The gossip/info i hear from a local source who has been inside the wacol premises, is that there are around 4 containers of pinballs.
I am told half are old stuff (pre 80's) and the other half is 80 and 90's stuff. the $1 list is a advertising situation, which has worked well. I understand too that a email gets u the list.
I am also told that you can only visit during normal hours by appointment only (saves them having timewasters with no money just looking, and thieves from having a go with a forklift and a decent truck after checking the place out since it is in an industrial area).I have never met Devon or Brett but have heard nothing bad about them. I am told one of them does some resto work for the old fella who is trying to get the pinball museum up n going. ?
I am told prices are very attractive since they are loaded with lots n lots of pins.??
NOTE- Re other QLD sellers-pinballs.
It seems, just with the people i know, there are 5 different business people bringing in lots n lots of containers into Brisbane for the local and interstate market. And i know 4 of the 5 importers, and everything is selling like hotcakes.
The high turnover importers i know up here , are selling the machines "as is" (no rubbers, no globes, no nothing, literally as is) and providing a realistic description of the machines, and letting you go over it, from top to bottom, at cash now price. Some are doing short term laybys too.
This allows quick turn over without the labour intensive shopping with staff to pay etc for the importers. At least half of the stuff i continually see is junk.
But some of the importers "friends n followers", buy them, tart them up, bodge here and bodge up there, and resell to unsuspecting buyers on ebay and anywhere they can. The QLD pinball scene is realistically a wholesale affair of real roughies, even being polite, saying that.
HOWEVER, I do know of one importer up here, who deals in the "fully shopped professionally" pinballs who has only top shelf titles like Twilight Zone, Indianna Jones, Circus Voltaire, Addams Family etc etc, and the machines are fully shopped and re-decalled. And it is not anyone who has a shop, or is really well known. Most machines are sold on ebay or by word of mouth to serious collectors.This importer is a good friend of mine. Small numbers per year, but quality.
But pinball sales in QLD are certainly interesting to say the least. I say deal with people like Mark C in Melbourne, my good friend Martyn B in Qld, or anyone u know n trust. Quality rules with trustworthy people.
BUT WHATEVER YOU DO, JUST BUY MORE PINBALL MACHINES.
THERE ARE LOTS N LOTS OF LONELY PINBALL MACHINES WHO NEED LOVING CARING OWNERS.
THEY HAVE BEEN WITHOUT ELECTRICITY FOR TOOO LONG. THEY CRY AT NIGHT FOR A GAMESROOM TO BE PLACED INTO.
SAVE A PINBALL TODAY, YOU WILL FEEL BETTER TOMORROW. LOL !
