drjones
Member
I picked up my first 'working' game today and got a fun lesson in Craigslist-ology. I have a love-hate relationship with craigslist. I love that steals can often be found on there; I hate that I'm never first in line to get them. Being a person who never has a huge arcade fund sitting around I thought I'd try something different. I've collected Star Wars stuff for years, so I threw up an ad for the whole collection with a price and said I'd consider a trade for a pin or vid. Well craigslist is an interesting commnunity. Within 20 minutes someone had posted a snarky reply post, 'I have a pile of crap I will trade for your pin or arcade', and within an hour my post was removed through flagging. This wasnt the typical "I buy games" post that goes up 10 times a day. Just a legitimate post with an offer to trade. Anyway, like I said, interesting community. Thankfully someone saw the post before it was flagged into oblivion - they offered me a very nice Defender for my Star Wars stuff, aka "pile of crap". I'm pretty excited to have my first working game, and a Defender at that. I'll throw a pic up shortly. Now if I can just get my neverending project games finished...
