Heeelarious!!!!!!

Pacman game

his businees name is Station online or something like that--he has sold on ebay in the past--SUPER HIGH PRICES--think he also runs a route up around Knoxville TN--the price on the Pacman is most likely what he wants for it--I can not see anyone paying that but who knows? if you call the # that is listed--you can get another laugh at some other crazy prices he will shoot at you--here is a link to his ebay store--also has the same phone # listed on this page also--WOW --he has the Pacman game listed for 4500.00 on his ebay store--bet he will take 3500.00 for it--LOL

http://cgi3.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=thestationonline
 
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Oh yeah, that guy! I actually went to his warehouse and got quite a laugh! He wanted 900 dollars for a BROKEN sit down pole position! Also quoted me 950 for a non working pac-man! I chuckled and thanked him for his time. They do, however, have two very large warehouses chocked full of games, and parts that I would love to pick through. But their prices....are just ridiculous!
 
I got screwed over by these guys and would never consider doing business with them again, nor would I recommend them to others.

I bought my first machine (Spy Hunter) from them via Ebay and they guaranteed (as part of the terms of the selling contract) that it would be 100% functional when it arrived (but there was no warantee after that). And I talked to them on the phone and got the same promise verbally, that they spend lots of time checking them out, burning them in, that they had warehouses full of games (that part was true anyway), and had vast experience with them because they've been in the business since the beginning.

They didn't ship for 30 days. When the game finally showed up, the wiring harness had been hacked to hell, there was no game music, half of the game lights didn't work, there was a bad microswitch in the shifter, it had an obnoxious hum from the switcher, and the marquee light was out.

Had to replace the wiring harness, lamp driver board, cheap squeak board, microswitch, marquee light, and starter. And because I had no idea of what I was doing at the time I had to pay someone local to do it so I ended up with a large additional bill after paying too much for the game in the first place.

They talked a good talk and were willing to offer technical support over the phone (for whatever that was worth) but at the end of the day they had no idea of what was really wrong with the game and while they discussed paying for a part of the local repair bill, no dollars ever materialized (and they offered something like $30, LOL). And they admitted that their tech who 'thoroughly inspected and tested it' didn't have any experience with the game and they apologized for its condition as it arrived. I probably still have the emails -- the BS they were slinging was amazing.

I probably should have taken them to small claims court. I ended up just giving them a flaming negative feedback on Ebay and stopping there.
 
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I got my g-loc from them, got it for less than 1/2 price from what they wanted.
Took forever to ship, always had a story. I got it ok but will not do business with them again.
They also screwed Dan the museum guy on a multi-game deal, sold several games and when they went to pick them up, could only find a few of the games they bought, then screwed them on the price because they didn't take the whole deal.
I think I still have the owners phone number.
http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=38913&highlight=station+online
 
I can't believe I missed that thread at the time as it was just 3-4 months after they'd hosed me on my transaction.

Bill isn't the owner, btw. He was semi-reasonable to deal with but when it came time for them to help pay for all of the local repairs for their "tested and 100% working game" then Bill went to check with the owner and came back with excuses instead of money. And you should have seen the excuses. They knew at the time that I was a complete newbie and they were slinging some pretty wild stories my way. By then I'd learned enough to realize how ridiculous they were. (Them: "Oh, the game resets every time that you plug the cheap squeak board into the harness??? We probably didn't realize it wasn't working because a customer who had it on site probably opened the game and disconnected it to quiet the game down." Me: "So you gave your customer locations the keys to the games and permission to play with the electronics in them?" Them: (quick change of subject)

The local hired gun started by trying to track down the problems with the wiring harness and found +12v on the ground lines, etc. They'd hacked it to death...

I see that if anything they were consistent in their behavior. I wish more people would have left them negative feedback on Ebay; I followed their feedback for a while and saw things like very late shipments of products that were being "cleaned, inspected, and thoroughly tested before shipment" only to find mouse (or rat) feces all over inside, etc. People were giving them "neutrals" for a bunch of stuff that was just outrageous.

Run away, run away!
 
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I could not give a negative, for me the only thing was the slow to ship.
Everything else went like it was suppose to
I guess I was one of the lucky ones.
 
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