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Do any of you actually make any real money from this hobby?

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CoryBee:
I have made some decent moneys from making Bartops. Has been fun, I love to build things and this feels much more real than designing\soldering up circuits\PCBs. My normal work moneys has been untouched by this as I keep the costs down in producing them and almost always get a deposit from people before building them. I already have a few to do when I return to the "Good ol' USofA". One slab of MDF costs about $30 in Sacramento, cheaper if my friend is working and can hook me up with a 20% - 40% discount. Can make 4 bartops with this, 3 of them if they are all 2-player ones.

 :cheers:

HaRuMaN:
My controller hacks pay for my arcade / console gaming habit.

Paul Olson:
The MAME part of my hobby is a complete money pit. I think I have probably broke even on the dedicated games I have sold over the years (around 50 of them now), but if I sold the ones I have now, I probably wouldn't maintain that. I only bought really cheap games until 2011, so it was pretty easy to sell them for what I paid.

I briefly thought about selling games and doing repairs for a living, but by the time I had bought and sold two games for the sole purpose of making money, I already hated it. It is way more fun to just through money at a hobby.

Le Chuck:
I've made money with pinball and some with spare part sales on the arcade side.  It's never been a goal and those funds have always been dumped right back into the hobby.  I'm definitely at a net loss financially but a net gain on the happiness quotient. 

kahlid74:
I don't make any money but I also spend like an open fire-hose.

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