New member here, long time lurker. Trying to get ready to buy my first machine. Over the past couple of months i have seen some games come up for sale in my area, titles i have been interested in, with the owner selling them and not disclosing they have been on location for the past several months. I know they have been location due to playing these exact machines. It appears the owner is buying them new and routing them for 6 months then selling them off before any "permanent" damage is being done to the machines, only at a slight discount over buying new, or even a home use only machine. I have contemplated buying one of them, but i feel like if they are hiding that, what else are they hiding. Is this something that is common and maybe something i just need to get over?

Thanks for the link i hadnt seen that post. I guess its more commonly happening then i thought it was.

Thanks for all the opinions so far guys!

While they arent coming right out and saying HUO, they are implying as such, at least to me anyway. Saying things like "only has a couple hundred of plays", the game has been in a location since at least September, so i would imagine it has much more then a couple hundred plays over the time. It also says it has the latestupdated code, its my understanding from reading that when you update code it clears out the number of plays on the machine? is that correct?