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Sold TAFG for MM
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Nice looking machine.
Beauty!
Heh, thought you said this was a keeper
?
Thats coz they are good. Well. Mine is
Oh believe me, it is
Except for WOZ, as you say.
Which doesn't exist yet
Except for WOZ, as you say.
Which doesn't exist yet
Thing is.... TAFG aint worth 6K..... MM is... Proof is in the eating, and what people will pay... and they have...
Paul' date=' post: 1691069 said:
Agree Addams Gold is not worth anything like a MM.
MM is a top game .
Lets not bump up prices of machines, I belive you picked the TAFG up for a steel, so enjoy it as its a great game and its in great condition,but please don't try and bump it up (price wise) to a MM.
If I had any spare cash I might have made you a offer on it but it looks like the green eyed monster has got to you first saying sell it for three times what you paid.
Ah well.
Respect on the first part of your answer.
Let's not forget that the TAF that sold for so called 3.3k was a PP auction (nuf said). Please lets not bring any prices on to here, thats why I left the U.K. Pinball group lets just enjoy the pinball.
As for MM remakes well thats another tale.
Let's not forget that the TAF that sold for so called 3.3k was a PP auction (nuf said). Please lets not bring any prices on to here, thats why I left the U.K. Pinball group lets just enjoy the pinball.
As for MM remakes well thats another tale.
replicas' date=' post: 1691079 said:
Amen to that.
Nice TAFG btw Jonathan. It's a real beauty.
jonathan' date=' post: 1691076 said:
Why edit an answer that there was respect for? I thought you showed honour in the first answer that you have now edited ? Can't understand why you did that ?
Sorry chaps - I Shouldn't have baited ya Jonathan
replicas' date=' post: 1691081 said:
There weren't any replies when I edited it.
That's a whole other can of worms anyway. If you get a bargain on a pinball are you duty bound to pass that bargain on?
A guy on the UK Forum bought a WH20 for life £150. Should he get grief if he sells it for £1000?
Bear in mind that those selling MM for £6k generally paid less than half that for it. In fact I know a guy that bought one ten years ago for £900 off an operator and sold it for 6 times that amount.
and there's a good starter for a new conversation
"If you get a bargain on a pinball are you duty bound to pass that bargain on?"
"If you get a bargain on a pinball are you duty bound to pass that bargain on?"
Good conversation starter!!
I reckon it all depends which direction your moral compass points.
There are people out there who may find an expensive item on the floor and hand it in. Others would keep it.
Same theory on the pin front. Personally I have always pretty much made a loss on every pin I've sold. I'm certainly down overall:-(
But that's probably my bad decisions in the first place!
I reckon it all depends which direction your moral compass points.
There are people out there who may find an expensive item on the floor and hand it in. Others would keep it.
Same theory on the pin front. Personally I have always pretty much made a loss on every pin I've sold. I'm certainly down overall:-(
But that's probably my bad decisions in the first place!
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Paul' date=' post: 1691093 said:and there's a good starter for a new conversation
"If you get a bargain on a pinball are you duty bound to pass that bargain on?"
Personally I would look at the going rate and offer a slight discount as an acceptance of my good fortune but not too big or else all that would happen is that the next person might cash it in for a big profit!
I know price threads are frowned upon but we all have to buy and sell pins and knowing the ''going rate'' helps to not make poor decisions
I remember buying my first pin for double the 'market value' and so losing same when selling!But, playing pinball is what counts
How about my situation then?
I bought my MM from a guy in Germany. Saw it on the German forum and took a punt. hired a van (cost £100), and took the Eurotunnel (£85), drove for 10 hours to near the German/Swiss border (£60 in diesel), spent the night in a hotel (£60), and picked it up the following morning. I paid £4500 and the machine was in a state. Drove home (£60 in diesel). I've spent the best side of 200 hours stripping, cleaning, polishing, renewing, replacing over £600 in new parts and the machine is now a thing of beauty. I don't plan on selling it anytime soon, but if I did and took all my time and costs into the asking price I would be branded a money-grabbing profiteer! I'm not looking for a profit in any machine I restore but I wouldn't want to lose a pile of cash either.
I bought my MM from a guy in Germany. Saw it on the German forum and took a punt. hired a van (cost £100), and took the Eurotunnel (£85), drove for 10 hours to near the German/Swiss border (£60 in diesel), spent the night in a hotel (£60), and picked it up the following morning. I paid £4500 and the machine was in a state. Drove home (£60 in diesel). I've spent the best side of 200 hours stripping, cleaning, polishing, renewing, replacing over £600 in new parts and the machine is now a thing of beauty. I don't plan on selling it anytime soon, but if I did and took all my time and costs into the asking price I would be branded a money-grabbing profiteer! I'm not looking for a profit in any machine I restore but I wouldn't want to lose a pile of cash either.
I would always try to get back what the machine cost me, no matter what. If i get it, great. If i don't, its not the end of the world, and somewhere close usually does me. I wouldnt really want to sell a machine if there wasnt another to take its place anyway...
Rus121' date=' post: 1691119 said:
thats my attitude to it. i love playing pins for fun and not to make money.
i hate the way some people flip them in a short space of time for silly money. my last TAF was a cracker and should i have chose to epay it i could have made a killing.
i traded instead.
Well he says he did. Did you ever think that people 'fake sell' their pins to make it look like that is an accepted price then sell it for real soon afterwards? I know people go on ebay and quickly look search past completed sales to see what the 'going rate' is so if a guy has 'sold' his pin to himself via a dummy account or friend it would make it more likely that some naive buyers would think that his price was better than it actually was. If that makes any sense whatever...