Dragon's Lair Fans - Arcade Lifestyle
General Chat => Arcade Lifestyle => Topic started by: cebulba on March 02, 2014, 09:11:36 PM
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Hi folks,
after weeks of negotiation I need to reveal a story which made me very sad and angry.
While I traded an arcade cab with a nice Nintendo collector from germany a friend of him asked if he is into the arcade hobby.
Not at all, why you are asking he pointed back.
Well - seemed that girl had a brother...who collected arcade cabinets and his house was "full of these huge machines".
She pointed out that her brother commited suicide and that these machines are still there and if my friend would be interested.
He handed me the details and I offered him the following (as I usually do when these things happen*):
1) I can take a look for her, saying her the prices or stating some information on the games at all.
and/or
2) try to sell these off for her (keeping one or two for myself and paying a fair offer)
3) make an offer on the whole lot if I could afford these at all.
Now she wanted to take pictures while she just could remember the following "he had these huge machines....where you can sit in. I remember some looking like cars and there was that Star Wars cabinet".
Wait. Star Wars cabinet? I got a bit nervous on this.
The cabs were stored at his house and while she hadn't a key she wanted to go home for her parents (seems that the house was next to their parents house).
Her parents didn't let her in - "it's all okay you don't have to look".
I tried to contact her again after a few weeks. It's always a bit difficult talking to persons in the event of death and in addition under these circumstances.
She said that her parents won't let her in, so I took the opportunity to send her some pics from old Ebay auctions or current ones (especially on the Star Wars cabinet).
From the pictures she could remember a Daytona Deluxe Single Unit Sit Down and *oh no* an original 1980 Star Wars Sit Down cabinet.
Yes. A Star Wars sit down. Not only my holy collector grail since I played it on GameOn 2008 in London and Andres nice cabinet at Eurocade.
It was obvious to me if that guy had these 2 cabs - the other 10-15 units are of the same quality.
I offered her 4000 EURs for that Star Wars and while I'm out of money then offered again to sell all other cabinets off.
Well with these prices on her back (e.g. a Dayona DLX should cost 800-1200 EURs normally) she went again to her parents.
And now...they revealed the following:
ALL (!) cabs have been sold to someone from northern germany for the complete price of 500 EURs (that was the offer by that guy). He came with 4 persons and a large trailer to pick everything.
So if someone finds out who this person was...I would be very interested: Just to say him he will never went to heaven for this shameless behaviour picking over someones bones :evil:
It is my decent hope that he will have nightmares every day he falls asleep. :twisted:
* I sold 10 cabs for a friend of mine who has a hard life with his cancer
* I sold 1000 original games and computer periphals from the 80's for the family of a friend of mine who died at 24 due to cancer
**Note to everybody: I hope your parents/best friends know whom to contact if something happens / in case of such things.
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oh my god... this if a fuckin ripoff. i guess these machines will pop up eventually... and i will be first in line to tell the seller what a great human being he is.
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hi there
thats makes me angry too ,but those people ar everywhere
sad for those people though.
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any idea who that buyer might be?
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a sad stroy indeed, BUT how do you know that the guy who got the cabs knew about your negotiations with the girl? perhaps he heard about the cabs some other way, made his offer to the parents and picked them uo without even realizing you existed!
don't get me wrong, i feel really sorry for you and when you told me about that house the first time around and that there might be a star wars cockpit waiting for you i was ecstatic for you. however, there are some serious collectors out there who are in that hobby without taking part in any form (or forums) at all and those guys just get their cabs "differently". you'll get your star wars cockpit eventually and perhaps for even less than 4000 euros.
once again: i'm sorry that it didn't work out for you!!!
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a sad stroy indeed, BUT how do you know that the guy who got the cabs knew about your negotiations with the girl? perhaps he heard about the cabs some other way, made his offer to the parents and picked them uo without even realizing you existed!
don't get me wrong, i feel really sorry for you and when you told me about that house the first time around and that there might be a star wars cockpit waiting for you i was ecstatic for you. however, there are some serious collectors out there who are in that hobby without taking part in any form (or forums) at all and those guys just get their cabs "differently". you'll get your star wars cockpit eventually and perhaps for even less than 4000 euros.
once again: i'm sorry that it didn't work out for you!!!
i don't think he is pissed because he did not buy them. i think he is pissed about this ridiculous offer.
i buy and sell used stuff every day but i try to be fair every time. 500 for a star wars alone would be nothing but a joke.
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i don't think he is pissed because he did not buy them. i think he is pissed about this ridiculous offer.
i buy and sell used stuff every day but i try to be fair every time. 500 for a star wars alone would be nothing but a joke.
Yes. That's it.
If he would have been a serious collector, he would have offered a fair price.
Everybody loves Bargains (you remember the porn bar/garage ::) ) but this has been a rip-off. Nothing else.
I doubt these cabs will be again on some marketplaces in the near future.
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who knows how this deal went down, guys. perhaps the parents said "give us 500 and take all that stuff with you." let's face it, for most of the people those huge machines are a waste of space without any nostalgic connection. they have no idea how much people would be willing to pay for them. if i found a garage with old rusted cars, i'd just dump the stuff because cars mean nothing to me - or i'd try to get rid off them as quickly as possible and i'd probably take the first offer just so that those rusting pieces are gone. as i've said, we have no idea what really went on.
once again, i'm not defending anyone, just trying to be reasonable!
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who knows how this deal went down, guys. perhaps the parents said "give us 500 and take all that stuff with you." let's face it, for most of the people those huge machines are a waste of space without any nostalgic connection. they have no idea how much people would be willing to pay for them. if i found a garage with old rusted cars, i'd just dump the stuff because cars mean nothing to me - or i'd try to get rid off them as quickly as possible and i'd probably take the first offer just so that those rusting pieces are gone. as i've said, we have no idea what really went on.
once again, i'm not defending anyone, just trying to be reasonable!
i hope you are right, ully. :)
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500 for a star wars alone would be nothing but a joke.
Oops......sounds like I bought my SW cockpit for less than a joke.....
Man 4000 euro would even start me doubting......
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oh, and by the way: i am NOT the buyer and i have no freaking clue who got that stuff :P don't think it will ever be revealed.
there was a guy from northern germany who grabbed that damn cheap EDOT that andré had been after prior to him. never heard anything about it afterwards and an EDOT is something i would rub in everyone's face ;D. perhaps it's the same dude, because the EDOT seller told me the deal and the pickup went down quickly. and before you ask: 500 euros bought the EDOT!!!
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Man 4000 euro would even start me doubting......
how much for your lunar lander? 8)
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Yeah....that was another sad story, but the seller was honest about it from the start.....I was second in line.
The second sad thing about it was that as soon the seller told the first candidate that he had another person interested, he didn't know how quickly to buy it....
If I had been able to buy it other people could have enjoyed it at Eurocades too.....what's the freaking fun in not sharing this hobby ?
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Man 4000 euro would even start me doubting......
how much for your lunar lander? 8)
Wait. That's mine - I take both Andre :)
P.S.: EDOT? Sorry I'm lame here but that was before my times over here.
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Man 4000 euro would even start me doubting......
how much for your lunar lander? 8)
€3000
;D
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Wait. That's mine - I take both Andre :)
go and play :D i hooked andré up with that lunar lander cabinet, so i guess it's only fair if it returns HOME ;D
but let's not forget one small detail here: andré doesn't want to sell it - or does he? 8)
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Man 4000 euro would even start me doubting......
how much for your lunar lander? 8)
Wait. That's mine - I take both Andre :)
P.S.: EDOT? Sorry I'm lame here but that was before my times over here.
Indeed.
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Wait. That's mine - I take both Andre :)
go and play :D i hooked andré up with that lunar lander cabinet, so i guess it's only fair if it returns HOME ;D
but let's not forget one small detail here: andré doesn't want to sell it - or does he? 8)
As a good business man once told me: everything has it's price......
Yes, I am still very thankful for that Ully !! :)
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**Note to everybody: I hope your parents/best friends know whom to contact if something happens / in case of such things.
The best friend I've got in this hobby actually has some instructions in such an event.....
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**Note to everybody: I hope your parents/best friends know whom to contact if something happens / in case of such things.
The best friend I've got in this hobby actually has some instructions in such an event.....
never thought about this till now...
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As a good business man once told me: everything has it's price......
if i had known that you might be convinced to sell it, i would have thrown that mad planets of mine in your direction with a bundle of euros in the coin box! guess i'll have to convince you in another way now :)
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**Note to everybody: I hope your parents/best friends know whom to contact if something happens / in case of such things.
The best friend I've got in this hobby actually has some instructions in such an event.....
never thought about this till now...
With your growing collection - you should prepare everything. Accidents happen.
My brother and 2 of my friends have instructions in case of such an event.
You don't want to leave your family with 6000+ boxed games, 100 computers and consoles...4 pinballs and now 50+ arcade cabinets...
Speaking of this I hope youu guys have insured your collection in any way. (Fire etc.)
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As a good business man once told me: everything has it's price......
if i had known that you might be convinced to sell it, i would have thrown that mad planets of mine in your direction with a bundle of euros in the coin box! guess i'll have to convince you in another way now :)
Man I SOOOOOOO much regret lowballing you on that one !!!!!! have you seen what the full size uprights go for in the US now ? 2300 USD was the last one I saw !!
Yes I think I would trade my LL for a nice condition working Mad Planets...........I freaking LOVE that game.
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On the other hand.....perfectly working LL, probably the only one on mainland Europe...B/W vector beauty AND an Atari.....I don't know.....I'd probably regret it later.....
I regret selling my Judge Dredd too.....I miss a pinball machine now....but I have no space for one anymore...... All the other games I sold I don't regret so much....
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Man I SOOOOOOO much regret lowballing you on that one !!!!!! have you seen what the full size uprights go for in the US now ? 2300 USD was the last one I saw !!
yeah, i followed that one. there was a "slight" difference between what you offered me for mine and what the upright sold for on ebay :P. but then again, the difference was still there even for the amount of money i eventually got. somehow i regret selling it - and that doesn't happen often ...
Yes I think I would trade my LL for a nice condition working Mad Planets...........I freaking LOVE that game.
let me get you a mad planets and we'll talk, ok?
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no no that Mad Planets you're targetting is mine ;D
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WTF ???
Where ?
;D
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**Note to everybody: I hope your parents/best friends know whom to contact if something happens / in case of such things.
The best friend I've got in this hobby actually has some instructions in such an event.....
never thought about this till now...
Stumbled upon this craiglist advert with a 20K+ game collection (from what I see from the pictures), I once again recommend everybody is prepared.
http://fresno.craigslist.org/sys/4403291889.html (http://fresno.craigslist.org/sys/4403291889.html)