Your best(And worst) deals.

[mort]

My best deal would have to be $80.00 for my Mario Bros widebody. Needs capkit and sideart which I have ready to install. Keeping in mind I live in a rural area, this was less than an hour drive so I was pleased with the purchase.
Don't regret it but I paid $800.00 for my Wizard of Wor in 2002. It worked, but I switched the monitor soon after I got it home, red didn't show no matter how I adjusted monitor. Beat up control panel and faded sideart, cabinet will be striped and rebuilt. Also drove close to 16 hours round trip to retrieve. Cost adds up when it was a game I absolutely needed.
Also picked up a basket Xenon pinball for $100.00 an hour away from me. Already have over $1000.00 into it and still not working.

 

[keithsarcade]

Free RoadBlasters with $24 in quarters inside. Which is about what I spent in parts to get it going. So it truly was a freebie until the flyback went out last week. Now Ill have about $30 total into it, still not bad at all. A close second would be a nice working Zaxxon I got for $75, almost in perfect shape too. Too bad it only fetched about $140 on eBay.

Worst was overpaying for a Chase HQ at a super auction about 5 years ago, about $220 after all the permiums and taxes. But we played it for a couple years and then sold it for around $150 I think, so still not bad.

 

[Grbgemen]

Best: After Burner Cockpit Deluxe - had some rats/mice that chewed through a bunch of wires. once those were fixed, the game worked great. Had a hard time getting rid of it though.

Worst: Sinbad pin - Was my first pin and i was just getting started in the hobby. Was at a garage sale in the back of a van. He said he wanted $400 as-is, and i said $200. He wouldnt go any lower and the guy said he wanted $700 if he set it up. Got it home and it was missing the power supply and the cpu was toast. It was more of a learning situation.

Probably quite a few other not so good deals but oh well.

 

[Muerto]

my best deal is my Centipede, $820 shipping included.
After a clean up it "worked" (playable, but with minor graphic error..)

 

[8bitnintendo]

I think my best deal was from an op, I got 24 games, tested, complete and working for $500. It was a beautiful thing...

 

[videodan]

My best deal was recent: 2 Monaco GP project games for $10. I'll make a good working unit from both, and I'm on my way on that!

Worst was probably Scramble. Paid $325 for it, and $275 shipping for it. I was glad to have it gone.

 

[cleverlyj]

my best deal was a free Mario in a conversion, followed by a $100 buy of the same game later. i've never really had a haul, though. still waiting on that day.

 

[patchboston]

best deal is my current restoration, missile command. Got it for free, relatively sound shape, and with a working monitor. The AR-II board and pcb are going out for repair, after that I'll have a working game

Worst deal was my first pick-up, a pac-man that had graphical errors, semi-functional monitor and water damage. A lesson well learned!

 

[Brick Top]

Worst deal for me was the MKII in a crappy dynamo cab. The neck board was broken on the monitor, and the cab had been painted black over some POW sideart.

I paid $160, but only because a guy with a JVL Vortex to trade said he was looking for a MKII. That, and I had a spare monitor at home. I got the game and in the meantime Vortex guy found out about MAME, so he didn't want the MKII anymore!

It worked out in the end though, because later on I was able to trade the MKII for a broken Q-Bert. Q-Bert was fixed within minutes of me getting it home.

 

[Robotron Jon]

Best:

Cabaret Stargate - $125
Robotron - $250 (excellent shape)
Super Pac Man - $50
Donkey Kong jr -$100
Sega Star Trek - $175
Sega Naomi GD Rom 25 inch cabinet w/SNK vs Capcom 2001 - $100

Worst:

Galaga - $500 (bad condition, got ripped off)
Asteroids - $599 (at least it had high score save kit and has never needed repair)
Flash Pinball - $175 (but sunk $700 into it, and the thing is dead now).
SPY Hunter - $100 (but sunk a few hundred into it and the thing still hums very loudly)