Rol-A-Top on Ebay

[SLOT DYNASTY]

I have also asked this seller to post extra pix of the inside of the front castings,
as well as pix of the mech., showing the Gold Award symbols. Hopefully they
will respond before the auction is over?

[Midcoast Vintage]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Watling-ROL-A-T ... 1c42058c30
I just sent seller an email asking if the strips have gold award symbols on them.
the reward card does show the gold award symbols, but that is by no means an indicator that reel strips have them.
hopefully seller will reply.

[clubconsoles]

Could I ask how you have confirmed? I likely did the same exercise and compared the visible strip symbols on the eBay pics to my Vendor GA Rol-A-Top and found that the GA symbols COULD be hidden. But seller refused to answer my question on whether the strips were intact and several other questions as well. Buyer beware!

Flip

Hi Flip
I did exactly the same as you and matched up the strips to my GA rol a top.
From the pictures, it is obvious to me, that they are original fortune strips and hence the GA symbols are out of view.
I suppose it is possible that the strips have been butchered and the seller is deliberately hiding the bad parts in his picture, but looking at the quality of what we can see, I would say that's most unlikely?
Agreed, this chap does himself no favours by not answering his emails promptly considering the auction finishes in just over 24hrs!

[Midcoast Vintage]

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as stated earlier, i emailed seller about the reel strips. i received a very pleasant reply and photo this morning.
the machine DOES have gold award symbols.

Dear bdaddy40,

hi,
nice machine.
do the reel strips have "gold award " symbols on them?
there should be at least one on each strip.
they will look like the very bottom symbols on the reward card.
thank you for your time.
good luck.

- midcoastvintage

Dear midcoastvintage,

like this yes it does this is a pic from the machine

- bdaddy40

[SLOT DYNASTY]

Well, the seller sent me the same reel pix as above, plus 3 others.
Two showing the inside of the front casting, and a closeup of the serial #ROL 71402.
For some reason, I cannot transfer those pix (blown-up), to the Forum. Only y
size. Probably because they were sent through the eBay channels. I can transfer
them y, but you wouldn't see all the detail. I will tell you this. All the bells &
whistles appear to be on the inside. Maybe it's just the vender knob that is missing.

[flipper77]

Same experience. Seller sent pleasant email with the four pictures and answers to some of my questions. Least we know a bit more though still a few questions - not quite enough clarity to bid up.

Flip

[Dave]

I see the machine sold for $3,251.01

I estimated that is would cost at least $3,000 to restore and WB said $2,500.

If we take the $2,500 figure and add that to the $3,251.01 price we are at $5,751.01 for a properly restored machine.

That does not take into account the cost of shipping the machine to/from the restorer.

I think the seller did really well on this machine.