Elvira pin in NSW sold for $3,300

[v8racefan]

I was watching a Elvira and the Party Monsters pin that was on ebay tonight started at $1,500, and was at $1,900 with 10 mins to run.

Then jumped to $3,300 in the last few minutes?? Cool pin whats everyones thoughts on the final price???

[Replicas]

Well worth the money in my opinion, great pin to play. I sold mine here in the U.K. for £750 mid last year,think thats around AU$1600-1700 but pin prices are a little more down there.
Elvira still a hottie 20 years on.
Darren.

[ajlaird]

Does sound a bit pricey but what condition was it in? These sort of titles do seem to go for a bit more these days.

[MrMaloo]

Condition of that one looked pretty good.

Was watching it myself but went above what I would've been willing to pay.

[v8racefan]

The seller stated he had owned it for more than 15 years, so condition would have to have been good

[bigdaddy]

A mate of mine was bidding on this one, but missed out.  I was surprised to see it sell so high. I would not pay that money of it was nothing short of excellent all round. I think a Scared Stiff sold a few weeks back for high 2k from Mark. That would have been better I'd reckon.

[Pintoxicated]

I actually had a look at that machine in the flesh.  I would have struggled paying much more than $1500 for it to be honest.

Yeah the guy owned it for 15 years - the majority of it's life was in a farm shed.   The cabinet and backglass looked faded.  Playfield would have cleaned up OK but again looked faded.  I had a quick game, flippers were shot and couldn't make the ramps, bits and pieces just didn't work, most plastics were snapped or cracked, probably half the globes were out, rubbers were shot.  During the game the seller stated, "I think the batteries are flat, you have to re-program it every time you turn it on."  I said, "Oh OK, just make sure that the batteries don't leak over the board then, it might be worth changing them."  He said, "They've been in there 15 years and they haven't leaked yet so I haven't worried about them." 

My heart sank, I opened up the backbox and sure enough he was right, they hadn't leaked - there was nothing left in them to leak I think.      I had a quick look at the rest of the boards.  Something sparkly caught my eye - cigarette packet foil wrapped around several of the fuses!  Don't know if that was there to hold the fuse in or whether it was acting as the fuse.  It was at that point I closed her up and thanked him for his time.   The guy also mentioned he bought a street fighter cabinet and Flash machine at the same time and that Elvira was the only machine left working      wonder why.

Curiosity got the better of me, his Flash machine was also listed on eBay and was in the garage.  Never seen so much rust on a machine.  It may have been good for parts.....maybe.

When I saw the end price for the Elvira machine I shed a silent tear for the poor bugger that paid that for it.  It could be brought back to a reasonable level but at $3300, it's gonna end up owing him a stack.

[pinballist]

Wow Talby, that's an evil transaction for sure, the poor bastard's gonna be kicking himself once he gets it.  No wonder people call it evilBay.

[pinnies4me]

Gosh, what a sad game that sounds to be. At that price I was wondering if the buyer mistook it for a Scared Stiff. Which is what he'll be when he sees it I think..

[Pintoxicated]

I would have been devastated if it was me that bought that machine for those dollars.

I remember there was a bid on the machine of $1600 for a day or two then it was retracted - I wonder if whoever it was actually viewed the machine as well and ran for the hills.

He was a nice enough bloke, just had absolutely no idea about maintenance and probably came close to destroying a good machine.

[hamish_nz]

WOW I was going to bid on this glad is didn't

[v8racefan]

Thanks for the details on this pin Talby, I pitty the poor bugger who won this auction 

So glad I posted this topic on AP now....