Does anyone ever sell or buy anything off of VAPS?

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After seeing McLemore's thread on game/board limits:

http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=123746

I wondered whether anyone has sold or bought anything simply because of the FS or WTB status in their VAPS listing? I'm curious whether non-members (or even members) contact you after seeing on a KLOV listing that X number of members are selling a machine or board, or whether you contact someone after seeing a KLOV listing has certain members having something for sale that you want.

Most people list their FS stuff here, so I don't know how useful it is to list it there also. Besides, non-members would have to register there to contact you anyway.

I know I've had two e-mails from non-members in the past about my Wanted list (Circus Charlie and Hydro Thunder). Both were NOT local (which explains why I still want them), and I wondered for a while how in the hell they knew how to contact me, let alone that I wanted the machines. I finally figured out I had my VAPS settings configured to e-mail me.

Anyone get any action that way?
 
i never asked to buy anything or had anyone ask but they have seriously come in handy. I have a top speed cabinet and saw someone had one and in the comments it said multi custom board. I emailed him and we talked for a while back and fourth and he was about to make me a custom board that housed like 7 racing games on a compact flash that worked in the cabinet. I havent talked to him in a while but it was cool how friendly he was, plus he was from australia i think
 
It was a VAPS entry that got me here in the first place. Never did get a response, but I never left...
 
Yep, and it is annoying and off-putting. People randomly contact me about something 'You have for sale' or something that I am supposedly 'wanting' and I don't know what the hell they are talking about. Then they mention VAPS, and I realize that I haven't updated mine since early 2007. My wants and for sale items have changed so many times since then it would make your head spin faster than Fritz on Toshio Eto's schwein.
 
I have made several inquiries and either got no response or the price told me they really weren't that interested in selling in the first place. I'm selling my Defender project this coming weekend off a for sale "advertisement" in my KLOV signature.
 
i never asked to buy anything or had anyone ask but they have seriously come in handy. I have a top speed cabinet and saw someone had one and in the comments it said multi custom board. I emailed him and we talked for a while back and fourth and he was about to make me a custom board that housed like 7 racing games on a compact flash that worked in the cabinet. I havent talked to him in a while but it was cool how friendly he was, plus he was from australia i think

I agree VAPS is useful, especially if you have a game with very little online tech support. It's useful to be able to contact someone else who has the same game and see if they can answer a question about a manual, connector, wiring, dip switch setting, etc....
 
I have made several inquiries and either got no response or the price told me they really weren't that interested in selling in the first place. I'm selling my Defender project this coming weekend off a for sale "advertisement" in my KLOV signature.

Perhaps it would be helpful if we could list the FS price in our listing? Let's say I was selling a working Ms. Pac-Man board and listed it at $100 shipped. You could decide whether or not it was worth your trouble to contact me...
 
Saw someone local had T-Mek l on their want list. I happened to know someone that has one. Deal didn't work out but it could have had everything fallen into place.
 
Perhaps it would be helpful if we could list the FS price in our listing? Let's say I was selling a working Ms. Pac-Man board and listed it at $100 shipped. You could decide whether or not it was worth your trouble to contact me...
I think that would be helpful. It would separate those that are truely interested in selling versus those that would sell "if the price was right." I think there is alot of the latter on VAPS.
 
Saw someone local had T-Mek l on their want list. I happened to know someone that has one. Deal didn't work out but it could have had everything fallen into place.

Hmm, I wonder who that could have been...

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I tried contacting a person in order to buy a bootleg space invaders cocktail off of VAPS. Got no response.

I contacted on guy with an item for sale and was almost a done deal until for some reason I got blown off. I've tried a few other times and my inquiries seem either to go unnoticed or ignored.
 
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I have sold a few games to non KLOVers from my VAPS entry and I have also bought a couple of games from non KLOVers contacting me because I have a game on my want list.
Although 1 day I decided I was going to buy a tron. There were 5 for sale within 100 miles or so of me. I emailed every one. I got one replay from someone that was out of town at that moment and said they would contact me when they got home. Never heard from them again. I let people find me now.
 
Nope. I never thought posting what games your looking for would actually help! :)

I never seems to help me..
 
I wondered whether anyone has sold or bought anything simply because of the FS or WTB status in their VAPS listing? I'm curious whether non-members (or even members) contact you after seeing on a KLOV listing that X number of members are selling a machine or board, or whether you contact someone after seeing a KLOV listing has certain members having something for sale that you want.

Anyone get any action that way?

I have bought one game off of a VAPS FS (Food Fight). Deal worked out great, no problems at all. That was my first attempt at a VAPS contact. I foolishly thought they'd all be that way.

I contacted a couple others, but for the most part no response.

I have contacted VAPS owners several, several times with not asking to buy, but simply asking some specific questions about a particular machine (side art or CP design, or some other question about the cabinet). Almost never get a reply.

I have had a few people contact me from VAPS looking to buy one of mine listed FS. I think I sold one game because of it. The rest people wanted give away prices (e.g., $500 for a dedicated Major Havoc). However, one guy contacted me within the last couple of weeks about a Star Wars and I was at fault big time. I hadn't updated by VAPS and had already made a deal on the game. I felt bad about that one.

I think there are a lot of people that register their games on VAPS that are not what we would call "active" collectors and either forget about updating once they get rid of a game or just don't even care enough to respond to emails.
 
I have written many people regarding games on their VAPS page. I have not gotten a single response back. :(
 
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