Cincinnati, OH
Quoted from CrazyLevi:1) nobody would ever put that sticker on a HUO game. That's an op sticker and didn't come from the factory. Seems unlikely a homeowner would actually go through the trouble of obtaining that sticker and placing it on their brand new, $3,500 (or more if they bought it retail) HUO game.
The factory would. Pretty sure those came stuck to the coin doors already. Williams was REALLY trying to get ops to set higher game pricing... BK2K had a bunch of 50cent/game propaganda with the machine, and they switched to those preinstalled coindoor stickers at the beginning of the 90s.
Quoted from CrazyLevi:there are dirty finger prints underneath the cabinet - this comes from dirty gloves, dirty hands, and dirty techs, moving and monkneying around with games. You will never see that telltale "dirt zone" underneath the cab at the front that all routed games have on an HUO game
Eh, if the homeowners have movers move the games for them, you'll get fingerprints.
Quoted from CrazyLevi:4) there is fade on all three sides of your cabinet. One side is completely faded, the other two are slightly faded. Again a pretty sure sign of a route game.
Homeowners are just as likely as ops to stick games near windows. They don't know any better (the ops don't care)
Quoted from CrazyLevi:3) there is CLEARLY coin slot wear - this is wear the paint on the coin door has been worn away from fingers and quarters entering the coin slot. You'd never see this on a HUO game.
Ahh, here you go. This is the only "definite non-HUO" evidence you listed, but it's damning. Homeowners might want to use games as piggybanks, but not to THAT extent!
