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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: leapinlew on February 24, 2006, 05:59:00 pm
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I must be missing something.
Imagine I ran an arcade - whats the point of using tokens? Seems to me you could potentially lose money making people use tokens.
Someone clue me in.
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If your machines are filled with tokens instead of quarters, then you don't have punks breaking into your games to get money.
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Assume as vendor your cost is $.07 cents per token and someone pays you $.25 cents for it. You just made $.18 cents. If the kid never plays the game you got $.18 cents and somebody else didn't have to wait for it. If they brought in $5 worth of quarters they might or might not spend all of them. If they had to change a $5 bill for tokens, then you get all their $5 when you might not have before. If they don't spend all the tokens that day, then they will probably want to come back to use the left-over tokens and then they will probably buy more at that point.
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So... tokens were cheap? For some reason - I was under the impression they cost a bit more. So... are you saying back in the 80's I could've bought tokens for pennies on the quarter?
I suppose they come in different sizes and what not...
Makes sense - thanks
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You would have had to buy several thousand to make it cost-effective.
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plus they are shiney......
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I think the idea behind it is that people spend x amount of cash to buy tokens. Whether or not they use them all it doesnt matter to you, you already collected their money. If they bring in 5 bucks of quarters, you wont have gotten all their money unless they get addicted to the Simpsons or something :P
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Weren't they also used to change pricing? I think I remember getting 25/$5 (rather than 20) at some arcades, and at the crappy ones something like 3 tokens / $1 to get more money per credit.
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Weren't they also used to change pricing? I think I remember getting 25/$5 (rather than 20) at some arcades, and at the crappy ones something like 3 tokens / $1 to get more money per credit.
I used to save all my money, and hit the arcade on "Super Tuesday", or whatever they called it.
They sold tokens at 10/$1 that day only, to try to get more business.
I'd buy whatever I could afford then, and spend them throughout the week.
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Weren't they also used to change pricing? I think I remember getting 25/$5 (rather than 20) at some arcades, and at the crappy ones something like 3 tokens / $1 to get more money per credit.
yeah many places used that as a gimock to get you to their arcade...
tokens 25 cents each
5 for $1.00
you thing your getting a deal your happy.. Your spending your money at the guys arcade... he's happy