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:
Dude, before you rag on this guy's pin, do you know anything yourself about Space Invaders pins? For one, the "gray stripe", as you call it, under the cabinet, is a piece of sheet metal fitted to all Ballys of this era to discourage coinbox theft. Two, While the backbox was indeed painted black and then stenciled in gray and red, the main cabinet was painted gray and stenciled in black & red. Three, the plastic protectors on the back of the cabinet were attached before it was painted, so they should be gray. Agreed, the guy's asking too much, but do a little research before you rag on someone.
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