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I'm curious to know what you guys/gals think a good location should earn on 1 pinball,   Whats too little, and whats too high?


These days you are lucky if a pinball makes $100 a month and then you split that with the location. Ten years ago you would take the pinball out if it didn't make $100 a week for the operator. In the 80's you would pull the game if it had less than $300 a week.  


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These days you are lucky if a pinball makes $100 a month and then you split that with the location.  


Thererfore with a 50% split a $5000 machine would take eight and half years on location just to recoup your costs (not factoring maintenance, delivery and time collecting money from the machine). Sterns business model would only work if collectors are willing to buy the machine for decent money at the end of it's routed period.

Yes now I can fully appreciate why Gary doesn't build machines for collectors.



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