Would ebay

Pheature · Post by **Pheature** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 8:25 pm

do you think it would be safe enough to buy a machine from ebay? with everything took into account and obivously checked the persons feedback would anyone still reccomend it???? like you see some cheap deals, the sad thing for me is that im from northern ireland and postage is that much more...
but still are cheaper than any place around here which i know of.

Mattb · Post by **Mattb** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 8:42 pm

It's plenty safe enough, know loads of people who have bought them and had no problems. I'd probably even say it's the best place to get them second hand for home use.

Pheature · Post by **Pheature** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 8:59 pm

thanx alot

999329753 · Post by **999329753** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 9:06 pm

Have bought several from ebay, it is the best place by far and machines are getting cheaper. Best to buy from local seller as collecting machine saves big time on the cost. Once had jackpoteers, red hot knights, red arrow and great escape in a line in my garage!!

The one drawback is, no matter what machine you buy, you soon get very bored with it, hence once you have had a few you wont bother anymore.

barneybear · Post by **barneybear** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 9:34 pm

i bought a jackpoteers from ebay, stuck it in the garage, played it, downloaded some of the soundsmusic onto my phone and sold it on for a profit! happy times. go for it my irish friend!

Oh, and i put a fiver of my hard earned cash in the hopper and lt my brother play it, standing back, looking smug, theres no way he was gonna win! 1st quid, board, £10. shit business!

bigv038 · Post by **bigv038** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 9:38 pm

I bought a m/c local to me on ebay so I could check it out and pay with cash on collection!

trayhop123 · Post by **trayhop123** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 10:36 pm

the numbers man is spot on ,,,,,,, if you must get one then get something your not familiar with, or better yet something you've never seen before, like an old clubber from yesteryear ,,,,, also dont use any cheats by ever playing it on test ,,,,, ever ,

that way boredom wont set in too soon

JG · Post by JG » Tue Oct 07, 2008 10:48 pm

I've never owned a fruit machine. I've got to say there are very few that I would really like to own. Most of the games I'd know and even if I didn't, it's only like an emulator anyway. So it'd either have to be something absolutely brand new, to work out all the emptiers, OR something for posterity's sake, an absolute classic, ie Screenplay. M1a is unsupported, so you're talking about paying a whack to get a specialist to fix it, that's if it was even working in the first place.
If I did buy something, I'd play the game for a bit, but I'd have more fun trying to rip off the notechanger/mech for my own personal amusement.
I've never cheated or tooled in 'real life'.
I'd take everything to bits and not be able to put it back together.
I did bid on a Fireball on Ebay with 1 min to go that was at £35 in Brum the other day. I was pipped and it was sold, pick up only for £42.
I'd have happily paid a mate to borrow his van for the day to pick that up for that price. Relive an old method and then it's tying a bit of string around a coin (lol). No notey.

I've also wondered what would happen if you turned a machine upside down. I suppose the money falls out the hopper into the top of a machine.

Yeah I'd try some silly stuff.

If all else failed I could use it as a box to lock up the Horse Racing King.
Bloop!

Mattb · Post by **Mattb** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 10:55 pm

You'd need to be damn strong to turn one upside down! :P

mr lugsy · Post by **mr lugsy** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 10:59 pm

i've only owned one , an old jpm clubber that i can't even remember the name of

ops: very tedious after only a short time,no risk = no fun ,i reckon.

j.g i don't recommend turning modern machines upside down ,but selected oldies could yield a few quid here and there.
the old fifty on a bit of cotton trick still worked on barxs and lucky arrows in mannings felixstowe as late as 1998,one of the last bastions in england for it.

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:31 pm

I've turn a great escape upside down, i was a 16-17 year old addict at the time and it was in my dads pub that i grew up in, i'd done about £40-£50 in it hopelessly recycling wins and got the hump in the finish and just thought right ya b@stard i aint standing for this, there were little holes at the top of the slots on the back were you pull the machine onto the sack barrow, so i just turned it on its head, its like a big whisky bottle when your emptying your coins, it clogs up so you have to turn it back the other way, did this for about 40 minutes and got my money back i'd lost roughly, then when i was to tired to do it anymore i plugged it back in, it did'nt alarm which was surprising but the credit/bank screen just displayed stars *********

next day my dad wants to knows whats happened when the machine aint working, and asks me if i know anything seeing the guilty look on my face, my excuse at the time was maybe the cleaner hit it with the hoover

then he knew it was something to do with me, i remember the engineer coming out and opening the back, the insides just fell out, took him a couple of hours to put right, no do gooders please, i know it was wrong and i was young and stupid at the time, just thought i'd share my story with you

mr lugsy · Post by **mr lugsy** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:33 pm

cheers for heads up(side down)

JG · Post by JG » Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:34 pm

Tubes or hopper? Shorter black cab or yellow surround?

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:34 pm

my backs still aching now

aaamusements.co.uk · Post by **aaamusements.co.uk** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:42 pm

Brilliant story!

Must have taken some effort to do that?