3 vintage machines, worth the $$$???

[mr. fusion]

3 Vintage Japaneses Pachinko Machines Balls

They look ok to me, but what do you guys think? maybe 75.0 for the 3?

[Hope Chest]

Kinda depends on if they're working or not. They'd be worth $100 to me but if you can get 'em for $75, do it!!

The green cell one is a Mizuho. I have the same one at home. In fact, look for the "My Vintage Mizuho" thread in the vintage section, I've got close ups of it.

[jwegger]

$125.00 is not a bad price, I would check them out and see how the backs look. If you can get them for $75.00 to $100 all the better. It also depends on how bad they want to get them out of the house, heck they might even go $50 if they are really tired of looking at them.

[mr. fusion]

They are outside in the picture, I hope they are just out their for the lighting!
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Kinda depends on if they're working or not. They'd be worth $100 to me but if you can get 'em for $75, do it!!

The green cell one is a Mizuho. I have the same one at home. In fact, look for the "My Vintage Mizuho" thread in the vintage section, I've got close ups of it.

checked the link, nice machine! I want to get an older machine, the one you have looks really similar to one my friend Steve had when we were kids!

[pinball wizard]

i think that is a fair asking price IF they are complete
and working.as others said,if they would take less,all the better! i would even go as low as 50.00 and negotiate from there.

[BigBearSteve]

Start at $50 and go up from there.

IF they are complete

(The green one is missing the ashtray)

[MrGoodBurn]

I would buy them, but always try to get the best deal. Offer them $75 or $100 before dishing out the $125.

They look to be in good condition besides the missing ashtray.

[Bigdog]

How much you are willing to pay for those 3 machines is partially a function of how many other machines you currently have, and what you are doing with them. When I only had a couple of machines, I would have paid $125 for all 3 if the seller wouldn't come down.

Now? I wouldn't pay more than $75 for the 3...simply because I've got others that I need to do something with.

If you got the 3 of them for $100, you have probably made yourself a nice deal...as was mentioned, there is the issue of the missing ash-tray, but if you are going to use that one for entertainment purposes only, what the heck?

[Moparformances]

[mudfud]

check the back to make sure there aren't missing pieces. sometimes finding the trays or the track covers gets expensive, if you want original parts.

$25 each wouldn't be bad, though.

do they include the glass? how many balls?

[johnnynormal510]

I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, where everything is just about as over priced as it can get; but even here I am seeing the price of pachinkos come down to almost nothing.
I have watched some very nice machines sit on craigslist for a long time, and the prices keep falling every week.

When I am asking about a Cheap-O Vintage machine, I always take into consideration value of the Balls or Tokens that are included.

My ebay average costs are about .05 for a Pachinko Ball, and .10 for a Pachislo Token.


I take this into consideration when buying a machine.
A $50 Modern with no balls will require a $80 investment into balls to be playable.
A $20 vintage with 500 balls is a steal... Even if the machine is unplayable.
A $75 Pachislo with 1000 Tokens is also a steal.

There are three kinds of people in this world... Ones that Can do math, and Ones that Can't.

[Bigdog]

I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, where everything is just about as over priced as it can get; but even here I am seeing the price of pachinkos come down to almost nothing.
I have watched some very nice machines sit on craigslist for a long time, and the prices keep falling every week.

When I am asking about a Cheap-O Vintage machine, I always take into consideration value of the Balls or Tokens that are included.

My ebay average costs are about .05 for a Pachinko Ball, and .10 for a Pachislo Token.


I take this into consideration when buying a machine.
A $50 Modern with no balls will require a $80 investment into balls to be playable.
A $20 vintage with 500 balls is a steal... Even if the machine is unplayable.
A $75 Pachislo with 1000 Tokens is also a steal.

There are three kinds of people in this world... Ones that Can do math, and Ones that Can't. http://bestsmileys.com/lol/15.gif

I agree completely. I recently got 4 moderns in varying degrees of working order for a total investment of about $120. That was OK in itself, but I also got about 4,000 balls with it. Considering I've been looking for a good deal on balls for a while, I finally found it...I just didn't know it would come in the form of "Buy 4,000 balls, get 4 machines free".