiating down to $300 for this title, but at least he's close.

space invaders - $1900??

Ok this one made me laugh.. Going rate for this pin (even restored) is $1000 tops:
http://pinside.com/pinball/archive/space-invaders

So let's give this guy the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps this is a perfect specimen, and the right person might purchase at this inflated price? Well let's start off with those legs. Yea, not NEW like you state. If you check IPDB
http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?gid=2252

the original has black ones (yours aren't even new, my guess is they were rusty, so you painted them flat primer gray after you grinded them to crap).

That lockdown bar doesn't look too restored.  Doesn't look polished at all, in fact it looks like someone snotted on it.  At least the coinbox looks to be in good original shape.


Oh what's this?  We spend all that time restoring, and we can't even put the effin pop bumper cover on straight?  And you proudly show a giant photo of this mistake?  It's so obvious this doesn't match the other 3!


Inside cabinet looks good, looks like perhaps he even did a full teardown of the playfield and painted the underside.  Not sure the stock one was primer gray (probably just natural wood), but let's give him the benefit of the doubt (clean is good).



Oh?  What's this?  Yea.. stock factory is natural wood, but hey!  let's put a stripe of grey underneath towards the front, it'll look cool.. Or perhaps we're covering up wood rot?



Hey, there's that wonderful crazy off kilter pop bumper.  Wonder when he'll notice?  And look at the plunger ramp guard, looks a little dark and dingy, not chrome.  Either it's also been abused by primer gray paint, or it's just so pitted there's nothing left to shine.


Oh boy, the back gets even better.  Hmm, the backbox is black, Shouldn't the back cabinet also be black? Nahhh... let's use some more of that cheap gray primer I still have left over.  And oh hey! why mask off those white plastic protectors, spray over those too!  Oh, and why bother touching up all these scratches on the cabinet, nobody will ever notice those.  My guess is he only knows how to spray, not use a brush.  If he did, he wouldn't have white paint all over that window trim behind the pinball in the background:

fireball EM - $3k??

I don't know who these people are? Why don't you read your own ad? "one of the most popular EM pinball machines ever made".  Hence, plenty of them out there (and boy are there).  This is also the EM version, not the remake.  Why would I bother with EM if I can have a digital version?

"Will not answer any emails".. Yea well, get ready to not answer your phone either, because nobody will be calling you, unless they are trying to pull your head back from under the clouds.