Fruit Machine Chat

Have been looking to buy a 4 reeler club for my house for a bit. EBay seems to have dried totally up but is it possible they are being stockpiled if a £100 jackpot is allowed?

A 10p / 20p £ 100 JP Casino Crazy in a pub would be awesome. Just for the fun appeal and that

Interesting,I hadn't thought of that cheeky manoeuvre, or would they not allow it due to them being in a different categorie

I heard they were doing more research into the need for new £100 jackpots because of the fear of creating more of a gambling problem----- as if that hasn't already happened

£100's granted everything else they asked for was declined (changes to cat D/B etc)

I'd imagine it'll be towards the end/beginning of the year and I'm gonna take a stab here and say it'll most likely be like all previous JP amount changes. Some machines upgraded from £70 with a mix of new releases

How people expect club machines to be sited in pubs is beyond me they'll still fall under a different license category.

It would go on maximum prize paid out I would imagine. Clubbers seem a bit out of date now as most were set on 75 to 250 jps when there were no 500 video slots as you had to be a member of a club to ensure you were 18 plus to play high payout machines but now anyone can go in a bookies or arcade n not need to be a member

At the moment yes as lowest club jp is 75 with a 5p stake so is 5 more allowed in a pub buy if 100 is allowed then this must go surely as its max stake and max prize is what the licenses are run at.

Club machines are not awp.. im pretty sure they wouldnt let them site them

Because the payout is 75 pound or more upwards in a club. Lowest club stake as of Feb 2013 is 5p with 75 jackpot which is 5 pound more than legal in a pub but if 100 was allowed in a pub, a 75 or 100 clubbers that's currently illegal to site in a pubwould surely become legal as the max payout would be the same as the AWP. You could site a club MPU3 Barcrest on a 1980 s JP of 60 if you really wanted as Max stake is less than a pound and max payout less than 70

The reason club machines have dried up on ebay is because of he changes in tax, from 1st of Feb 2013 there is no longer any AMLD tax to pay on club machines which was previously around £2000 a year, now operators can site them and just pay 20% tax on the takings , so makes sense to site as many as they can.

Ebay changed the rules regarding Private Sellers. Before, you could state on your listing "Mech disconnected to comply with Gaming Commission rules."
Now, by law, you need a Single Machine License to sell on ebay or it gets pulled. Try sell one and see for yourself.

What are people going on about with min jackpot levels, £100 agreed, putting club machines in pubs etc...

All complete rubbish, changes to the cat prize/stake limits are still under review, implementation will not happen until Nov 2013, that being the proposed earliest schedule.

Min jackpots of £75 in clubs... there is no such rule and never has been. All the current cats for EGMs state just the stake and prize limit.

There is no such descriptions of AWPs, Club machines and the like... its D,C,B4,B3,B3A,B2,B1 and A1(not in current use).

Legacy machines have to meet the technical standard to fit in the current cat. table.

e4ans wrote:Have been looking to buy a 4 reeler club for my house for a bit. EBay seems to have dried totally up but is it possible they are being stockpiled if a £100 jackpot is allowed?

A 10p / 20p £ 100 JP Casino Crazy in a pub would be awesome. Just for the fun appeal and that

only dried up due to normal people cant sell there machines without a permit.