Hmmm i have a few buying experiences that went horrible and were just bad ideas when i first started getting into buying arcades. ..........
Outcome: The first arcade i ever bought i Spent almost $700.00 on a xmen 4player that was completely untested and drove 5+hours to get it.
The story:
First arcade i ever bought was a 4player X men. Drove with my uncle 5 hours from WV into New York City. (never had been there and this was before having a navigation). Id say it was like 2002 or so. Anyways neither of us had ever driven in an urban area as big as NYC and i was going off directions from the seller who was italian and had an accent like one of the guys from goodfellas. Anyways got to NY, got lost for hours, seller called me cussing me out saying i totally EFFED up his day and he had to come find us. First i call him and he says describe whats around me, (so i start naming off stuff and he's like "your in brooklyn!!, your in Fu**en Brooklyn!!! Anyways he said stop where we are..... hes coming to find us.
As soon as he drove up beside us the first words out of his mouth were "you two totally Fu**ed up my day, Stick to my ass like glue". Then he gunned it down a heavy traffic street. AND WERE OFF, so we were following him as he was running every yellow light he hit, swerving in and out of traffic like a maniac. And constently was looking at his rear view mirror and shaking his head in disgust.
Then we find ourselves in an abandoned lumber yard. (started getting scared lol) He rolls up to a trailor, throws up the door, and there set the x men, along with like 30 other arcades jammed in this huge trailor. Anyways i ask if i can test it out and he laughs saying "we aint got no power out here" Anyways we had already drove this far and spent all day, so i paid the man and got the heck outta there. Going home just hoping it worked. And it did, but man was i a dumb young kid lol. But ya live and learn. lol
Well i kinda learned, because i did almost the same thing a year or so later>
Outcome: Paid $200.00 and drove 3 hours for a dead totally not working TARG machine, was told it works great. lol (wasn't so lucky with this outcome)
Story:
Had an ad in the paper saying i was looking for arcades. Get a call from a real old man saying he had a machine called Targ he wanted to sell. He said worked great last time he played it, but had since put it in a shed. Anyways i got on Klov (not the forums) and checked it out and it looked like a neat game, and i never saw one before so i said "road trip"!
Got my buddy to come with me and gimme a hand. Drove the drive, and then arrived at an old house. Go to the door and greet this old guy who was def. not too friendly. He then takes me out to this old rotted up shed, pulled open the door and there sat a dirty nasty targ machine. lol, i say can i test this thing (he said no i have no power out here, but it works it works" So again i drove the drive, and figured hey i got lucky with the xmen, lets try this. ummmm no not so lucky..........
Got it home and it was DOA. plugged it in and hear a bleep but no monitor life. I call the man and say "hey this dont work at all can i bring it back"? (lol funny to think i was seriously gonna drive it 3 hours back to him to get a full refund. (i was still in school had nothing else to do lol) and 200 bucks was like a weeks work LOL........He said "no all sales final". I say man come on, u said it worked, i then say "what if i bring it back and get $100.00 back"? (which i was gonna do LOL) He then screamed in the phone in a grouchy old man voice "I said NO!! ALL SALES FINAL"" then hung up on me. I debated driving down there and paint-balling his house for years and never did lol.
So ate my loss and had Targ sitting in my parents basement until 2009 (almost 6 years dead") Anyways discovered this site, learned what i could and did my first rebuild. Come to find out it was a G07 that needed EVERYTHING. Every cap was exploded on it and rotted up. Anyways it works now, and i plan to keep her forever now after all we been through lol.
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