trashed tempest

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Complete, but not working. Unkown what's wrong with it. Guy just says nothing happens when you turn it on. Says the bottom is rotted out so the cab is trashed. What do you think a fair price would be?
 

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Cab swaps can be done with Tempests, as there are enough of them around. A non-working 6100 is pretty valuable ($300-400), plus the rest of the parts.

If you are committed to it, you could spend as much as $400-500 to get it, then invest another ~$500 into restoring it, and you can end up with a $1200-1500 restored Tempest.

It depends on how cheap you can get it for, and how committed you are to restoring it. If you aren't super into it, don't do it, as vectors take commitment to get running properly. But they all can be restored, and they are worth it if you want one bad enough. But I wouldn't recommend looking at it as a quick flip, as it's going to take work. Only get it if you really want to learn about vectors, and do the work required to own and maintain one.
 
I would be curious about the inside condition... complete boards... wiring harness...ect.

Was told it's complete and all there. Apparently his dad got it in the 80s out if an arcade and it's been sitting in a garage wasting away
 
Cab swaps can be done with Tempests, as there are enough of them around. A non-working 6100 is pretty valuable ($300-400), plus the rest of the parts.

If you are committed to it, you could spend as much as $400-500 to get it, then invest another ~$500 into restoring it, and you can end up with a $1200-1500 restored Tempest.

It depends on how cheap you can get it for, and how committed you are to restoring it. If you aren't super into it, don't do it, as vectors take commitment to get running properly. But they all can be restored, and they are worth it if you want one bad enough. But I wouldn't recommend looking at it as a quick flip, as it's going to take work. Only get it if you really want to learn about vectors, and do the work required to own and maintain one.

Yeah, I've already got a tempest. Was thinking I might take this one, pit it into a new cab and put the new multi tempest in it and run the major havoc...basically giving me a major havoc conversion
 
If you part it out, you likely could sell everything that is salvageable from the cabinet ... and make a tidy profit.

Or if you want ANOTHER Tempest of your own, this is a good start. (I see you have one already)

$300-$400 seems fair to me for non-working electronics and worthless wood. Assuming the K6100 is not necked, and the cabinet is complete ...

I hope you make the deal ... ;)
 
A complete dusty Tempest PCB is worth 150 as is.
If it's running double it or more…
A dusty untouched K6100 is worth about 300.
Once the K6100 is rebuild it's worth about $500.
 
I'm sticking with $200.
I'd probably go $300 if pressed, but it is harder to swallow at that price point.

All these pumped up valuations don't sit well with me.
You know that a game can't actually part itself out, right?

What you're doing is grabbing a piece of raw material and you're actually ADDING VALUE when you haul it, clean it up, start disassembling it, testing things, listing things, negotiating prices, and God forbid, start shipping parts and pieces.

If it's for parts for your personal use, I can see it.
Thinking you're making good profit after all that effort, good luck.

Say you pay $300-$400 for it, then get all the prices you're talking about. What did you make? $300-$400?

What can you do with that cash? Buy another questionable game? Wash/rinse/repeat?

Jaded, I guess...
 
I'm sticking with $200.
I'd probably go $300 if pressed, but it is harder to swallow at that price point.

All these pumped up valuations don't sit well with me.
You know that a game can't actually part itself out, right?

What you're doing is grabbing a piece of raw material and you're actually ADDING VALUE when you haul it, clean it up, start disassembling it, testing things, listing things, negotiating prices, and God forbid, start shipping parts and pieces.

If it's for parts for your personal use, I can see it.
Thinking you're making good profit after all that effort, good luck.

Say you pay $300-$400 for it, then get all the prices you're talking about. What did you make? $300-$400?

What can you do with that cash? Buy another questionable game? Wash/rinse/repeat?

Jaded, I guess...
Agreed. It's a mystery buy, dead cab and no idea what's inside. In cases like this I buy assuming the worse, tube necked, pcb rusted or covered in cat piss, etc. Hope to get lucky from that point but usually don't. $200 doesn't sting to bad if it's total garbage.
 
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