squall280
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Ok we all been thru this at one point or another. You find a machine or a piece your interested in and the seller wants hundreds if not thousands for a piece(cause they are ill informed or just don't know). I was curious how people approach this. for example i recently picked up ghosts and goblins from a real nice guy locally. he told me it was in really beautiful condition and he had a price set in his mind. when i went in person i noticed signs that something was up. the cab had spray foam in it. so without much hesitance i made an offer which he took me up on. when we go to move it the spray foam proved to be correct in my assumptions somethign was wrong. the whoel side of the cab that was up against a wall was soaked. now the game played fine and everything worked but i felt liek a complete jerk asking him if he would go lower. under the circumstances he said yeah. he truthfully didn;t know. he moved into a house and they were left there and he ust wanted to make some money on them.
another experience was when someone had an auction a year or two back. i drove over two hours to the auction and remembered the guy who was selling. he had weeks before bought alot of machines at the coney island aracde auction all for about 50 bucks. he kinda stuck out in the auction. anyways i guess his theory was to buy cheap and resell. but before the auction i overheard the story. he bought them but never took into consideration the reloacting fee it woudl cost to transport about 50 machines over 100 miles.
anyways the auction starts and the first machien was a coors light dart board. went for 75 buck. the seller was livid. absolutely outraged. the second machine went off was a send virtual tenns for once again 75 bucks. the seller screamed out to the auctioneer and had a communication breakdown.....after about 5 minutes of arguing it was decided that for the remainder of the auction all potential buyers were bidding to negotiate......yeah really depressing. so i stick around cause i was interested inthe one machine and he wanted 600 for something i know for a fact he paid for 50 dollars for. i told him i seen him at the previous auction buying them that cheap. he told me he would do 400. not only did i waste my time driving there but having to deal with this guy was a joke. the only reason i wasn;t able to get it at the original auction was cause i bought two machines and thats all i could have traveled with. 6 player x-men sure does take a bulk of the space up.
thats just one of a few situations i dealt with. anyone wish to share their experiences.
another experience was when someone had an auction a year or two back. i drove over two hours to the auction and remembered the guy who was selling. he had weeks before bought alot of machines at the coney island aracde auction all for about 50 bucks. he kinda stuck out in the auction. anyways i guess his theory was to buy cheap and resell. but before the auction i overheard the story. he bought them but never took into consideration the reloacting fee it woudl cost to transport about 50 machines over 100 miles.
anyways the auction starts and the first machien was a coors light dart board. went for 75 buck. the seller was livid. absolutely outraged. the second machine went off was a send virtual tenns for once again 75 bucks. the seller screamed out to the auctioneer and had a communication breakdown.....after about 5 minutes of arguing it was decided that for the remainder of the auction all potential buyers were bidding to negotiate......yeah really depressing. so i stick around cause i was interested inthe one machine and he wanted 600 for something i know for a fact he paid for 50 dollars for. i told him i seen him at the previous auction buying them that cheap. he told me he would do 400. not only did i waste my time driving there but having to deal with this guy was a joke. the only reason i wasn;t able to get it at the original auction was cause i bought two machines and thats all i could have traveled with. 6 player x-men sure does take a bulk of the space up.
thats just one of a few situations i dealt with. anyone wish to share their experiences.

