Fruit Machine Chat

Had a £165 bank on a machine in Yates, paid out £50 then alarmed think it was 'Mech note err 15' or something like that.

Gaffer turned it off but refused to turn it back on to see if the error would clear itself, as 'they don't own the machines, Gamestec do' so he would have to leave it off until an engineer was called (He was being a bit of a jobsworth to be fair).

Took my name and number, any experience as to how long it will take for them to give me a ring? Do they work Sundays?

Wouldn't count on games tech!!
They still owe me about 2k!

I once had an IOU off a Gold Rush from Yates. After about 8 weeks of pestering the site manager paid me from the safe. It just cleared the whole £105, cause I had £40 odd in the note bank. Was very lucky to see the money.

i would of waited for him to go then turn it back on myself

I agree with big A

I'll give them credit, they've just rang up saying my dosh is ready to be collected.

Now for a 2 hour round trip to collect

I was in london once, Got a dream on £6, (yes they ustd to phone of less than a ton once) paid me 10 coins then tryed to pay a note. it alarmd.. The manager came over i had not brought a drink being in a spoons at a busy time. I told him what was up and what had happend. He went to the till came back and handed me £60. NEVER IN MY LIFE BEFORE OR AFTER HAVE I BEEN PAYED AN IOU FROM A WETHERS. must have been my lucky day.

Does anyone else take matters into their own hands? Fuck what the manager is saying, just a quick off on is all thats needed most of the time, the alarm stops and it pays the remainder, 9 times out of 10 ive plugged it and its initialising before anyone comes over to see what the problem is, if the machine is in an alcove with wall either side is the only time i'll ask for assistance.




I had an IOU on a smash the cash years ago, i was told gotta wait for an engineer blah blah, next time i went in i was told that as soon as i left and the coast was clear the local theiving pikey turned it on and collected my bank, won't be happening again!

.i was once loads into a crown jewels an as i put a note in it alarmed,the landlady switched it off and told me i would have to come back the next day when an engineer had been in.i thought bollox to that,waited for her to walk away,switched it back on,out popped the note and i continued playin.

How many times does an engineer get to a 'fault' to find its corrected itself, some gaffers/staff really are clueless.

thecannonball89 wrote:I was in london once,.

wetherspoons pub managers are allowed to pay up to one jackpot out of the till if the machine breaks during payout

My student bar was notoriously bad for payout errors when they had Red Alert classic in it. Musta broken it about 5 or 6 times? Always the notey. Always got it turned off and on and had my money drop out in coins.

Then they changed it to DOND gold!

Got my IOU fine, anyway here is an interesting one for you lot to explain:

Was on a Red Hot with a 50p £70.00 pot in a quiet pub (And a £50 odd £1 one but I really couldn't be bothered). £30 in, get Deal Or No Deal, £70 box. That'll do for a nice quick profit.

Anyway in my bank it goes, no problems there.

However I collect out and the hopper makes the gurgle noise but no coins come out! Yet my bank goes to £60. Press again and get £30 from the note payout before it decides to revert back to the invisible coins. By this point I had the landlord over to witness what was going on, took my details but not as confident I'll be seeing that money!

Strange supplier for round here too Keeday Leisure?!

(I did shove my hand up the hopper to check no scum had shoved a bit of card up there or something)

I've had a few fresh air payouts, gonna be difficult to prove i think, never had any trouble with keeday, they are from round my way, at least the landlord saw it.

if the engineer is allowed to do an audit on the cash in the machine, you will get the money..

they literally have to take out all of the money from the cashbox, float and note accepter and compare it with the meter readings though... and ultmately this will only work in your favour if the previous audits are correct.