How many people got burned on 48-in-1 or 60-in-1 conversions?

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How many people got burned on 48-in-1 or 60-in-1 conversions?

I'm talking about older machines converted to 48-in-1 or 60-in-1...and selling for $3000+!!

I'm seeing these turn up on Craigslist fairly often. It's not like there was no internet then; didn't anyone do research before laying down that kind of money?
 
I sold a few too.. not trying it as a business or money maker.. just to break even once in a while in the hobby..

its a market.. I would not say no if I can make a 3k sale..

but mine, also very very nice, I sold for much much less than that...
 
I built them for a guy who sold them. He would sometimes sell them for 3,000. He actually charged more for a cocktail game.

I see some of them come up on the local craigslist, and I just shake my head sadly. Those poor people paid 3K for a game they can't sell for 300 now.
 
If I had 3K to spend on a game... I wouldn't select any multi game that I can think of... not now... not then... not ever.
 
48 in 1 "A" board: $180
Jamma cab ready to go: $200
Being able to play 48 games for under $400 while others paid $3000+: Priceless! ;)
 
I built them for a guy who sold them. He would sometimes sell them for 3,000. He actually charged more for a cocktail game.

I see some of them come up on the local craigslist, and I just shake my head sadly. Those poor people paid 3K for a game they can't sell for 300 now.

Dunno about where you live but:

1) people down here aren't reselling these as far as I've seen. The only one I've seen that the guy said he "bought and has to sell" I'm pretty sure was a guy who built it himself, then needed money.

2) If you had these listed for $300 and it didn't look like complete dogshit, people would most likely snap them up. I still see these typically sell on CL for about $750-1000 if they are in nice shape...
 
Multigames sell for this much?!?! I would be ecstatic if I pulled any more than $400 for the 60-in-1 CT I am working on. Is it possible to get double that?!? Im getting dollar signs in my eyes.
 
I built and sold this one 2 years ago for $850:
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Multigames sell for this much?!?! I would be ecstatic if I pulled any more than $400 for the 60-in-1 CT I am working on. Is it possible to get double that?!? Im getting dollar signs in my eyes.

Yes, arent you glad we talked you into it? I flipped one for $700 once. The 48-1 was $75 shipped (thanks Nixs) and paint & supplies (and gas for driving) was probably another $25. The Retro Marquee cost $20. The cab was free, the like new computer monitor was free and I sold the RC2 kit that was in it for about $30 profit. You do the math. Oh, and did I mention it sold in 3 hours?
 
I totally agree with you all. Anyone who actually pays high prices for these deserves to because they can and are nieve. I pretty much build these exclusivly because the days when you could sell regular single named cabs for anything is gone. So enter the Multicade era. I however wont destroy a classic unless it's already been done. Price wise though I'd have to say that the average is about 700-750.00 up here for a decent working one and 900 for one that has new art all around and a new monitor.

It's gotten to the point now that I can fully gut a cab, re paint and rebuild and sell in two days time. It's nice to be good at something. I've sold 48 over the past 1.5 years
 
I've sold a couple of the 'take a rag to it and throw in the board' 48 in 1s. Hell, one I sold still had the altered Beast marquee in it and had left handed controls. I got $600 IIRC for that one.

- Dynamo 2P cabinet cleaned up nice, with multicade marquee. Originally a dirty nasty Top Gunner.
- Williams Defender knock-off genericab with left hand controls and busted Altered Beast marquee. The cabinet was near mint. I had to replace the G07 chassis, but the tube and picture was excellent. Originally an Altered Beast when I got it with dead monitor. To be fair, I was going to rearrange the controls and put art on it, but I got a cash offer I couldn't refuse and kept me from doing all of that work.
- 1942 in a Super Pac cabinet painted solid blue. Wiring was hacked all to hell per 1942 kit instruction manual. Seriously, that manual would make some of you purist guys cry. Left the 1942 art all intact since it looked nice and was one of the games. I did have to create a jamma adapter since 1942 is non-standard.


Right now I am working on a horizontal 450 in 1 multicade that will be done up real nice with full artwork and sell for $950. The guy who will be buying it seems to be dicking around with me though. If he expects me to lower my price, he is sorely mistaken. I'll just throw it on craigslist for $1200 and make even more money off of it.

Though I will offer him a discount for trading the nice monitor out for a pac burned G07. ;)

Bottom line, they pay the arcade bills for me.
 
I'd rather not sell cabs with pirate hardware. It only takes one person to talk and things can get serious. A guy got destroyed (and I mean destroyed) by Nintendo for having sold those controllers with old nes games with it in a mall. Of course, not all companies are as hardcore as Nintendo about old IPs, but still..
 
How is someone getting burned if they pay for something they want and the price is agreeable between the two parties? Who gives a shit if they paid $10000 or $500.

Lets change the question to:

How many of you have gotten BURNED by [insert any skilled trade service you have ever received here] or [insert any automobile/boat/house/etc purchase you have ever made]
 
How is someone getting burned if they pay for something they want and the price is agreeable between the two parties? Who gives a shit if they paid $10000 or $500.

I consider it a "burn" when the true value of goods is ridiculously exceeded by the selling price. If someone sells someone else snake oil for $1000, the buyer got burned - even if his IQ is so low that he's in love with his snake oil.
 
I also consider it a burn when idiots buy things at ridiculously high prices and thus drive the price up for the rest of us non-idiots. ;)
 
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