How collectable is Monster Bash?

[Carl Spiby]

Just having a browse on eBay and noticed one for £8500! Are they really worth that much?!

 

[Sean DonCarlos]

They're worth a lot more than they used to be, but £8500 seems high. A Monster Bash in perfect condition should fetch US$7000-8000, unless something has happened in the market recently that I'm not aware of.

 

[Richard B]

Just having a browse on eBay and noticed one for £8500! Are they really worth that much?!

Is that the actual bid price, or the asking price? At least 95% of the time, the asking price is far higher than the actual value. Right now, Pinside pegs it at $5460-$6340. They arrive at that by averaging all the actual selling prices of all the auctions of that machine on Ebay.

 

[laughing_lunatic]

A Monster Bash in perfect condition should fetch US$7000-8000, unless something has happened in the market recently that I'm not aware of.

$15,000

http://www.thepinballcompany.com/monsterbashhighendrestoration.aspx

edit: yay, 100th post

 

[Sean DonCarlos]

You can't go by the high-end restoration prices. They also apparently want $10K for a FunHouse, which is clearly not normal.

 

[laughing_lunatic]

hahaa, well I don't have even a quarter of that to spend on a machine, but I figured that if you wanted a machine that was as perfect as it was when it came out the factory, even had that new car smell, that would be the table to get...

 

[Carl Spiby]

I managed to spend £12,000 just window shopping on eBay today.

Now where's my lottery ticket.

 

[laughing_lunatic]

... or a rich widow...

 

[Carl Spiby]

Girlfriend might have something to say about that

 

[Chris Dunman]

If my numbers come up tonight Carl, I'll buy you one.... A pin table, not a girlfriend...

 

[Carl Spiby]

Haha! Cheers Chris