AboutRodger Knutson Expertise I am an expert on old coin operated machines, slot machines, trade stimulator's, jukeboxes, old arcade machines, etc. I have been identifying these for people who respond to my web site listed below, for a few years now. In almost all cases I am able to tell them about their old coin operated machines, the year, the value, and other general information about their machines. I do not know much about soda vending machines, coin banks, or scales, but I will try to help you with these if I can. Please email photo's to: jackpot7@ix.netcom.com My web site is at: http://www.coinslots.com
Experience I bought my first slot machine, a .50 Cent Mills Black Cherry in 1969 and have been hooked from that time, I still have that Slot machine! Before that I found a open barrel full of old scraped jukebox wall boxes behind a restaurant, I wanted them all but never took a one of them. Anything that took a coin drove me nuts!
QUESTION: Hi - I have a Seeburg 100 Select-O-Matic that play 45 records and is in good condition. It is a 1950's and is a duplicate of the one on Happy Days that lights up in the front sides and has chrome in the middle. Can you tell me an approximate current value and how to go about selling it. I have had it for 20 years myself and we are now downsizing. Thank you
ANSWER: Hi Madeline
You didn't give me a model number? but you did give me a year, 1950, so, I guess it is a M100B/BL or is it a M100A both made in 1950?
Thank you
Rodger
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QUESTION: Hi - I research this model more and it is a 1952 Seeburg 100 M100C Select-O-Matic. Picture attached. The website you gave me does not indicate values or how to sell. Thanks again.
Answer Hi Madeline,
I don't recall giving you a web site and don't see it here in my answer, but maybe I did??
OK, so now it's a 1952 M100C and not a 1950 juke. First off, with this economy right now I don't know how value is holding up as not a lot of people are buying a lot of this kind of item right now, but lest assume they are. If you where to find this juke like new, almost right out of it's original box in quality and for sale at a retail location with a guarantee, you would be looking at a price tag of around $5,950.00 and this would be a grade one juke. If it was one that was refurbished and for sale under the same, it would be a grade two juke and have a value of $4,750. Now if you have a juke like this in good working condition, complete, and playing and asked a dealer what he would give you for it, you could expect to get an offer at about $2,500.00 and this would be grade 3. If it was in poor condition and not working and you tried to sell it the same way, you might expect an offer of $600.00 in this grade 4 condition. So, if you are going to try to sell a good average condition working jukebox without a guarantee and need a value to start with, I would guess it between 2,500.0 for a low, to maybe 3,800.00 at a high, which all depends on you and the condition of your jukebox which we can't determined in a email without tons of condition photo's. Where to sell it? Well that is always the million dollar question, maybe Greg's list, "http://seattle.craigslist.org/" maybe in your paper, maybe jukebox collector magazine, maybe always juken magazine, maybe at an auction, maybe in a antique shop on consignment, maybe ebay, and maybe word of mouth, they all work, and if one doesn't work another may. It's a good juke year, let the world know you have one and want to sell it, (build it and they will come) remember that move? I also know a guy over seas that buys wholesale jukebox's if your interested.
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