I appreciate what dealers like yourself do (I mean one of my pins will come from you!
) and im more than happy to pay a little more knowing that i'll get a pin that ill get to enjoy for a while before the standard need for repairs hit (of course old machines that pinballs are will have things go wrong with them from time to time). But on the same token I see machines that are advertised on ebay that are priced well above what "the educated" among us deem acceptable. They are probably so expensive because they bought from a dealer who gouged them in the first place..
I guess as it has been said above, these ebay prices are just a starting point for a polite negotiation to bring the prices to a more reasonable level. Sure, pay a premium to a dealer who has done some work to a machine so they keep bringing them in. But I think i'll pass on the 15k kiss and the 1k + project machines that are missing MPU's and almost complete and worn playfields
