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I love the plastic look of the STV Sega Cabs.

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$900 SEGA VF Remix with capped CRT


Or this viewlix L for $1500 free shipping to your door.


https://www.ebay.com/itm/Video-Game...123092?hash=item547770a214:g:RFwAAOSwLh9dpIBC

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hoagtech said:
I love the plastic look of the STV Sega Cabs

$900 SEGA VF Remix with capped CRT


Or this viewlix L for $1500 free shipping to your door.


https://www.ebay.com/itm/Video-Game...123092?hash=item547770a214:g:RFwAAOSwLh9dpIBC



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Thanks for the info that mvs looks mint and has a mint price. Love it but wont pay that much for woodys. Ive seen that neo b4 but yea he stripped it and is charging a high price for basically the work he put in. You got more pics of that vewlix
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yes click the eBay link. He offers free delivery within 100 miles and notes condition as “like new”.

A couple of bonuses are the stand up base if you don’t want to sit down and the 2 player 8 button panel with trackball is installed.

It has MAME installed but I’m not too fond of multicade

How about that STV? I would be all over that if they were available locally. He’s got 2 of them available (Joe’s). The other one is Die Hard Arcade but the monitor on the remix looks perfect.
 
8bit said:
This reminded me of an old train wreck well archived thread on KLOVhttps://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=340578&highlight=import+japan
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Oh geez you had to post that thread...

I'm all over that one, as I went out of my way to verify that moron, track his freight, and even pulled records requests for his illegal company registration, which forced him to register a LLC. Every forum except KLOV listened to my warnings and instead ppl just attacked me due too their silly thirst and impatience.

Anyway, with that, it has its point so...

OP, I'll give the advice I have always given everyone. Be patient, do your research, ask questions, price check everything, request pictures of everything even if you are looking at it in person (Can save you a trip and you can share the pictures with ppl more experienced for advice). Whether its local or import, try to get its history and/or ownership. Was the chassis ever capped/serviced? Is the monitor/chassis stock or was it swapped? Can you get parts if something breaks in transporting or shipping. Be willing to listen and learn. While I have been fixing, restoring, and performing board lvl repairs for a longtime. I still forget things and learn something new all the time in the hobby and in the field.
 
Cab looks nice and the price is actually pretty good. The motherboard and cart are already worth 200+ bones.
 
I too am looking for a candy cab on the East Coast. From the sound of it, I'll be avoiding KC. Really interested in the PA option. I just bought a truck, so I'd definitely be down to take a trip to save on shipping.

Great seeing this thread, and so much activity around people trying to increase availability on the EC.
 
Money walks lol. We shall see. Cabs dissapear so fast.
 
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It could be worse, you could be a pinball collector. Talk about a hobby that's gotten stupid. It's everything that's annoying in this thread, but imagine people are buying $10k candies.
 
Aurich said:
It could be worse, you could be a pinball collector. Talk about a hobby that's gotten stupid. It's everything that's annoying in this thread, but imagine people are buying $10k candies.
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I've always kind of considered them the same hobby really, just "arcade". They're in about the same boat as PCBs though. Things going up 4-10x their value in just a couple years. They just had a higher starting price.

Candies didn't appreciate in value nearly as much as the rest of everything.
 
rewrite said:
Aurich said:
It could be worse, you could be a pinball collector. Talk about a hobby that's gotten stupid. It's everything that's annoying in this thread, but imagine people are buying $10k candies.
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I've always kind of considered them the same hobby really, just "arcade". They're in about the same boat as PCBs though. Things going up 4-10x their value in just a couple years. They just had a higher starting price.
Candies didn't appreciate in value nearly as much as the rest of everything.
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The real difference is there aren't so many 'project' pins anymore, they've been bought up and restored already by collectors for the most part. The warehouses have been raided, the ops cleaned out, the days of scoring cheap deals to fixup are mostly gone. Repro parts have been made, allowing restorations of games that you couldn't fix before, and that shoots the price up. Like, Whitewater was a cheap game until repro ramps became available, now you're gonna pay at least $4k for one.

In our Japanese-focused neck of the woods there's still a supply of games coming off route, containers are like warehouse raids; a flood of games in various shapes and conditions to go through. But even there, the candy supply is drying up. Prices are gonna go up even for 'questionable' cabs because you just can't get them freely like you used to, even if you're a Japanese distributor.

Problem is there's a lot of new hobby people who are frankly lazy. They don't want to do their homework, they don't want to hunt for deals, or be patient. They want to buy it now, and they want it to be perfect.

I really couldn't care less who you don't buy from, and I don't dispute that in this hobby there have been bad deals.

But I see a lot of whining about things you really gotta just handle for what you paid and what you got. You want a machine that's been gone through, bulletproofed, and has a guarantee? Pay what that takes to get, and be patient because someone had to do all that work for you, and then be willing to sell the game when they're done.
 
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