I know I'm supposed to show discipline. I know I should just hold out for the right game. But, I'm jonesing. And I have a weird fascination Yie-Ar Kung Fu! It's soooo damn hard!
Try to hold back a little, something you like better will show up closer eventually or you can at least find a cabinet in need of a game and buy the boardset for it.
Like others have said, that's a long trip for a CL deal. The sellers on there tend to be less dependable than folks on eBay and you don't want to drive that distance only to find the owner not home when you get there or even worse, sold it out from under you.
There was a CL deal in town about a year ago for a game that was popular enough for folks to drive a long distance to get it. He ended up selling it at least several times without telling the other buyers. It was a ten minute drive for me, so I picked it up early the next morning.
Got on KLOV to post pics and tell about the deal only to find out someone from several hours away had PayPal'd the guy the night before and had arranged to pick it up.
I told him to hold off on the trip until talking to the guy since it was sitting in my house at the moment and I didn't think the owner had a second one. So, of course, the other buyer was pissed at me for thinking I had bought it out from under him, even though I knew nothing about it (his deal with the guy).
I'm assuming that the seller refunded the PayPal, but it was still a dirty way to do a deal. Especially if the other guy would have ended up driving a couple of hours over, only to find it gone when he got there.
- JM