So previous threads I've commented about Karma, maybe it bit me....
Quick catch up, doofus traded two "non-working" "bootleg" Ms Pac cocktails that turned out to be originals and working withing 20 minutes of me working on them, for a 100 dollar board. But....he took 4 weeks to get back to me after I installed the board and backed out of part of the deal. So flash forward
Doofus has two very nice space invader cocktails that...surprise, don't work becaue of power supplies and monitor issues. So I make a deal. I will retore, by rebuilding the power supplies and the monitors both back to original shape, and build custom adapters to allow the 60 in 1 horizontal shooters to be played on the cabinet without hacking the original wiring. In exchange, I get the last two Ms Pac cocktails from his dad's vending company. So drop a bunch of money into caps, transistors etc and completely rebuild the power supply boards, monitors etc (I still need to get one monitor and one board in the three stack going 100%)
Doofus texts me today...Um bad news, my dad cleaned out his company and the two ms pacs and then centipede cocktail are in the dump, how about I trade you a showcase cabinet? Now I have 20-30 hours at least, and a few hundred dollars of parts into the si cocktails. I did this because I wanted to make them shine since he was giving me such an amazing trade, now he wants to trade a f'ing Show Case cabinet, aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh. To boot, I had someone willing to pay me 1000 for one of the Ms Pac's restored and have a few hundred in parts to make that shine so I can make all my money back.
So one might say I jumped the gun in moving forward, but A) Shipping to Hawaii isn't cheap so I try to do it in lump orders and B) I wrote him two weeks ago and asked him if he was sure he could do this because I was going to invest money, to which he said yes yes yes, all taken care of. I'm pissed at this guy and even more crushed that two above average condition Ms Pac cocktails got run over by a bull dozer in a land fill yesterday. It is amazing to me how environmentally negligent people here are. Too boot, the company offered to sell me the cabs a month ago, but I had already made a deal with this guy so I said "No, I already made a deal with your owners son for those cabinets." aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Quick catch up, doofus traded two "non-working" "bootleg" Ms Pac cocktails that turned out to be originals and working withing 20 minutes of me working on them, for a 100 dollar board. But....he took 4 weeks to get back to me after I installed the board and backed out of part of the deal. So flash forward
Doofus has two very nice space invader cocktails that...surprise, don't work becaue of power supplies and monitor issues. So I make a deal. I will retore, by rebuilding the power supplies and the monitors both back to original shape, and build custom adapters to allow the 60 in 1 horizontal shooters to be played on the cabinet without hacking the original wiring. In exchange, I get the last two Ms Pac cocktails from his dad's vending company. So drop a bunch of money into caps, transistors etc and completely rebuild the power supply boards, monitors etc (I still need to get one monitor and one board in the three stack going 100%)
Doofus texts me today...Um bad news, my dad cleaned out his company and the two ms pacs and then centipede cocktail are in the dump, how about I trade you a showcase cabinet? Now I have 20-30 hours at least, and a few hundred dollars of parts into the si cocktails. I did this because I wanted to make them shine since he was giving me such an amazing trade, now he wants to trade a f'ing Show Case cabinet, aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh. To boot, I had someone willing to pay me 1000 for one of the Ms Pac's restored and have a few hundred in parts to make that shine so I can make all my money back.
So one might say I jumped the gun in moving forward, but A) Shipping to Hawaii isn't cheap so I try to do it in lump orders and B) I wrote him two weeks ago and asked him if he was sure he could do this because I was going to invest money, to which he said yes yes yes, all taken care of. I'm pissed at this guy and even more crushed that two above average condition Ms Pac cocktails got run over by a bull dozer in a land fill yesterday. It is amazing to me how environmentally negligent people here are. Too boot, the company offered to sell me the cabs a month ago, but I had already made a deal with this guy so I said "No, I already made a deal with your owners son for those cabinets." aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh


