Kongerman
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Got my first game at a pawn shop of all places today and I think I got a pretty good deal (or at least I hope I did!).
I saw an ad in craigslist for a multicade cocktail machine, one of those 60 in 1 classic game JAMMA machines, so I emailed him and turned out he was representing a pawn shop for this. I had my doubts on what kind of deal I could get because he was asking $1700 for it, but I went to take a look anyway. It looks to be pretty new, no scratches, dings, marks of any kind on it and it has the 19" lcd monitor. Played a couple of games and the menu only had 9 games visible (someone disabled the others) so I brought that up to the guy... He tried to play it off and say he is pretty sure there's more but didn't know how to get to them. Of course I know what it is, I did quite a bit of research before I even looked at it and knew it was a matter of hitting the switches to enable the other games but he didn't know that. So he said "I'm not allowed to go under $1400 on it but if it doesn't have the amount of games we thought it did then I guess make an offer..". I offered him $800, he came back at $950 and we shook.
I've included a couple of pics..
I know these usually go for over $1000 easily, so my question is... Did I get a good deal on it?? This is my first machine but I can see how addicting this is and already want more!
I saw an ad in craigslist for a multicade cocktail machine, one of those 60 in 1 classic game JAMMA machines, so I emailed him and turned out he was representing a pawn shop for this. I had my doubts on what kind of deal I could get because he was asking $1700 for it, but I went to take a look anyway. It looks to be pretty new, no scratches, dings, marks of any kind on it and it has the 19" lcd monitor. Played a couple of games and the menu only had 9 games visible (someone disabled the others) so I brought that up to the guy... He tried to play it off and say he is pretty sure there's more but didn't know how to get to them. Of course I know what it is, I did quite a bit of research before I even looked at it and knew it was a matter of hitting the switches to enable the other games but he didn't know that. So he said "I'm not allowed to go under $1400 on it but if it doesn't have the amount of games we thought it did then I guess make an offer..". I offered him $800, he came back at $950 and we shook.
I've included a couple of pics..
I know these usually go for over $1000 easily, so my question is... Did I get a good deal on it?? This is my first machine but I can see how addicting this is and already want more!
