Belgrade
Quoted from CaptainNeo:I don't know if you want advice about buying a game from this forum. These guys break any sound advice rules for buying. Here are the staples to buying.
1. Never buy a game you havn't played at least 50 times to know if you like it.
2. Never buy something you can't see, play and pick up in person
3. Know your market. Look at what games of the same title actually sell for (not asking prices..selling prices) they are very different things.
4. Take someone with you that knows about games. Help you look over things, because things like chia boards, bad wiring, and other things the veteran would see, you probably will not. Plus they can help you break it down and move it out.
very sound advice, but unfortunately, sometimes counterintuitive for people not in the know
1. in my neck of woods there are few machines to be played routed. I don't want to own any of them (only exception being TZ), I will go to play them regularly and own something else. When it's in the ads I don't have the luxury to play it 50 times before I decide.
2. this is important, my first purchase was WH2O I didn't see before. It was nicely priced but very rusty and with moldy smell inside and under playfield (probably routed somewhere outside near the sea coast as it wasn't water damaged directly but have certainly been in some contact with water and even had small white salt deposits on certain places). Wouldn't buy machine in a condition like that again unless it is priced further down from that price.
4. most people don't have anyone knowledgeable to take with them.
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
