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Is this a good idea?
paigeoliver:
Well, I am just giving the view of someone who has owned well over 100 arcade games, is a moderator on klov.com (that website is to real arcade games what this one is to mame cabinets), and has more than a bit of experience in snapping up games at bargain prices.
If you read the klov.com messageboard and the arcade newsgroups you will see very few posts about people snagging games from operators. I am not saying you can't do it, I am just saying it isn't really going to be very fruitful in most places. If you live in a big city then it will be worst of all. If you live someplace low population that still has a few operators around then you might be a lot more successful.
am_monkee:
i see where you're coming from paige and you definitely have valid points, especially about your odds of actually getting one (and it being harder in the
city :().
i guess my only point was that it can't hurt to try.
texasmame also raises a good point about being prepared to take something that day. i was living in chicago a couple years ago and heard a pizza parlor owner talking about getting rid of a ms. pacman cocktail. i told him i wanted it, he offered to give it to me for free, but i ended up delaying for a couple days until i could get my buddy's truck. by that time, it was gone. :angry:
anyways...
shorthair:
--- Quote from: am_monkee on March 17, 2007, 07:32:26 pm ---i see where you're coming from paige and you definitely have valid points, especially about your odds of actually getting one (and it being harder in the
city :().
i guess my only point was that it can't hurt to try.
texasmame also raises a good point about being prepared to take something that day. i was living in chicago a couple years ago and heard a pizza parlor owner talking about getting rid of a ms. pacman cocktail. i told him i wanted it, he offered to give it to me for free, but i ended up delaying for a couple days until i could get my buddy's truck. by that time, it was gone. :angry:
anyways...
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Dude, free?...straep it oon yer baeck.
paigeoliver:
I would have just shoved it in the car somehow. You can usually a shove a cocktail into a car if you have to.
TOK:
A lot of operators seem to over-value their machines. If that Double Dragon cost $3600 in 1987, it should be worth at least $2500 today. I can't believe they actually think that, particularly if they go to any auctions, but I agree with Paige that you'll find very few with games on location that are actually willing to deal with you.
You're much better to go to an auction or somewhere that has a bunch of gutted or dead cabs.