Minimum to earn off Fruits, before changing lifestyles?

[Matt Vinyl]

Harry: I saw that in the paper over the weekend. How, HOW, HOW can it be justified?

As my nan said recently (she's pushing 90, bless her) - get having kids and painting your face!

[mr lugsy]

i saw that article ,makes you mad as hell ,and the bloody bare faced cheek of complaining that they had bags more room back"home" in afghanistan :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x

[ma71lda]

The article made my blood boil too. :x :x :x :x :x If you don't like this country then f*ck off!! The country is on its arse yet we keep letting these spongers in, I'm all for giving people a better life but if they're still out of work 6 months after they arrive or have any run-in with the law then it should be instant deportation.

This year I've been playing no more than 3 times a month, making an average of £100 a time after expenses. They're never consecutive days either as the day after always tends to be a nightmare. In the last couple of outings I've actually lost to the total of £110 mainly testing things and getting stung on a couple of reliables, luckily the majority of it has been made back on good old Hot Stuff and Flash Cash.

I don't think the game is dead but the constant release of drivel and hairy faced moron machines, £15 boards and the lack of casual players is very much like a tumour eating away at the industry.

I enjoyed making £300-500 p/w during the £25jp era, on my own with no inside help may I add......there is absolutely no chance I could do that now even with the bigger jp's. In my eyes its a lottery and a financial risk especially when you can't keep on top of things, toolers and machine crippling emptiers AND did I mention how boring the (non-existant) playability factor is nowadays?

Therefore, I take my hat off to those who still travelling, putting the long hours in, milking whats left and hoovering up the dregs....good luck to you all. But for me, I'll still play my local Hot Stuff and Flash Cash until they're gone, I may have the odd day out but it will be more a drinking day rather than playing, so as our friends on BBC2 say.........I'M OOOT (almost).

[anfield road]

Yeah if you travel and find a change over win stopper then you will be making at least £400 a week on that alone as long as its getting played and nobody else is doing it or you beat other people!

Its all swings and roundabouts I can guarntee there is at least another 5 years in this game... somehing will come out!

keep an eye out for the eachway nudger

[aaamusements.co.uk]

i saw that article ,makes you mad as hell ,and the bloody bare faced cheek of complaining that they had bags more room back"home" in afghanistan :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x

Probably true though - back home probably had two of the walls blown away. Masses of open plan living!

[trayhop123]

its a very good question mark matey, but your bound to get a lot of different responses due to everyone's circumstances being different .

well although we all have the odd 400 up day and the odd 100 loss day, its hard to put an average or even try to work one out with such a sporadic job ,

but in answer to your question mark, i spose if i couldn't average at say 60+ per day then it would be time to pack in and do something else ,

im sure 60+ is a low acceptance level to some, and its probably only around the minimum wage for your average joe job ,,,,,,,, but you have to remember that with sloting you get a certain freedom of making your own hours, getting up when you like etc ,,,,, if you fancy stopping to look round the shops for an hour, or you can be ultra flexible when it comes to dentist appointments etc, family time etc .

all these freedoms are taken away from you the day you walk into a '' conventional job ''

so is £60 really that low when you take these freedoms into account ???

besides with my own personal circumstances i only have to find say 500 amonth which covers my rent, car, moby etc

plus its all tax free, and you cant really put a price on that.

[Cardinal Sin]

plus its all tax free, and you cant really put a price on that.

Yes you can! About 23% I believe.

[ob]

Yeah if you travel and find a change over win stopper then you will be making at least £400 a week on that alone as long as its getting played and nobody else is doing it or you beat other people!

Its all swings and roundabouts I can guarntee there is at least another 5 years in this game... somehing will come out!

keep an eye out for the eachway nudger

lol oh yeh those change over winstoppers are OH SO COMMON... honestly.... something usually comes out tho so you may well be right on that...

[cspurs1]

i have been a youth worker for last 15 years working 3 nights a week...this is my 1 constant in life....i have also been a dj for the past 18 years tjhis has its ups and downs moneywise.....i have also been a player for past 10 years making a reg profit.....the thing is i know gamblin could stop tommorrow for all of us...ie all digital ,no more gliches,less machines etc etc so its not wise to rely on it 100% if i dont gamble for 6 months i can survive.... i have a house(with morgage) nice car etc and when the gamblin is great ie summer season all is wunderba and i can save so wen its shit in winter i got sum to fall back on (savings) and my other work........i feel sorry for people who only know gamblin and nufing else nows the time to start planning for something else in case it all goes tits up which will happen in the next 5 years i reckon.....

[Slammer]

its a very good question mark matey, but your bound to get a lot of different responses due to everyone's circumstances being different .

well although we all have the odd 400 up day and the odd 100 loss day, its hard to put an average or even try to work one out with such a sporadic job ,

but in answer to your question mark, i spose if i couldn't average at say 60+ per day then it would be time to pack in and do something else ,

im sure 60+ is a low acceptance level to some, and its probably only around the minimum wage for your average joe job ,,,,,,,, but you have to remember that with sloting you get a certain freedom of making your own hours, getting up when you like etc ,,,,, if you fancy stopping to look round the shops for an hour, or you can be ultra flexible when it comes to dentist appointments etc, family time etc .

all these freedoms are taken away from you the day you walk into a '' conventional job ''

so is £60 really that low when you take these freedoms into account ???

besides with my own personal circumstances i only have to find say 500 amonth which covers my rent, car, moby etc

plus its all tax free, and you cant really put a price on that.

Circumstances dont really come into it. Im asking, what is your time worth, to you.

Seeing as everyone on here is either working with or without fruit machines (i.e. no millionaires who just dont care, and they have a box to tick anyway on the poll) it shouldnt really matter.

Tax also doesnt come into it Lee. Your answer is £60, which means you'd be looking for a £80 a day job or whatever tax bracket falls into, but what I mean is, you are looking for £60 a day.

Just cos you only need 500 a month, doesnt mean your time is only worth £17 a day.



Im asking what people want to earn, not what they need to live. Otherwise complications like joint earnings etc would come into it and thats not what this poll is about.

My next poll will be, how many people think that playing fruits is a degrading and shit way to spend your day. I'm expecting high numbers in that field, which is why I wonder what people would want to see minimum a day in order to put themselves through it.

Me personally, I've always insisted on 100 a day. I hate it that much now, I'd need 200 a day or I'd simply just stay at home all day and watch TV then get side-tracked when Im bored and start dusting money off in the casino/poker - hence, I got a job.



cheers, Mark

[trayhop123]

erm stil £60

[Been-Grant-Mitchell'd!]

I agree with Trayhop here; £60 per day is ok, but I think only as a "tick-over" wage. However, I take more of an advantage of an empty or method to make up for it when they come about. I've never been able to be the "sit at home" type merely because I'm like Zippy on whizz and can't keep still. If the fruits did go crap, then I'd get a job.

[JG]

The question is what would you consider a fair fruit wage a day. Fair.
Let's assume a several hour session (3-9) and you come back with £100. Well that's a fair result. Fair. Not dazzling, not sparkling, but ok. Fair. Middling.

Obviously to cliche it up I will say a win's a win, but coming back with say £20 in your pocket from a nine hour session leaves a sour taste, in some ways more sour than losing £50 on a nine hour session. Why is that? Hmmmm.

£200 is something of a magic number. I always feel it has been a lucrative day if I can pull the 2'er. I'm always content at the 2'er.

I voted £100. If I was travelling day in day out and battling day in, day out, that would be my fair result I would want to see on average each day.


This game can be inconsistent. On a Blackpool trip I had a fair while back I started off at Corley, bashed it for a 1'er or so, then it was murdered up to Stoke, past manchester and didn't get good until Charnock Richard. Just the way it goes isn't it? You can make £160 in your first hour, think you're guaranteed an easy 2'er then spend the next six hours losing £40.

[Scott]

£60-£70 aint bad going, then you get your monster days that bump your average right up and your happy.


£160 in front in an hour then spend the next 6 hours losing £40.... i know that feeling.

[Mr McStreak]

I always strive to make £150+.The reason for this is because I have to pay a driver. It sickens me to be honest. I don't go out everyday, probably every other day. Twice a week I will expect to earn between 2-300, but after wages that figure goes down.

What can you do though? I'd get a driving license, but its probably cheaper to let someone ferry me around than buy a car, tax and insure it and pay the exhorbitantly high petrol tax. Plus I like a drink.