Have you ever pulled a bonehead stunt?

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Excluding the drama surrounding a certain video game rescued from a bad situation that is.

I put a bid in on a broken Joust on Ebay. I found it at the last minute and I could have sworn the Ebay mileage calculator said 345 miles, which is a 5 hour trip each way. Long trip, but doable in a day. So, I bid accordingly based on the cost to go get it. Well, I won it at virtually my full bid price. Cool. Then I found out it is 200 miles or so further away. My 5 hour each way trip is now closer to a 9 hour each way trip (according to Google maps).

I'm still going to go get it, but I am p*ssed at myself for not looking at it a little closer. By the time I rent a pickup, gas it up and a hotel somewhere on the road, my $100 broken Joust is going to be a $400 broken Joust. So fixing it and flipping it is going to be a break even venture at best. D*mn.

ken
 
Fixing it should not be a problem. Vertical bars usually means the MPU board is locking up. Could be the power supply or a one of a half dozen easy fixes. Or just swap the MPU board out.

I'll probably get to your board before I need to hit the road to pick up the Joust. I just need to finish up a "problem child" Stargate PS (Defender style) tonight.

ken
 
Excluding the drama surrounding a certain video game rescued from a bad situation that is.

I put a bid in on a broken Joust on Ebay. I found it at the last minute and I could have sworn the Ebay mileage calculator said 345 miles, which is a 5 hour trip each way. Long trip, but doable in a day. So, I bid accordingly based on the cost to go get it. Well, I won it at virtually my full bid price. Cool. Then I found out it is 200 miles or so further away. My 5 hour each way trip is now closer to a 9 hour each way trip (according to Google maps).

I'm still going to go get it, but I am p*ssed at myself for not looking at it a little closer. By the time I rent a pickup, gas it up and a hotel somewhere on the road, my $100 broken Joust is going to be a $400 broken Joust. So fixing it and flipping it is going to be a break even venture at best. D*mn.

ken

Hotel? Sleep in the car/truck. Saves $$ there.

Seawolf and I made it from Chicago to MD and back in about 29 hours. That included 4 stops to pick-up or drop-off games. :eek:
 
While attempting to fix a galaga that was blowing fuses, i dropped the monitor on the inside of the cabinet, cracking the neckboard. Later I realized that the switched power supply had gotten fried from a power surge, and the monitor had been fine.
 
Hotel? Sleep in the car/truck. Saves $$ there.

Seawolf and I made it from Chicago to MD and back in about 29 hours. That included 4 stops to pick-up or drop-off games. :eek:

Sleeping in truck. Been there done that. I'll take a motel 6 first :eek:.

Two drivers make a huge difference in cross country marathon driving. The last drivathon I did was Houston to San Antonio to Austin to Dallas to Houston in a single day. It was around 1100 miles with stops in SA to pick up games, Austin to have lunch/dinner with my son, Dallas to pick up a pin and back home, unload and get the truck back to the dropoff. Started the day at 5:30am and finally crawled into bed at 3:30am. Not gonna do that again for anything less than a Black Widow, a Major Havok and a Quantuum (and one of them better be free! ;) ).

ken
 
it seems to me that ebay uses 'crow miles', not road miles. I almost got burned the same way a while ago.
 
Bonehead move: Being willing to drive 5 miles one way for a broken Joust. u.u;

Most I've done is 70 mins one way, for an excellent machine at a cheap price.
 
Geez Ken, you really have a thing for those Jousts. Gas alone will probably run you about $150-$200 let alone the truck rental and a room. I'd check to see if there are any KLOV'ers near the game willing to buy it, heck it might even be cheaper to ship it.
 
If you want to bail on the deal based on the distance, just offer the guy $40 to get out of it. I'd rather do something like that than get in deeper than I wanted.
 
Yeah it might be cheaper to ship via NAVL. Price for 1 cab is around $330 last ime I checked. You also might ask for a partial refund explaining you thought it was closer?

Tom
 
Where the hell you picking it up?

The trick is to find someone closer to it, make a trade deal with them, have them pick it up and meet you somewhere halfway....
 
bonehead move? yeah.. i bought a cnc and started making cabinets!
 
Where the hell you picking it up?

The trick is to find someone closer to it, make a trade deal with them, have them pick it up and meet you somewhere halfway....

It is in Adair, OK (Northeast of Tulsa).

If I'd had the time, I would have just flown up to Dallas, rented a truck and dropped it off with Noel to haul down to Houston with the booty from the last SuperAuctions, but I just got a call from him that he will be making the run tomorrow morning.

I may talk to him tomorrow anyway. That would cut the driving to 5 hours each way. I'd have to stay in Dallas Friday night, as there is no way to make the trip up and back before the last flight to Houston. But that beats staying in some little dump in Nowhere, OK. Even if he just stores it for me until the following weekend, it breaks the drives up into manageable sized parts.

ken
 
I pulled a similar bonehead move last month. I put in a not to exceed bid of $100.00 on a Pac Jr. Machine was in Indianapolis, about a 10 hour ride each way. Never seen one of these go so cheap so I figured no worries. Of course I was wrong, won the thing. Was told it was non working. Luckily one of my service techs was going to school close by, so I had him pick it up for me. Got it home and plugged it in, it boots up and plays fine. Just needs some monitor work.
 
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