Impressive buys

[RaveN]

Any particularly impressive purchases from the past?
I've been examining past buys from ebay when I was a full on PCB repair guy:

e.g

I miss those days....

(in hindsight, wish i'd paid more for the star wars and Q-bert )

Andy

 

[Alpha1]

Galaxian upright £16. It was mint too!

Centipede, Tempest and Astro Blaster uprights £75

The Invaders and a bootleg Pacman cabaret; free.

Got a twin Daytona once for £100 and when I got it home found £257 in the cashbox

 

[IDCHAPPY]

Galaxian upright £16. It was mint too!

Centipede, Tempest and Astro Blaster uprights £75
 

The Invaders and a bootleg Pacman cabaret; free.

 

Got a twin Daytona once for £100 and when I got it home found £257 in the cashbox

£257?? that's a result

 

[ben76]

Rezon original, DD2 boot and a fecked SF2 boot for about £30 can't remember the exact price... Can you Chappy?

- Ben

 

[stevebm1]

wasn't that the auction you won by outbidding chappy by 1p?

 

[Jodo]

Mint original Twinkle Star Sprites with holo label for £10.

The game is awful though So I flipped it for £100.

I'm a very bad man.

 

[Alpha1]

Mint original Twinkle Star Sprites with holo label for £10.

The game is awful though So I flipped it for £100.

I'm a very bad man.

Trader.

 

[cools]

You misspelled awesome.

 

[strykr]

£257 in the cashbox, lol the guy gave you 157 to take away his cab, what a result!

Closest ive had to a result is a video wizard for £99.00 didnt realise but it came with a 60-1 which i flogged to make the cab half price.
strykr2013-04-01 11:46:12

 

[guddler]

BNIB Fluke 6809/E pod €35 shipped

Come to think of it, I seem to remember winning an entire Fluke 9100 plus vector and parallel I/O pods, plus a bunch of other stuff like card edge unit and processor emulation stuff for about €30 odd too, but that ended up falling a bit flat. The guy was clearly a bit miffed at what it went for, didn't pack it too well so by the time it arrived from Germany the 9100 was a physically snapped and broken in places. Actually quite impressive since it's made of metal! Good for spare parts though.

 

[Jase]

10 Jamma cabs, Pole Position upright, 40+ PCBs and half a dozen Quiz machines for £100. (sold a long time ago)
The quiz machines had about £200 in OLD 50p's in them!

Personal faves are full size complete Gorf £25 (keeper!!!) and a complete The Invaders £25 (also sold a long time ago!)

Jase2013-04-01 12:51:39

 

[RICHE100]

nothing exciting for me , brought a fruit machine from a closed down arcade for £25 .. got it home drilled the locks £375 in it ..

another i brought a video wizard and in it found some gold weighed it in and got what id just spent on the cab ..

and finally although not fruit or arcade related brought a mini car off my mate and under the carpets in back of it was one of his used jonnies ?? ha ha not good ...

 

[ben76]

wasn't that the auction you won by outbidding chappy by 1p?

Can't remember the exact amount but pretty sure it was less than 50p

 

[smarty]

$11(delivered) for a Hang On video and sound board from ebay.com turned up in good time, postage paid was something like $35, it was boxed up well and it actually worked

 

[Jodo]

Ooh - I almost forgot! Full 4 PCB Space Harrier stack for £19ish. The guy was busy serving people when I rang him up so he just wanted to agree a price and get me off the phone

 

[Bensonrad]

Juno First pcb £2.62, Sunset Riders £18, TMNT £16, Super Contra £9, to be honest the vast majority of my pcbs never cost me over £30 tops......not that I have any left these days, its all Paperboy and Outrun shizzle and my lone Quarth Jamma board.