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Sold TAFG for MM

jonathan' date=' post: 1691088 said:
A guy on the UK Forum bought a WH20 for life £150. Should he get grief if he sells it for £1000?
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It was £200 actually and I only want £999 for it
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Steve' date=' post: 1691100 said:
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.
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Sounds like you would have to sell it for 10k to break even, hats off for all the effort it took to get this one across the water and shiny again
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jonathan' date=' post: 1691134 said:
Someone just sold a restored TAF on the UK Group for close to £5k today!
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That was an exceptional example by all accounts and worth the money all day long considering what you pay for a rough one, restoring machines is no way to go if your in it for the money IMO
 
So, just to stoke the fires, a restored TAF out of 22'000 is worth 5k, but a mint example of a 1000 run special edition,rarely up for sale, isn't?
 
jonathan' date=' post: 1691157 said:
So, just to stoke the fires, a restored TAF out of 22'000 is worth 5k, but a mint example of a 1000 run special edition,rarely up for sale, isn't?
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Always hard to know what anything is worth! The last TAFG sold on ebay for £2.9k so clearly it cannot be worth 5k!!! Doesn't make sense though:confused:



The thing about auctions is that you just never know what might happen.......
 
jonathan' date=' post: 1691157 said:
So, just to stoke the fires, a restored TAF out of 22'000 is worth 5k, but a mint example of a 1000 run special edition,rarely up for sale, isn't?
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Correct.....if you look on Pinpedia.com the standard TAF rates in at number 6 whereas the TAG gold is way down at number 60 which suggests that the TAFG is not as good as the std one and is therefore worth less
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I agree to an extent. Surely mint original trumps top end restoration every time? Not even factoring in the limited nature of the Gold. Is it just that the Gold edition is generally thought to be inferior in a few ways desite it's rarity? Not a great selling point is it? It doesn't matter how limited something is if no one likes it. Personally I'd rather have a minty TAF over a minty TAFG if it resale value wasn't an issue.
 
Dreads' date=' post: 1691159 said:
Correct.....if you look on Pinpedia.com the standard TAF rates in at number 6 whereas the TAG gold is way down at number 60 which suggests that the TAFG is not as good as the std one and is therefore worth less
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That's a flawed argument and you know it. Few people have played a tafg. Why is BBB so far down the list yet it's worth 10k?
 
jonathan' date=' post: 1691163 said:
That's a flawed argument and you know it. Few people have played a tafg. Why is BBB so far down the list yet it's worth 10k?
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I was only messin', thought it was blatant
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Replay' date=' post: 1691176 said:
At the moment TAF is even more popular than usual. Seems like any condition will go for £2k. This one if it is not my imagination has rust spots on the lockdown bar:confused:



TAF was on my list but has been crossed off as I am not paying these prices relative to condition.
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Yeah, I am with you on that one. I would love one but not enough to pay insane money even for a crappy one.

That one looks like a right shed! Lock down bar rusted to ****e. You can only imagine what it is like in real life.
 
Guys, just an observation: this post is getting dangerously close to a pin price thread, a la pinball group. Shall we close it now.
 
Replay' date=' post: 1691158 said:
Always hard to know what anything is worth! The last TAFG sold on ebay for £2.9k so clearly it cannot be worth 5k!!! Doesn't make sense though:confused:



The thing about auctions is that you just never know what might happen.......
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The last TAFG didn't have Pinball in the title which is what 99% of people wanting to buy a pinball table search for funnily enough. The 2 before that sold for £4-5k, and that was before prices went daft
 
jonathan' date=' post: 1691195 said:
The last TAFG didn't have Pinball in the title which is what 99% of people wanting to buy a pinball table search for funnily enough. The 2 before that sold for £4-5k, and that was before prices went daft
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Well you make sure you put 'pinball' in yours and watch them dollars roll in
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Tempted as I've just been offered an MM. If only I wasn't poor and didn't need to sell one to buy one all the time
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I sold mine to buy STarTrek LE NIB 2016 I got £7.5k but it was a struggle.
Same guy bought couple pins off me at same time. He still has TAFG as I spoke to him a couple month ago.
 
Colywobbles said:
I sold mine to buy STarTrek LE NIB 2016 I got £7.5k but it was a struggle.
Same guy bought couple pins off me at same time. He still has TAFG as I spoke to him a couple month ago.
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I think I got £5200 for mine. It was the one that was on eBay for years at £10k ish and never shifted
 
Winnie said:
Ohhhhhh …… lol
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At the time JJP coming into the market was a huge deal. Stern had a monopoly and their games were getting sparser and sparser by the year. JJP came in with full size LCDs, WMS mechs, RGB LEDs, butter decals etc.

I loved WOZ whilst I owned it and JJP gave Stern the kick up the **** it needed to start making decent games again!
 
It's the only one I regret selling really. Back in the day it was one in one out for me though
 
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