Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: dweebs0r on March 01, 2008, 09:48:51 pm
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Ebay Link - not mine (http://cgi.ebay.com/GOLDEN-TEE-98-ARCADE-GAME-HOME-USE-SMALL-FOOTPRINT-NR_W0QQitemZ170196580149QQihZ007QQcategoryZ13716QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)
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?
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Not worth $100 to me.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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
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I think it's worth $100, especially if the trackball is in good shape and the bill validator works.
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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.
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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.
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the trackball is work $80 alone
The trackball is worth $80? That must be a helluva trackball.
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Bidding has ended anyway, so what's the point in discussing?
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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.
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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
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Sounds like he is going to lose even more money on it in the end.
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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.