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| CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: UFO on July 31, 2013, 04:06:48 pm ---I can understand people being upset at this - I was, but these people tend to be more like me with a low post count, and no doubt they are (like me) struggling to get to grips with their own builds. If only I had an empty shell of a cab to build on it would have saved me a lot of headaches. The people who are indifferent have higher post count and may have their own builds - or even several. I wonder if they have ever posted on here to offer "10 free cabs" - and I also wonder what the reaction would have been. I might even have been tempted to look into how the hell to get them to the UK! I think these guys MUST have know the reaction their demolition would have, or they wouldn't have done it by throwing them off a building, filming it and posted it on YouTube. I have an irrational fear that classic cabs are getting rarer and rarer, and this feels like how a record collector might feel watching someone smashing vinyl. Don't know if this has done the rounds - and I wouldn't be surprised if its been here and elsewhere either! --- End quote --- It has made the rounds here at least twice before that I can think of. More over at KLOV. You ask about an offer of "10 free cabs" and this is exactly why you find the more experienced (not necessarily higher post count) folks like me rising to Todd's defense (maybe I left out the part about them giving stuff away for free in my previous posts...) They used to (and perhaps still do) put dozens of cabs up for free, multiple times per year. Pickup only (because shipping a 200lb wooden box is WAY more trouble than free is worth). Limited response, except for people flooding them with emails asking for more free stuff or to "hold" that one free cabient. ("Do you have any free coin doors? Free monitors? etc.). Far more trouble than free is worth. There is a simple truth that new folks in this hobby don't see (and there are, to be fair, some old timers disagree) -- there is a profound excess of supply over demand for cabinets and many used parts, especially once you take the cost of "getting off of your ass, driving over, removing and then storing those poor, poor cabs." |
| CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: keilmillerjr on July 31, 2013, 04:13:42 pm --- The same could be done with arcade cabinets. If he said that he had them listed for sale or for even free, and no one would take them, so let's toss them off a roof, things would be different. --- End quote --- --- Quote from: opt2not on July 31, 2013, 02:25:26 pm ---I believe the story is that Todd was trying to sell, and eventually give away the whole lot of those cabs/pins because of storage issues, but no one came along to claim them. He offered them up for a long while with no bites. --- End quote --- Do I need to blow up the font size on opt's post (is that the online equivalent of speaking louder when somebody doesn't understand you?) ... or do I need to say "offered for free" more times ? Please, tell me what I can do to increase your level of comprehension so that you cease calling them "pieces of ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---" ? |
| chopperthedog:
--- Quote from: UFO on July 31, 2013, 04:06:48 pm ---I can understand people being upset at this - I was, but these people tend to be more like me with a low post count, and no doubt they are (like me) struggling to get to grips with their own builds. If only I had an empty shell of a cab to build on it would have saved me a lot of headaches. The people who are indifferent have higher post count and may have their own builds - or even several. I wonder if they have ever posted on here to offer "10 free cabs" - and I also wonder what the reaction would have been. I might even have been tempted to look into how the hell to get them to the UK! I think these guys MUST have know the reaction their demolition would have, or they wouldn't have done it by throwing them off a building, filming it and posted it on YouTube. I have an irrational fear that classic cabs are getting rarer and rarer, and this feels like how a record collector might feel watching someone smashing vinyl. Don't know if this has done the rounds - and I wouldn't be surprised if its been here and elsewhere either! --- End quote --- Have you reached out to local OPs in your area? I have, and my personality has lead me to some great free cabs from a couple, and there were many cabs that had no hope I would take off their hands just for the bezel/control panel and end up destroying the cab. As stated these were offered for free. And I'm sure many collectors came and looked and left empty handed even at the price of free. If the cab is beyond saving even for free, let it fly. Same thing with vinyl. If the record has been played over 300+ times than there's is nothing left in that groove. So let those fly too. good day. |
| CheffoJeffo:
To be fair ... folks on the fair island across the pond do not suffer from the excess of cabinets that we do here. But it is not economically viable to ship anything less than a full container of old cabinets ... and probably not even then. |
| thatpurplestuff:
--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on July 31, 2013, 03:29:38 pm --- --- Quote from: thatpurplestuff on July 31, 2013, 02:05:34 pm ---Whoever is posting for that company in their Youtube comments comes across as incredibly unprofessional. --- End quote --- Maybe, but this is an amusement company that is still in business. Maybe they are not the idiots that you think they are. --- End quote --- I definitely don't think they are idiots, as anyone that has been able to be successful in this industry for as long as they have are obviously doing something right. That being said, that was a very poor way of interacting with potential customers via social media since the person posting for the company seemed to be intent on pissing people off. Comments like "Mom won't let you bring any more games into the house" or "You don't have any money. (i.e. You don't have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of)" just seem to be things that you wouldn't want to post when you're representing your company. |
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