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Ikari Warriors rotary sticks, or buy new ones, for MAME cabinet
clhug:
My only concern with selling the cab is that I bought it for $10 at a regular auction that gets a lot of local collectors, and obviously nobody there wanted it at that time. I'm a bit afraid that if I take it back to that auction, nobody will want it again and I'll end up paying the auctioneer fee to just bring it right back home.
I suppose I could try to sell on ebay, but I've got no idea how I'd ship a whole cabinet. I'm not a big collector myself so I've never dealt with selling something like this before. (I've bought a few functioning games at that same auction in addition to building my MAME cabinet, but never sold anything.)
Plus I can't be sure the game board actually works. I hear noises, but I have no way to verify. I don't want to give somebody false hope that all they have to do is replace the monitor and have a working game, or get them mad at me because I say the board works and they get it and turns out it doesn't.
Any advice on how to sell it would be appreciated.
clhug:
Side note, I just rechecked the cabinet and it's not an Ikari Warriors. It's a Time Soldiers.
paigeoliver:
--- Quote from: clhug on July 16, 2014, 09:58:53 pm ---My only concern with selling the cab is that I bought it for $10 at a regular auction that gets a lot of local collectors, and obviously nobody there wanted it at that time. I'm a bit afraid that if I take it back to that auction, nobody will want it again and I'll end up paying the auctioneer fee to just bring it right back home.
I suppose I could try to sell on ebay, but I've got no idea how I'd ship a whole cabinet. I'm not a big collector myself so I've never dealt with selling something like this before. (I've bought a few functioning games at that same auction in addition to building my MAME cabinet, but never sold anything.)
Plus I can't be sure the game board actually works. I hear noises, but I have no way to verify. I don't want to give somebody false hope that all they have to do is replace the monitor and have a working game, or get them mad at me because I say the board works and they get it and turns out it doesn't.
Any advice on how to sell it would be appreciated.
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Auctions are weird. A lot of auction prices are more based on how much room people have on their trucks then it is on real market value.
List it on Craigslist. As is, seems to be playing blind. $125. Real game collectors buy most of their games broken, it really isn't a big deal. Also, you don't replace monitors you repair them (19" crt monitors went out of production 2006ish).
paigeoliver:
Also, post a picture of what you have, it will help quite a bit.
I have a Time Soldiers in my gameroom.
clhug:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on July 16, 2014, 10:14:39 pm ---Also, you don't replace monitors you repair them (19" crt monitors went out of production 2006ish).
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Tell me about it. I've got an Arkanoid II that I know does work that the monitor died on that I want to repair, only I'm not knowledgeable enough to troubleshoot it myself. Got another thread on that too.
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