Arcade machine for the house

chunkis

Sup guys,

Would anybody be interested in buying an astro city arcade machine for the house?

Astro city machines normally go for about 300/400 euros and then shipping on top of that, if your lucky to find one for sale and pick one up it can set you back as much as 700 or 800 euros. One of our own members in the irish fgc bought one a few years ago and his cost 900 euros all in, and even at 900 euros it was a lovely purchase.



I have a contact who has 6 of these bad boys for sale and they are for sale at 100 euros each. Now i know what your thinking 100 euros each, i want one now! But shipping for these 6 machines to ireland is a massive 1400 euros!! Thats 1900 euros in total for the machines and for shipping, which is a lot of money, but 1900 euros split 6 ways comes to about 300 euros each. 300 euros for an astro city machine including shipping is pretty cheap. I mean even if you were on the dole you could afford to buy one of these its so cheap.

This is a serious bargain for serious gamers, if anybody is interested post up and let me know asap.

EmSixTeen

I'm interested for 300 euro if the button layout is 6/8 for SF, rather than like in the picture.

K.O.Kiki

I should be getting paid in the next 1-2 weeks, consider me a maybe.

Scavenger XIII

Interested but I'd need to see some more details before I'd commit to anything.

chunkis

I am waiting on pictures and more details about the machines, so ill post up as soon as i know more.

Orim

Would that shipping cover to the door or would further shipping be needed to get to the house?

I'd be interested but I'm off for the next 3 weeks or so just fyi.

chunkis

Orim, that shipping is just to the dublin port, you would need somebody to pick up your machine for you. But this company will also ship to your house too, but i wouldn`t bother because am pretty sure they would be mega expensive, your better off picking it up yourself. In saying that i have a mate with a van so i could probably organise delivery for people in or around the dublin/dundalk area, it would be cheap enough too probabaly around 35/40 euros a head mark and to be honest you would probably want to either collect it yourself or have me collect it for you, instead of it rocking around the back of some dodgy delivery drivers van.

Sairus

One of the Galway guys is big into arcade cabs. I'll pass this along.

unky chop chop

Where are they coming from Chunkis?
What a deal.
Lads once you play SF on a candy cab with a 29" monitor in your face you will never look back.
Twas me that bought one 3 years ago for 900.
I paid 250 shipping plus 200 for a tri-sync monitor chassis,needed if you wanna hook sf4/xbox up to it, ohh and 50 for 2p 6 button cp.


But **** 300 for an Astro is an unbelievable bargain...made for fighting games big time.Jump on this lads big time, you won't regret it.
Count me in, Ill get another.
Chunkis, when talking to seller you gottta get hard info on each monitor in the cabs,detailed pics.
get pictures of test grids on each one to show any geometry issues,are they the original Nanao monitors,do they have screen burn?are they the original monitor chassis?

unky chop chop

old vid is all I could find of cab when I got it running SF4,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD0vu7udyNo

pic a few months ago with sunset riders PCB...what a monitor


Again jump on them lads,what an investment and price.
Get pics and info on the monitors chunkis.
Thanks again for this find man...we may all be playing each other the way the game is meant to be played soon.
I've played many of you's online scoffing while sitting at my astro in pure bliss

chunkis

Here is a bit more information on the cabs.

unfortunately these machines have already been packed away in the container and i wasn`t able to get any close up pictures or any details regarding each machine, what you see in the pictures is what you get.

http://s10.postimg.org/dthimgrd5/20130820_163131.jpg

The machines are new astro city machines which come with the improved sound speakers and duel res monitors. From the pictures the cabs look in pretty good condition, the stickers on the cabs looks like they have all come from the same arcade, so with a bit of luck they have been well looked after. The machines come with a mixture of 2 player pannels and 1 player pannels and overall the machines look in pretty good condition and are ready to ship.

before anybody makes up there mind about buying or not buying these let me just point out a few things, first of all this is a real bargain, 300 euros for an astro city cab delivered to ireland is really cheap. The cabs all look in good condition and are all in good working order.

For people who are living on the east coast i can arrange delivery after they arrive in dublin, ive already spoke to emsixteen and will deliver his cab up to colrain, so if there is anybody else in the north who wants one i can also deliver, but i wont be driving to galway or anywhere crazy like that.

I also want two of these machines for myself, leaving only 4 left. So who ever wants one has to be on the ball.

chunkis

unky chop chop wrote: »

Where are they coming from Chunkis?
What a deal.
Lads once you play SF on a candy cab with a 29" monitor in your face you will never look back.
Twas me that bought one 3 years ago for 900.
I paid 250 shipping plus 200 for a tri-sync monitor chassis,needed if you wanna hook sf4/xbox up to it, ohh and 50 for 2p 6 button cp.


But **** 300 for an Astro is an unbelievable bargain...made for fighting games big time.Jump on this lads big time, you won't regret it.
Count me in, Ill get another.
Chunkis, when talking to seller you gottta get hard info on each monitor in the cabs,detailed pics.
get pictures of test grids on each one to show any geometry issues,are they the original Nanao monitors,do they have screen burn?are they the original monitor chassis?

Unky, the machines are coming from hong kong, now the downside is i don`t know what the monitors are going to be like, but as far as i know these machines are 100% all original parts, because they havent been resold around europe. I am expecting some screen burn but nothing major and with a bit of luck they have been well looked after. But am no expert, i mean what you see in the picture is what you get.

Scavenger XIII

I live directly on the path to Coleraine (about 20 miles down the road) so I wouldn't mind getting in on that deal, maybe see if he'd be interested in splitting the delivery cost.

K.O.Kiki

I'm passing over first-dib rights cos I realised I have to put money into my car.

Rob2D

I'd totally get one, only I have nowhere to put it:(

o1s1n

Real bargain there lads. Just to give you a comparison (as I've imported two now), the only other real option to import Japanese candy cabs into Ireland is through Ronnie in the Netherlands.

He tends to sell Astros for around the €500 mark. (dependant on screen burn, more burn cheaper price) Shipping would be another €100+ on top of that.

€300 is unreal and if I had more space I'd be jumping at this.

Just to note that 29 inch cabs are bigger in person than they look in photos. Astro City control panels don't disconnect easily like an Atomiswave SD. You need to remove whole front panel sections on the cab. So make sure you are either comfortable disassembling it on arrival or else have door frames big enough to fit it through.

But yeah, absolute bargain. Good luck with the shipment

Optimus Prime

Wow great price, Initialy posted this saying take my money. but now i think about it, i dont have the room.. would love one though!

ronanc1000

Yes I would be interested!
But , need more photos of the exact machine that I'm getting ...

o1s1n

chunkis wrote: »

unfortunately these machines have already been packed away in the container and i wasn`t able to get any close up pictures or any details regarding each machine, what you see in the pictures is what you get.

http://s10.postimg.org/dthimgrd5/20130820_163131.jpg

:eek: Only just saw this photo now. That's a tad concerning.

These cabs should really be shipped standing up. Each one weight almost 100kg. So it looks like the cabs on the bottom are going to have 200kg stacked on top of them.

I know space is at a premium and these are going for extra cheap. However NACs have a lot of plastic construction. Hope the ones at the bottom don't end up with any cracks/warped frames due to the weight.

Saying that, if I had the room I'd still take the chance for €300

CosmicSmash

Have you taken in to account any customs duty and VAT you would be liable for on the arrival at dublin port. I think consoles are duty free but I'm not sure about cabs, you will have to pay VAT regardless. The first picture is an Astro and the horizontal cabs are New Astros, the speaker grille on the one I can see is brown as an ashtray. You say that the cabs are in pretty good condition but in the next post you say you're no expert, i mean what you see in the picture is what you get. I don't think I would put down 300 for a pig in a poke.
What do think will happen if the cabs land and they're all junk. I don't think people will walk away and drop the money, I know I wouldn't. This has happened on other forums. It's true that cabs have had parts swapped out when they land in Europe this is usually to rectify problems they suffer from the previous life screen burn in, knackered buttons etc. I know you probably have the best of intentions but be aware of the pitfalls of buying cabs unseen.

Savage deal,
Are they on route to dublin?
A friend of mime might be interested

o1s1n

They most definitely will get hit for VAT. I'd asdumed that was factored into the price.

If not, that could bring them up to more like Ronnie's prices.

You'd still be saving om shipping though.

Hmmm. Interested in seeing how this pans out.

The more I think of 200kg on a plastic hood all the way from China the more it worries me

CathalDublin

Interested but what about VAT, customs charges?

chunkis

I emailed about customs and they gave me a big list of charges for customs handling, insurance and other stuff in regards to shipping, it all seems to be included in the shipping price, ive delt with this guy before and the last time i bought goods from him they actually marked down the price of the items i bought to avoid custom charges altogether, so am hoping that if the customs charge isn`t included he will do that again for me, but am waiting on email confirmation on that.

I also have concerns too about how the machines will come, but ive been in or around the arcade scene all my life and ive seen machines packed like this before so it doesn`t bother me at all, in fact in 2003 when i lived in london machines that were bought for an arcade i used to go to came exactly like this, ive seen this kind of transportation a few times since then, although its not exactly ideal, its the cheapest way to do it, the machines at the time were were versus city, not astro, so it would have been twice as heavy. And those machines are still working 100% today, after 11 years. Most machines that come to europe are generally shipped like that acording to killercabs expert Mr Megalo, he used to buy machines from japan and distribute around europe, its only when machines come to europe and get fixed up and resold do they look new, but nothing inside them actually changes that much, its mostly just a new paint job. Sometimes you get monitors that are in bad shape, but am hoping that everything here in these machines is 100%.

But anything you buy second hand is always going to have risk involved, and to be honest at this price am prepared to get what i pay for, its an amazing deal, like people really should just jump on it.

unky chop chop

Fair enough Chunkis. personally I don't care about the cosmetics, scratches and cracks can be repaired easily
It's the monitors we're taking a big time gamble on. If you get one that's ****ed your left with a lump of plastic and wires,nothing more.
To get a new monitor/chassis would be around the 250€ mark probably more with shipping.
On the retro forum we have seen a good few cabs shipped here arriving with bogey monitors from transit,after seeing pics of it working perfect pre transport
Again its a gamble,it always will be...it's just hard to stump up money with out proof of the machines working before transport.
Still it's a gamble that could well pay off

Andrew76

unky chop chop wrote: »

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It's the monitors we're taking a big time gamble on. If you get one that's ****ed your left with a lump of plastic and wires,nothing more.

That's the major concern for sure. €300 for an NAC is obviously an amazing price, almost tempted myself but without pictures of the monitor's working it's too much of a gamble for me - without a decent monitor it's a giant paperweight. Touch wood they'll all be 100% and you'll have gotten a great deal. Always great to have more candy's in the country too!

RedXIV

I'd be all over this if I had the funds. Still considering it to be honest

CathalDublin

chunkis wrote: »

I emailed about customs and they gave me a big list of charges for customs handling, insurance and other stuff in regards to shipping, it all seems to be included in the shipping price, ive delt with this guy before and the last time i bought goods from him they actually marked down the price of the items i bought to avoid custom charges altogether, so am hoping that if the customs charge isn`t included he will do that again for me, but am waiting on email confirmation on that.

The seller is obviously sending FOB but as its coming in a container you need to contact the agent in Dublin regarding charges, they could be massive(hundreds), its not like getting a parcel from a courier. There is VAT, Customs clearance, terminal handling, agency fee, security fee, etc.
I'll gladly give you €300 but I'm afraid its going to be more

I bought 2 body kits for cars which arrived in a container and had the pleasure of paying €700 in charges to collect them from a company in swords who were the agent.

smliv

i,ll go 300 thanks for the opportunity send me pm if need any more info

chunkis

before anybody gives a definite yes or no, let me get as much information on the cabs as i can, i don`t wanna lose/waste money anymore than you guys, so i wanna make sure what we buy is as good as it appears to be, now for the 2nd time ive requested that the machines be taken out and switched on so we can see what we are working with, but this wouldn`t put me off even if they say no as i can see its a pretty big job to take them out and hook them up, but i am serious buyer, so they should hopefully do it, ive also requested information on customs, so lets wait and see what happens.

But it terms of looks/cosmetics these machines are not going to look like the ones you buy from in or around europe, because they wont have a fresh paint job and new/cleaned up control panels, these are coming straight from the arcade and are used. Now the machines are working and when buying something as old as astro city arcade machines there is always going to be some risk involved no matter where they come from.

Now anybody who is serious knows a real bargain when they see one, and this is it, for us who live as far away from arcade machines as you could possibly get this is a real opportunity to get a machine at a good price.

Ive considered worst case senarios in my head and even if they came broken, which i hope they don`t, but if a repair was needed it would probably still be cheaper having a machine in your house ready for repair, instead of forking out 800 or 900 euros for a machine that could still break on you. But hopefully fingers crossed they all arrive safe and in good condition.

So for people who are serious about buying these pm me so i can make a list, if it comes down to it, ill just be picking the first people who showed interest and take it from there. Now the last thing is, that shipping price is only fixed until next Wednesday, i guess after then its too late to get our cabs on that particular boat, so new transport needs to be arranged, i am happy with the price and i don`t care about it going down, but i definitely don`t want it to go up, so want to buy these machines before/on Wednesday, so on mon/tues ill pm the people who are definite and arrange payment details.

For anybody who i don`t know (am talking about the guys from the arcade retro forum) who feel like they don`t wanna just hand over 300 euros to some stranger thats cool, but for all the FGC guys who know me, i expect you guys to be on the ball, since these machines are the roots of what our scene is about it should be something you guys jump at, finance/funding/space/time permitted.

Anyway ill post back as soon as i know more.

Kanped

How soon would you need the money? I've always wanted an arcade machine (been looking into building one as importing is usually an insane option but this price is amazing) but right now's not a great time. If I had a month or so to play with, though, I could definitely be interested.

o1s1n

If they do arrive DOA monitor wise, then you can send the monitor chassis off to be fixed. You're talking about €100 or so.

If for some reason the monitor is beyond bollocksed and you need a completely new one, it'll be about €300 0r thereabouts.

I would say in reality that these'll arrive okay...if the monitors aren't turning on, chances are something'll be loose after the long trip.

If it's beyond that and it's still not working, then probably just a bad solder joint on the chassis after transporting it from China.

I want to see this happen

horgan_p

I'm in.

PM on it's way to you.

chunkis

Kanped wrote: »

How soon would you need the money? I've always wanted an arcade machine (been looking into building one as importing is usually an insane option but this price is amazing) but right now's not a great time. If I had a month or so to play with, though, I could definitely be interested.

Payment would need to be made before wednesday otherwise after that time a new shipping date needs to be arranged that could increase the price of shipping.

Kanped

No way I can get the money together by then, I'm afraid. Ah well.

unky chop chop

I'll pass chunkis...serious bargain, and thanks for the offer but I have 3 cabs now and just bought a fourth cocktail cab that i need to get cracking on.
Lack of space is my enemy..I'll kick myself over it latter i'm sure.

I hope all goes well, I'm sure it will. I'm just happy for more folk to get there hands on cabs and experience the real deal.
If any of the FG forum need a hand setting up etc, me (and any of the lads on retro forum) will be all to happy to help.

PS...Kikki, your 360 pad hacks are still working after 2 years...I don't know how:)

I in the same boat as chop chop!3 candies and a cab to sell.
Love the astros.
Good luck with the deal!

Doctor DooM

Just to say lads- you're doing this at your own risk.

If this does go arse over tit, I won't be entertaining complaints and boards won't be held responsible.

Just to be perfectly clear on this.

o1s1n

Oh I don't think it's been mentioned, but Astros (and other Japanese cabs) run off 100v mains. So you'll need a step down to run them over here. (try to get a Japanese 220v-100v step down rather than the usual USA 220v-120v)

Also try to make sure it's about 300w power.

Hmmm, China runs off 220v like us. If they're coming from there, maybe they've had some work done to convert them over.

Be careful and check first anyway. There'd be nothing worse than if someone plugged it in with a two prong razor adapter without knowing only to fry everything.

K.O.Kiki

unky chop chop wrote: »

PS...Kikki, your 360 pad hacks are still working after 2 years...I don't know how:)

I'll tell you how.

It's cos I'm the best.

chunkis

Bit more information on the cabs, i am actually talking to two different people now, so i am waiting on different sets of information. But what i do know now is that the machines are working and in good condition, and i have even been offered some kind of refund if the machines don`t work, but they have sold many machines all in good condition so they assure me that these are also working in good condition.

The next thing is the refund, which sounds alright, although what kind of refund would be given if there is problems with the machines am not sure of, but i asked, i think its just going to be the actual cost of the cab and not the shipping which makes sense, but it was nice for that to be offered to me.

( edit they just said that whatever parts are broken, they will send a replacement, provioding we send photos, pictures ect) This is good for us.

I also asked about shipping, the shipping cost is just to the port in ireland, so anything after that we need to deal with ourselves, now the good news is that they will send the cabs as a gift/present this will avoid some but probably not all custom charges/vat, so what they are doing for me now is finding out the name of the handling agent in dublin for me to contact and give the details.

Another thing is that they want me to send the money via TT Remittance banking. This sounded dodgy to me at first and i requested a paypal payment because ive bought things from these guys before and thats what i used but that was 7 years ago, so i guess things have changed a bit since then, but i was wondering if anybody had experience with this form of money transfer as ive never heard of it before, is it safe/secure ect, but when i get home later on ill google and find out what the story is.

The last thing is they said that this deal needs to be completed ASAP, so for people who are 100% interested private message me and let me know so i can confirm the 4 people and arrange payment.

Hopefully ill get the shipping agent details so i can ring them up later today, but this deal is slightly going pear shaped with the possibility of having to pay customs, so are people prepared to pay extra?

The customs could actually make or break this deal, but at this stage i would like to follow it through considering the good communication ive had and the fact that they will supply new parts to anything that is faulty or broken.

So i think that they are actually in talks to find out what the charges would be, so they said thats going to be tomorrow, so just waiting on that now.

I can`t really see the the customs being that expensive and even if it was lets say something ridiculous like 1000 euros, 1000 split 6 ways, comes to 160 euros each, which isn`t going to kill us, but yeah i mean i don`t know this deal is slighting going pear shaped with this customs stuff, so lets just wait and see what they say about customs and take it from there.

I have to go now, so ill check in later on and let you guys know if anything else develops.

Kanped

As far as I can tell, remittance banking is completely secure but also a little dodgy. It's supposed to be used by migrants to send money back to their families in their home countries and so comes with different tax and bank charges than regular transfers. In other words, if the banks know that you're buying goods using it, they might not be too happy about that and it could be regarded as fee evasion (so could marking the goods as a gift, like, so it's not too bad really and it'll keep the cost down). Of course, it'll also make you less likely and able to chase up on it if anything happens with the goods but that's the risk you take, I guess.

o1s1n

The whole marking something down as a gift to avoid VAT is grand on smaller packages, I really don't think you're going to get away with it on a container of cabs though! That'd be some gift... :pac:

VAT for an item outside of the EU could be up to 23% (I think that's the figure, been a while since I checked). And that includes the postage fee as part of the calculation.

Chris IWS

Damn it, I would seriously be all over this, but right now I'm just after submitting a job application to London which I am fairly confident about. Oh well.

Dreddybajs

There's no way a shipping container full of 100kg cabinets will be accepted as a gift in customs, is there? Optimistic doesn't seem like the word there.

o1s1n

Dreddybajs wrote: »

There's no way a shipping container full of 100kg cabinets will be accepted as a gift in customs, is there? Optimistic doesn't seem like the word there.

Nope, not a chance!

You need to assume that they'll be hit for every tax under the sun. If they're not, think of it as an extremely lucky bonus.

longshotvalue

ill certainly take one for 300

LIFETRAP

Are there still any of these left? Would definitely be interested in getting one...

RasTa

Why don't ye rent out a van for 50-100 from http://www.vanrentals.ie/van-hire-details.asp?P_ID=204 and drive over?

That one is 70 a day. Can take 500kg's. Probably save close to €1k

martineatworld

RasTa wrote: »

Why don't ye rent out a van for 50-100 from vanrentals.ie and drive over?

Drive over to Hong Kong?!...