!^!My friend sold a Shadow less than 18 months ago for $1800 to a guy who put it in a fish n chip shop a few hours drive from me.
He added $200 to the $1600 price cause he put in new coin mechs. You couldn't sell them for anymore than $2200 up here going back 18 months for the prior three or more years. There were so many in QLD from so many container importers.
A Shadow today is not worth a cent more than $2500 even in this inflated market.
Prices in the last 18 months have gone up by 30 percent, maybe more cause 90 percent of the container importers have stopped bringing in 4 or 5 containers a year.
YES QLD is soo much cheaper than anywhere else.
It's because QLD container importers were 3 times more prevelent than VIC Container importers and I reckon each container importer did double or triple of what I ever heard and saw from other states.
People up here paid a lot less than others paid for their machines so private sellers don't usually ask for soo much money on resale. But GREED has overtaken the DMD resale industry now.
It's only when you know what people paid and just how little the container importers up here were paying, that you realise what a rip off the prices have now become.
I used to see a different container every month from one of about a dozen importers. In the last 18 months I haven't seen one container bought in or unloaded and I used to get called by most everytime cause I was always buying and aiming for 50 machines and was cashed up. One commercial seller up here has done a few containers but it's a fifth of what he used to bring in. His prices have skyrocketed and its a bad cash grab from people who seem uneducated as to what the importers are paying for Euro containers of good pins. They are still doubling their money after working out landed costs.
No one is bringing in containers anymore really, so prices have gone stupid.
If you are chasing a Shadow, chase all the QLD sellers.
$2500 is what I would pay and not a cent more for a nice one. $2750 if it's your Grail pin.
Have you contacted all the QLD sellers of late ?
