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SOLD Donpachi PCB (US)

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ookitarepanda said:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MzjqCu4OepzJlQ7oKZRNKxng57E0uhGMRwpSds6_pwg/edit?usp=sharing

Funny how one of the Donpachis on my spreadsheet is actually from Derick a year ago for $100 more with art. Also funny in that thread is djsheep trying to buy it. :D
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Truth be told. This exact PCB has made its way to me in Australia, and when it got here the sound wasn't working. @xodaraP tried to get it repaired to no luck and @Derick2k was cool and paid for it to get back to him (not cheap by the way) and refunded the original cost INCLUDING the postage back to me.

The plexi marquee was huge and costly to send back, so after negotiating Derick2K let me buy that and the instruction sheets and ended up being out of pocket of about $100 USD for them.

If you factor in he had to pay postage to Australia, postage back to the US, postage to Ken for repair, the price of repair and postage back to him. Yeah, he's out of pocket majorly. Mind you, this particular PCB condition would be a 10/10. Looked unplayed.
 
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Interesting points and discussion.

Can a mod @brizzo @Mitsurugi-w cut the posts unrelated to the sale and move them to a new thread?

There's some good information being discussed here, I don't want to lose the conversation(s) just move them to a new thread I think.
 
ookitarepanda said:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MzjqCu4OepzJlQ7oKZRNKxng57E0uhGMRwpSds6_pwg/edit?usp=sharing

Funny how one of the Donpachis on my spreadsheet is actually from Derick a year ago for $100 more with art. Also funny in that thread is djsheep trying to buy it. :D
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And before that I sold a JP Donpachi for $650 + shipping, dont know if you have that one in there. Thanks for the spreadsheet.

Now, according to your chart, what should I be selling
MMP w/ art/pop, might have the box as well
AK Full Kit
 
opt2not said:
Derek, I'm sorry for being dickish in your sales thread...just can't stand people trying to put words in my mouth.
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No worries man, I get ya. No harm done by anyone, I will just say the discussion got a little heated. Plus I dont see anyone making it seem like this is such an amazing deal you have to get it or pushing anyone to buy it. If I wanted to get rid of this board faster I could have put it up on other sites or traded it. I offer it on here because people are knowledgeable and it should be a nonsense/drama free transaction. Thank you for your support/opinions/comments bro, same to the rest of you guys. It may be small, but this is still the best darn niche arcade forum on the net.
djsheep said:
If you factor in he had to pay postage to Australia, postage back to the US, postage to Ken for repair, the price of repair and postage back to him. Yeah, he's out of pocket majorly. Mind you, this particular PCB condition would be a 10/10. Looked unplayed.
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Man, dont remind me, Im definitely out cash on this board but whatever. Its going to a dude on here, knows what he is buying and is not an uneducated buyer to the arcade scene. To some it may seem high, to me its a fair price, I dont believe Im gouging anyone. This PCb is pretty pristine, got it out of the cab it was originally installed on, so it was never handled/molested :D Plus it was board/kit #3 sold by Atlus in the US. Thanks for working with me on this dude, sorry I didnt catch the sound issue when i sent it out, but it got resolved by one of the best techs here in the US and no he was not cheap, but worth every penny.
 
Derick2k said:
PascalP said:
Derick2k said:
PascalP said:
Yup, lucky you...

Items in general are just must more expensive here, for example I’ve been looking at some new subwoofers recently, $899 or $999 in the US vs €1399 over here (which again is about $1600ish...)
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Oh damn, were those the ones you were looking for? I would buy and ship them out to you, but I guess you gotta figure out how much import tax and shipping from here would cost. I mean it might be worth it. But then, you also gotta think down the road on warranty service, etc.. dont know what they would offer etc..
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Yup, exactly those ;) SVS SB-3000’s
Well with shipping and import taxes they would come in at about €1270 each if someone from the US would forward them to me, so not worth the gamble for €100 to be honest...

Of course the boxes are a bit to big and heavy to declare as a ‘gift’ for €40, which is the tax free threshold ;)
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Man, thats just crazy the amount of import tax on personal goods item declared as gifts. I understand if I was shipping like 40 units to you, but on 1 or 2 items. Would it matter if I 'broke them in for ya" and declared them as used items :D
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Technically that wouldn't help at all....

The tax threshold over here is anything over €20 when it is 'goods' and no shit given if new or used, and anything over €40 when marked as 'gift', again even for broken/defective/repair/used/new whatever....

But of course if I would do it I would happily let you break them in :P
 
@Derick2k regarding one of the other topics discussed in this thread, Buyee, vs Zenmarket etc....
My 2cents; Been using Buyee for a few years and recently swapped to Zenmarket and will never look back at Buyee.

So much easier, quicker, cheaper, they even send pictures of the item when they get it in their warehouse!
Only downside is I can't put any purchases on my Credit Cards directly like Buyee does, and need to transfer money to Zenmarket via Paypal prior to any deal.

But to give you an example, recently bid on a Laserdisc player on YAJ via Zenmarket (CLD-HF9G), won it, got pictures within 1 day, and was delivered on my doorstep 2 days later!
And another big big plus for my with Zenmarket compared to Buyee is that they let me alter the value and description on the shipping/custom documents, so obviously the Laserdisc player was a 'gift' valued at €20 :thumbsup:
 
I’m pretty sure the derail of this thread came from the price discussion rather than price policing.

A lot of forums I use have a “no price discussion” in sales threads. It might be worth considering that, rather than price policing?

Who actually cares what people, with no intention of buying the item, think about the price?
 
markedkiller78 said:
Who actually cares what people, with no intention of buying the item, think about the price?
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I disagree. It has value. Keeps newbies from paying $450 for Sunset Riders or $200 for Metal Slug. It's easy to think that those kinds of things don't happen on forums like this, but we definitely have some of the eBay-seller-preying-on-people-who-don't-know-the-value-of-things pricing people around here (here being the general arcade forum community, not singling out AP).

That obviously wasn't the case here, but I do think some amount of price discussion is entirely healthy.
 
Agreed, but maybe it's wiser to have a Price Check thread on here, where people can discuss and debate current prices for games.

Sales threads, like @markedkiller78 suggested, should remain on topic for people wanting to purchase or get more information.

This system works pretty good over on AO. They have a zero tolerance for anyone discussing or criticising prices on sales threads.
 
djsheep said:
This system works pretty good over on AO.
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And they have the greatest number of crazily priced listings of all the forums around...

Plus their price check thread is super hit or miss as to whether or not you even get a reply if it's not a Cave game or TMNT, etc.

I'm not sure I'd agree that that's it working. It just doesn't allow for things to tumble out of hand. But that happens so rarely here I don't see there being an issue. If it became a larger issue, sure, maybe.
 
I gotta agree with you, their price check thread are the same handful of users giving out low prices for Cave games, which then get bought quickly when listed and then sold for ridiculous prices :/

The benefit of it perhaps is that all the talk is regulated to one thread, like you said, it rarely happens here. And if it does it's nearly because of Cave or cardboard boxes.

Cardboard makin' 'em crazy.
 
PascalP said:
@Derick2k regarding one of the other topics discussed in this thread, Buyee, vs Zenmarket etc....
My 2cents; Been using Buyee for a few years and recently swapped to Zenmarket and will never look back at Buyee.

So much easier, quicker, cheaper, they even send pictures of the item when they get it in their warehouse!
Only downside is I can't put any purchases on my Credit Cards directly like Buyee does, and need to transfer money to Zenmarket via Paypal prior to any deal.

But to give you an example, recently bid on a Laserdisc player on YAJ via Zenmarket (CLD-HF9G), won it, got pictures within 1 day, and was delivered on my doorstep 2 days later!
And another big big plus for my with Zenmarket compared to Buyee is that they let me alter the value and description on the shipping/custom documents, so obviously the Laserdisc player was a 'gift' valued at €20 :thumbsup:
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Agree that Zenmarket's deposit system can be a pain; if they would let users do a one-time, temporary hold against a CC like ShoppingMallJapan to establish a limit, that'd be way more convenient. Also Zenmarket is pretty limited on where you can buy that's not YJA or another big site with a shopping cart system.

I'm sure most of us are aware, but for anyone that may not be, I'd be careful about changing values on customs declarations because if something gets damaged in shipping you'll have to eat that cost since you won't be able to file a claim for the full value. I suppose you could argue the claims system for any postal service is dodgy, at best, and you'd probably be out that money anyway.

On that note, if you buy anything from Zenmarket that's heavy--monitor chassis, for instance--pay the $10 for the extra reinforcement. I had an MS9 chassis arrive cracked around the flyback because it was clearly dropped at some point. I was able to repair it pretty easily with epoxy and a couple of patched traces, but save yourself the trouble.
 
rewrite said:
markedkiller78 said:
Who actually cares what people, with no intention of buying the item, think about the price?
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I disagree. It has value. Keeps newbies from paying $450 for Sunset Riders or $200 for Metal Slug. It's easy to think that those kinds of things don't happen on forums like this, but we definitely have some of the eBay-seller-preying-on-people-who-don't-know-the-value-of-things pricing people around here (here being the general arcade forum community, not singling out AP).
That obviously wasn't the case here, but I do think some amount of price discussion is entirely healthy.
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I don’t have any issue with what you’re saying, but there’s already a rule to stop you from doing that in a sales thread.

I suggested a tweak to the existing rules to stop what should be a 3-5 post sales thread turning into a 4+ page beast that will no doubt need some moderation.

Forum rules are generally there to make the place nicer for everyone, with the added bonus of lessening the work load on the moderators.
 
rewrite said:
I disagree. It has value. Keeps newbies from paying $450 for Sunset Riders or $200 for Metal Slug. It's easy to think that those kinds of things don't happen on forums like this, but we definitely have some of the eBay-seller-preying-on-people-who-don't-know-the-value-of-things pricing people around here (here being the general arcade forum community, not singling out AP).
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I see this much differently. Sellers are entitled to ask what ever price they want for their items, without being told the price is too high or too low. For sale ads are not price check requests. Newbies or established collectors are fully capable to decide what is worth it and what is not. The only factor that truly decides the value of collectibles is what someone is willing to pay. Personally I am okay with my collection going up in value and not staying at prices from 10 years ago.
benime said:
Agree that Zenmarket's deposit system can be a pain; if they would let users do a one-time, temporary hold against a CC like ShoppingMallJapan to establish a limit, that'd be way more convenient.
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If you are a regular user for ZenMarket your account will have a credit limit and require no deposit. How many packages you have shipped in a year determines your limit.

markedkiller78 said:
I suggested a tweak to the existing rules to stop what should be a 3-5 post sales thread turning into a 4+ page beast that will no doubt need some moderation.
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It is rare we have to moderate anything around here. This thread borders on the criteria but has been mainly constructive overall. I don't support knee jerk reactions or changes based on an isolated case :)
 
djsheep said:
Agreed, but maybe it's wiser to have a Price Check thread on here
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no...

if nothing else because threads like that completely fuck over the marketplace search function.

searching to see if someone has a board for sale? too bad because the first 8 pages are going to be irrelevant posts from the price check thread.
 
twistedsymphony said:
if nothing else because threads like that completely fuck over the marketplace search function.
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And with how wonky the search is on this site to begin with, there's NOOOOOO reason to make things harder.
 
we could have an additional subforum in the marketplace area specifically for price checks/price discussions. and then use the advanced search option to select the arcade pcbs/carts forum when you're looking to buy.
 
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