Price on used table??
Mike Stephenson
[ Author was Mike Stephenson ]
[ Posted on Fri, 1 Dec 1995 23:06:40 GMT ]
Hello all,
Could anyone out there give me an idea of what a fair price for a used
Deutch Meister table in decent shape would be?? I'm not looking to sell,
but rather, have my eye on one that's for sale. Asking price is $300. It's
a coin op that's been converted.
Help.
Clay Gump
: Could anyone out there give me an idea of what a fair price for a used
: Deutch Meister table in decent shape would be?? I'm not looking to sell,
Don't know a price but I did have this on the Foos
home page. Thought you might find it interesting.
-Clay
Originally from RePlay Magazine Febuary 28, 1976
From Table Soccer Digest, Vol 1 No 1, Fall 1986
Diverse Products & Deutscher Meister
The history of the Deutscher Meister soccer table
in the American coin business is actually the story
of Bud Wachter, founder of Diverse Products, Inc.
of Red Bank, N.J. and an entrepreneur whose
involvement with table soccer games goes back many
years. Wachter recalls that story:
"I retired from the U.S. Army in 1959. From the end
of World War II (1945) until my retirement, I was
stationed in Fuerth, Germany for a total of twelve
years. This happens to be the town where the
Deutscher Meister table soccer was being
manufactured by a firm called AUTOMATENBAU
FOERSTER. We had two soccer tables in our
recreation hall and since the game at that time was
not as substantial as it is now, we were constantly
needing repair parts. Being the company first
sergeant and the only man in the company who could
speak enough German to get by, I always went
for the needed parts. l became very friendly with
the owner of the factory and spent a lot of time
with
him advising how he could improve the sturdiness of
the game etc. (No one is as destructive as a
bunch of G.I.'s on game equipment.}
"When I retired in 1959, I remained in Germany and
went to work for a U.S. corporation there which
was selling to the Armed Forces as their European
sales manager. One of the things I accomplished
was to acquire the exclusive rights for sales to
the U.S. Military Forces for the Deutscher Meister
table soccer game. l had salesmen in Germany,
France, Italy, England, Spain and North Africa. In
the ten years I was there, we sold several thousand
Deutscher Meister table soccer games. The
company thought this was so great we imported some
to the U.S. They were strictly military sales
oriented but they just didn't have the coverage
like we had in Europe. They expected sales to equal
the European sales and ordered too many and were
stuck with a large stock.
''About this time they transferred me back to the
regional office here in Red Bank and promoted me to
eastern region sales manager, which included
Europe. quite a few eastern states. plus Puerto
Rico
and Panama.
"I had been urging them to contact the coin trade
on the games but they never did. When I arrived
back here, this was the first thing I did and
presto the big stock was gone. We couldn't get
enough
games to fill our orders. Business was great but
they didn't give me the comparable rewards so I
resigned and started my own company in July 1971.
and incorporated in 1972.
"When I attended my first MOA show in 1972,1
believe I was the only one displaying a table
soccer
game. MOA 1975. if my count was correct, there were
eighteen companies showing.
''Needless to say, Diverse was also able to get an
exclusive on the Deutscher Meister games.
At present we have not conducted tournaments,
although we have helped distributors and operators
to do so. Presently we are in the process of
opening a twenty game Fussball Hall in New Jersey
and
also one in California. If these are successful, we
intend to open many more around the country
where we will run tournaments and organize table
soccer leagues.''
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FOOSBALL1
Could anyone out there give me an idea of what a fair price for a used
Deutch Meister table in decent shape would be?? I'm not looking to sell,
It's
a coin op that's been converted.
>>
the men and rods are good. Used Tornado's rarely get under $600, but
Million Dollar and DM and Dynamo's go 200-300.
A.D.
