Man... Market Here is TERRIBLE

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Some poor bastard has been trying to sell a Tekken 2 in a Z-Back cab for months. Dude started at $650.00 and he's been down to $200.00 for the last 3 weeks or so and STILL isn't selling it. It looks decent enough... cab is in 7-8/10 condition... coin door works... even the coin door lights are working and it comes with keys and a good looking 25" monitor and it STILL isn't selling.

I've not picked it up yet just because I'm low on room and I can play Tekken 2 all day long on my MAME cab. I've been tempted though.

No wonder my Asteroids at $375 hasn't gotten a single look.
 
I don't know the numbers, but I see a lot of Tekken machines on CL, and I don't know if the crowd that was really into Tekken have room for arcade cabinets yet or hundreds of dollars they want to spend on non-beer. I'm just saying I don't think Tekken is a good yardstick to go by. Your Asteroids sitting at $375 - market sounds bad.
 
Some poor bastard has been trying to sell a Tekken 2 in a Z-Back cab for months. Dude started at $650.00 and he's been down to $200.00 for the last 3 weeks or so and STILL isn't selling it. It looks decent enough... cab is in 7-8/10 condition... coin door works... even the coin door lights are working and it comes with keys and a good looking 25" monitor and it STILL isn't selling.

I've not picked it up yet just because I'm low on room and I can play Tekken 2 all day long on my MAME cab. I've been tempted though.

No wonder my Asteroids at $375 hasn't gotten a single look.
Well at least this guy got the hint and lowered the price. There's a guy here that has listed the same pin for months for $500 then he lowered it to $400 and now it's posted again at $500. Kinda going the wrong way.
 
Dont worry FF I'm on my way to hopefully turn things around up north..LOL Ive been in contact with a few folks already trying to network before I get there. How far are you away from SLC UT?
 
Some poor bastard has been trying to sell a Tekken 2 in a Z-Back cab for months. Dude started at $650.00 and he's been down to $200.00 for the last 3 weeks or so and STILL isn't selling it. It looks decent enough... cab is in 7-8/10 condition... coin door works... even the coin door lights are working and it comes with keys and a good looking 25" monitor and it STILL isn't selling.

I've not picked it up yet just because I'm low on room and I can play Tekken 2 all day long on my MAME cab. I've been tempted though.

No wonder my Asteroids at $375 hasn't gotten a single look.

Buy it and part it out!!! Don't forget to part out that Asteroids first!

hee hee.

J/k.
 
Dont worry FF I'm on my way to hopefully turn things around up north..LOL Ive been in contact with a few folks already trying to network before I get there. How far are you away from SLC UT?


You're moving to Utah eh? Nice... yeah... about 4.5 hours or so...
 
$200 for that game would have trouble moving just about anywhere, it's not very desirable yet. And $375 for an Asteroids isn't exactly a steal. I agree with the above, this is not much of a yardstick. If you couldn't move a good Asteroids at $200 then I'd say it's a bad market.

Wade
 
Cool FF and AR that's not to far at all, Ive been to Bar Lake twice already (damn beautiful place) then into the surrounding towns but that's as far north so far.
 
Some poor bastard has been trying to sell a Tekken 2 in a Z-Back cab for months. Dude started at $650.00 and he's been down to $200.00 for the last 3 weeks or so and STILL isn't selling it. It looks decent enough... cab is in 7-8/10 condition... coin door works... even the coin door lights are working and it comes with keys and a good looking 25" monitor and it STILL isn't selling.

I've not picked it up yet just because I'm low on room and I can play Tekken 2 all day long on my MAME cab. I've been tempted though.

No wonder my Asteroids at $375 hasn't gotten a single look.

Don't tell Obama or he will fund a new program.
 
People are still asking top dollar for games around here.

A guy who has been trying to sell a Phoenix for about $2000 finally dropped his price after three years of relisting. To $1750 or maybe even $1650 now.

Another guy who has been trying to sell a Pengo for about three years finally dropped from $450 to $400.

Can't figure it out.

- M1A
 
You can just never tell what will sell and when. I had been listing my Ikari Warriors for $250 with no bites. Then a while back I listed it for $100 and a bunch of people showed interest but nobody actually showed up to get it.

I listed it this week for $75,000 or best offer over $350. A guy picked it up today. For $350.
 
Haven't noticed it in Tucson. Maybe it's the reason there is no games too sell.
 
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