bungy
Well-known member
I went to check out a Pac-Man cabinet tonight and I couldn't agree on a price with the seller. He was asking for nearly $1000. I lowballed at $300 citing flakey power cable, burned monitor, and overall condition of it.
There were plenty of gouges in the wood & t-molding and the CPO was chipped all over the place, but the cabinet is structurally sound and fully working, and the side art is in decent shape considering it is almost 30 years old, but it's still pretty beat up. The internals looked all original.
He came back with $600 but would not go lower. I thought $300 to $400 would have been a good price considering it would need a lot of TLC. This is potentially my first cabinet acquisition; do you think I am off-base on the price I'm trying to get it for?
Also, is there anything else I should be looking at when buying a working cabinet for a mild restoration?
There were plenty of gouges in the wood & t-molding and the CPO was chipped all over the place, but the cabinet is structurally sound and fully working, and the side art is in decent shape considering it is almost 30 years old, but it's still pretty beat up. The internals looked all original.
He came back with $600 but would not go lower. I thought $300 to $400 would have been a good price considering it would need a lot of TLC. This is potentially my first cabinet acquisition; do you think I am off-base on the price I'm trying to get it for?
Also, is there anything else I should be looking at when buying a working cabinet for a mild restoration?


