This is a lame seller

Quazimoto

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How can you sell an "untested board" on ebay and in another auction on ebay have a working game of the same name ????? That right there makes me not trust the seller...blah. How tuff can it be to place the board in the working game to see if it works or not. And how dumb can you be to list the two at the same time? Just had to rant sorry
 
while I agree it sounds suspect I have met people who sell arcade games that have no idea how to swap a jamma board let alone say a dedicated game like tron with many connectors that got to many locations on the board. Seller could be a scammer or simply have no knowledge of games whatsoever.
 
nah...this looks to be an op. He has two of the same boards, one as tested and the other as untested. Also has two stern boards...one tested the other untested. He should just say not working...oh well.
 
while I agree it sounds suspect I have met people who sell arcade games that have no idea how to swap a jamma board let alone say a dedicated game like tron with many connectors that got to many locations on the board. Seller could be a scammer or simply have no knowledge of games whatsoever.

About 3 years ago I bought a non-working Dig Dug from a friend--had a bad PCB. I found one on ebay that was called a "non-working jama board".

From the photos, it was obvious that the board was a non-jamma like I needed. Fifty bucks later, the board arrived. I plugged it in and voila... has worked perfectly ever since.

A buddy of mine once said that he loves the fact that so many people are incompetent--it's job security for him.
 
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How can you sell an "untested board" on ebay and in another auction on ebay have a working game of the same name ????? That right there makes me not trust the seller...blah. How tuff can it be to place the board in the working game to see if it works or not. And how dumb can you be to list the two at the same time? Just had to rant sorry

"Untested" is more appealing to a buyer than not working. Of course it's also dishonest (kinda). Always assume untested means not working. If you get it and it works, yay you beat the odds.
 
It's possible that the working board was labeled as such when stored and the other board is truly untested.

I gave away an untested K7000 chassis that ended up working. I know how to test these and have repaired many of my non-working ones but I really didn't have a chance to test it at the time.
 
Its like the ppl that have a complete game in a picture sitting right next to a power outlet and then the auction says "Game Untested". Means it doesnt work.
 
"Untested" is more appealing to a buyer than not working. Of course it's also dishonest (kinda). Always assume untested means not working. If you get it and it works, yay you beat the odds.

"I know what we do here may look like criminal fraud, but it's not... it's marketing!" *Dilbert
 
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Another perspective

You have a bunch of boards for sale.. If I go and test them all, I feel not only compelled to fix the board, and if I sell it as working, theres some degree of customer support that goes along with it. If its something Ive owned, and feel confident that its in great shape, then I will test it, and sell as such. Otherwise, it stays in the box and I dont touch it. (Unless its something really cool that I want to play..lol)
 
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