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Offline onetaste

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Re: How do you decide what stays and what goes in your collection
« Reply #15 on: February 29, 2016, 12:29:50 PM »
If I and my friends aren't playing it then it goes. Only got one like this in my collection atm.
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Re: How do you decide what stays and what goes in your collection
« Reply #16 on: February 29, 2016, 08:03:10 PM »
I just can't part with them
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Re: How do you decide what stays and what goes in your collection
« Reply #17 on: February 29, 2016, 08:46:48 PM »
No such thing as a keeper, they are just toys.
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Re: How do you decide what stays and what goes in your collection
« Reply #18 on: February 29, 2016, 09:21:09 PM »
All the ones that have gone should have stayed! Except World Cup soccer. Glad to see that one gone.
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Re: How do you decide what stays and what goes in your collection
« Reply #19 on: February 29, 2016, 09:44:38 PM »
Quote from: Goingpinsane on February 29, 2016, 09:21:09 PM
All the ones that have gone should have stayed! Except World Cup soccer. Glad to see that one gone.
i agree substituting WCS for T2
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Re: How do you decide what stays and what goes in your collection
« Reply #20 on: March 01, 2016, 10:41:04 PM »
Rule 1.  Keep everything.

Rule 2. Only sell if a friend or a fellow member wants that machine badly & you want to share the love.

Rule 3. Buy a replacement when u can for the one you Sold

Rule 4. Buy more machines when u can so u can share the pinballs with as many people as possible.

Rule 5. Always refer to Rule 1 as much as possible.
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Re: How do you decide what stays and what goes in your collection
« Reply #21 on: March 02, 2016, 03:55:11 PM »
Just make up a series of arbitrary rules that appear impressive with a cursory observation, but when placed under scrutiny have no basis in reality.

Quote from: Cow Corner on February 29, 2016, 08:46:48 PM
No such thing as a keeper, they are just toys.
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Spot on.
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Re: How do you decide what stays and what goes in your collection
« Reply #22 on: March 02, 2016, 08:08:10 PM »
Keep the ones with the great artwork!  You will never tire of that.
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Re: How do you decide what stays and what goes in your collection
« Reply #23 on: March 02, 2016, 09:14:37 PM »
Easy - let an outsider do it.
Im happy to come down and dictate what you can keep and what im taking out for your own benefit
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Re: How do you decide what stays and what goes in your collection
« Reply #24 on: March 02, 2016, 09:51:55 PM »
 
Quote from: Retropin on March 02, 2016, 09:14:37 PM
Easy - let an outsider do it.
Im happy to come down and dictate what you can keep and what im taking out for your own benefit
^^^  great idea. Lets see how many pm you.  *.*
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Offline Mick71

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Re: How do you decide what stays and what goes in your collection
« Reply #25 on: January 17, 2017, 04:01:55 PM »
Space also an issue for me since moving to Melbourne and have to sell as well.
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Re: How do you decide what stays and what goes in your collection
« Reply #26 on: January 18, 2017, 10:48:12 PM »
I recently sold my Tron Pro. One of the games I still played the most in the collection and now an all time favourite pinball. I thought that what I was doing was insane.

My reasons for selling? Running out of space. Newer pins getting more expensive and I was able to afford another top rated game, The Walking Dead Pro. A new game arrives and it is the one that gets played the most. Will now try and rotate games instead of hoarding....and if I ever want to buy it again, they eventually come up for sale.
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Re: How do you decide what stays and what goes in your collection
« Reply #27 on: January 19, 2017, 08:34:49 AM »
The Flash that i sold i bit over a year ago is an example of a game i bought on a whim, that i only ever played once back in the day. I DID like the game but my collecting has evolved into collecting games that i played A LOT back in the day and enjoyed so its all based on nostalgia for me.

Last June i picked up another Flash for a 'fixer upper' for $230, bargain of the century!! It was in pretty decent shape too, but as the goal soon as i found the game was to get it running, tidy it up and sell it so it wasn't kept long. I have two more project Flash's in storage, so one of those may end up in the collection  *%*
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Re: How do you decide what stays and what goes in your collection
« Reply #28 on: January 19, 2017, 12:17:14 PM »
I keep adding to the collection, but getting nowhere restoring them. I recently added a Black Knight, Champion Pub and Banzai Run. Still looking for Super Score, Zodiac, Rocket Ship, Olympic Hockey - But I'm not actively looking as in time they might find me !
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Re: How do you decide what stays and what goes in your collection
« Reply #29 on: January 19, 2017, 10:03:55 PM »
Easy for me. I bought Top Card when I was about 14 with money I made from painting houses with my dad. It was the first and I think they will probably bury me in it.
Everything else is expendable...except maybe if I find a really good Firepower, or a Close Encounters or the original Spiderman, or...
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