For some reason that reply made me chuckle and picture some car salesman asking "how much can you afford for monthly payments".
To me, it does not matter what he is willing to pay, either I have one or I don't, and if I do I know how much I want for it and if he is willing to pay that amount then we can proceed with a transaction. In this case I do not have one so I will move along.
Chuckle if you must.
However, in dealing in old arcade parts, you encounter a lot of dreamers, bargain hunters and flakes. So before I run off and get a price for a dedicated GT Complete or 2005, I want to make sure that he is serious.
These cabs use the new flatscreen monitors and can be hooked up to the IT network for tournament play, so they still make money on the street and they were expensive to buy. I don't want to waste my time for someone who will back off due to "sticker shock" because these machines WILL make a dent in the wallet.
I can assure you, NO collector has one of these cabs in their collection yet (or at least one they want to sell at a bargain basement price), so in order to get one, you will HAVE to go through an operator or distributor (such as the one that employs me). I would make NO profit from the sale of this machine and I would do this simply because I love this hobby and I like to support the users on this forum when I can. But my altruism has limits, as I don't want to do the legwork to sell a multi-thousand dollar machine just for the hell of it.
SO, Raleigh, is there a reason you injected anything into this thread other than to disrupt it?
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