Pawn Stars Pinball Machine

[FrizzleFried]

"One solenoid... for the flipper... that'll cost ya a hundred"...

Prior to that he was talking about the "650 contacts" in side the machine....

That is the first I'd seen of that show...that fat guy is annoying as all hell.

That old dude is great though... dude collects buildings... talk about hobby that takes up space....

 

[YellowDog]

Watched it last night and laughed my ass off. Corey is going to get his ass handed to him when they go to sell that POS. I wish I had taped it. The restore was a joke. It looked like there wer about 4 or 5 solenoids missing and the scoring assembly. $200-$300 in parts & time tops. The playfield and backglass just needed a little TLC from what I could see.

I know gambling themed sh*t goes for a premium in Vegas, but I'd rather have 2 overpriced Kiss pins for what they paid to bring that one back.

Should have called the Pinball Hall of Fame guys over to look at it.

ken

PS: I need to post the picks of the PHoF I took last week. A very cool place. Finally got to play a Medieval Madness. And a bunch of old, old, old pins. I had to laugh at my wife, she put a quarter in one and yelled at me that it was broken. The ball didn't come up, .... until I pushed the ball eject plunger under the shooter. Then it was all good.

 

[avidgeek]

but this is on the history channel so they could at least try to be semi accurate with their values.

Not anymore unfortunately, History wants to be just like Discovery....so they're willing to do what's necessary for ratings and image change.

 

[Steelhorse]

I love that show, the guy always seems to "know someone" when it comes to everything.

Them paying that much for a non-working machine seems so unlike the guy, based on what I saw watching previous episodes, he tries to lowball everyone. I have a feeling this will be bad for him, he always tries to break even after doing extensive repairs, and then has a hard time selling them. For the $4000 he's probably going to sell it for, it better be a really good restoration.

His son "Big Haas" was the one who made the deal for $1k.

 

[shardian]

You know, I tend to do online research before I go and look at potential deals. These dudes do this FOR A LIVING!!! Surely they can't be that brain dead...

If so, then I am renting a Uhaul and heading for Vegas with a truckload of junk!

I'll be curious to see what happens. My guess, they get it cleaned up nice, then 'sell' it to a guy for a ridiculous mint. Yes, I think this show is staged BS.

I've only seen one episode and in it the fat ass kid bought a Rolex for an insane used price. He shined it up with a buffing wheel, put it in the rack, and then 'sold' it to some dude off the street for like $6k with NO HAGGLING or HEM HAWING!!! You could tell the dude wasn't a rolex guy, and wasn't even all that interested. That was total and complete TV created bull crap.

 

[Mike Doyle]

This has to be the worst pricing advice they've ever gotten on the show. I can understand if they have a rare canon or something that's challenging to value, but geeze, a simple Craigslist search could have given them a quick market snapshot.

Whether it's TV created bullcrap or not, I wonder when in the future a seller is going to quote me this show when asking an outrageous sum for his game at the next garage sale?

 

[pookdolie]

Um...I seem to remember people coming to Pawn Stars defense in an earlier thread. Even with the $100 Atari 2600 and the el-cheapo offer for a really nifty baseball.

Has everyone's tune changed suddenly with this pinball machine?

How about the "restored" soda machine?

 

[LOGICAL_PSY]

Um...I seem to remember people coming to Pawn Stars defense in an earlier thread. Even with the $100 Atari 2600 and the el-cheapo offer for a really nifty baseball.

Has everyone's tune changed suddenly with this pinball machine?

How about the "restored" soda machine?

Defense? I recall people discussing whether $100 for an Atari with 70 games or so was a deal or not.
I also recall everyone ripping them apart over the the pop machine.

 

[norton9478]

Not anymore unfortunately, History wants to be just like Discovery....so they're willing to do what's necessary for ratings and image change.

So they are going to fill the nighttime lineup with shows about childbirth?

 

[mrtrentd]

Seems like a lot of people are watching it. I know I watch it. The show thats fake as hell is the repo show. I quit watching it.

 

[aminer1]

Did any of you guys hear Chumlee? That guy knew all about the pinballz

 

[khabbi]

I've really enjoyed the show, so much that I stopped by the store when I was in Vegas last fall.. And they were in the middle of taping the guy that had brought the Lindbergh propeller in.... and I watched how they fed the main shop owner all of his lines, then stop filming, and tell him "ask him this" or "say this to him".. it was quite amusing and entertaining. The show is so produced and staged that it isn't even funny. And the shop is so small and run down, just like every other pawn shop, but you'd never guess that from the way they film it!

On to the pinball, I was also shocked to see that they bought it for $1000.. but when they called in the so-called expert, then had him "restore it" for another $3000, I almost fell off my couch!! They had $4K into that!! And the expert told them they could get $5K for one? What planet is this guy from!!

I almost think the guy gave the pinball machine to his friend, who brought it into the shop, then they called the guy to appraise it and he pulled a scheme on them.. and made a hefty sum.

I'll bet that Pawn Stars is looking for a new "expert" on pinballs now... lol.

 

[norton9478]

Doesn't matter how much they lost on the pin... just add it to the production costs...

Kind of like "Losing" on Judge Judy.

 

[AllenBomber]

Funny that they'd drop a grand on a broken pin, but wouldn't stretch past $175 for a Pac cocktail.

 

[ixtlann]

doesnt suprise me, they mostly seem to on there a game but here and there something weird comes out of there mouth, remember the lincoln the spent to much restoriging so the old man is driving it instead?

they said "the body thats the easy part, but does it run"
are they out of there freaking mind, thats bass ackwards, any one in the know wants a clean shell, not a neeeds body work BUT HEY ITS RUNS deal! WTF idiots

 

[ixtlann]

Saw this one last night and couldn't believe the price they paid for it. I'm not into pins but I find it hard to believe a non-working EM pin is worth that much especially for what seems like a generic game with no movie or tv theme. The guy that restored it for them then said they could get up to 5000 for it IIRC. I'd be curious what he'd price a pin like Adams Family or Twilight Zone at. If things really sell that much higher in Vegas time to load up the truck and head south lol.

Also saw the American Pickers ep with the 2 pins in the barn. I don't recall what the one guy said about solenoid prices, but hell if he would have low balled him like 50 bucks or something they'd certainly be worth that in parts unless they were completely trashed.

i think the expert was some one who works with rlevin lols nah for real even he aint that krazee

 

[LyonsArcade]

The way I believe it works is this:

Pinball dude who sells way overpriced stuff in Vegas sets up a deal with the producers. He brings a nice (that machine was NICE) machine he just bought over to the shop in 'as-received' condition. The producers rope in a customer and have him act like he just brought it in. Going on the 'experts' advice they decide to say that the guy sells it for a grand, and the restore guy fixes it for 3 grand.

After the shoot, the pin guy takes his own pin home, fixes it, then films the 'later' part acting like he fixed it for them for 3 grand, now it's worth 5, blah blah blah.


The giveaway is on the rare stuff. For instance on that episode, they had a signed lottery ticket by George Washington. The expert shows up and knows everything about it at one glance, all the history of that lottery, what it was for, what happened, etc. Complete bullshit. What happened was the expert owned the lottery ticket, brought it to the shop, and they faked that the other guy owned it. The expert got called in from the parking lot, and they shot the next scene with the expert telling everybody about his own damn lottery ticket.

The whole show's b.s.

I saw one episode of the repo show, I couldn't believe that crap! I mean good god they must think people are morons, at least Pawn Stars is believable.

 

[wade b]

Its a tv show. "reality tv" no. Its scripted, good for them. Dont like it, dont watch it.

 

[Zud]

Ill be watching it when it comes on in this time zone. Right now I just watched those guys who go through this old guys multiple garages and they refused to buy 2 pinballs, a Bally Jungle King and a Williams Post(something). The guy commenting on them was a fat idiot.

I thought the Jungle King would look cool next to the vid of the same name.

 

[Hyde]

Well, the show may be fake, but it still is fun to watch. I just think its neat to see all the different and rare things that are brought in.