Pinball for sale market

cjp2401

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Bought my first Pin last year and in the market for another one now. I'm in the Northern KY area and am willing to drive a little, but it seems to me that the market isn't what it was last year at this time.

I would have thought economic times would have pushed more machines into the market, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

Is this just something I'm seening here in the mid-west? Craiglist, Mr. PB, even ebay (though I hate the idea of buying off ebay) seem to have lower numbers of machines for sale.

Tell me this is a short term thing and more machines will become available soon!
 
There may just be less to go around? I also think since more people that grew up in the Arcade generations now make money that there are more people buying, and hanging on to their machines. I have only sold 3 out of my collection over 15 years and have had most of mine for 10-15 years. (Adding a Tron as soon as Trent gets it shipped ... )

The other issue that I see locally is any good deal on Craigslist goes quick - So it may be there for 1 or 2 days - most machines that are there longer arent worth it....

It takes time and patience, but you'll get more chances to grow the collection - I know the feeling of wanting that second, third, or tenth pin.
 
I'm in the SE Ohio area, and I've noticed that in fall and winter things tend to slow down a lot. When spring hits, they'll be a large number of people posting on CL while they're doing spring cleaning. Wait a few more months and you'll be happy come spring.
 
Theres alot of cheap pins out there.


To the op. You must not check around you because theres a guy selling like 25 pins and they arent all that expensive. They were on CL. I was trying to buy 3/4's of them but the guy wouldnt call me back.
 
You must not check around you because theres a guy selling like 25 pins and they arent all that expensive. They were on CL. I was trying to buy 3/4's of them but the guy wouldnt call me back.


What region of CL? I didn't see anyone with multiple for sale. I did see a guy on the Pinball Classified from Moracco that was selling about 20, but didn't want to import :)
 
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