My $40 pick-up today.

jethrokiller

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Hardest game I ever moved, it had to come up 2 flights of stairs, around tight corners. Me and 2 other guys had a hell of a time getting it out of his house. How heavy are this things like 400 pounds? Just dropped it off in the garage and took a pic of it, i'll check it out later. Damn that game was heavy...
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Nice!

Please tell me you pulled off the control panel before you moved it... ;)
 
Nice!

Please tell me you pulled off the control panel before you moved it... ;)

If it's anything like moving a Big Blue it wouldn't matter much. :| We had the CP off ours, and I still had a beast of a time moving it on a U-Haul appliance dolly with straps and everything.
 
If it's anything like moving a Big Blue it wouldn't matter much. :| We had the CP off ours, and I still had a beast of a time moving it on a U-Haul appliance dolly with straps and everything.

I had a capcom big blue and it was easy to move compared to this (mind you I didn't have to go up or down any stairs), I couldn't even put this thing on a hand truck, tip it back and move it, it's that big and heavy. This thing is so damn long, probably not too far off the length of a pinball, mabey a foot or so. And no we didn't take off the control panel. If I knew how hard the move would be I probably would have left it.
 
i would've pulled the CP, the monitor and probably the topper to make the move easier.

and heck yeah, i would've been all over that for $40!
 
I can't believe you got one of those for $40. People want over $1000 on E-bay most of the time, don't they? Its not working, is it?
 
It is closer to 500lbs. I had one that was converted to a Golden Tee Live. The only thing I know is that I'm going to a knee specialist tomorrow after getting a MRI for an injury from moving one of them. Was on a Vending-rated appliance cart, hit a drain on the floor I didn't see and it threw me forward. Darn things are so stinking heavy!
 
I'm just glad I took my swamper along to help. If it wasn't for him 2 of us never would have gotten it out of there. Also i'm some glad I have a garage for my arcade games. 45 minutes to get it out of his house, like 2 minutes to get it into my garcade.
 
That's funny, I got 1 for free last fall from a home owner also, monitor issue. Took 4 of us almost an hour to get it out of his house. Nobody must like the game up here but the prices are right.
 
Those stairs with turns are the worst; hell, stairs in general are tough to move anything heavy up but the turns add a whole new dimension of suck-age.

We were buying 4 or 5 games from an estate once and the pinball machine that was part of the original deal was missing. The owner had sold it out from under us while we were driving over so to make up for it and not lower her price, she said, "do you want that old Coke machine?"

So we hauled it up one of those staircases with a 180° turn and finally got it outside when she said, "that isn't part of the original deal!".

We nearly killed ourselves getting it out of the basement and now she wants to change the deal again. She settled on selling it for another $100 on top of the original deal.

I don't think she was a bad person, it had to be the stress of being widowed, but damn it's hard to keep your cool (we did) in those situations.
 
Those stairs with turns are the worst; hell, stairs in general are tough to move anything heavy up but the turns add a whole new dimension of suck-age.

We were buying 4 or 5 games from an estate once and the pinball machine that was part of the original deal was missing. The owner had sold it out from under us while we were driving over so to make up for it and not lower her price, she said, "do you want that old Coke machine?"

So we hauled it up one of those staircases with a 180° turn and finally got it outside when she said, "that isn't part of the original deal!".

We nearly killed ourselves getting it out of the basement and now she wants to change the deal again. She settled on selling it for another $100 on top of the original deal.

I don't think she was a bad person, it had to be the stress of being widowed, but damn it's hard to keep your cool (we did) in those situations.

Pay first, then move. There is no wiggle room to suddenly have a "change of heart" that way.

I would have contemplated moving it back down and telling her to fish it out herself.
 
While these are very heavy, I would say the heaviest upright I have ever moved would have to be SNK Beast Busters. Damn that sucker is heavy what makes it worse is that it sticks out so damn much.

Awesome score on the GT! The monitor alone is worth 5 times more than what you paid for the game.
 
Pay first, then move. There is no wiggle room to suddenly have a "change of heart" that way.

I would have contemplated moving it back down and telling her to fish it out herself.

Good point, but when we asked her where the pinball machine was and she replied, that it was sold, but do you want the Coke machine instead?

That to me means, here's a Coke machine to make up for the pinball machine I sold out from under you. We'd agreed to 5 games for a set price, if one is now gone then either the price goes down or something else is added in. The offer of the Coke machine wasn't made with an extra mark-up added to the total for all the machines.

Under other circumstances I'd have argued for fairness, but she was obviously under stress. This was her first trip back to the house where her husband had passed away after a long illness. The decent thing to do was pony up the extra $100 bucks, load the games, and head down the road, so that's what I did.
 
Sold the Golden Tee yesterday for $700.00. Worst thing is I don't even have any pictures of the game. I deleted the ones in my for sale folder thinking they were copied from somewhere else. Oh well, it's a very common game anyway, I just have lots of old pics of my old games over the past 12 years or so.
 
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