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zappaf19

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Why are pinball machines soooooo expensive? e Bay has them listed in the thousands! I would think that they would be around the prices of video games.
Bill
 
I would guess that its the hours of man-power put into assembling, arranging, and finishing the hundreds of wires, bulbs, and other such gizmos. Couple that with phenomenol graphics and arts (some of which have copyrights which need to be attained) and you got yourself a few thousand dollars right there.

Unless you're talking about older, used machines.....That, I have no clue on.
 
Imagine 150,000 Ms Pac-Man machines made, and 20,000 Addams Family pinballs. The pinballs are much more complicated, more interactive, more scarce, and much more work was put into them than any video game.

Makes them worth a lot more to people...
 
Why are pinball machines soooooo expensive? e Bay has them listed in the thousands! I would think that they would be around the prices of video games.
Bill

Forget about ebay. Most of those pins are sooo overpriced. Sure, there's deals there sometimes but not often. Then the problem compounds when some guy is selling one on CL.

"They're selling for this price on ebay!!!"

No they're not jackass they are LISTED at that price. Not selling. Big difference.

Watch CL, deals come along.
 
Forget about ebay. Most of those pins are sooo overpriced. Sure, there's deals there sometimes but not often. Then the problem compounds when some guy is selling one on CL.

"They're selling for this price on ebay!!!"

No they're not jackass they are LISTED at that price. Not selling. Big difference.

Watch CL, deals come along.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but they do sell for those prices on Ebay. Most all my pins I sell are sold on Ebay.
 
A properly reconditioned pin takes a lot more time and money in parts to maintain and keep ready for play than a properly reconditioned video. Flat plastics can cost upwards of $20 each, and there are at least 10 on each machine. Ramps are usually around $125 each. A new display is anywhere from $100 to over $300 depending on what company or vintage of machine you are repairing. Motors are $50 - 250, etc. etc. It takes at least 10 hours to tear a modern machine apart, clean it, reassemble it, repair it, in order to get it to functionality as it was new.

Pins also cannot be emulated. Yeah, you could throw the whole PinMAME or Wii WMS Pinball Classics argument at me, and while they are incredible creations, they're nothing like the real thing.

You can't duplicate the experience you get playing a pin. Too bad this new genration doesn't appreciate that :(

-Mike (a pinhead_)
 
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but they do sell for those prices on Ebay. Most all my pins I sell are sold on Ebay.

I guess I'll be the bearer of bad news as well, I'll never pay $4800 for a TOM nor $6000 for AFM or 10K for MM.

If people are paying those prices, they're either rich or ignorent.
 
I guess I'll be the bearer of bad news as well, I'll never pay $4800 for a TOM nor $6000 for AFM or 10K for MM.

If people are paying those prices, they're either rich or ignorent.

There is a guy here in Festus, MO who does a really damn good job on pins. Better then anything one else I've seen. He sells MM's for $12000. But he puts new playfields and new everything into them.
 
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