by jmisatu » Tue Mar 26, 2019 4:30 pm
What a joke looking at this machine was which is exactly what I was expecting. Entered a fairly decent looking brick home but inside appeared to be a hoarders paradise. They had the RAT
(rol-a-top) sitting on probably the same coffee table on which the ebay pics were taken. There it sat in all of its almost completely yellow painted glory. The escalator is a picture of an escalator and not a very good one at that. Brush painted everything and brush strokes showing everywhere too. Flat repo back door, wooden open top box for the cash box, repo cabinet, not sure what brand of mech was inside but it did accept the owner's quarters smoothly. The only original RAT parts I could say were probable was the top casting in back and maybe the front castings. Hard to tell on the front due to all the paint and worn out details on lots of the coin images on the casting. I told the seller about all the non original items I observed and they asked me what it was worth. I said they might be lucky to get $1000.00 and I was only looking for an original. Then the lady asked me if I would pay $2000.00 so that is a big drop from the $5500.00 this is listed for. I wished them good luck and thanks for letting me look at it. Just increased my knowledge of what crap is out there. Thanks to "watlingboy" for all his help so far also.