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should i buy this cabinet?
tshizzle.com:
i paid $150 for an empty cabinet, after searchin for weeks and not finding anything under $300, I have NO idea where you people are getting off sayign $100 is too much
AlanS17:
I bought one for $50 in a place where the only arcade operator for a 3hr radius was total jerk... and he still gave it to me for $50. Unless you got an incredible cabinet, you paid too much, too.
Sorry to say, but I've bought 7 or 8 fully working machines for less than you paid for that empty cabinet.
greywolf22:
Yeah, I paid $75 for my empty cabinet...but I live in Tucson so getting something local can be hard to come by. And mine had a coin door, and was made of Plywood, and was already stripped so it was perfect for what I was looking for. So I didn't mind paying $75, again just depends on your options, what you are looking for, and what all of that is worth to you I suppose :-\
Dave_K.:
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--- Quote from: Gunstar Hero on September 10, 2004, 01:46:19 pm ---With no board and a dead monitor it's worth the price of about 2 sheets of MDF and a little plexiglass... I'd as maybe $50 bucks at the high end.
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Well add to that the over/under coin box with working coin mechs (worth over $90 alone), 2 ultimate joysticks, and 10 buttons with microswitches....and the $100 total price looks a little more reasonable. ;D
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Well the controls are used and a machine without a coin door wouldn't even be worth the $50. It's the coin door that already makes it worth anything at all.
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Sorry but I don't agree. Even without the coin door its worth at least $50 maybe more. You are paying for a fully assembled cab with molding and plexy, and florecent light, monitor bezel, and casters...all these little items add up to an unforseen cost for people building on their own.
Alan, just because you can score good deals doesn't mean everyone else is as lucky.
AlanS17:
You disassemble my car that won't start and sell every part and you might make $2000 from it, and certainly trying to build it from scratch would cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars, but the car is worth probably close to $1000 because it's less-than-stellar. Do you see what I'm saying?