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Yenome:

--- Quote from: Jack Burton on November 28, 2012, 03:09:56 pm ---It's crazy if you're not finding anything on craigslist.  Here (ky), I can find a machine any hour of the day for around $150 or less.  There's several on the Lexington craigslist right now , including a TRON!

BTW: if you're anywhere near 42539 I'll give you a Super Chase HQ or Rampage cabinet.

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im in nc and there is never anything worth it for 150. seems everyone around here doesnt understand that most of them aint worth what they want. i dont see a mk2 worth 5-600 specially when its not in a dedicated cab.

Jack Burton:
20 minutes of searching on the North Carolina Craiglist revealed this very MAMEable cab for $25



Don't give up!

Yenome:
So it seems my way of searching wasnt crazy after all. I have found a guy who owns several laundrymats in town and he is gonna give me a cabinet. he also has more he will be interested in selling. they have of course been in laundry mats so the cab is not in the best shape but games work and monitors do too. so ill see what he has and make a list and condition for people if there is any interest.

paigeoliver:
Well glad you scored one. In the 6 weeks since you originally posted your topic I picked up a Demo Derby 4 player cocktail, a Space Firebird cocktail, a Namco Exceleena 29" Candy, 4 19" monitors, a Defender control panel, a Joust control panel, a Golden Axe PCB and a Ms. Pac upright. All were smokin' deals and none of them involved me chasing down laundrymat owners or game operators. Not trying to be insulting, it is just that method is not a high yield method, the success rate will never be all that good.

Oddly enough, also picked up 6 games from a former laundymat with a friend of mine a few weeks ago, and they had put old 70s style dryer timer coin mechs on half the machines. These were from a craigslist ad though, we had no idea they were former laundrymat games until we were halfway loaded (the laundrymat itself had closed up in the early 90s). It ended up being a real turd of a pickup. The machines were in horrible shape and the Omega race that drew us out there in the first place turned out to have been converted to run a nes, but then half gutted afterwards (as was the dedicated Rockola cabinet), the Zaxxon was missing the marquee, Red Alert turned out to be a Hong Kong bootleg and everything had varying levels of water damage down low. I was glad I didn't take a chunk of that deal.

What did you end up getting anyway?


--- Quote from: Yenome on December 15, 2012, 03:03:56 am ---So it seems my way of searching wasnt crazy after all. I have found a guy who owns several laundrymats in town and he is gonna give me a cabinet. he also has more he will be interested in selling. they have of course been in laundry mats so the cab is not in the best shape but games work and monitors do too. so ill see what he has and make a list and condition for people if there is any interest.

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jennifer:
     Jennifer just smiles...Good for you! :applaud:

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