Are multi-cade's easy to sell???

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I have an old op wolf cab, with monitor and power supply in it. I was thinking about building a multicade because I have all the parts I need already except the jamma board. Likely I would play it for awhile then try to sell it for around 400-500$. My question is are these easy to get rid of when you tire of them ? I am really into pinballs, and will be moving soon so the less stuff I have the better. Any input is recomended


take it what its worth, but Todd from TNT told me awhile ago that multi-cades are the only things selling these days, hope he is right.
 
easy depends on location and how good the game looks IMO.

I have done a few of them, and I don't spare expense. I get the trackball, switchable 4/8 way joystick and 3 buttons. I repair the cab, sand it, paint it, and put art and a new multicade marquee on it. One time I had a ms pac style cab that was converted to jamma golf of some type. I bought a new multicade bezel from arcadeshop.com as well.

so I put 3-4 hundo into it, (and 20-30 hours) and play it for a bit and try to get $600-$800 out of it.

If you take a sky shark, and just drop a 60 in 1 pcb in there without doing anything else, you can get $300-$550 maybe.
 
If you're planning on making a 60-in-1 out of an Operation Wolf cab...don't expect to sell it. LOL. Sorry, I had to say it. Not a great choice for a cab, as it will turn off lots of potential Johns out there who are looking for a cabinet more representative of a classic.
 
About 2 yrs ago they sold like hell, now I see them for sale less and less and go for less

Agreed. The local multicade builder in my metro has been trying to move the same couple machines since about Christmastime, and his are probably some of the "nicer" in the biz. I think more and more people (even the laymen) are realizing how useless, cheap and empty multi's are, and opt to buy real games instead. Can't say I see the same reasonably-priced classics listed unsold over and over again :p
 
Sometime I just build cheap multi games just for trading material. We all know the market for arcade games in general are on a down slope. Turning a rough game into something thats is a wow is possible but it hard to get what you invest back out. I would make More money flipping burgers than repairing and restoring games.
 
Multi's still sell. You just have to space them out, make them look good, and price them appropriately.

And yeah, and Op Wolf cab isn't the easiest - nor the best - choice for this....
 
check out this thread :

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=64e770239e277b95d9f8358e3d6d0ef3&topic=104083.40

The op wolf cab can be cut down to look pretty good. I just dont know if its worth all the time and effort to maybe make 200$ at most.

Why not chop your Bram Stoker's Dracula in half and turn that into a multi-cade? Or two mini visual Pinball units? Or a multi-cade and a freakish cocktail table? Or a soapbox racer?

If you bought the Operation Wolf for what you feel was too much, bite the bullet and learn from it. Sell it for whatever you can get and move on. Drop the weird obsession with having to make a profit in something you're supposed to be enjoying.

Or screw it, chop it up. It's your machine, not mine.
 
OW is a mirror cab. Why don't you cut the top off of it and turn it into a cocktail cab?
Take ridiculousness all the way!!!!
 
take it what its worth, but Todd from TNT told me awhile ago that multi-cades are the only things selling these days, hope he is right.
Todd is correct, once you are outside the collecting community, the average Joe would rather have a 60 in 1 instead of just a Pac, DK, etc. Of course this market has been saturated for years now so the money to be made is down to the minimal point.
 
Geez, I was only askin a question to those who I thought would know the market a bit more than me. I bought the op wolf for 80 bucks, made the 80 back gutting it and selling the parts. So now I want to do something with an empty cab and 19" monitor. I would preferably like it to not be a total waste of time . Playing arcade games on a big oversized cab is not that important to me as I can play MAME on the computer. So If I could get rid of the elephant in the room, provide a game to someone, and make a buck for my effort whats wrong with that ? Its better than watchin the damn thing burn.


Why not chop your Bram Stoker's Dracula in half and turn that into a multi-cade? Or two mini visual Pinball units? Or a multi-cade and a freakish cocktail table? Or a soapbox racer?

If you bought the Operation Wolf for what you feel was too much, bite the bullet and learn from it. Sell it for whatever you can get and move on. Drop the weird obsession with having to make a profit in something you're supposed to be enjoying.

Or screw it, chop it up. It's your machine, not mine.
 
Geez, I was only askin a question to those who I thought would know the market a bit more than me. I bought the op wolf for 80 bucks, made the 80 back gutting it and selling the parts. So now I want to do something with an empty cab and 19" monitor. I would preferably like it to not be a total waste of time . Playing arcade games on a big oversized cab is not that important to me as I can play MAME on the computer. So If I could get rid of the elephant in the room, provide a game to someone, and make a buck for my effort whats wrong with that ? Its better than watchin the damn thing burn.

My first recommendation, since you gutted all the stuff out of it already (making it a non-loss), is to offer the cab for free or next to nothing for a local guy.
 
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