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| NoOne=NBA=:
Don't have the money, and my wife would kill me. I almost picked up a Tron upright a few weeks ago at a garage sale. It wouldn't power up at all, and the joystick had been swapped out for one that looked like a Wico command control. The dealbreaker was that the guy didn't have the keys to ANY of the locks, so I couldn't tell if the boards, etc... were even inside it, or if there had been "attempted" fixes done to them. |
| paigeoliver:
--- Quote from: NoOne=NBA= on September 02, 2004, 08:47:32 pm ---Don't have the money, and my wife would kill me. I almost picked up a Tron upright a few weeks ago at a garage sale. It wouldn't power up at all, and the joystick had been swapped out for one that looked like a Wico command control. The dealbreaker was that the guy didn't have the keys to ANY of the locks, so I couldn't tell if the boards, etc... were even inside it, or if there had been "attempted" fixes done to them. --- End quote --- In situations like that I simply jimmy the back doors open. |
| Safron:
Tell him you will go along with it for a Western Union money order. They are easy to verify. |
| NoOne=NBA=:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on September 02, 2004, 09:34:32 pm ---In situations like that I simply jimmy the back doors open. --- End quote --- I didn't own it yet, and the guy wasn't there to do it for me. I was dealing with his wife, and she called him on the phone. They had a "friend" who was going to take it, if it didn't sell. I called a locksmith, and they wanted about $30/lock to drill them out. I figured I only needed ONE drilled because the rest should be accessible for disassembly from the inside. I still didn't want to play $30 to find out if I wanted to buy it, and don't know if the guy would have gone for it anyway. Had the CP been intact I would have bought it sight unseen on the guts, but I didn't want to waste the money. My gut feel is it was a power supply problem, given that they are prone to them--but I couldn't be SURE. |
| exibar:
Please don't fall for the scam. It is just that a scam. I'm an Information Security Engineer and I see this thing all the time. Bank checks take 10 - 14 days before they have gone through the system. In the mean time the crook has your $600 game. You'll also probably find that his "friend" with the cashier's check will want to make it out for more than $600 asking you to keep the $600, plus maybe $50 - $100 for your trouble, and send them the game and the rest of the money. Now when the bank finds the check to be fake, and they will, they'll charge your account for the entire amount of the check... Check out www.nipc.gov along with the other links posted in this thread and you'll clearly see how much of a scam it really is. Your Tron game will sell, so don't get taken by this scammer. Mike B |
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