Is this worth $100 bucks?

[dweebs0r]

Ebay Link - not mine

This is 15 miles from me.  Worth it?

I could always sell the Golden Tee stuff and put a 48 in 1 board in it.

Any thoughts?

-D

[leapinlew]

Not worth $100 to me.

[dweebs0r]

Yeah, I am going back and forth.  I wonder how much the Golden Tee boards are worth?  It could make a nice little cabaret style Mame or 48 in 1 cab.

-D

[CheffoJeffo]

I'm with Lew on that one and around here the older GT boards are going for next to nothing (I picked up a couple in a box of boards at auction a while back ... 5 working boards for $25).

[dweebs0r]

I didnt buy it but I was tempted.  Arcade stuff is hard to come by around here it seems.  Maybe Im not looking in the right places.  The arcade "super auctions" come by every once in a while.  Not soon enough for me to grab any good deals.

-D

[Ginsu Victim]

When I saw the words "Golden Tee" I was like, "Oooo, those makes great MAME cabs", then I saw the cabinet.

Definitely NOT worth $100.

[DeLuSioNal29]

I agree.  It's not worth $100.  Especially when you can get a better looking cabinet for around the same price.  Also, it only has a 13" monitor.  CRT's are so cheap nowadays you can easily grab a 19" for cheap to put inside a MAME cab.

I'd pass.

~ DeLuSioNaL

[Popcorrin]

I think it's worth $100, especially if the trackball is in good shape and the bill validator works.

[Turnarcades]

OK if you wanted to strip it for parts and flog them or bin the rest, but I wouldn't use that as a base for a conversion, it's ugly as hell.

No marquee=not a proper arcade, in my book.

[mrserv0n]

A $100 isn't much money, the trackball is work $80 alone. Yes its a tad ugly, but you add the coin validator and coinmech and you have a yourself a deal right there, I don't see how you can go wrong, if someone pulled up to my house and asked for a $100 for it I would buy it.

[dweebs0r]

the trackball is work $80 alone

The trackball is worth $80?  That must be a helluva trackball.

-D

[Singapura]

Bidding has ended anyway, so what's the point in discussing?

[CheffoJeffo]

How did you come up with $80 for a used trackball ? They are only something like $90 brand new direct from Happ, which, as well know, is more than their distributors sell for anyway.

Used mechs are only worth a few dollars. The validator may be worth something if it does work ... but I would expect that it doesn't.

In the end it's only worth what someone pays for it. Judging by the results of the auction, it wasn't worth $100.

[dweebs0r]

The guy declined my offer of $60 bucks.  Seems like he has the same idea I do.

Here is his reply:

Dear jodyandmichelle,

I appreciate the offer, but just the power supply, transformer, monitor (even with burn in), pcb, and dollar acceptor are worth more than the starting bid. I have tried to sell it a few times and have been unsuccessful, so now I will tear it down and make something else of it...probably a small footprint 48-in-1 machine. I'm sure it will sell then. Thanks again for your offer, but I'll have to decline.

- jonnena

[Gehrig]

Sounds like he is going to lose even more money on it in the end.

[CheffoJeffo]

Sounds like he is going to lose even more money on it in the end.

I'm not so sure ... I think that it is pretty well established that you can (generally) make more by stripping a cab that you can by selling a complete cab. And, dropping a 48-in-1 in there will probably drive his price up quite a bit.