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Will:
I have to endorse craigslist.org as a great place for finding arcade games and cabinets.Since I bought my cabinet off there I have seen a few more gems for sale.You just have to check it daily and you may get lucky..

RayB:
Maybe it's my fault he cameout of lurker mode. I PM'd him last night.

 ;D

Gunstar Hero:
Poor general arcade hobbists.  :(

It must eat them up that MAME is both keeping the hobby alive AND killing their resale values...

Talk about a catch-22.  :P

Honestly, everyone I know who collects arcade games is super cool, but tends to take things way too seriously.

C'mon guys, our hobby is VIDEO GAMES. Lets not be too damn "serious" about it!

The two best tips I just read were...

#7. Be sure and have enough straps with you to tie down whatever you buy. (Really only matters if buying more than one game).

#8. Have fun!

Amen to that.  :)

Apollo:
And another tip for those that don't live in countries that have arcade auctions.
Go and visit your local arcade, tell them you have a game you need to get fixed and can you have the number of their cab maintenance guy. Call the guy and tell him what you want. They always seem to have old cabs, PCB's, NeoGeo carts lying around. You can get some good deals.

slycrel:
Good post Paige.

My $0.02, This goes both ways as well.  At least in Utah where I am.  About a year ago I was looking around hard for a stripped cab for my first mame machine.  There aren't a ton of vendors swarming the area, so I didn't have a lot of places to choose from.  I made no less than TWO appointments with the local "professional".  I was stood up twice in a row, once meeting him at his warehouse, once meeting him at his office.  I finally found a guy who had a small route via the thrifty nickel want ads who was happy to help me get a cab.  In talking with him, it's a very tight industry around here and difficult to get your own arcade machine route.  Even he was suspicous of me once I said that it was a vague possibility of me placing a few machines locally in the future.  (He also misled me in regards to a tip about 3 pinball machines at $300 a piece locally.  Knowing what I do now, he has at least tripled his $$ on those particular machines, even just reselling them.  He told me it wasn't worth it.)  Anyhow, point is...  it took a LOT of hard work on my end just to get someone to take me seriously.  It goes both ways.  Respect other people, I guess, would be the moral of the story...  =)

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