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Wanted Addams Family

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Yes you are right . Want a good condition and a fair market price for what it is . 3-4k approx bit more for something nice
 
God 4k:eek::eek::eek::eek:

Surely not??!? I remember ****ting myself when I bid just over a grand for one on ebay. Missed out on it by £20 so got a different one off ebay the following weekend for the same price. How things have changed.

I'd hope you could still pick one up for 3k or so
 
johnwhitfield said:
God 4k:eek::eek::eek::eek:

Surely not??!? I remember ****ting myself when I bid just over a grand for one on ebay. Missed out on it by £20 so got a different one off ebay the following weekend for the same price. How things have changed.

I'd hope you could still pick one up for 3k or so
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Agree. Suddenly people seem to be saying 3k is bottom line on TAF?!? Jeez if that true I nearly just gave mine away at 2.5, it was a moment of madness though and thankfully I had a rethink and booted out Drac :-D
 
Many many years ago I remember taking O level Economics and the teacher saying that one of the problems of inflation is that people lose track of the value of things as they don't have current reference points. I really think this is me and pins now. 4k for a TAF? 2k for a funhouse? 1,5? for a drac? I honestly don't know if I'm now asking too much or selling too cheaply. It's getting to the stage that any time any pin is under 2k then I think I should grab it in case it's under priced.
 
Seems OP a day late after that very nice one from tilt cafe took 3 days to sell!
 
Only seems like yesterday TAF was a £2300 game. With 20000 made it isn't exactly rare! Seems like B/W games keep going up in value.
 
Do you think it's a short lived price boom now that the vid & pin boomers now have spare money/time to indulge. I can't see the next generation valuing them.
 
This forum is the perfect way to gauge prices, recently TAF's on here that come up within a few hundred of 3k sell within a few days. If the demand wasn't there the sellers would be forced to drop the price, but there's always a buyer.

Seems to be the title everyone wants at some time. Would be interesting to know how many forum users own one or have owned one - well over 50% i would guess.
 
I'll get there one day. My price threshold rises each time. After 6 years in the hobby and almost 30 machines I've just paid my personal high for a machine at £1800.
Don't get me wrong, if I didn't have kids I'm fairly certain my line up would be totally different.
 
Think that rusted 3k on one here recently (went a bit cheaper) set the bar very high, seen some really nice ones up for grabs since for little more, don't think the demand for TAF is going to wane any time soon, it really is magic especially if you stumble across one when you are just getting into pinball, it was the machine that changed my life.
 
I paid £2000 for an Addams and a Whitewater about 3 years ago. I was looking for both pins and to get them both for £2k as a bundle was a dream come true.
 
Ha ha ha!
This makes me chuckle!
Those days of MM's AFM,s for £700 and TAF's for £150 are looonnnggggg gone!

Today's new pinball hobbist needs to be aware that the prices are high, a lot higher! The games of the 1990's offer better build quality than that of today's pins. Some even have better gadgets/gizmos as well.

New pins are now approaching new car/deposit on a house prices! So I don't think that 3K or even 3.5K for a game that looks to be in good nick and has a proven record is bad.

Obviously games that are trashed and the seller wants 3K for and would take another £2K in parts/labour is too much but if the game is good then pony up!
 
My lowest pin -£500 for my first DH-was a DOG loads of errors with switches & magnets out.

Then as years went on
Then 1300 then 2K, 3.5K, 5.5K and now 10K
 
IPB remake/production of Capcom Big Bang Bar.
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Dave Bishop said:
Ha ha ha!
This makes me chuckle!
Those days of MM's AFM,s for £700 and TAF's for £150 are looonnnggggg gone!

Today's new pinball hobbist needs to be aware that the prices are high, a lot higher! The games of the 1990's offer better build quality than that of today's pins. Some even have better gadgets/gizmos as well.

New pins are now approaching new car/deposit on a house prices! So I don't think that 3K or even 3.5K for a game that looks to be in good nick and has a proven record is bad.

Obviously games that are trashed and the seller wants 3K for and would take another £2K in parts/labour is too much but if the game is good then pony up!
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True. News pins are now so expensive that I can no longer buy them, especially with the hit you take if you get bored in a few weeks:eek:

So, picking up nice examples of the classic B/W pins at half the price makes sense.

Of course, now I wish I hadn't sold most of the games I have:(

Should have kept them all:D
 
octamus said:
Give it 10-15 years prices will come right back down
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maybe in 15 years prices will come down because the new pinballs will far outweigh the old ones in technology-JJP is doing it now. But the old ones will be retro antiques.

My insurance company classes pinballs as furniture! Not game equipment/electronics:hmm:

At 2.5-3K back in 1993 what is that in today's money with inflation?
 
I just think a lot of the younger generations won't have no interest in pinball when my sons friends come round they show no interest in playing them they just want to no where the Xbox is
 
octamus said:
I just think a lot of the younger generations won't have no interest in pinball when my sons friends come round they show no interest in playing them they just want to no where the Xbox is
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That sucks. My 2 yr old likes them. The lights and he always wants to go and see the "monsta" in the Cabin (CFTBL)
 
TAF was the one game that never bottomed out. I bought one with a ripped out coin door and damaged cabinet for £500 but never saw a complete tidy one for less than £700. Ive seen ops sell tz and ij for a ton and personally paid £75 for an Alvin g world tour NIB
 
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