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What is the shortest time you have owned a pin b4 selling it on?

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Over the years I have sold only about half a dozen pins. The short stay record for me is 12 months held by TOM which though cosmetically pretty and unmarked condition offered little else. Others were long stayers and sold due to fine tuning my preferred line-up.
Should we be doing more research before commitment as some pins seam to be regular travellers?. What about reliability? Has the new pin failed to come up to expectation n assembled without due care?
Does temptation to off-load or to turn a quick quid come into your decision? The latter won't get any replies but it effects us all at some point.
 
Two weeks with a Scared Stiff.

The first few times I played it, it was loads of fun. After a while, it began to REALLY get on my wick. I traded it for a battered TAF and couldn't wait to get shot of it.

I only ever buy pins for fun purposes. I never set out to make money on them as I mostly can't be ar*sed with all that. If I get close to what I paid and it pays for the next, then great.
 
Still a pin selling virgin ;) Paragon will stay forever. Vector I'm not sure about. It found me rather than I found it, and it wasn't a pin I'd previously even known about let alone considered. I suspect however that after spending hundreds of hours playing and tinkering with it I'll be utterly unable to part with it.
 
13 days for a Dr. Who.

However this was a planned short stay, as I bought the game with the intention of moving it on quickly to someone local who was after one.

As it happened, I got so fed up with the harsh grating sounds of the Doctors and the Daleks, along with all the cruel drains with the lightning flippers fitted, I begged the new owner to come and collect it asap! :rolleyes:

7 weeks for The Shadow that I traded for my TSSP, having never played one before. :mad: For most of that time it was dumped folded up in my garage in disgrace.


Rus121 said:
Two weeks with a Scared Stiff.

The first few times I played it, it was loads of fun. After a while, it began to REALLY get on my wick. I traded it for a battered TAF and couldn't wait to get shot of it.

I only ever buy pins for fun purposes. I never set out to make money on them as I mostly can't be ar*sed with all that. If I get close to what I paid and it pays for the next, then great.
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:clap: The same here, I buy pins to enjoy, and then sell on for the same price when I've finished with them, not to make money on them!
 
4 months or so I believe with a BK2K, but only because the man above me wanted it back! It was a lot of fun, but honestly apart from the wicked soundtrack and super fast play as a game for me it didn't have enough going on to warrant a long stay in the collection, but it lead to a BSD which I still enjoy a lot!
 
About 4 weeks! And that was a Shadow. In fact, it was the same Shadow that @I TiltAlot mentioned. I did him the courtesy of removing it from his property. ;)
Wish I hadn't bothered within about 3 days. Just couldn't get into it.
 
Think 6 months or so for my BBH. I try to keep them for at least a year to give them a fair go. Sometimes it doesn't click though. First game I played on T3 I just felt hmmmmm, and it never got better than that:(
 
24 hours - bought a T3 from Terry Sullivan, someone else wanted it too but agreed I could have it first so took it home that evening. Played it next day and did everything there was to do along with putting up a reasonably large score. Got a call that afternoon asking if I still wanted to buy CC (no brainer!). So picked up CC and sold the T3 to the other guy for the space.
 
My High Speed that was at the Slam lasted 3-4 weeks. Great game in stunning condition but got the chance to swap if for Creech so had to be done :D
 
GrizZ said:
Haha ...I remember that one. Thought you were going to be physically sick when we set that horror show up, never seen someone so disappointed in a game.:rofl:
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Considering we had driven miles in the dead of night in artic conditions to collect the POS :)
Was a swift decision there and then wasn't it that there was no way that was gonna be the slam prize :)
 
I know I was messing I love the theme as I'm into that kinda thing but I can imagine it getting old fast in a small collection. I tend to prefer mm altho I wouldn't mind both
 
Will says he's since developed some humble enjoyment of the game. i love MB, there's a good reason it's consistently rated as a top 5 game. i think it's all the toys and callouts and humour, but it is also easy enough for a non-wizard to have multiball on, and still challenging enough for even the good players to find it tricky to get to MOR regularly. i love it.
 
Andy the Heighwayman usually takes his to shows, so i expect his will be at Daventry. trouble is, that Franky scoop is so reamed out that his one looks like it has been in porn.

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Yeah, I can't get away with MB either. Always liked it at shows where I couldn't hear it, but I just cant stand the way it sounds.
 
I think Wez is registered but never posts and if he did he would probably get banned for 'spamming' as he just can't control his posting when selling/flipping :)
 
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Only been a pin owner for just over a year and had 6. (still got two) I'm just a pin swapping whore :p

I have a very short attention span and things get boring fast. Its nice to change things up.
 
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