A few months ago I posted a wanted ad in the local Thrify Nickel paper (looking for old arcade games). I had a few calls, mostly people that wanted a fortune for thier games. One guy called and told me he had an "old Atari arcade game" in a shed at his mothers house. After talking with him a few times, he seemed to think it was a "pac-man game", in good shape and was working when he put it in the shed years ago. This was around October of last year, but due to the holidays and the fact that we couldn't coordinate a time to meet so I could check out the cab, it's taken me till now to finally get a look at it. Well, I drove 30 minutes out in the middle of nowhere, and the seller took me out to an old, dilapidated shed to look at the "Pac-Man game". There was no electricity in the shed, so I took a flashlight, and was VERY surprized to see a Bud Tapper, in what looked to be great shape! Looks complete, side art is great, marquee and bezel look good, cpo is nice, Bud tapper handles are nice. It was against a wall, with junk piled in front of it, so I couldn't move it to check out the back or the inside, but it does have the back door. The seller claims that it belonged to his brother who moved away years ago and that it worked fine when he put it in the shed. So I ask the obvious question, "how much"? He tells me, "well, I really don't know what these machines are worth, but how about $200". I know I should have jumped on it and be posting pics right now, but I was really torn - should I tell him the machine is worth more than that (especially if it does indeed work) or should I just buy it and keep my mouth shut? What would you guys do? This isn't a craigslist deal, so it's safe to say that I'm the only one that knows about this cab. I told him I'd think about it and let him know...

