How Much is This Worth? (si Cab)

[micro571]

This is a non-working Space Invaders cabinet.  I was told that it only required a fuse to be replaced to get it up and running again, but I think it's more than that.  In any event, it's quite possible that either the monitor or PCBs are working.

There's a working floro that makes it light up beautifully.

How much do you think it's worth?  There are minor scratches and what-not described beside the pictures.

Please check out:
www.jbprojects.net/si

and let me know how much you think it's worth.  I've got an offer and I don't want to be ripped off.

[APFelon]

As my father once told me, "Something is worth only as much as someone is willing to pay you for it".

Seller's remorse is often more painful than buyer's remorse. the "I could have got x more than what I sold it for" syndrome stings bad, but just to put it into perspective-

1) Are you in a hurry to get rid of it? If in doubt, hold on to it (Unless the buyer offers you more money)

2) Don't price out Space Invaders cabinets after the sale. You will ALWAYS find one that went for more than what you sold it for.

Good luck!

[micro571]

I've found auction instances of non-working SI's selling for around $175US.  

My buyer is offering much less.  He's supposed to come pick it up this Saturday morning.

I'm not in a huge hurry to get rid of it, but I e-mailed about 30 people about possibly purchasing it.  Not many people responded and most people are very far away from my location.  This guy is 1hr away.  I'm not really a hurry to get rid of it, but I don't want to be stuck with it for 5 years type of thing.

If anyone is in Ontario - I'm located in Kitchener.  This cab's in pretty good shape and for sale - make me an offer.  :)There's the shameless plug.

Anyone got an idea of what it's worth?

[emdkay]

From the condition alone, I'd expect that to get at least $200.  Why don't you see what is actually wrong with it before you sell it to somebody only to have them email you saying it was such a simple fix.  Then you'll really have seller's remorse.
 

[paigeoliver]

I would say about $100 USD. Sure it is worth $300 - $400 fully working. But not working (but complete) you could possibly be looking at a PCB trade in ($115 plus shipping), and a replacement monitor ($100 for a used working one) to get it going.

Why not attempt to replace the fuses and get it working. The insides of those cabinets aren't that complicated. My Amazing Maze ran on the same hardware platform. There are not that many fuses in there, one or two on the monitor chassis, and a couple on a little fuse block on one of the walls.

It is much better to spend a half hour fiddling with it before you sell off what may be a perfectly good machine for almost nothing.

Replace the fuses.

Does the game come up now?

Does the monitor light up now? (If monitor has power, but boardset isn't running, then it will light up).

If not, then check the boardset.

Push down on all the socketed chips on both boards. Remove and then replace the edge connector. Remove and then replace the interface board (the one with the wires leading off to the control panel).

Does the game come up now?

If not, then we will check the power board.

Get your multimeter out.

The power board is the one with white knobs and big traces on it. Ignore that for now. Turn the game on. Look at the edge connector for the game. Find "ground", which should be an where several of the edge pins are physically the same connection (it will make sense when you see it).

Put one lead from your multimeter there, and then start testing each other pin on the boardset edge. I believe you should be looking for these voltages, +12, +5, -5, and possibly -12.

When you get a reading close to one of those voltages, then try and tune it in using the white knobs on the power board. Try to get them all tuned as close as possible to he above numbers.

Does the game come up now?

If not, then sell it. =)

[micro571]

I'm going to sell it for $150cdn + some arcade buttons and a joystick.  (150cdn = approx 100usd)

Am I getting ripped off?

I looked over the PCBs and everything very thoroughly.  All fuses are working.  No power is being distributed.  It's not a regular arcade machine...because of it's age it has a very specialized PSU and it converts the 110 to like 24V and weird voltage like that.  But there's no power anywhere.