Seriously? How about writing a nice ad...

Kaboom

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Seriously, let's talk about salesmanship for a second.
Is it just me, or does the seller sound like a dick?

"I have a Centipede cocktail game in excellent condition for sale.
Price is 600 cash FIRM & NOT NEGOTIABLE Find a better price on a mint cocktail game....or one not mint for that matter. $1000- $1500 on ebay....
F YOU SEE THIS AD THE ITEM IS STILL AVAILABLE. DO NOT ASK THIS QUESTION AS I WILL NOT RESPOND.
THE AD WILL BE REMOVED ONCE THE ITEM IS SOLD."

http://atlanta.craigslist.org/atl/vgm/1782013753.html

Oh, my apologies if it belongs to someone here...
 
And the dude even has the nerve to use a picture of some random Centipede cocktail straight from Google Images. Wow... he should at least post a pic of the actual game he is trying to sell.
 
I've seen this writing before my friends - This is what I picture:

Dude bought game for $XXXX years ago (i'm guessing anywhere from $1500-2500) LOL

Thought it would acquire value - played it here and there. Ended up in storage for a few years.

Needs some money so he pulled it out of storage. Got ready to post it on CL. During the middle of his posting, he started doing research. Found out people weren't paying shit for cocktails or pretty much any arcade game for that matter today.

Wrote his FS like the potential buyers were ripping him off for his prized COCKtail.
 
I like people who have extremely poor descriptions of the item and provide no picture. Thanks.

How am I supposed to know what it is you're selling? Now I have to go through a 3 day long process of extracting this information over email.
 
He could have said the exact same thing without being a dick.

"Price is very firm. If this ad is up, the item is still available. I am not a dick."
 
That one is actually kind of mild. We have a guy here in Houston that is destroying the local arcade market by flooding it with junky MAME and multicade machines. Here is an example of his "sales pitch":

WE CURRENTLY HATE MAKING 4 PLAYER GAMES BECAUSE:
THEY DONT MAKE MANY 4 PLAYER GAMES ANYWAY
THE CHIPS FOR 4 PLAYERS SUCK AND ALWAY HAVE A PROBLEM CONFIGURING-NO MATTER WHAT THE IPAC WEBSITE SAYS- I DO THIS FOR A LIVING FOR 20 YEARS!
AND WE WONT GUARANTEE THEM-BUT IF YOU REALLY WANT ONE WE WILL INSTALL IT FOR AN ADDITIONAL $200 AND YOUR WARANTY WILL BE MANUFACTURER ONLY FOR THE CHIP
ALL OTHER ARCADES HAVE A ONE YEAR WARRANTY ON THEM WITH US! IF IT HAPPENS TO BREAK-WHICH IT WONT - UNLESS YOUR A REAL @SSHOLE AND REALLY INNAPROPRIATELY RUFF
WE WILL FIX IT FOR FREE.

YES I SAID IT
IT HAS OVER 10,000 GAMES, A BUILT IN DIGITAL JUKEBOX JUST LIKE THE BAR HAS
EVERY ARCADE GAME EVER MADE-NAME A GAME - HELL YEAH ITS IN HERE.
OVER 8000 ARCADE GAMES
ALSO A DIGITAL JUKEBOX
ALSO:
HAS GAMES FROM THE FOLLOWING SYSTEMS
NINTENDO
SUPER NINTENDO
SEGA GENISIS
SEGA MASTER SYSYTEM
NEO GEO/CAPCOM
PLAYSTATION 1 AND 2
ALL THIS AND YOUR NAME CUSTOM PRINTED IN THE SIGN!
DUDE CAN YOU BELIEVE ITS ONLY 1500 BUCKS?
I AM ONLY MAKING 20 OF THESE
2 ARE SOLD
DUE TO LEGAL ISSUES I CANNOT POST PICS
COME DOWN AND SEE ITAT OUR SHOP!

And a picture of his beautiful machines:
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The guy that is building these is a nice guy, but something of a flake. He has bought parts and old cabinets (don't worry, these were not worth restoring) and calls me up for stuff or advice all the time and then never shows. He claims in his ads to have made arcade cabinets for 20 years, but he just started doing it 6 months ago. He was an out of work cabinetmaker/installer that somebody asked him to build a MAME cabinet. That convinced him to do this full time. I haven't seen his finished product, but the picture speaks for itself.

ken
 
Here is a great ad in Tampa: http://tampa.craigslist.org/hil/vgm/1782434948.html

very nise arcade machine good conditions - $200 (tampa)

Date: 2010-06-08, 9:37PM EDT
Reply to: [email protected] [Errors when replying to ads?]

this is a gost and goblins arcade machine , it is in verry good conditions and you can set it up for money play or free play, that means that you can make money with it too.
think about this ,, if you put this machine in a loundry room diviing profits with loundry room owner.
if you make $20 a day
thats $600 a month , and with a couple more of this machines all over town that all you do is collect , collect ,collect and collect you will not need to work again is a greait business.
if you are interested in this arcade machine you can call me to my cell (813)263-2700 tank you!!!!!!!!!


  • Location: tampa
  • it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
One of the best ads ever.
 
I like people who have extremely poor descriptions of the item and provide no picture. Thanks.

How am I supposed to know what it is you're selling? Now I have to go through a 3 day long process of extracting this information over email.

No, you won't have a 3 day process of extracting the info through email... because he said "no questions" and he won't respond...

seriously... I've written some harsh (or so I thought) ads before... but this is terrible.
I thought when I said "Please, look up where my city is before you realize it's not worth driving from snohomish for this" was bad
 
Here is a great ad in Tampa: http://tampa.craigslist.org/hil/vgm/1782434948.html

very nise arcade machine good conditions - $200 (tampa)

Date: 2010-06-08, 9:37PM EDT
Reply to:

this is a gost and goblins arcade machine , it is in verry good conditions and you can set it up for money play or free play, that means that you can make money with it too.
think about this ,, if you put this machine in a loundry room diviing profits with loundry room owner.
if you make $20 a day
thats $600 a month , and with a couple more of this machines all over town that all you do is collect , collect ,collect and collect you will not need to work again is a greait business.
if you are interested in this arcade machine you can call me to my cell (813)XXX-XXXX tank you!!!!!!!!!


  • Location: tampa
  • it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
One of the best ads ever.

Gotta love the Craigslist Spel Chekre.
  • verry
  • loundry
  • diviing
  • greait
  • tank you
Not to mention the mangling of the English language with constructions like 'it is in verry good conditions', and 'a couple more of this machines'.

I have never seen a 'gost and goblins' machine before. I wonder if it plays anything like a Ghost and Goblins ??? ;)

ken
 
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