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Strangest thing you've seen at a prize counter
Flip_Willie:
One time at a local skating rink, my friends and I saved 4000+ tickets just to find out that the skating rink didn't actually have the prize that we had been saving for. It was a piece of junk anyway, but it was still pretty low for them to deny it to us. They could have at least given us the display item.
Just as it is,
Flip Willie
ErikRuud:
Several years ago, we were at Dave & Busters. My mother-in-law had bought each of the kids a bunch of tokens. I was going around with my 6 year old daughter letting her choose which games she wanted to play.
I forget now what machine it was, but she played some game and won like twenty tickets, but nothing comes out. We found somebody to check the machine and he found that it was empty. He reloads it with a full block of tickets and walks away. It starts spitting out tickets. When it didn't stop at twenty tickets I assumed it was still trying to give out the remainder of the prize from when it ran out before we got there. So we stand there and the machine keeps on spitting out tickets. The thing did not stop until it had spit out the entire block of tickets!
I don't remember what the final count was, but we got decent sized stuffed animals for both of the kids and some other things.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: ahofle on September 12, 2007, 04:39:20 pm ---I always find it amusing when they stamp your hand and your kid's hand when you go in to prevent someone from kidnapping your child (presumably). I have yet to see anyone at the front door checking stamps on the way out (I usually have to just walk out under the rope barricade because no one shows up).
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They do check the kids at this Chuck E Cheese... but really, what they need to do is stop the parents from leaving without the kids.
bluevolume:
--- Quote from: ErikRuud on September 13, 2007, 11:34:25 am ---Several years ago, we were at Dave & Busters. My mother-in-law had bought each of the kids a bunch of tokens. I was going around with my 6 year old daughter letting her choose which games she wanted to play.
I forget now what machine it was, but she played some game and won like twenty tickets, but nothing comes out. We found somebody to check the machine and he found that it was empty. He reloads it with a full block of tickets and walks away. It starts spitting out tickets. When it didn't stop at twenty tickets I assumed it was still trying to give out the remainder of the prize from when it ran out before we got there. So we stand there and the machine keeps on spitting out tickets. The thing did not stop until it had spit out the entire block of tickets!
I don't remember what the final count was, but we got decent sized stuffed animals for both of the kids and some other things.
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I wonder what you're kids will think when they are old enough to use an ATM.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on September 12, 2007, 03:51:17 pm ---Meh, I've climbed into the skeeball machine and tripped the switch in the 100 point hole manually hundreds and times and emptied a machine out.
An alarm will go off everytime you cross 900 points (which is the theoretical maximum) but you can keep going. Hopefully, hopefully, the newer machines will shut off at some threshold, but these were newish early 90s machines! =0
When I was younger, I used to tug ever so carefully on tickets as they were dispensed and you could occasionally get the dispenser to slip up and feed more or just keep feeding. You couldn't go forever, you had to maintain a certain amount of force, but you could sometimes get an extra couple of feet of tickets.
I've even scammed those card reader things that spit out receipts. Sometimes you get lucky and it'll grab the card wrong and the stupid things will malfunction and ADD tickets to your card. There was a trick one at a Mr Gatti's that you could scam for 81 tickets a swipe if you did it right. :D Always good for an armload of prizes.
I never felt too bad about it... a Tilt manager told me once that they priced things at basically 2 tickets for 1 cent. So 400 tickets to buy a $2 item.
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--- Quote from: pinballjim on September 13, 2007, 12:09:19 pm ---That's awesome that you're teaching your kids how to steal.
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