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UFO:


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--- Quote ---Have you reached out to local OPs in your area?
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Yep. I've emailed / called in a 100 mile or so radius. I would love to just meet some people with the same interest tl- here will have to do though!

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Calls and emails will get you no where. OPs can be a hard group to befriend. I've tried 5 places that were local to me and 2 became great go to's and friends. I first just kinda walked in the office and inquired about maybe purchasing some used buttons or a joystick. Now this is where the personality and sales skills come into play with being personable and selling yourself. Got my first cab free from an op for doing a bearing job on his pool pump motor (saw it sitting on his floor probably on my second or third time visiting. I was like "what's up with your 3/4 horse hayward on the ground here?" he says ehhhhh, grinds bad when it runs, from the prices I've been quoted to fix I might just buy new. I said, I'll have it back in 2 days fixed. I worked at a pool store and had done many bearing jobs but the moron didn't know we were 1.5 miles from his shop. Spent 30min at work doing his bearing job while getting paid and took it back to him and boom friends for life. My other op friend I ended up doing demolition work on his 6000sq ft building as he was turning his op business into a furniture store and for 2 months got paid good cash and some cabs and parts along the way. The other 3 ops I stopped into, within' the first 2 minutes I knew I had no chance. So 2 for 5 ain't bad in the world of cold call sales. Your odds are way worse via email or phone.


good day.

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There is nowhere in a wide distance that I can pop in to for a chat, and certainly noone has cabs or parts lying around doing nothing that I have ever come across in my job as a photographer over the last 15 years.

There are a handful of people (maybe five - and we know them all on this forum) in the UK that sell online - and that's it!

Thanks for the advice, but here is the UK not only do we not have pools, but there are no stores that readily sell arcade stuff that you can go for a browse.

Ask any UK BYOAC'er and he will tell you he orders online. Fullstop.

My odds are WAY better via email than wandering through my home town looking for arcade parts or someone to talk to about them!

And if you don't believe me, have a look at the "UK BYOAC'er" thread.

Haze:

I think the sad part is that they look like they're enjoying it, and yeah, the YouTube comments from them seem very unprofessional.

It's a fact some things are beyond saving, and if nobody else will take them, not even for free then there is little else can be done with them because storage space isn't free, however the way they seemed to find it amusing and felt the need to put up a video of it is probably what rubs people the wrong way about it, it should be something done with regret if you actually care about those old things.


Le Chuck:

These cabs are just objects. I believe in personal property rights. If they're the owner they should enjoy trashing them. Its not like they are tossing puppies. Life is too short to have to pull a frowny face when you get to do something fun. You expect them to have a funeral? Crunching cabs is work, I'm glad they found a fun way to pass the time.  Like their comments say, if you want to save the next batch go and get them. If not don't complain when they exercise their right to do with their property as they see fit.

opt2not:


--- Quote from: Le Chuck on July 31, 2013, 10:40:03 pm ---These cabs are just objects. I believe in personal property rights. If they're the owner they should enjoy trashing them. Its not like they are tossing puppies. Life is too short to have to pull a frowny face when you get to do something fun. You expect them to have a funeral? Crunching cabs is work, I'm glad they found a fun way to pass the time.  Like their comments say, if you want to save the next batch go and get them. If not don't complain when they exercise their right to do with their property as they see fit.

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A'merrrrica. ---fudgesicle--- yeah!  ;D


Thenasty:

This is an oldie.

Last time I was in TNT, Todd told me that he spends money for the Cabs to get pickup by the garbage man. I guess by thrasing it into pieces, he put the garbage into the dumpster (saved him some money).

While I was there,I played some games in his showroom and gave me 2 cabs for FREE.



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