Do you tag your cabs?

tigerstyle

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I've started doing that recently..I write on the inside with a marquer the date of purchase, with the game that was in it and my initials. When I change the board, I write the date inside, and write the name of game, and so on. This way if I ever resell it, the next buyer might discover that and find it interesting and might start doing the same, until he sells it to someone else, and so on and so on!

I can't be the only one?
 
I'm planning something similar for the cabs I restore. A small engraved metal plate that has the details on it. Not so much a history of the cab, but specific to the restoration.
 
Back when I used to do repairs, I had some business cards made up and would tape one inside the coin door and one inside the back door, along with a note on each card of the repair or service I did... hoping that if the game needed repair again in the future, I'd get the business.
I also put them inside any game from my collection that I sold.

When I got engaged, I sold my DK along with a couple other games to help pay for the engagement ring. I always gave my wife a hard time that she cost me my DK. A couple of years ago, she bought me a replacement DK, already restored, and of course, the card inside let me know that it was the same game I had sold years before. Interestingly, she didn't buy it from the same guy I sold it to, so there was some movement in between. I never did find out how many owners there were in the interim.
 
Thats A great idea! along with dis-charging monitors before servicing them, and not using duct Tape to hold on marquees. :D

I think we should all kinda do something like that for our games.
 
I don't physically tag them, but I do ask the previous owners if they know any of the history behind the game and where it's been. So far, I only know where 2 of my 5 cabs have been before their previous owners who sold them to me.

The guy who sold me DK Jr. said it used to be in his dad's friend's arcade somewhere in the east bay area.

The lady who sold me my Vs. UR said she won it at a booster auction for her kids' little league. It was donated by a local sponsor.

I wish I knew where these games were originally and how some of them got so jacked up on the inside and out. Soda stains give me an idea. So do cigarette burns. I need a CSI to help me figure it out. It's funny finding quarters with string taped around them and bent straws.
 
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