GunSmoke Guy
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Craigs list nightmare turns into "Let's Play $100.00 Cab !"
An ad was posted on craigs list in New Haven CT ( http://newhaven.craigslist.org/for/1364055369.html ), which was a complete waste of time!!! The person listed a Ghost N' Goblins Cabinet, A Missile Command and claimed to have boxes of PCB's "50" to be exact. Turns out it was just a massive pile of garbage. No Ghosts N' Goblins, No Missile Command..instead it was a poor condition double dragon with a junky monitor / no bezel etc. The other games were said to be working which were not! It was a garage filled with complete crap, and the seller wouldn't budge 50.00 to have us take some of his broken crap away.
To make a long story short on the way home we decided to call local craigs list ads to see if we can snatch some cheap cabinets for $100.00 ea. ... The name of this game was "Let's Play $100.00 cab!". After getting many negative responses, in addition to some crazy person wanted $2,000.00 for a multi super-pac, we ended up calling some dude that posted a Galaxian, and Defender for 600.00 for the pair. We told him we had a trailer and were ready to pick up both cabinets for 200.00, he said yes! We were pretty shocked after he said yes so we ended up going to at least check em out, being that we already had the trailer.
The Defender was not working but seemed whole (all boards / parts etc), and the Galaxian worked to a degree (was looping back to the first board), but had Galaga glass, and Galaga 88' side art. We offered 100.00 for both.. the guy thought about it and then said 150.00 for boh, so we ended up taking both machines for $150.00. The day was long and rather took an unexpected turn.. but it was a fun trip.
An ad was posted on craigs list in New Haven CT ( http://newhaven.craigslist.org/for/1364055369.html ), which was a complete waste of time!!! The person listed a Ghost N' Goblins Cabinet, A Missile Command and claimed to have boxes of PCB's "50" to be exact. Turns out it was just a massive pile of garbage. No Ghosts N' Goblins, No Missile Command..instead it was a poor condition double dragon with a junky monitor / no bezel etc. The other games were said to be working which were not! It was a garage filled with complete crap, and the seller wouldn't budge 50.00 to have us take some of his broken crap away.
To make a long story short on the way home we decided to call local craigs list ads to see if we can snatch some cheap cabinets for $100.00 ea. ... The name of this game was "Let's Play $100.00 cab!". After getting many negative responses, in addition to some crazy person wanted $2,000.00 for a multi super-pac, we ended up calling some dude that posted a Galaxian, and Defender for 600.00 for the pair. We told him we had a trailer and were ready to pick up both cabinets for 200.00, he said yes! We were pretty shocked after he said yes so we ended up going to at least check em out, being that we already had the trailer.
The Defender was not working but seemed whole (all boards / parts etc), and the Galaxian worked to a degree (was looping back to the first board), but had Galaga glass, and Galaga 88' side art. We offered 100.00 for both.. the guy thought about it and then said 150.00 for boh, so we ended up taking both machines for $150.00. The day was long and rather took an unexpected turn.. but it was a fun trip.
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