Get better friends..
Exactly. My friends get better deals and my friends give me better deals. The more friends you make the better the deals will be and easier to find.
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Get better friends..
If I sell something for what the marker will bear, that buyer will end up using the product. It I sell something cheap, the chance is there that someone will buy it cheap and sell it for what the market will bear.
So I should never sell my arcade machines cause they will be parted out or worse turn into 1n60 machines..
Check out this guy's Ebay auctions.
I wonder if he actually ever sells any of them...
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https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Sky-Kid...475502?hash=item3afa3e13ee:g:UfsAAOSwTmtaLntP
https://www.ebay.com.au/sch/m.html?_ssn=samurai07&_armrs=1&_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=pcb&_sop=16
I think I need to fix my Namco Hellfire PCB.
Yeah, why aren't 68 Camaro super sports $500 anymore? Complete bs!
Get better friends..
Got a call from someone needed a ms pacman pcb..
Drove over an hour dropped it off. It didn't work.
Pulled out the spare.. that worked..
The friendship is worth the drive and any cost the pcb board was.
I don't make a profit from friends and as a friend I help my friends in their hobbies..
Yes, I collect arcade machines but I also collect a really pretty good group of friends.
See op, there's still hopethey aren't?
i got 3 of them last weekend for $40 off CL. old lady said her kids used to drive them, but they've sat for a decade.
guess y'all ain't lookin' hard enough.
#TallTalesofKLOV
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If I have something that is the PCB of the moment I ebay it. I like money.
part of the fun.
Don't get me wrong, I like money too. I just look at capital investment of time, money and effort equals how much net profit I am going to get after I am done with it. If my net profit equals less than 35 an hour. I should be working a real job instead that nets me more than the 35..
Doing something that generates the sub 35 is consider a hobby and should generate the fun factor to compensate. Fun has a cost and you should be aware of it.
Couldn't agree with you more! At the same time...I also understand that as time goes on and things become more in demand, prices are going to rise tremendously. Especially when you have certain folks who hover around the community for the sole purpose of financial gain. All in all, it makes complete sense...but doesn't make it any less frustrating.Prices are just insane, I feel its about people just trying to get rich rather than to help out the community.
These are just listings I've seen in the past couple months for just the PCBs.
Killer Instinct 1 $450
Street Fighter 2 $300+
TMNT $300
WTF!
Just a few years back KI1 was at a solid $300, SF2WW, CE and Turbo at $90-$120 max and TMNT at $100.
This isn't ebay, we know what these things are worth. I've been in the hobby since 2010 and yes prices have fluctuated but now its just unbearable.
I know more people feel like this but its flippers and asshats who are getting angry when we "Thread bash", no its a notice to not rip people off who just want to play a damn game.
Disgusted...
-passionate arcade collector