The Best Pinball Market on the Planet
A marketplace built by and for people who actually collect and operate pinball machines — profiles that understand your collection, a Wanted to Buy tool that reaches machines no one else can see, and a real home for operating businesses.
For everyone
Your profile, your way
Every account gets a real profile built around the hobby — not just a name and an avatar.
A profile that's actually you
Avatar, bio, initials, and your location. Add your IFPA number and we link straight to your player page. Drop in your Instagram, X, Facebook, or TikTok and they show up as icons on your profile.
Reputation that means something
Reviews aren't a free-for-all — only a buyer a seller has personally invited after a real sale can leave one. Your average rating, review count, and "member since" date are right on your profile, and sellers who've proven themselves can earn a Trusted Seller badge.
Your whole collection, tracked
Add every machine you own with its own condition ratings — playfield, backglass, cabinet, functionality — plus photos, usage history, and games played. It's your collection, cataloged properly.
Public or private — you decide
Show a machine on your public profile, or keep it private. A private machine can still be quietly flagged "I'd consider selling this" or marked "available" — neither one posts it to the open market. The first only ever surfaces to a matching Wanted to Buy post; the second just shows "Available" on your profile. Nothing goes public unless you actually create a listing for it.
Added a phone number? It's never shown on your profile. It only ever gets handed to someone when you enquire about buying their machine.
For buyers
Find it, trust it, buy it
Search by machine, price, and location — then get the real picture before you ever message a seller.
Search that actually narrows things down
Filter the market by machine name, price range, and location — either by distance from you or by country, state, and city.
Listings that show the truth
Every pinball listing requires real photos of the backglass, playfield, and cabinet — plus a photo of the serial number is required (but not shown on the listing), to reduce scammers stealing internet photos. Mechanical issues and worries are disclosed up front, not buried.
Private sales, no middleman
Contact Seller sends your offer and a note straight to the seller's inbox, along with your contact info. No fees, no messaging games.
Leave a review that counts
Once a purchase is done, the seller can invite you to review it — your rating and feedback become part of their real reputation on the site.
Buy machines not even for sale
Wanted to Buy: post once, let the machines come to you
This is the feature that makes Flip Ding different. A Wanted to Buy post doesn't just search the public market — it reaches machines that were never listed anywhere at all.
Pick the exact machine you want — down to which specific variants you'd accept (say, a Pro and a Premium, but not the LE), your price range and currency, and where to look: within a distance of you, or by country, state, and city.
The moment you post, Flip Ding checks two things at once: every matching public listing on the market, and every private machine anyone has quietly flagged "I'd consider selling this" — machines that were never listed for sale anywhere, public or otherwise.
Every matching owner gets an email — with your profile, your rating, your review count, and how to reach you (including your phone, if you added one). They can just hit reply.
You find out immediately how many owners you reached. No other marketplace surfaces machines that aren't for sale yet — Flip Ding does, because that's where a lot of the best machines actually are.
For sellers
List it right, sell it fast
Real photo requirements and honest condition reporting mean buyers trust your listing before they even message you.
Listings built to be trusted
List any machine from your collection with required photos — serial number, backglass, playfield, and cabinet — plus condition ratings and honest tags for known issues and worries.
No lowballs
Set a minimum offer and Contact Seller automatically rejects anything below it, before it ever reaches your inbox — no wasted back-and-forth on offers you were never going to take.
Not just pinball
Selling a mod, an arcade machine, something vintage, or spare parts? There's a listing category for that too, with the same reach as your pinball listings.
Offers land in your inbox
When a buyer makes an offer, you get their price, their note, and their contact info by email. Private sales, always entirely free.
Sale done? Invite your buyer to leave a review — it's the only way reviews get posted, so your reputation reflects real transactions.
For operators
The hub for your operating business
Run machines on location? Flip Ding wants to be the one place you manage your inventory, your sales, and your public face — not three different tools.
One inventory for every machine
Track everything you operate with the same collection tools every member gets — condition, photos, and location, all in one place instead of a spreadsheet.
Buy and sell at your scale
Use the same market listings and Wanted to Buy tool as everyone else to move machines in and out of your route — including reaching private machines that never hit the open market.
Your own business page (requires premium)
Your own landing page and full company details
Operators (Premium and up) get a real, standalone business page — not a profile buried in the marketplace.
Your logo and a full-width hero background image
A rich, formatted description of your business
A photo gallery, up to 8 images
Service badges for rentals, on-location operation, and repairs
Call, text, email, and website buttons right at the top
A link back to your Flip Ding profile and reviews
Use your own domain!
You can even use flipding as your business homepage on your own domain (requires LE subscription). Instead of flipding.com/your-business-name you can use your own domain to land users on your page directly from your-business-name.com. Use flipding as your webpage, no maintainence, no site hosting, and easy setup!
I want this site to work well for your business. Any changes, features, or technical help you need I'll be happy to do what I can to assist!
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