Top Five Reasons arcades on CL annoy the Hell out of me!!

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Top Five Reasons arcades on CL annoy the Hell out of me!!

1. Out of control prices on non working machines. I understand listing "working" machines at a higher price. Ive done it several times and have gotten a lot of bites but posting non working machines at higher prices that WORKING machines is ridiculous. Just annoys me. Your shitty conversion of Tekken with no monitor isnt worth $650!

2. No pictures. Its 2009 get a flipping picture up! No excuses I mean my flipping iPod can take and upload pics!

3. SHITTY pictures. You know the listings with the pictures posted sideways or there will be a row of like 7 machines and they will have one pic of all of them. Im not impressed with your shitty collection of Data East machines just get me one decent pic of the machine you have listed.

4. Bad Grammar and Crappy Spelling! Im guilty of this from time to time and probably on this posting but c'mon you are really going to spell it Miss PackMan? I mean read the flipping marquee! I have yet to read any evidence that if you put your entire post in CAPS IT WILL RESULT IN A QUICK SELL!!!

5. No Description. These are usually the same posters who dont include a pictures. "Arcade from 80's. Takes Coins. $1500 obo" Well that narrows it down!

I use to love Craiglist. In 2008 I either bought, sold, or traded 53 machines on there. This year I have sold one and have yet to work out a deal on a purchase. Maybe its just me but it just seems the listings have been ridiculous. Not just the pricing but everything. Its a f*cking headache!

Thats my rant.
 
How about the one I got today, which is "What city are you calling from?" He had the machine listed in at least three regional CLs, and the machine is actually 2-1/2 hours away from me.
 
Craig's List is suffering from the same thing ebay did 10 years ago. Popularity. I used to snipe auctions for stuff for ridicolusly cheap prices, but now forget about it. I did snipe a Marvel Vs Capcom A/B board for $60 recently, but most of the time there is going to be a lot of competition. It just happened to me today with CL I contacted a cl user about a garage sale with an unidentified machine 1 hour after it was posted and the unnamed game (baby pac man) was sold and hauled away!

http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=101427
 
If you think that is bad, do not sign up for freecycle. I signed up thinking it's a pretty good idea. Someone has a old dresser, put it on freecycle, someone picks it up. Done. Instead, it's a bunch of people posting that they need free stuff. Wanted: Free Bedroom set, LCD TV, new bed sheets, etc....
 
You forgot the number one most annoying thing with craigslist: The freaking spam and scams! My god, this used to never be so bad, but lately this year, I've had a few items listing for over $100 on CL and I've received dozens of scam emails from idiots from rwanda wanting to send me a check for the "item described in my listing". And lately I've received even more of those annoying "have you lost hours and need help paying down bills?" spam emails. They suck. Suck bad.
 
lol yeah I totally forgot about the spam. I NEVER had any spam on my cell phone until I posted my number on my listings. A while back I read about this company that wrote some program that goes and cherry picks all the numbers out of CL ads and throws them in there data base. I just love when I get some random text about how I can save money on laundry detergent only to get a .95 cent charge on my phone bill later that month because of it. Its so annoy.
 
An "arcade" is a place.

Is this a regional dialect thing or something? Are there entire parts of the country that refer to the place and the machine with the same word? It is like calling a coin-operated washing machine a "laundromat".
 
My issue with craigslist is cheap fuckers. Period. I hate those guys. Recently, I inherited a newer lawn mower and retired my 8 yr old one. As luck would have it, I got it after I sharpened the blade, put new gas, new filter, new plug & oil in the old one. I put it on craigslist for something like $30. I got a dozen emails saying things like I'll give you $15 if it's self-propeled. Would you take $10 if I pick it up tonight. If something is under a certain price don't haggle just pay the asking price.
 
My issue with craigslist is cheap fuckers. Period. I hate those guys. Recently, I inherited a newer lawn mower and retired my 8 yr old one. As luck would have it, I got it after I sharpened the blade, put new gas, new filter, new plug & oil in the old one. I put it on craigslist for something like $30. I got a dozen emails saying things like I'll give you $15 if it's self-propeled. Would you take $10 if I pick it up tonight. If something is under a certain price don't haggle just pay the asking price.

I wonder if they try to haggle over the price of their groceries when they get to the counter.

"That comes to $31.57 sir."

"I'll give you $15.75 for the lot if you bag them up real nice."
 
yeah, i think the issue is that everyone thinks they have a gold mine on their hands, like on that 'pawn stars' show. people that aren't real knowledgable in the hobby think any game is worth at least $500-1000.
 
..Or the bidder mentality that the sellers end up having when "I got a higher offer", or the listing is "open to higher offers". Very frustrating, it's like free listings without the eBay pricing!
 
An "arcade" is a place.

Is this a regional dialect thing or something? Are there entire parts of the country that refer to the place and the machine with the same word? It is like calling a coin-operated washing machine a "laundromat".

OMG yes. I was tempted to start a thread about that. An arcade is a place where you play arcade games. You don't go pick up an arcade or find a steal on an arcade. They are arcade games.
 
1) People who think they have an arcade game because they're selling an X-Box with Pac-Man on the hard drive.

2) People who think that Fisher-Price pinball or basketball shooting game is an arcade game.

3) People who send an e-mail asking if it's still available, you say, "Yes," and never hear from them again.

4) People who think that your game for sale with all new paint, art, rebuilt monitor, etc is worth the exact same amount as that trashed out, waterdamaged, piece of crap with the same title that someone's trying to sell for $100.

5) Posting an ad trying to sell your beautiful dedicated Rampage (or whatever) for $500, and seeing someone else post right after you trying to sell the same game (but a conversion) for $450....
 
Meh. It depends on how many games you score. It is theoretically possible to pick up an arcade. Just ask chris25810...




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I am afraid to mention this here as it is a goldmine:

http://www.sellfastandfree.com/

Old postings of games that never sell, and desperate sellers. I guess they never heard of CL


After typing in my zipcode, it seems there are no sellers of anything within 100 miles of me. Oh well.

Also, when typing in the word "arcade" you get a shitload of listings for the Xbox 360 Arcade. Most of which probably have a temporarily fixed RROD.
 
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An "arcade" is a place.

Is this a regional dialect thing or something? Are there entire parts of the country that refer to the place and the machine with the same word? It is like calling a coin-operated washing machine a "laundromat".

+1.

Why in the hell do people call individual games/cabinets "arcades?" An arcade is a place. An "arcade game" on the other hand is a single cabinet.

I know this thread is about whats annoying about CL but the constant labeling of a single game as an "arcade" is just as annoying.

Matt
 
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