Sunday, December 30, 2012

Stern Galaxy - $1500? Surrrrrre

Well with a market value of $500, how can this person possibly ask triple the price for this thing? This pinflation is really going to people's heads

Friday, December 28, 2012

space invaders - $1900 (update)

What a shock, nobody wanted to pay $1900 on craigslist for his "restored" pin:
http://bestofcraigpinball.blogspot.com/2012/08/space-invaders-1900.html

Now he has it up for sale on ebay for.. $2350 buy it now.  Of course! makes perfect sense, if you can't sell it for $1900, why not try to sell it on the over-inflated ebay for $450 more, surely it will sell right?

super mario pinball $2150

It's not the price I so much have a problem with (though it is high for this title which maxes out at about $1500), it's the fact that he says "want to sell it since it's becoming so popular again".  That translates in my eyes "I bought this cheap 13 years ago, and now that pinball prices are skyrocketing, I'm going to try to sell it for more than I paid for it"

Friday, December 21, 2012

williams hurricane - $3300???

 Another insane seller.  Says he somehow put $4k into it (not sure how that's possible, unless he hired a tech over and over, or spent thousands of dollars getting it shopped out). I don't care what you put into a pin, there's a point where a title like this has diminishing returns (I would sooner buy a routed whitewater than a perfect version of this).  I don't know where he thinks he saw it worth $3,300 online (not a single one for sale on ebay right now, the three for sale on mr pinball are selling for between $1200 and $1800.  I emailed him asking where he saw one for sale at that price, said he's seen them at that price fully restored (so you lied).  Also said he'd come down to $2k (wow, a thousand bucks off?  Your too kind).

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Indian Jones, antique?

Antique, as defined by wikipedia, is anything at least 100 years old.  Since the first pinball (not including bagatelle) is 1932, that would mean nobody can make the claim of an antique pinball until at least the year 2032.  This ad is calling a 1993 williams indiana jones pinball an antique.. I just find this hilarious!

Monday, December 17, 2012

Williams Fire!.... on fire?

Granted the price is about right ($100 for parts), WTF happened to this poor pin?  I mean this seriously looks like it was in a fire, and then hosed down... which is quite ironic considering the title.
"can be used for parts or restored", I think probably the first part of the statement is the truth.  The only way for this to be restored is if someone has a NOS playfield, and pretty much every plastic and vacuum formed part on it.

See for yourself:

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Circus pinball, HUO

This ad kills me.  He's selling a circus pinball (retailed for about $600 new back in 1980).  He's trying to sell it for as much or more now, 32 years later.  Fine, nothing wrong with that I suppose, medieval madnesses are selling for $15k, they sold for maybe $3k-4k new, let's give him the benefit of the doubt.  He goes on to say "been in a home since new, never in a commercial establishment"??? It's a HOME PINBALL! How would it ever be in a commercial establishment?  There is no fucking coin mechanism!  That's like saying "Huffy bicycle for sale, never been used for bike messaging or an olympic triathalon".. yea, because no professional would ever use a huffy bicycle.