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| pboreham:
--- Quote from: Ummon on May 20, 2008, 05:48:49 pm ---Dude, I live in a 420 square foot studio apartment, and I have room for a full-size bed, full-size couch, good size computer desk, and four or five old-style cabs...and um a corner of assorted junk. I still have half the place in floor space. There must be a corner or something you can put your cab in....unless you just don't play it anymore. --- End quote --- Think its partly the fact I dont get time to play as much as I could - and also 'downsizing' everything to move to a smaller place. I dont think its fair to put the cab in the main room of an apartment when living with someone who doesnt care for it! |
| pboreham:
Thanks so much for your advice, its great to hear from a UK seller/buyer! :cheers: If you dont mind, I'm going to drop you a quick PM just for more info, but again, genuine thanks! --- Quote from: Turnarcades on May 20, 2008, 07:27:02 pm ---I'll give you a more balanced perspective from a prolific UK seller..... Contrary to many purists, MAME cabinets are in high demand - particularly in the UK, where many originals did not survive the dead arcade period of the last 15 years keeping prices of originals too high. My advice is to bung it on ebay. I'm the biggest seller of arcades on ebay UK, and even though I only list on there periodically, demand is always huge. UK buyers love MAME cabs, but only quality ones at reasonable prices. Most machines on there are £200 piles of crap, lame conversions or £2000 rip-offs. I imagine yours will be snapped up quickly, particularly this time of year when people are buying for games rooms and summer houses. If I have one critique I'd sayswap the monitor for a larger 19" or 21" CRT, as they are relatively inexpensive and will boost the overall look. I'd be surprised to see it go for less than £800 if listed correctly and promoted properly, but be careful of ebay/paypal fees and avoid mentioning any inclusion of roms unless you want to get booted. Good luck with the sale and love the cabinet. If you do consider splitting, I'd like to purchase the mini-wheel and turbotwist to experiment with. --- End quote --- |
| ark_ader:
--- Quote from: Turnarcades on May 20, 2008, 07:27:02 pm ---I'll give you a more balanced perspective from a prolific UK seller..... Contrary to many purists, MAME cabinets are in high demand - particularly in the UK, where many originals did not survive the dead arcade period of the last 15 years keeping prices of originals too high. My advice is to bung it on ebay. I'm the biggest seller of arcades on ebay UK, and even though I only list on there periodically, demand is always huge. UK buyers love MAME cabs, but only quality ones at reasonable prices. Most machines on there are £200 piles of crap, lame conversions or £2000 rip-offs. I imagine yours will be snapped up quickly, particularly this time of year when people are buying for games rooms and summer houses. If I have one critique I'd sayswap the monitor for a larger 19" or 21" CRT, as they are relatively inexpensive and will boost the overall look. I'd be surprised to see it go for less than £800 if listed correctly and promoted properly, but be careful of ebay/paypal fees and avoid mentioning any inclusion of roms unless you want to get booted. Good luck with the sale and love the cabinet. If you do consider splitting, I'd like to purchase the mini-wheel and turbotwist to experiment with. --- End quote --- And where did you get that information to make that statement? Pubs & Clubs are buying arcade machines, but the general market for the average punter is dead. Go look on ebay. I know of arcades just smashing up cabs to get rid. I have said the same thing time and time again and again, there is no place to put a large cabinet in a small UK house. Sure if you live down south in a 900K dwelling with upteenth rooms, but in a normal semi you would be pushed to get it through the door. Bartops yes. Full size? :laugh2: I'm all for self promotion, but lets keep it factual and not fiction. |
| Franco B:
--- Quote from: ark_ader on May 22, 2008, 05:50:37 am ---I have said the same thing time and time again and again, there is no place to put a large cabinet in a small UK house. Sure if you live down south in a 900K dwelling with upteenth rooms, but in a normal semi you would be pushed to get it through the door. --- End quote --- You dont need a 900k house to fit a full size cab in. Ive had my full size cab in bungalow, semi and detached with no problems. At the end of the day if you want a cab you will make space for one. I know a few people with small apartments that have cabs. Also Im sure when pboreham designed the cab he did so that it would fit through a standard door, as most people do. |
| Turnarcades:
Ditto Franco. I've had this conversation before, which is why all Turnarcades cabinets are designed to fit through UK doorways without trouble anyway. pborehams is a slimline model with a flat panel monitor, and he's already assured me that he designed his with that same thing in mind. I live in a very modest 2-bed semi, and recently I've found room to line up 4 full-size machines in my small dining room whilst I do some programming. If we're talking facts, my sales would certainly show more people than ever are finding space for arcade machines in their homes. And if we're talking ebay, no-one watches it as close as I do as I have to monitor the competition. Some people struggle to see beyond their own circumstances wheras when you do a bit of research and have the sales figures and buyer feedback to back things up you see the reality. Previously I wouldn't have said people have the floorspace in their house for a cocktail cabinet, and I can certainly say enquiries to us about cocktail machines are few and far between, but I know we don't have as much experience (and personally me and my friends dislike them) but on looking elsewhere on ebay I acknowledge that cocktails are big sellers so demand must be big. For the record, I tried marketing various different models of bar-top a long time ago but UK sales were very low and the profit margins were too small to justify them as the flagship of our business. When I asked potential buyers why they were put off, it was always "It's not the same as the real thing, so I'd rather go for a full-size". With our 'Master' design (and the generic JAMMA cabinets it was modelled on) having an average floor space of 2 foot square, it's not really pushing it to find space. 8) |
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