Two-Bits pac-shat

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Been meaning to post this for awhile as people keep asking about the twobits stuff.

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Here is the marquee comparisson.. original on top, repro behind. Most of the differences are in the characters.

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Here is the repro bezel. Notice that the ghosts are missing in 2 areas... after 'can attack' and 'avoids'. When I got this I emailed twobits on it. He gave me a 'wow.. I never noticed that before and with over 50 sold no-one has mentioned that before..' excuse.. Funny thing is when I posted this on RGVAC I got emails from others who said he had told them the same thing when they received theirs. Crappy thing is is the guy does not have a pic of his bezel on the site.. he shows a real Pac bezel. I emailed him asking when he was gonna change it to what he actually sells and he stopped communicating with me. He did offer to refund on the bezel, but only if I paid to ship it back as well as eat the ship to myself.. so basically he was asking me to take the hit for his junky repro. I will never buy from the guy again.
 
Wow, Thats a rip off. Now I know my bezel an original.
 
How long ago did you get that? I ask because your marquee has the Midway copywright and as far as I knew all there stuff said Namco only. Thanks.

Robert
 
Doesnt necessarily mean yours is original, it just means it didnt come from Two-Shits. Yous probably is original though. Unless you replaced it?

Thats true.

I Never replaced the bezel it. I don't know the history behind my Pac-man is though. I bought it from an old school vendor that fixes his games.
 
If you'd ever met the guy (as I have) you wouldn't buy anything from him that you couldn't get elsewhere....
 
I never will again for anything and will go out of my way to make sure others don't as well if they ask on the stuff. Just too bad that with so many of these machines made that more bezels are not in half decent shape or I would never have bought this in the first place.
 
I bought mine from another online source. They don't advertise, so I hope it isn't the Twobits repro bezel they're selling.
 
I bought a Two Bits Ms. Pac CPO and couldn't be happier. The quality is very close to the original and was waaaaay better than the other repro I bought. I really didn't want to buy from them but was shocked how great the Two Bits Ms. Pac CPO really was especially compared to the other repros out there and to the original.

So, I don't think that all of Two Bits stuff is garbage.

Check this out here:

http://forums.klov.com/showthread.php?t=57903
 
He did offer to refund on the bezel, but only if I paid to ship it back as well as eat the ship to myself.. so basically he was asking me to take the hit for his junky repro. I will never buy from the guy again.

I see he continues with his wonderful customer service. Sounds like you have a good argument for false advertising since what you purchased doesn't match the picture.
 
Here is my two-shits story. I bought a Ms. Pac cabaret overlay from him last year, it was the only piece I needed and looked elsewhere but could not find one. So it was $40 + $20 shipping and looked okay, not an exact match but not bad. I had taped off the lower graphics which were in good shape and sanded the rest and then used appliance epoxy. It came out great, looked like it was just powder coated. It sat for almost a month before I got to the overlay and I put it on dry. As soon as it went on a bubble formed in the lower left corner like the laminate was coming off the overlay, looked like ass.

I took pictures and sent them to him asking what I could do. The response I got back was 'wow, that sucks, the panel looks really nice, the paint must have been outgassing.' I sent him back a message that the panel had sat for month before I applied the bezel. His reply, 'I have never seen that before. If it really bothers you I can sell you another for half price plus shipping.'

If it really bothers me?!? I just spent all this time to make my game look like brand new and now my CPO looks like crap. Even if I got a new one from him I would have to take off the other which would probably result in the panel needing a repaint. So you sell my a faulty product now you want me to buy another? If I did that I would have $100 into just an overlay. WTF? Seriously, this is how you handle a defective product by trying to get more money from the customer? He should have apologized first, not said wow, that sucks, and if it really bothers you..... He should have sent me a new one free of charge to make up for his mistake and all the time and labor it was going to cost me. He was a total and complete douche.

Yes if f'ing bugs me, every time I look at that machine that is the only thing I see. I actually have it in my back bedroom where nobody sees it it bugs me so much. Thank you for ruining my game asshole and then not admitting your mistake or trying to correct it in a professional manner. Douche. I don't care how bad any Pac machine I get in the future is, I'll paint on my own overlay before I ever buy from him and I can't paint for crap.
 
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