Anyone Interested In Pinball Machines?

That D&D machine is worth about €200 tops, complete dreamer there watching too much storage wars, if the rails and lockdown bar have that much corrosion on them it's been stored somewhere damp and cold for a long time(perhaps the steel shed it's in now lol), I guarantee every coil is dead, every spring and screw will need to be replaced, every metal part sanded and polished. He/She has no photos of the playfield or under the playfield for that matter or even the boardset, coincidence?
There is also the risk the screws into the playfield will be rusted and start snapping when you are stripping the playfield leaving you with a massive headache trying to remove them with stud extractors.
@Burzam I'd pass, you'll find a half decent project machine for €600-700 that will come in at under €1000 when you've finished with it.

If the outside is that bad imagine what this looks like now

Thanks for the advice, going to offer €400 and see what he says.
The D&D theme of the machine just draws me to it.

Ask him for a couple of proper photos of the playfield & underside and board set too.
You'd actually clean the rust off the lockdown bar with sandpaper and autosol metal polish easily enough, the legs might be a bit more difficult but you could sand blast them and then polish them with a drill.

Burzum wrote: »

Thanks for the advice, going to offer €400 and see what he says.
The D&D theme of the machine just draws me to it.

Unless the boardset is working and the playfield is un-worn or minimal wear I wouldn't go any higher than that, you're gonna spend alot of hours on a machine in that condition.

The plug has been removed, not a good sign at all.

I reckon its a pit, and would be different if this was a twilight zone or something, but its not as if the finished product is going to be amazing. Its a pretty average game.

Plus, if it needs new legs good luck. Its a really odd cabinet shape so the back legs are extra long

Still waiting to hear back from them, I offered 200 after reading the responses here so will update if/when I get a reply.

He got back to me saying he tested it a few months ago and its all working as it should, also said he wouln't be taking anything under €1700 for it.

BrownFinger wrote: »

I had a star trek the next gen up for sale here for 1700e and didn't get one call.
This lads a dreamer

Edit-
Fully working may i ad

Prices vary greatly with interest. I ended up selling my STTNG (beautiful working condition) for 700 a few years back. Sold a load of lovely pins before it and getting 400 wa an effort. Ended up selling most to U.K. buyers as nobody in Ireland was interested.
How times / trends change.

Sorry I sold the ST...

BrownFinger wrote: »

What other pins did you have?

Not sure if I can remember all of them but ones that I can -

Twilight Zone
Fish Tales (2 of them)
The Getaway
The Machine :Bride Of Pinbot
WC Soccer 94
Bram Stokers Dracula
The Addams Family
STTNG
Funhouse

Think there was a few more but these were the better ones.

The Dracula was a nice machine. Traded it with a buddy from Belfast (Lang Hunter). The Fish Tales was fun but my least favoirite. Amazing how many had simple problems and were very easy fixes. I bought them from a couple of arcade owners who had no time or interest in keeping them running.
Unfortunately space quickly runs out in the house (as kids come along and needs change...).

I miss the occasional game but then I remember that a few hours games every few months, couldn't justify the space they need.

blairfontaine wrote: »

Hi all
Just made an enquiry about this myself. Said €1500 was the min he would let it go for. Prob would be a fair price if it was in perfect working order IMHO. 
Am on the lookout for a machine myself, so if anyone is selling in the future please keep me in mind.
Thanks

If it was mint, but a machine in that state will never be mint. He's an absolute dreamer if he thinks he'll get any more than a couple of hundred at most especially as he wont even power it on let alone take photos of the boardset/playfield&underside. He should have taken the hand off the person here who offered him 400/500.
He obviously has no clue about pinball machines and their values depending on game/playfield wear/etc if he thinks he'll get anywhere near 1700:rolleyes:.

I bought mine sold as seen(unplugged and on a pallet, you couldn't even see the playfield at all for the dust, but no rust) for 200, probably cost me another 200 and 100+ hours to make perfect. Still not mint by any means but good condition all round, I wouldn't expect to get 1500 for mine and its a better game(Mine's not for sale BTW ever).