In the car world if someone recreates a part and the buyer puts that part on a car as sells it as "numbers matching" he has committed fraud. At least the guy selling gives people a heads up that a video game is not 100% original.
He could be trying to pull the calming the board didn't work and sends you back a broken board trick. Guy seems pretty butt hurt over 75 bucks. This should not be his hobby.
I don't understand the no reserve thing. All the car auction operators have that system in place, Are the video auction house operators too lazy, stupid, cheap to get a bidding system that allows setting a reserve? The auction house is going to make well over 100,000 dollars net profit on...
Put it on E-Bay. There was a guy on here recently that had a board for sale for like 1100 dollars. Lots of members told him he was greedy, a crook it would never sell. He put it on ebay and got his price. Ask for 400 starting and see what happens.
Not a pretty cabinet, but the Dynamo Big Boy HS-4 has a front accessed drawer that the board sits in. Makes it easy to swap out boards. Dynamo HS-2 also has the slide out drawer.
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