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paigeoliver:
I don't even bother dealing with ops, as there are very few ops around that are still operating old 19" cabinets.






--- Quote from: slycrel on October 21, 2004, 06:15:39 pm ---Good post Paige.

My $0.02, This goes both ways as well.  At least in Utah where I am.  About a year ago I was looking around hard for a stripped cab for my first mame machine.  There aren't a ton of vendors swarming the area, so I didn't have a lot of places to choose from.  I made no less than TWO appointments with the local "professional".  I was stood up twice in a row, once meeting him at his warehouse, once meeting him at his office.  I finally found a guy who had a small route via the thrifty nickel want ads who was happy to help me get a cab.  In talking with him, it's a very tight industry around here and difficult to get your own arcade machine route.  Even he was suspicous of me once I said that it was a vague possibility of me placing a few machines locally in the future.  (He also misled me in regards to a tip about 3 pinball machines at $300 a piece locally.  Knowing what I do now, he has at least tripled his $$ on those particular machines, even just reselling them.  He told me it wasn't worth it.)  Anyhow, point is...  it took a LOT of hard work on my end just to get someone to take me seriously.  It goes both ways.  Respect other people, I guess, would be the moral of the story...  =)

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SOAPboy:
i know i told a guy i MIGHT be interested in the a free cab if shipping wasent terrible.. but honestly, we never schedualed anything..

tho i agree, ive been screwed a few dozen times when someone said OK DUDE ILL GIVE YOU X# FOR THIS and them never showing..

 >:(
paigeoliver:

--- Quote from: SOAPboy on October 21, 2004, 09:27:12 pm ---i know i told a guy i MIGHT be interested in the a free cab if shipping wasent terrible.. but honestly, we never schedualed anything..

tho i agree, ive been screwed a few dozen times when someone said OK DUDE ILL GIVE YOU X# FOR THIS and them never showing..

 >:(

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Oops, I forgot that one.

#9. Don't ask people to ship free cabinets. Shipping a game is a small nightmare that takes somewhere between 2 and 10 hours and between $10 and $100 of the person's own money.
SOAPboy:
well i was going to PAY for AND arrange it.. no skin off his sack there..

 ;D
paigeoliver:

--- Quote from: SOAPboy on October 21, 2004, 10:36:56 pm ---well i was going to PAY for AND arrange it.. no skin off his sack there..

 ;D

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Ah, much better than usual. Go search google for the story of the BYOAC member who kept emailing Todd at TNT Amusements asking him to ship free cabinets, and he expected Todd to pay for it. Of course this same person also has a habit of emailing people selling $900 games and asking if he can have it if they can't sell it.
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