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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: myntik1 on October 01, 2006, 05:52:29 pm
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My soon to be brother-in-law calls me and tells me he found 2 cocktail games on craigslist. One is a knockoff of asteriods and the other is a knock off of space invaders. So we drive 3 1/2 hours each way to find out the guy misrepresented the games. 1 was a horrendous knockoff of Galaxian. I love Galaxian, but this game was so bad it broke my heart thinking someone bought this pos. The other game was even worse. It was some space game with a graphics glitch. Or maybe kids in 1981 wanted to shoot at space ships that were a collection of p's. Yes a big grouping of the letter p that sort of formed a ball. The guy tried to pass this off as how it was supposed to look. I tried to find a silver lining and offered to take the games off him at a much reduced price - 350 for both. I'm fine with not taking the offer but he tried giving me some story that he paid 3500 a piece for these in 1981.
Has anyone else wasted a day driving to find out that someone misrepresented their goods?
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Sorry to hear about your day ... as I sit trying to buy a couple of machines sight unseen (albeit with a much lower price tag than you were looking at).
Definitely need to get pics before driving.
Cheers.
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What were the games names??
I had a guy inform me of a graphics glitch in a color sideart Tapper I'd driven 2 hours to get. He was pretty much "take it or leave it" once I was there. I took it.
Rick with a P he was. . .
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the seller was an older guy, he said he didn't have a digital camera or a camera phone. If we wanted to wait a month he could have his son or his grandson take a pic to send me. So we flew blind out there and paid the price.