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What's the monetary value of a find like this? It always boggles my mind when people jump straight to "bin it" rather than "I'll see if anyone wants to buy it".

by iamben 3y ago

What's the monetary value of a find like this? It always boggles my mind when people jump straight to "bin it" rather than "I'll see if anyone wants to buy it". I guess sometimes you just need the headspace!

lelandfe 3y ago
Here's one for $8k: https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/240731233987834/ https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/240731233987834/
- rob74 3y ago
  Listed 2 years ago, apparently still unsold. Which proves the point I was making in my sibling comment :)
  - tsunamifury 3y ago
    Looks like this comment may have sold it
Brendinooo 3y ago
Yeah, you really do. I'd imagine who isn't in the space might think "well the graphics are so outdated and the thing is so heavy, who would want to deal with it?" And we don't know what else was on the curb that was taken by the trash people; sometimes you get to a point where you decide that cleaning out fast is worth more than hoarding until you're able to sell everything.
- cduzz 3y ago
  It may also be along the line of "Stan said he'd get that thing working, then he didn't, then he died of cancer leaving me with a bunch of unresolved crap to deal with, and I really miss him and I really hate him and I really miss him." or some similarly complex issue.
  - thombat 3y ago
    Absolutely this: for many people settling the estate of a close family member is such an exhausting chaos of emotion that the question becomes: should I take it all to the dump, or maybe just take myself there?
    - kemayo 3y ago
      My spouse has been going to estate sales recently, and it's an incredibly macabre scene. You walk into a house whose owner recently died, everything looking still basically lived in, and price tags have been put up on their entire life.
rob74 3y ago
TBF this is more of a "have to find the right buyer" product. Some arcade aficionados would give an arm or a leg to get one, but most of us don't have the interest, the space or the know-how needed to get it running (I guess the odds of finding one in working condition, like this one, are not that good).
trentnix 3y ago
I’m working order? Maybe as much as 10-12k. The emergence of barcodes has inflated the price of games like this. A DoT environmental is widely considered an arcade grail and is rare. It’s extremely sought after and the logistics of the size of the cabinet resulted in lots of them being trashed over the year or chopped up.
- xnx 3y ago
  Confused until I realized "barcodes" was probably an autocorrect of "barcodes".
  - thombat 3y ago
    Now I don't know whether that's a sly joke, or I'm too dumb to spot the difference, or simply if autocorrect bested you in that joust?
  - DarknessFalls 3y ago
    Autocorrect got you too. Barcades.
  - tesin 3y ago
    Haha I'm sure you mean "barcades", but that was amusing.
  - moepstar 3y ago
    Confused that you wrote barcodes again (autocorrect? hah!) - i guess it was meant to read "barcades"?
  - xnx 3y ago
    Argh. I undid the first auto-correct from "barcafes" and it still got me!
    - trentnix 3y ago
      I feel better though!
- 3y ago
cduzz 3y ago
You pay for things when you buy them and when you keep them and when you pass them on to their next owner. Often these transaction costs are both in time and in money, and people all value their time and money in different ways. Disposing of this thing, which likely has a huge amount of emotional weight already embodied in it, via a specialist web site and interacting with a gazillion flakes is likely an exhausting prospect.
joshstrange 3y ago
> It always boggles my mind when people jump straight to "bin it" rather than "I'll see if anyone wants to buy it". I think people underestimate the time and effort that goes into doing that. It's not as simple as "I'll see if anyone wants to buy it", now it's a project you have to manage. Not only do you have to deal with people contacting you about it but then you have to find a time/price/location that works for everyone and you get to deal with the long tail of "Is this still for sale?". I mean for something like this I would absolutely put out feelers since I know there are people who would pay for it but in general I just donate stuff after posting in my friends chat to see if anyone wants it. It's just not worth the hassle, for myself it needs to be well over $100 before I try to sell it. Maybe that's "privilege", maybe that's "lazy", I don't know.
bsder 3y ago
> It always boggles my mind when people jump straight to "bin it" rather than "I'll see if anyone wants to buy it". Except ... ever tried to sell something worth $500+? Good grief, the number of idiots. And it goes both ways. Look, I know what I'm selling. I know what it sells for on FleaBay. Any offer below 50% of that and I'm going to tell you to pound sand (most of the time it's not even 10%--I mean, really?). I will throw it in the garbage rather than enable these kinds of morons. By the same token, if you give me about 65-75% of FleaBay, IT'S YOURS. And, vice versa. Dude, I can see what the last 10 of these went for on FleaBay, and you're trying to get quadruple that. Get stuffed.

by iamben 3y ago

lelandfe 3y ago

Here's one for $8k: https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/240731233987834/ https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/240731233987834/

rob74 3y ago
Listed 2 years ago, apparently still unsold. Which proves the point I was making in my sibling comment :)
- tsunamifury 3y ago
  Looks like this comment may have sold it

Brendinooo 3y ago

Yeah, you really do. I'd imagine who isn't in the space might think "well the graphics are so outdated and the thing is so heavy, who would want to deal with it?" And we don't know what else was on the curb that was taken by the trash people; sometimes you get to a point where you decide that cleaning out fast is worth more than hoarding until you're able to sell everything.

cduzz 3y ago
It may also be along the line of "Stan said he'd get that thing working, then he didn't, then he died of cancer leaving me with a bunch of unresolved crap to deal with, and I really miss him and I really hate him and I really miss him." or some similarly complex issue.
- thombat 3y ago
  Absolutely this: for many people settling the estate of a close family member is such an exhausting chaos of emotion that the question becomes: should I take it all to the dump, or maybe just take myself there?
  - kemayo 3y ago
    My spouse has been going to estate sales recently, and it's an incredibly macabre scene. You walk into a house whose owner recently died, everything looking still basically lived in, and price tags have been put up on their entire life.

rob74 3y ago

TBF this is more of a "have to find the right buyer" product. Some arcade aficionados would give an arm or a leg to get one, but most of us don't have the interest, the space or the know-how needed to get it running (I guess the odds of finding one in working condition, like this one, are not that good).

trentnix 3y ago

I’m working order? Maybe as much as 10-12k. The emergence of barcodes has inflated the price of games like this. A DoT environmental is widely considered an arcade grail and is rare. It’s extremely sought after and the logistics of the size of the cabinet resulted in lots of them being trashed over the year or chopped up.

xnx 3y ago
Confused until I realized "barcodes" was probably an autocorrect of "barcodes".
- thombat 3y ago
  Now I don't know whether that's a sly joke, or I'm too dumb to spot the difference, or simply if autocorrect bested you in that joust?
- DarknessFalls 3y ago
  Autocorrect got you too. Barcades.
- tesin 3y ago
  Haha I'm sure you mean "barcades", but that was amusing.
- moepstar 3y ago
  Confused that you wrote barcodes again (autocorrect? hah!) - i guess it was meant to read "barcades"?
- xnx 3y ago
  Argh. I undid the first auto-correct from "barcafes" and it still got me!
  - trentnix 3y ago
    I feel better though!
3y ago

cduzz 3y ago

You pay for things when you buy them and when you keep them and when you pass them on to their next owner. Often these transaction costs are both in time and in money, and people all value their time and money in different ways. Disposing of this thing, which likely has a huge amount of emotional weight already embodied in it, via a specialist web site and interacting with a gazillion flakes is likely an exhausting prospect.

joshstrange 3y ago

> It always boggles my mind when people jump straight to "bin it" rather than "I'll see if anyone wants to buy it". I think people underestimate the time and effort that goes into doing that. It's not as simple as "I'll see if anyone wants to buy it", now it's a project you have to manage. Not only do you have to deal with people contacting you about it but then you have to find a time/price/location that works for everyone and you get to deal with the long tail of "Is this still for sale?". I mean for something like this I would absolutely put out feelers since I know there are people who would pay for it but in general I just donate stuff after posting in my friends chat to see if anyone wants it. It's just not worth the hassle, for myself it needs to be well over $100 before I try to sell it. Maybe that's "privilege", maybe that's "lazy", I don't know.

bsder 3y ago

> It always boggles my mind when people jump straight to "bin it" rather than "I'll see if anyone wants to buy it". Except ... ever tried to sell something worth $500+? Good grief, the number of idiots. And it goes both ways. Look, I know what I'm selling. I know what it sells for on FleaBay. Any offer below 50% of that and I'm going to tell you to pound sand (most of the time it's not even 10%--I mean, really?). I will throw it in the garbage rather than enable these kinds of morons. By the same token, if you give me about 65-75% of FleaBay, IT'S YOURS. And, vice versa. Dude, I can see what the last 10 of these went for on FleaBay, and you're trying to get quadruple that. Get stuffed.