Price Check - Gottlieb Ice Revue

ruairidh

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Hi everyone, I've been lurking here for a while and have yet to chime in. I hate for my first post to be a question, but I've had nothing of real value to add yet :(

http://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?any=ice+revue&search=Search+Database&searchtype=quick#1262

A guy has a home use (since 1967-68?) Ice Revue. Backglass is a 9, playfield is 7.5-8, cabinet is a 0. The whole surface of the machine, outside of the glass, buttons, and coin door (no lock, duck taped closed) is covered in stickers applied during the 70's. The machine works around 95% (the 5% is mostly lights from what I could see), has it's original rubber (shot), and according to the guy has never been serviced. The last time it was moved was in the late 70's and he said it was moved maybe 3-4 times before that, all in the same house. He's asking $900, I offered him $600, hoping that he'd budge some, and he countered with "a lady already offered $900 sight unseen" so it didn't move forward from there, which involved me lifting up the play field.

That was a month ago, it's still up for sale, and he returned my call to come look at it again. I'm pretty sure I could walk with it for $750, but don't really know it's worth that to me. Thing is, this game is pretty spot on but the cab is destroyed and that's a lot of work I would have to pay someone to do. Any thoughts?
 
If it was a month ago I`d ask him what happened to the woman with 900.
 
i have an ice revue. they have a very nice designed backglass and are very colorful. its a hard game to win on (at least for me) i got mine in really nice condition from a pinball collector for $500.

i agree 100 percent or more with the guy who said you should ask what happened to the lady with the 900 dollars!?!?!?

or EVEN BETTER

get your best buddy (who knows nothing about pinball) to call and offer $200 bucks and say its not worth much more than that.....THEN you wait and hour or 2 and call the guy and offer him a cool $400-$500 bucks and your offer will sound WAY better than "that a-hole who called an hour ago" that method is tried and true and works most of the time......after your friend calls you can even ask the seller "well sir...have you had any other offers"?

i say all this NOT CONSIDERING the cabinet problem. my dad repaints the cabinets alot on older games and likes to do it. i just repainted one and would not want to do it again......and that was on one with an easy cabinet design!!!!!!
 
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