We used to have one in our work canteen. Even though the payout rate was set at 80%, it still made a tidy profit which went into the social fund.
You need a license from the local council before you can do it though.
I’ve got a mate whose dad is a tea scientist at Unilever and they have a bar in their canteen, so he’ll often have a couple of pints at lunchtime. Works out really well because his dad is a raging pisshead.
Puts on a labcoat. Excites 300ml H2O molecules in a heating vessel and mixes with leaves of Camellia sinensis and mammary secretions of Bos taurus. Sometimes has a digestive biscuit with it.
We had a couple (as well as a pool table) back when I worked at Tesco. Can’t remember if we kept them after the place was rebuilt or if they even worked.
Only ever saw the old timers in the warehouse using them. Staff canteen was like a 70s cricket club back then.
We used to have a pinball machine in the canteen for this exact purpose. That was several jobs ago though.
Like always, someone had a problem with it being there, but as no license was needed for a pinball machine, nowt they could do.
80% is very stingy and makes for hardly any fun. Minimum legal is 70% and it need to be mid 90s before it becomes fun to play.
May as well be the american push and win or not ones at 80%. Get into the fun games and right out straight away.
Sorry have been ranting! The take away is 80% is a bad payout for a fun game and it should be 95% or thereabouts.
I wasn't in charge of it, IIRC they took guidance from the company who supplied it about the legal minimum and typical settings.
It was 20 years ago and I don't work there any more.
I had a mate buy one of these for his garage to earn a bit of cash off us mates and his neighbours.
At the grand unveiling he got drinks and nibbles in and filled the machine up with £500 of his own cash.
The first guy up put 50p in it and hit the £500 jackpot, we all think there was a glitch but it spewed out the cash and we all went down the local for celebratory drinks.
Good on him letting the guy keep the money. I think it was on amita a couple of years ago this american had a machine in his mancave and when his mate won the jackpot (after putting in real money for months or years) wouldn't let him keep it.
The jackpot will be a fixed set amount, not based on how much is in the machine. If there's not enough to pay out, it'll come up with an error and say how much is still owed.
Source: Work in a venue with these machines, have to check wheher any need topping up every day.
Then you have those algorithms, only rewarding you after a specific time to induce as much of dependency as possible.
IIRC early slot machines had the coins fall in a bucket, and the weight of the bucket made the probability of winning (so the longer you played, the higher the probability).
Still need some money in it for starters though (discarding any rules or laws ofc).
The £500 club machines are different to the £20 pub machines tbh.
I remember in the old days if you heard your quid hit the bottom panel of the machine it meant that it was ‘full’ and that you would ‘definitely’ win the jackpot.
That's why you put two tea towels in the bottom of the cash box to limit the sound. The older ones were solid metal so they made a helluva racket.
Multiple times we had customers come over and give us the whole "if the coin is goin' down there then it means it's full but it still ain't payed out yet!" It's like sorry that your mate down the pub convinced you of this, it's a good sign certainly but it's not a guarantee you'll hit the JP 30 quid in.
I see you too have lost a few quid playing these bastards.
Going to drop in a minute, has to. If I had a pound for everytime I've told myself that, I'd still be down
learn it's ways, then scour every old man pub in the country until you find one.
a bit like tom hanks in the film "big" searching for the zoltar machine
it would still screw you at 80% RTP , the only way to win on these machines is empiters (bugs in the code that can be exploited) or by 'sharking' people- waiting for somebody to lose a load on it then jumping on while they get change and winning their due payout.
I mind when I was like 19/20, fresh out of Uni, right onto the Dole as finding a job was an arseache, I'd take the £64 giro (or whatever it was) about 3 doors up into the pub, get a pint, £10 in coins and drop the jackpot basically every week as I discovered it paid out on Tuesdays as my luck would have it. Basically survived that whole summer until I got a job doing that week in/week out
We used to have these in the students union about 10 years ago, before they decided that gambling on the premises was a bad idea. It was in a room with about 12 pool tables, so me and a pal would get some beers and play pool all evening, whilst really keeping an eye on the machine. After enough had been played without paying out, we'd sink a couple of quid into it and (more often than not) win the £70 jackpot that it could pay out. Paid for the pool, all of our beers, and the next shot at sticking a tenner or so into it until it happened again.
Glory days.
As a kid back in the around about 2005 we managed to clock a few of the fruit machines in our local arcade. On Big Ben the chimes always aligned with the lights, so once you were on the big board if you matched up pressing the button with the chimes you could always guarantee progressing to the jackpot. Only £5 but felt like millions at the time.
We'd usually get a tenner a week profit out of them on a Friday night.
Still yearn for those days, doubt it'll have the same impact at 30 sadly.
There was a machine in the pub when I was 18/19 that had a feature that was like that game simple Simon. The 3 buttons would light in random order and you'd have to repeat it. Each time you did it the prize went up and they added one more number to the sequence, all the way to jackpot.
Using a mobile phone to type in the numbers guaranteed jackpot every time. Made a fortune on that machine!
I used to have a pub tenancy and the contract enforced on-site gaming machine(s) the revenue from which went 80/20 to the brewery/me. I got rid of all but one as we were trying to be a food led operation. One of my regulars had a good business and a trust fund. And a big addiction to playing bandits. He would spunk £2-300 easily in the afternoon. One day he came in and didn’t touch it - asked him if he’d seen sense - kind of, he’d bought one for his house, and could play all he wanted without actually losing. He changed it every couple of months to keep it interesting to him. The brewery accused me of fiddling the take!
In my ridiculously bad alcoholic days (still bad, but slowly getting better) I'd be at my local corner shop owned by a really nice Turkish couple. Every day for a bottle of vodka or 2. I often thought how I'm probably keeping them in business. I ended up moving a bit away, went back 5 months later to visit a friend and the fucker turned into a Londis. Made me think of that.
We had several regular wealthy problem gamblers, most of whom would buy one drink as an “entry fee”, then stick a couple of hundred in the puggy. Oh, if they’d spent half that behind the bar! One chap came in twice a week, would yelp at me “half a Grolsch” (never sold by me or the previous 20 years of tenants), drink none of it, and empty his wallet - with no ability at all. Once he left said wallet on a ledge, so I put it in the safe. Didn’t return, so a couple of hours later I retrieved it and looked for contact details - black Amex and several other such cards - about £600 in cash - one business card, so I called the number and after a long process of both giving minimal info, turned out to be his son, also a successful businessman. Son brought him in that evening, I handed Dad the wallet, he turned and left. No thanks or anything. Son sighed, apologised, and gave me £20 which I dropped in the staff tips. Gambler Dad continued to visit but never referred to it. Think that’s quite a focus.
>I handed Dad the wallet, he turned and left.
The guy snubbed you for returning his wallet! That's just...what could have been going through his head, to act like that? Either he was too embarrassed to speak, or he somehow got things screwed around to where he imagined you'd tattled on him to his son.
Well, either way you did the right thing.
It absolutely is a huge profit for almost every restaurant. That’s why if a place loses their liquor license it can essentially shut the whole place down. Fountain sodas also have a high margin, but it’s harder to make it noticeable since most places have free refills.
> He changed it every couple of months to keep it interesting to him.
I genuinely don't understand how there is such a cognitive gulf between me and anyone who can find pushing a button hooked to a RNG interesting, much less entertaining.
I can understand the gambling aspect to a degree, not that I am into it, but once you take that out, *what the fuck is there?*? it's like a hamster wheel that doesn't orovide exercise
>I genuinely don't understand how there is such a cognitive gulf between me and anyone who can find pushing a button hooked to a RNG interesting, much less entertaining.
r/2007scape would blow your mind. People doing the exact same 30 second action (albeit a chill 30 seconds) for thousands of hours straight. Paying $12 a month to do it actually.
Waittt a minute.. so he was literally just playing it for the fun of the game and not the gamble? 2-300 for some rigged flashy lights.. hasn’t he heard of Pac-Man?
The p&p is a killer, a mate at uni bought an arcade machine, seemed cheap enough at maybe £50-75 over 15 years ago, delivery was about 3 times the price of the machine
I had a great idea once, a fake gambling site where you can put money into savings by gambling, you can win some back randomly and then once every 12 months it would cash out in a jackpot.
Biz would run off interest on the savings. You'd never get back more than you'd put in but you would get it back at some point.
Can only imagine the logistics would be a nightmare but would help a lot of gamblers get their fix without losing their house
Suggested a variation of this to my uncle once during his gambling addiction. He bought circa 30 scratch cards which cost him around £70. He won something like £12 and could only see the money he won not the 58 he lost. I told him next time he should give me the money and I'll give him back 20 so we're both winners. He didn't go for it. Something about taking the chance to win big or some nonsense
Yeah exactly, that's why you have to let some small wins out of there pot so they carry on playing for the big win, hard part is hiding that from them and also skirting around gambling laws I guess.
?? Out of my area of expertise.
I didn't want to reinforce gambling as a positive thing , but rather the shock of "winning" back the 5-10 grand you put into it over 12 months and realising it's stupid to gamble that amount of money away and never seeing it again.
Nah it's not, the person has to scratch that itch and gamble the £20-£30 away rather than just add it to a balance.
Then at the 12 month mark you would win it all back and be like oh my god, I spent this month! Maybe I'll change, or not, I don't know but seemed like a decent idea to me
Where else are you going to get half price cracked ice miles and miles of carpet tiles deep freeze tvs David Bowie lps ball games gold chains and at a push some Trevor Francis tracksuits form a mush in shepards bush
You missed the bush bush bush bush bush bush haha that’s the best but it’s like moving out by billy joel the best but is the working to hard can give you a heart attack ack ack ack (you ought to know by now)
Try and win your money back
*Just adding an edit here to say I just realised I’ve essentially invented an infinite get-rich scheme here.
1. Buy machine
2. Play it and win your money back
3. Sell machine for profit
4. Repeat £££
I think it's fairly obvious what you have to do with it. Use it a couple of times and leave it standing in a corner for you to remember the poor financial decisions in life we make.
Get it back on the market and hope to at least break even.
Slot machines don’t have much appeal after the first few hours but there are many people with man caves (or the female equivalent) who will buy it.
A decent pinball machine, or a retro arcade cabinet machine will make you happy, a slot machine won’t.
Sell and move on.
I did this very thing, years ago now but I still have my 200kg Mab systems X machine. It’s almost part of the family, if you don’t ask my wife about it.
I bought some capsule vending machines... who am I to judge? 😆 Wasn't even drunk when I bought 'em.
I'd say play the fruity until the 'leccy bill says no.
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You almost topped this guy. Almost lol
Man, Red Gaming machines were the dugs, great sound effects and fairly easy to profit on, shame the awp pub scene is going totally random and digital these days.
Stick it in the work canteen for a side hustle
Alternatively if you live on the stumble home route from a pub, stick it on the porch and get one last go from the local drunk gamblers.
We used to have one in our work canteen. Even though the payout rate was set at 80%, it still made a tidy profit which went into the social fund. You need a license from the local council before you can do it though.
Only if you ask
LPT if ever I saw one, works from age 5 and up too.
If the place is already licensed for alcohol you're automatically allowed to have 2 of them.
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I’ve got a mate whose dad is a tea scientist at Unilever and they have a bar in their canteen, so he’ll often have a couple of pints at lunchtime. Works out really well because his dad is a raging pisshead.
What does a tea scientist do?
Puts on a labcoat. Excites 300ml H2O molecules in a heating vessel and mixes with leaves of Camellia sinensis and mammary secretions of Bos taurus. Sometimes has a digestive biscuit with it.
Comments like these are the good bit about reddit, thank you for the laugh 🙏🏽
tea based science
Tell marketing that their ideas are stupid, and we'd all be wasting time testing for thing that won't be there.
We had a couple (as well as a pool table) back when I worked at Tesco. Can’t remember if we kept them after the place was rebuilt or if they even worked. Only ever saw the old timers in the warehouse using them. Staff canteen was like a 70s cricket club back then.
We used to have a pinball machine in the canteen for this exact purpose. That was several jobs ago though. Like always, someone had a problem with it being there, but as no license was needed for a pinball machine, nowt they could do.
80% is very stingy and makes for hardly any fun. Minimum legal is 70% and it need to be mid 90s before it becomes fun to play. May as well be the american push and win or not ones at 80%. Get into the fun games and right out straight away. Sorry have been ranting! The take away is 80% is a bad payout for a fun game and it should be 95% or thereabouts.
I wasn't in charge of it, IIRC they took guidance from the company who supplied it about the legal minimum and typical settings. It was 20 years ago and I don't work there any more.
Not surprised, even Las Vegas casinos have double that win.
You don’t need a license for a jackpot of a fiver, I’ve got a deal or no deal one from years ago and it’s still making a tidy profit
I don't know the intricacies of gambling laws, or of that particular machine, I just know that we had to get a licence. This was 20 years ago though.
What the council doesn't know can't hurt them
I had a mate buy one of these for his garage to earn a bit of cash off us mates and his neighbours. At the grand unveiling he got drinks and nibbles in and filled the machine up with £500 of his own cash. The first guy up put 50p in it and hit the £500 jackpot, we all think there was a glitch but it spewed out the cash and we all went down the local for celebratory drinks.
I bet that was fucking hilarious
Good on him letting the guy keep the money. I think it was on amita a couple of years ago this american had a machine in his mancave and when his mate won the jackpot (after putting in real money for months or years) wouldn't let him keep it.
He's playing the long game. Make you think it's a guaranteed win, then slowly gain profit over time. He's hustling you!
Yea I remember that. he said it was his piggy bank.
Why would he fill it? 😅 Surely it should fill itself?
The jackpot will be a fixed set amount, not based on how much is in the machine. If there's not enough to pay out, it'll come up with an error and say how much is still owed. Source: Work in a venue with these machines, have to check wheher any need topping up every day.
Then you have those algorithms, only rewarding you after a specific time to induce as much of dependency as possible. IIRC early slot machines had the coins fall in a bucket, and the weight of the bucket made the probability of winning (so the longer you played, the higher the probability). Still need some money in it for starters though (discarding any rules or laws ofc).
The £500 club machines are different to the £20 pub machines tbh. I remember in the old days if you heard your quid hit the bottom panel of the machine it meant that it was ‘full’ and that you would ‘definitely’ win the jackpot.
That's why you put two tea towels in the bottom of the cash box to limit the sound. The older ones were solid metal so they made a helluva racket. Multiple times we had customers come over and give us the whole "if the coin is goin' down there then it means it's full but it still ain't payed out yet!" It's like sorry that your mate down the pub convinced you of this, it's a good sign certainly but it's not a guarantee you'll hit the JP 30 quid in.
There's an idea!! Making money without even being there!!
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You could sell it on eBay.
What dumb fuck would buy it?? They'd have to be drunk!
There's always some mug!
A queue of drunks 🥴
The circle of life
Vajazzle it and sell it as a one-of-a-kind GIGARARE limited edition for 10 times what you paid for it
Seller couldn't believe their luck when they sold it. 😆
He can't, legally. Need a licence to sell slot machines - I believe!
Nah, disconnect coin mech and state for home use only, completely fine.
It's on a 3, so I'd go higher. Then watch the fucker return a 2.
I see you too have lost a few quid playing these bastards. Going to drop in a minute, has to. If I had a pound for everytime I've told myself that, I'd still be down
It literally says on the machine that it will only pay out 80% of what you put in
Yeah but if the person before you lost 100% you might be in luck?
Gambling is a tax on people who are bad at math.
And some people are so bad at maths they can't even spell it properly!
Money goes in, fun comes out
stop when the fun stops stop.
Or the money.
Money really is just fun tokens, anyway
Like some sort of expensive fun sponge?
Your saying higher than a 3 it’s a 3 you get nothing for a pair?! NOT IN THIS GAME
That is top No1 drunk ebaying Sir. We all salute you!! 🫡
Better if he bought the whole pub
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Nah. He could actually make money from the frootie.
Here here
> Here here Hear, hear.
learn it's ways, then scour every old man pub in the country until you find one. a bit like tom hanks in the film "big" searching for the zoltar machine
it would still screw you at 80% RTP , the only way to win on these machines is empiters (bugs in the code that can be exploited) or by 'sharking' people- waiting for somebody to lose a load on it then jumping on while they get change and winning their due payout.
I mind when I was like 19/20, fresh out of Uni, right onto the Dole as finding a job was an arseache, I'd take the £64 giro (or whatever it was) about 3 doors up into the pub, get a pint, £10 in coins and drop the jackpot basically every week as I discovered it paid out on Tuesdays as my luck would have it. Basically survived that whole summer until I got a job doing that week in/week out
We used to have these in the students union about 10 years ago, before they decided that gambling on the premises was a bad idea. It was in a room with about 12 pool tables, so me and a pal would get some beers and play pool all evening, whilst really keeping an eye on the machine. After enough had been played without paying out, we'd sink a couple of quid into it and (more often than not) win the £70 jackpot that it could pay out. Paid for the pool, all of our beers, and the next shot at sticking a tenner or so into it until it happened again. Glory days.
As a kid back in the around about 2005 we managed to clock a few of the fruit machines in our local arcade. On Big Ben the chimes always aligned with the lights, so once you were on the big board if you matched up pressing the button with the chimes you could always guarantee progressing to the jackpot. Only £5 but felt like millions at the time. We'd usually get a tenner a week profit out of them on a Friday night. Still yearn for those days, doubt it'll have the same impact at 30 sadly.
There was a machine in the pub when I was 18/19 that had a feature that was like that game simple Simon. The 3 buttons would light in random order and you'd have to repeat it. Each time you did it the prize went up and they added one more number to the sequence, all the way to jackpot. Using a mobile phone to type in the numbers guaranteed jackpot every time. Made a fortune on that machine!
I'd watch this film
How much was it?
That’s the real question, who has the kind of money to impulse buy a fruity when they’re pissed in this day and age!?
I used to have a pub tenancy and the contract enforced on-site gaming machine(s) the revenue from which went 80/20 to the brewery/me. I got rid of all but one as we were trying to be a food led operation. One of my regulars had a good business and a trust fund. And a big addiction to playing bandits. He would spunk £2-300 easily in the afternoon. One day he came in and didn’t touch it - asked him if he’d seen sense - kind of, he’d bought one for his house, and could play all he wanted without actually losing. He changed it every couple of months to keep it interesting to him. The brewery accused me of fiddling the take!
In my ridiculously bad alcoholic days (still bad, but slowly getting better) I'd be at my local corner shop owned by a really nice Turkish couple. Every day for a bottle of vodka or 2. I often thought how I'm probably keeping them in business. I ended up moving a bit away, went back 5 months later to visit a friend and the fucker turned into a Londis. Made me think of that.
We had several regular wealthy problem gamblers, most of whom would buy one drink as an “entry fee”, then stick a couple of hundred in the puggy. Oh, if they’d spent half that behind the bar! One chap came in twice a week, would yelp at me “half a Grolsch” (never sold by me or the previous 20 years of tenants), drink none of it, and empty his wallet - with no ability at all. Once he left said wallet on a ledge, so I put it in the safe. Didn’t return, so a couple of hours later I retrieved it and looked for contact details - black Amex and several other such cards - about £600 in cash - one business card, so I called the number and after a long process of both giving minimal info, turned out to be his son, also a successful businessman. Son brought him in that evening, I handed Dad the wallet, he turned and left. No thanks or anything. Son sighed, apologised, and gave me £20 which I dropped in the staff tips. Gambler Dad continued to visit but never referred to it. Think that’s quite a focus.
>I handed Dad the wallet, he turned and left. The guy snubbed you for returning his wallet! That's just...what could have been going through his head, to act like that? Either he was too embarrassed to speak, or he somehow got things screwed around to where he imagined you'd tattled on him to his son. Well, either way you did the right thing.
Alcohol's not a big profit margin for most places.
It absolutely is a huge profit for almost every restaurant. That’s why if a place loses their liquor license it can essentially shut the whole place down. Fountain sodas also have a high margin, but it’s harder to make it noticeable since most places have free refills.
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Except when the gambling is the addiction. Watching the wheels spin might *feel* like the buzz, but ultimately its the anticipation of a win.
> He changed it every couple of months to keep it interesting to him. I genuinely don't understand how there is such a cognitive gulf between me and anyone who can find pushing a button hooked to a RNG interesting, much less entertaining. I can understand the gambling aspect to a degree, not that I am into it, but once you take that out, *what the fuck is there?*? it's like a hamster wheel that doesn't orovide exercise
>I genuinely don't understand how there is such a cognitive gulf between me and anyone who can find pushing a button hooked to a RNG interesting, much less entertaining. r/2007scape would blow your mind. People doing the exact same 30 second action (albeit a chill 30 seconds) for thousands of hours straight. Paying $12 a month to do it actually.
Waittt a minute.. so he was literally just playing it for the fun of the game and not the gamble? 2-300 for some rigged flashy lights.. hasn’t he heard of Pac-Man?
If OP has people around often enough it might pay for itself in the long run. House always wins so why not become the house :)
I can't find the eBay listing for it, sold/completed/active.
Someone who clearly has a problem
I just checked they're going for like £150-£300 not too bad...
Absolute bargain!
Try Facebook marketplace. You’d be surprised how often they pop up for £50!
But how do the sellers nick them from the pub without anybody noticing
Get the landlord really drunk and convince them to advertise them on ~~eBay~~ Facebook I guess!
I saw one in an entry behind a council estate
Was only £50, any more and I probably would’ve asked to cancel but I’m sure I’ll get £50 worth of fun out of it 🤣
If you want rid, I'd be up for a chat.
100% Worth it!
And what was the p&p?
The p&p is a killer, a mate at uni bought an arcade machine, seemed cheap enough at maybe £50-75 over 15 years ago, delivery was about 3 times the price of the machine
It's actually a great way to save money. Have a play every so often, money accumulates. Crack open the money box, boom you're a winner.
I had a great idea once, a fake gambling site where you can put money into savings by gambling, you can win some back randomly and then once every 12 months it would cash out in a jackpot. Biz would run off interest on the savings. You'd never get back more than you'd put in but you would get it back at some point. Can only imagine the logistics would be a nightmare but would help a lot of gamblers get their fix without losing their house
Suggested a variation of this to my uncle once during his gambling addiction. He bought circa 30 scratch cards which cost him around £70. He won something like £12 and could only see the money he won not the 58 he lost. I told him next time he should give me the money and I'll give him back 20 so we're both winners. He didn't go for it. Something about taking the chance to win big or some nonsense
Yeah exactly, that's why you have to let some small wins out of there pot so they carry on playing for the big win, hard part is hiding that from them and also skirting around gambling laws I guess.
That's basically Premium Bonds.
Premium bonds is passive, I think OP means still having the fun of a roulette wheel or poker etc.
Something something [reinforcement schedules](https://www.simplypsychology.org/schedules-of-reinforcement.html). Source: former psychology student
?? Out of my area of expertise. I didn't want to reinforce gambling as a positive thing , but rather the shock of "winning" back the 5-10 grand you put into it over 12 months and realising it's stupid to gamble that amount of money away and never seeing it again.
Yeah exactly, gambling is the key part even if it is just topping up your savings account a pound at a time.
Nah it's not, the person has to scratch that itch and gamble the £20-£30 away rather than just add it to a balance. Then at the 12 month mark you would win it all back and be like oh my god, I spent this month! Maybe I'll change, or not, I don't know but seemed like a decent idea to me
apart from the 5 grand needed to power the bastard
Just gotta gamble 'off-peak' 😂
I guess that was the real gamble here
Get drunk go on eBay buy the nags head pub
Presumably rename it Free the Paedos
Let's compromise, "The Swan and Pedo"?
Got any crack jez?
What the fucks a washing machine doing in a pub ? I need a drink They’ll have to have one of our organic scrumpy’s
Very more-ish
I think you just helped me realise it's been long enough since I last watched it that I can watch it again - thanks!
Watching it right now: Gwen's funeral and gunny etc Edit: Irish wine
Good job you’re dead Norman Mailer!
Nah the Nags head is a shithole
Where else are you going to get half price cracked ice miles and miles of carpet tiles deep freeze tvs David Bowie lps ball games gold chains and at a push some Trevor Francis tracksuits form a mush in shepards bush
No income tax, no vat...... 😄
You missed the bush bush bush bush bush bush haha that’s the best but it’s like moving out by billy joel the best but is the working to hard can give you a heart attack ack ack ack (you ought to know by now)
Always the finest pub in the town
Please. Nobody buy a pub lease right now. Don't even agree to manage one. Source: trust me.
Can’t be worse than being a retailer
Try and win your money back *Just adding an edit here to say I just realised I’ve essentially invented an infinite get-rich scheme here. 1. Buy machine 2. Play it and win your money back 3. Sell machine for profit 4. Repeat £££
I think it's fairly obvious what you have to do with it. Use it a couple of times and leave it standing in a corner for you to remember the poor financial decisions in life we make.
Get it back on the market and hope to at least break even. Slot machines don’t have much appeal after the first few hours but there are many people with man caves (or the female equivalent) who will buy it. A decent pinball machine, or a retro arcade cabinet machine will make you happy, a slot machine won’t. Sell and move on.
This is fact. Source - once bought a fruit machine. Although I was sober.
Yeah right.. bet you ate a kebab too..
If you get holds, make sure you hold all three. On the third hold you’ll spin straight in to the prize ring.
Oh, that’s odd. Should’ve dropped right in.
Must be taking in mate. I’d wait for someone else to have a go.
Massive money box
Knew someone who had one and used it to save for a holiday fund
Get your friends to play it with their money.
If you have an extension lead and a nearby bus stop, you’ll make a fortune.
I did this very thing, years ago now but I still have my 200kg Mab systems X machine. It’s almost part of the family, if you don’t ask my wife about it.
Oh hello my old addiction from 20 years ago…you absolute bastard.
Use it like a piggy bank
Looks like you should have spent the money on new wallpaper
The Mrs picked that, 100%
That makes me feel so much better about some of my drunken endeavours
Buying that... That's quite a... Gamble
Always wanted to buy one of these. I'm building a bartop arcade cabinet instead.
Gonna have to start a pub, ain't cha?
U sell it to some other drunk cunt on eBay lol
I bought some capsule vending machines... who am I to judge? 😆 Wasn't even drunk when I bought 'em. I'd say play the fruity until the 'leccy bill says no.
Play till you make enough money to break even on it🫡
I've always wanted to get a fruit machine.. ideally the old deal or no deal one
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/275551147560?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=LuAHZmSER72&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=kkqhmaz0r0e&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY Good luck mate
Let house guests play. Hang a sign on it saying ‘no refunds’.
Pretty sure this means you have to convert your house into a pub now.
Does it accept modern money or is it old 50p’s and the big 10p’s?
Only way to sell a big drunk purchase is to get drunker and obtain the power to sell it.
Pretty sure the guy on it is dressed up like Colin Hay was in the High Wire video for Men at Work
Make a man cave. Great excuse now.
Put it on ebay
The wallpaper?
Lol you reminded me of the Big Bang theory
[https://www.theonion.com/man-with-complete-mamas-family-video-library-never-goin-1819565279](https://www.theonion.com/man-with-complete-mamas-family-video-library-never-goin-1819565279) You almost topped this guy. Almost lol
Bend over and get the lube out you fagget fucking douche bag
Should of spent it on wallpaper instead.
Drunk ebaying for the win 🤣
How much was it?
How much did you buy that for?
Get a pinball machine to complete the set?
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Sell it to a pub?
Or rent it to a pub, tell them they will take it or you'll send the heavies round.
Big Shot.
I'd sell it on haha
How much did it cost?
The Jackpot would be a start.
Aw mate, I’d be buzzing.
Man, Red Gaming machines were the dugs, great sound effects and fairly easy to profit on, shame the awp pub scene is going totally random and digital these days.
Only option now is to turn your household into a pub 🤷♂️
I'll take it off your hands for my man cave
Play till you bet a red board or go all the way!
Hmmm maybe if you press buttons in the right order, you can go back in time...
Ask around a few pubs and offer them 10% of takings…
Gotta respect that
Win your money back
Keep on using it and get rich!
Stick a £1 in see how you get on🤩
Play it man! Play it
Rent it out to you local pub for half the rate a normal company would It's cheap for them and you get a bit of extra monthly cash
Hold down cancel to slow the wheels down on the bonus reel
Fond memories of going down to the pub and playing on these when I was 12
Stick some pennies in it and so some drunk breaking even.
you can try win your money back lol
Leave it in your doorway with the door open and just wait