Wow, Red Baron PCB for $300? (and it sold!)

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I've had a Red Baron search book marked on eBay for a little while now and about a week ago this PCB set came up for $295 BIN...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280468849739&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

I laughed thinking they'd never sell it but today I'm looking and notice it's SOLD! Doah!!!

Are they really worth that? I paid $350 for the whole damn game so I can't fathom another $300 for a board set. :) I know I'm cheap but man that seems a lot!
 
I've had a Red Baron search book marked on eBay for a little while now and about a week ago this PCB set came up for $295 BIN...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280468849739&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

I laughed thinking they'd never sell it but today I'm looking and notice it's SOLD! Doah!!!

Are they really worth that? I paid $350 for the whole damn game so I can't fathom another $300 for a board set. :) I know I'm cheap but man that seems a lot!

I guess they are worth whatever someone will pay. I would say around $200 for a working board.
 
$300 for a rare-ish vector PCB? Doesn't sound unreasonable to me.
 
I think you are a tad low on that price. Red baron commands more for two reasons. 1) You can't use an aux board from the more popular battlezone. So at least as far as the aux board it has to come from a red baron.

2) While boardsets are plentiful for battlezone, working boardsets of either red baron or battlezone tend to be in short supply (more cabinets than working pcbs). I think this is due to the fact that those games used more sockets (of poor quality), many of the components ran warm (the 2901's will almost run hot), and then the normal xy atari failures (bad dacs, bad op amps, bad ram, bad buffers. etc...)

Also while prices on games have dropped as a whole over the last couple of years, parts for some reason seem to command the same prices they did years ago.

Battlezone tested and working pcbs are worth about $250 and Red baron boardsets are worth about $300. At least thats what I have experienced.

I see complete machines for $350-$500:eek:
 
I see complete machines for $350-$500:eek:

yeah, thats the crazy part. I swear owners would get more if they sold the monitor and working pcbs then sell them as a whole game. I remember 10 years ago, tempest was the same way, you could part a cabinet for more than what the game would get total. That was back when wg6100's were in short supply.
 
Yep I brought this up a few months back that boards were selling for more than the games and suggested a price history log/guide. Mixed reviews of the reasonings + & -
KLOV tends to cloud your vision and boards in general are actually selling more than what you might think outside of this forum.

its good to get outside and smell the roses every once in a while :D
 
It's good to get outside and smell the roses every once in a while. :D

Not when there's a functioning Red Baron in the house! (Just started "functioning" about 15 minutes ago BTW!)

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My nine year old completely "gets it"... he started playing and was like "This is GREAT!!! The graphics are simple but this thing is AWESOME!!!" :D
 
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