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What have you sold to fund your next pinball?

jonathan

jonathan

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To purchase my incoming Stranger Things Pro I had to sell my:

- Triumph TBS Motorbike
- Candy Cab
- Taito Cocktail
- R Type PCB
- Street fighter 2 PCB
- Final Fight PCB
- NBA Jam PCB
- Neo Geo NeoSD cart and Motherboard
+ £1000 back pay from work

I must be mad 😂

Anyone else sold the family gold to buy another pin?
 
jonathan said:
To purchase my incoming Stranger Things Pro I had to sell my:

- Triumph TBS Motorbike
- Candy Cab
- Taito Cocktail
- R Type PCB
- Street fighter 2 PCB
- Final Fight PCB
- NBA Jam PCB
- Neo Geo NeoSD cart and Motherboard
+ £1000 back pay from work

I must be mad 😂

Anyone else sold the family gold to buy another pin?
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A familiar story for me……
To buy LOTR I sold
Defender cab
Mortal Kombat 2
Space Harrier upright.

To part fund my next pin maybe Atari Star Wars upright…but that is a tough one 😬😂
 
I sold a couple of project Japanese classic motorcycles to help balance the first pinball purchase. To put that in perspective, I was selling the one motorcycle and when I moved it found a second I had bought in parts. The buyer took the lot.
Generally, I don’t seem to sell stuff. I trade for something else or services.
 
jonathan said:
To purchase my incoming Stranger Things Pro I had to sell my:

- Triumph TBS Motorbike
- Candy Cab
- Taito Cocktail
- R Type PCB
- Street fighter 2 PCB
- Final Fight PCB
- NBA Jam PCB
- Neo Geo NeoSD cart and Motherboard
+ £1000 back pay from work

I must be mad 😂

Anyone else sold the family gold to buy another pin?
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Looking for more ideas for the next one? 😆
 
I'm lucky as I have more pins than room and always shuffled something in/out to acquire another. However this year I really want to try get the herd down to 8 inc. my incoming Scooby but not quite sure how I'm gonna make that happen!
Sheesh 3rd world problems :p
 
replicas said:
I'd never sell my bike, I take it the pinball will get sold before summer.
I either save then buy or like Ivan above shuffle pins around .
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Well that's the plan...

But choosing which of the 3 to sell will be tough. It's not like Ghostbusters, Maiden and Stranger Things pop up for sale regularly!
 
I sold a load of cameras to fund a pin.

To be fair I was still left with 4 cameras so it wasn't an issue.
 
For my last pin, sold a bunch of canon camera lenses. Can't use them as too busy fixing and playing pinball :)
 
I sold 300 board games to buy LoTR.

Since then, we’ve mostly been shuffling pins in and out.
 
An retiring operators full inventory of over 400 items from jukebox lasers to arcade pcbs to complete bandits . Profit just about covered Iron Maiden as my first new in box and left the cream of the inventory, a players CFTBL as gravy. A lot of work for a nice reward. The post office hated me.
 
My ass!....

But seriously... :) For my first pin I sold one of my guitars; A Gibson Zakk Wylde Les Paul custom. It wasn't really getting played as much as some of my other mainstay guitars and so I was o.k with letting it go (value had gone up a lot since I bought it 10 years ago too) - didn't cover the total costs of the pin, but really helped (Metallica pro, which a year later I let go because I want a Premium -I'm always going on about MET Prem; sorry...)
Only have space for one pin at a time and any new pin unfortunately involves moving the last one on (or doing a temp trade). As each pin I've gotten after my first has been more expensive* I've always had to save up for the difference.
*this sometimes makes me feel a bit odd owning an object more expensive than any of my guitars and I question my priorities a bit, but the fact that some of that cash originally came from a guitar which I made a nice profit on makes me feel better about it:)
Also, the amount of fun I get out of a pin at home makes it worth it and when we have friends over for a party and I see them enjoying it, it's great and further justifies owning one.
 
A year ago I sold my car (an Audi A3) which funded Theatre, Locomotion and Diner. Second hand cars had gone up by crazy amounts and so I got back almost what I paid for it five years before!

I had a second car which was off road at the time and I use now, a Mini Convertible, and the Audi also paid for it to get roadworthy and MOTd again. So it was a good decision - I think I would have sold it regardless to be honest, I just would have kept the money in a savings account instead. Much less fun!
 
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