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Main => Buy/Sell/Trade - non-retail => Topic started by: 1UP on April 01, 2003, 06:35:56 pm
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Well, I'm sad to say the time has finally come. I've fallen on hard times and must let my cab go. Given the interest shown in my cab, I'm sure it won't be hard to find a buyer, but I doubt I'll be able to get back anywhere near the money I've put into it (in the thousands... :'( ) I only have one week to take bids, so please, any interested parties MUST email me with your offers by the end of the week. The winning bid will be handled thru PayPal, so you'll need an account with them.
It's truly a sad day, but I have no choice unless some incredible news comes in the mail today...Thanks
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Sorry to sound sinicle, but considering the day, I have to make sure, this is not an april fools?
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I've gotta find *some* way to pay taxes and pay my accountant... :'(
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I hope this is a APRIL FOOLS JOKE and if it it is haha, if it isn't I hope you find a buyer.
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If this is for real it would truly be a shame both for 1UP and for me. It'd be a shame for him to lose it and it'd be a shame that I can't buy it. I haven't begun construction on my project yet (planning to get the wood on Friday and start Saturday). I'm basing mine on 1UP's plans. I would buy his in a heartbeat, though, if I hadn't already spent so much on mine. I'm already into mine over $800 in materials. Not only do I have no need for two cabinets, my wife would destroy me if I even considered it. I have little hope of having an end-product aproaching the quality of 1UP's cab even though I am basing mine on his plans rather than starting from scratch as he did. So, essentially, I would love to be the buyer, but it's too late for me by about a month and a half (about the time I started acquiring materials).
On the other hand I believe this is an April Fool's joke, so it's really neither here nor there.
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Hey, this is no joke! I'm really in a mess with taxes this year!! >:(
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what's the email address then? For the $$ you'd get for that cab you're better off getting a small personal loan....
I Too find this very hard to believe, but if it's true I am terribly sorry. :(
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If it's no joke, that's terrible. Especially for you since you deserve the cab more than anyone and secondly for me since I deserve it the second most :P .
You'll have to excuse me if I won't believe it until tomorrow, though. I can't help it if it's April 1st. ;)
If someone wants to buy a couple of perfect 360's, two mechanical rotary sticks, a druin interface, two top fire sticks, a 3" Happ High-Ball Trackball with mounting kit, about 45 buttons (mostly black), a 27" monitor bezel, an Over/Under coindoor with blue replacement reject buttons, Marquee retainers, cab wheels and locks (keyed the same as the coindoor), all the parts to make one of those LED interfaces from Oscars plans, and a ton of other stuff that one would need to build one hell of an arcade cabinet from me then I would definitely buy yours from you. If it were for sale, that is. Which it's not :P
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he did say he'll take offers till the end of the week, which is well past april 1rst.
what kind of funds are you hoping to get for it?
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he did say he'll take offers till the end of the week, which is well past april 1rst.
what kind of funds are you hoping to get for it?
"If you need to ask you can't afford it".. J/K! Dunno why that line popped into my head.. :)
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Wow...does that suck! I wish I could buy it off you then let you have it back for the same price when you get back ahead with your finances. Nobody should have to sell their child to pay the government :P
You work in broadcast design right? If you can tape-op (digibeta support to an inferno/Henry) and can do basic gfx support on a Mac (Photoshop for video square to D1 pixel aspect ratio conversion, etc.) I may be able to line up a short term freelance position for you in the LA-Santa Monica area. Probably $250-300/day. If that'd help.
*tosses 1up a bone* ;)
I just can't believe it'd be worth it to let your masterpiece go.
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you are not serious.... :o :o :o :o
selling your cab ?!?!?!?!!....
this has to be April Fool......
:o :o :o :o :o
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sorry to jump in like that again....
once upon a time, I also owe a lot of taxes....
so... what I did is changed my accountant....
(to one who files taxes more aggresively....)
now... make sure... its just more aggressive...
but not lying..... which will get you in trouble later...
and let me say... it makes thousands of differences....
maybe you should try that....
hope it helps....
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I really hope you're joking with us on April fool....
good luck....
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This would be the most evil and vile April fools joke ever! If this is true (which I doubt) then I am so, SOOO, SOOOO sorry for this man. Your cab is hands down the best MAME cab. If it is for sale I may be attempting to steal my parents cars and sell them on the black market to *almost* give you what that cab is worth. Hmmmm... do they let you bring MAME cabs to prison? ... I'm leaning toward no..
If this is true (which I SERIOSLY doubt) Than I'm sorry and good luck man.
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I've put together a FAQ that describes all the cab's features for those interested... HERE (http://www.1uparcade.com/images/CPfools.gif)
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I've put together a FAQ that describes all the cab's features for those interested... HERE (http://www.1uparcade.com/images/CPfools.gif)
OMG that FAQ is complete! Might as well publish it as a book. 8)
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well obviosly!
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(http://www.1uparcade.com/images/CPfools.gif)
Sorry bout that, I couldn't resist! I never usually do april fools, so I thought it might be interesting. Plus, I wanted to see what my cab was worth, but no one really sent an offer... :P Serves me right I guess.
I probably should sell it though, I do owe a LOT on taxes, but I'd have to be a week from living on the street before I'd give this baby up! ;D And everyone knows that, which is probably why no one really fell for it... (Dammit SirPoonga! Ya called me out!)
Sorry if I got anyone's hopes up, but it's just a little harmless fun. I'm usually the one who gets faked out all the time...I'm so gullible... :-\
P.S. Thanks for the support, advice, and even job offers! Truly appreciated. I really don't deserve your kindness after such a cheap prank... :'(
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You gotta like me moving it to make it more realistic ;)
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Yeah, my first tip that it wasn't real was that it was posted in the wrong forum. This isn't something that a regular like 1up would do under normal circumstances.
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Yeah, my first tip that it wasn't real was that it was posted in the wrong forum. This isn't something that a regular like 1up would do under normal circumstances.
Actually, I'm extremely lazy and would very likely post it in the main forum to get more exposure before an admin notices...heheh!
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ya know, 'hate' is a reallly strong word....
;)
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well.... I feel better knowing that its just april fool.....
:)
but deep deep deep deep down inside... I feel a little sad cos I missed a chance to buy the MOST AMAZING cab ever.... ever....
anyway.... I don't think I live close enough to buy anyway....
but seriously... if you do owe taxes.... maybe its time you check out other accountants....
good luck....
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[quote author=1UP link=board=2;threadid=6185;start=0#42751
Sorry bout that, I couldn't resist! I never usually do april fools, so I thought it might be interesting. Plus, I wanted to see what my cab was worth, but no one really sent an offer... :P Serves me right I guess.
I probably should sell it though, I do owe a LOT on taxes, but I'd have to be a week from living on the street before I'd give this baby up! ;D And everyone knows that, which is probably why no one really fell for it... (Dammit SirPoonga! Ya called me out!)
Sorry if I got anyone's hopes up, but it's just a little harmless fun. I'm usually the one who gets faked out all the time...I'm so gullible... :-\
P.S. Thanks for the support, advice, and even job offers! Truly appreciated. I really don't deserve your kindness after such a cheap prank... :'(
booooooo! hisssssssss! playing on our feelings like that, that's not right =P
There's a few things you don't joke about, and 1up's cab is one of 'em...
(i'm kidding of course)
Rampy
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I guess I'll stop counting the pennies in my piggy bank now ....
MM
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Sorry bout that, I couldn't resist! I never usually do april fools, so I thought it might be interesting. Plus, I wanted to see what my cab was worth, but no one really sent an offer... :P Serves me right I guess.
Nobody sent you an offer because they didn't want to offend you! I don't think anyone really knows where to start the bidding for a sweet piece of hardware like that. If I were a ---tallywhacker---, I would have offered $20 and asked you to deliver it to me. :P But seeing as how most people here are very nice, nobody wanted to insult you.
J_K_M_A_N
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I would have offered $1500. It's clearly worth far more than that, but that's the best I would have been able to do. Obviously I would not have been the new owner of the cab even if it really were for sale.
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Yeah, my first tip that it wasn't real was that it was posted in the wrong forum. This isn't something that a regular like 1up would do under normal circumstances.
Actually, I'm extremely lazy and would very likely post it in the main forum to get more exposure before an admin notices...heheh!
That's why I left the move tag thread in the main forum:)
I figured if you were in money trouble you would have tried to find a way to borrow money over selling that cab ;)
Now, I have to go do some programming in whitespace, that langauge /. noted about yesterday.
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Sorry bout that, I couldn't resist! I never usually do april fools, so I thought it might be interesting. Plus, I wanted to see what my cab was worth, but no one really sent an offer... :P Serves me right I guess.
Nobody sent you an offer because they didn't want to offend you! I don't think anyone really knows where to start the bidding for a sweet piece of hardware like that. If I were a ---tallywhacker---, I would have offered $20 and asked you to deliver it to me. :P But seeing as how most people here are very nice, nobody wanted to insult you.
J_K_M_A_N
Dead on why I didn't make an offer.
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Damn! It was a joke? I was prepared to offer you $50 for it. :P
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Damn! It was a joke? I was prepared to offer you $50 for it. :P
You're lucky you didn't! I was going to bid a half eaten sucker, a dog eared 8 X 10 of Billy Mitchel (autographed) and some belly button lint!
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You're lucky you didn't! I was going to bid a half eaten sucker, a dog eared 8 X 10 of Billy Mitchel (autographed) and some belly button lint!
UH...wow!
Now that i think of it i could have offered to swap for my collection of Garbage Pale Kids trading cards, a few odd Now & Later candies, and perhaps my kick ass digital watch with the built in calculator and maze game! TOTALLY AWESOME!!! 8)
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Upping the ante huh?
Ok, I'm throwing in my Loni Anderson poster, and a Galaxians hand held!
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Upping the ante huh?
Ok, I'm throwing in my Loni Anderson poster, and a Galaxians hand held!
Dude, that's dirty pool.
Although I always liked Bailey more than Jennifer...
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Upping the ante huh?
Ok, I'm throwing in my Loni Anderson poster, and a Galaxians hand held!
I have a few of those tabletop games. I know what my Vectrix is worth, but I wonder what the tabletop Galaxian ect. are worth?
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Upping the ante huh?
Ok, I'm throwing in my Loni Anderson poster, and a Galaxians hand held!
I have a few of those tabletop games. I know what my Vectrix is worth, but I wonder what the tabletop Galaxian ect. are worth?
On ebay, you can get them for about $50.
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Upping the ante huh?
Ok, I'm throwing in my Loni Anderson poster, and a Galaxians hand held!
I have a few of those tabletop games. I know what my Vectrix is worth, but I wonder what the tabletop Galaxian ect. are worth?
On ebay, you can get them for about $50.
Or here it's worth 1UP's cabinet!
Right?
Um, Hello?
;D