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[Bencrest]

^^Ok point taken^^ But to imply that staff would take £250 in coins and not give you the notes back in return is absurd and a little ott to be worrying that that might happen.

I wouldn't imply it would happen, simply that it is a possibility, albeit a remote one. To be fair, when I did play machines, I played in places I was known and never had an issue, but I've never been a fan of handing over money to people I don't know. That's the Yorkshire blood in me I imagine

A lot of places seem to be unable / unwilling to change wins up anyway now, so why not take all your coins home with you, and if you own one, use them to play / float your own machine at home? I used to go to the arcade, bring all my coins home, and shove them in my bandits, until such a time as I could be arsed to change them up with a bank, albeit only 5 bags per day

[voodoomau5]

Ummmm we're forgetting one thing here.
This is Plymouth, full of dodgy bastards.

[fruitcrazy]

i read all these comments about arcades not changing your winnings up, but i have never had a problem in the ones i go into, i have changed up over £1000 in the passed without problems, well i do know the staff very well over the years i have played there, but have seen new faces change up alot before without problems. where are these loosers of arcades that cant take the fact that sometime the players do win lol. just my take on it.

[Zoltar]

i read all these comments about arcades not changing your winnings up, but i have never had a problem in the ones i go into, i have changed up over £1000 in the passed without problems, well i do know the staff very well over the years i have played there, but have seen new faces change up alot before without problems. where are these loosers of arcades that cant take the fact that sometime the players do win lol. just my take on it.

Theres some smaller Teddies arcades around Hull, where theres just a couple of attendants roaming the arcade and they have a minimal float. Say £50 in £1 coins. I presume this is for security purposes so they don't get robbed. Zero responsibility means that all they have to do is keep an eye on things and tend to punters needs. Often not having keys to anything in the premises, often a senior staff member opens up, and shuts up shop at the days end. And how the attendants keep their float full of coins? They simply bung the notes from the punters that they have just changed into coins, into the change machines. Providing the change machines are reliable and high capacity, they can do this for quite some time I reckon. They may have a senior manager type person who refills the coins halfway through the day at more busier arcades, but I'd have guessed they would just fit more change machines in these busier arcades.

The downside, if the change machine packs up, and theres only one in the arcade, then the attendants can't give out any change I guess. And only having a small float would mean that all they could do is change up to £50 back into notes for a winning punter. This is on the presumption that the attendants have a £50 float. It may be a great deal less like maybe £20. I suppose this allows arcade owners to have dimwit attendants on minimum wage operating their arcades, with the worst case scenario of staff theft, being just the contents of a float going missing.

All the attendants do now is keep refreshments going and aiding players by saving them having to get their notes changed themselves, thus leaving the machine they are playing.

The arcade runs and makes money with limited outlay. Simple business if you ask me. Punter goes upto attendant, changes £20 note for coins, attendant takes £20 note and exchanges it for 20 £1 coins, then punter goes back to play his machine, and the attendant simply walks to the change machine, bungs in that £20 note, gets the 20 £1 coins and puts them in her/his change bag ready for next time.

[Gazeyre1966]

All of you who used abuse on me in this thread, don't you dare come to my arcade (Liskeard Leisure Lounge). YOU'RE BARRED! As a matter of fact, don't come in to Liskeard. If any of you come into my arcade and say anything to me about Mr Cashpot, I will either throw you out right away or call the Police.

Unfortunately, I did have no choice to walk away from the club without changing it up, after Richard's jackpot was confiscated previously. I've got to be very strict nowadays, as strct as US immigration. Don't you dare argue with US immigration, you will be in extremely hot water!

WTF is this crap about?

Don't you dare come to my arcade you say?...and then you put up the name in brackets and advertsise it!!!....then you bar everyone who has given their opinion on this thread...and then you bar everyone else anyway if they come in to say hello to you, even if they haven't abused you on this thread??? Am I reading this tripe right?

You will throw out anyone or call the police if they ask for Mr Cashpot off Fruit-Emu?

f*** your arcade pal...You have a serious attitude problem and now you've told me the name of it I wouldn't visit it ever!!!....and don't big yourself up pal. I'm sure a few members here have already been insulted by your prattish nonsense. Stick yer arcade up your arse!!!

If I have any facts wrong here please feel free to tell me!!!

[simplyred1]

hey i live in plymouth, and during the summer i go to looe amusements was thinking about going to liskeard, but you can sure stuff your arcade up your ass, but then again i might visit and see what happens, cause if you touch me! I think i'll be the one calling the police cashpot!!!!

You deserve to be band, What a proper arse hole!

[fruitcrazy]

Theres some smaller Teddies arcades around Hull, where theres just a couple of attendants roaming the arcade and they have a minimal float. Say £50 in £1 coins. I presume this is for security purposes so they don't get robbed. Zero responsibility means that all they have to do is keep an eye on things and tend to punters needs. Often not having keys to anything in the premises, often a senior staff member opens up, and shuts up shop at the days end. And how the attendants keep their float full of coins? They simply bung the notes from the punters that they have just changed into coins, into the change machines. Providing the change machines are reliable and high capacity, they can do this for quite some time I reckon. They may have a senior manager type person who refills the coins halfway through the day at more busier arcades, but I'd have guessed they would just fit more change machines in these busier arcades.



The downside, if the change machine packs up, and theres only one in the arcade, then the attendants can't give out any change I guess. And only having a small float would mean that all they could do is change up to £50 back into notes for a winning punter. This is on the presumption that the attendants have a £50 float. It may be a great deal less like maybe £20. I suppose this allows arcade owners to have dimwit attendants on minimum wage operating their arcades, with the worst case scenario of staff theft, being just the contents of a float going missing.

All the attendants do now is keep refreshments going and aiding players by saving them having to get their notes changed themselves, thus leaving the machine they are playing.

The arcade runs and makes money with limited outlay. Simple business if you ask me. Punter goes upto attendant, changes £20 note for coins, attendant takes £20 note and exchanges it for 20 £1 coins, then punter goes back to play his machine, and the attendant simply walks to the change machine, bungs in that £20 note, gets the 20 £1 coins and puts them in her/his change bag ready for next time.

yea thats a very good point. im my regular arcade, the staff are trusted alot, they all can run the cash till, there is a fare few thousand behind it, in notes and coins. they have at least 10-20 £250 trays filled, think thats for re-filling an empty machine, and have bundles of cash. they do not have keys to the machines and if one malfuctions then you have to wait for a macantic but they come alot during the week. the bonus about them not having keys are that when you get a good streak and the machine goes emty they refill it by the refill key then turn it back to nomal mode and the streak carries on, not like bingos and that when they open it and it stops the streak

but back to the point i never thought of it like that, i can now understand why they do it, i would if i had a small arcade but if it was a busy one i would appoint someone for keys handling so they could get notes out of the safe for a sufficiant change up if that makes sense.

[voodoomau5]

hey i live in plymouth, and during the summer i go to looe amusements was thinking about going to liskeard, but you can sure stuff your arcade up your ass, but then again i might visit and see what happens, cause if you touch me! I think i'll be the one calling the police cashpot!!!!

You deserve to be band, What a proper arse hole!

What are the arcades like in Looe now, I haven't been in about 8 years lol.

[Richard]

All of you who used abuse on me in this thread, don't you dare come to my arcade (Liskeard Leisure Lounge). YOU'RE BARRED! As a matter of fact, don't come in to Liskeard. If any of you come into my arcade and say anything to me about Mr Cashpot, I will either throw you out right away or call the Police.

Unfortunately, I did have no choice to walk away from the club without changing it up, after Richard's jackpot was confiscated previously. I've got to be very strict nowadays, as strct as US immigration. Don't you dare argue with US immigration, you will be in extremely hot water!

Think its a bit ott to be barring people from ur arcade...

But:

Honest to god the rileys in plymouth did take £500 off me in coins and didnt give the notes back, was told I had to take them to court, police said it was a civil matter ie. court. BTW an engineer was called to the rileys and found nothing wrong with the machine, yet they still took the money.

Also would you believe had the same experience in aldershot after having won their £250jp, the victoria club which is now shut down took it.

The thing is, hard enough as it maybe for some people on here to believe, but as a professional gambler (yes it is possible), clubs just get pissed off and just want a bit of "revenge" as such, for you having the cheek to go into their club and actually win off their machines... after all they arern't there for punters to win eh ....

The same goes for pubs of course, got many tales there too, won't go into depth, but it's on a lower scale as you arent getting £250 in one hit (in most cases )...

[cashbox1]

stuff your arcade up your arse mate- there`s a few thousand more in the country that appeal more - with an attitude like that i doubt you have many punters anyway.

[voodoomau5]

Think its a bit ott to be barring people from ur arcade...

But:

Honest to god the rileys in plymouth did take £500 off me in coins and didnt give the notes back, was told I had to take them to court, police said it was a civil matter ie. court. BTW an engineer was called to the rileys and found nothing wrong with the machine, yet they still took the money.

Also would you believe had the same experience in aldershot after having won their £250jp, the victoria club which is now shut down took it.

The thing is, hard enough as it maybe for some people on here to believe, but as a professional gambler (yes it is possible), clubs just get pissed off and just want a bit of "revenge" as such, for you having the cheek to go into their club and actually win off their machines... after all they arern't there for punters to win eh ....

The same goes for pubs of course, got many tales there too, won't go into depth, but it's on a lower scale as you arent getting £250 in one hit (in most cases )...

If I were you I would of grabbed a snooker cue, smashed up the machines, lights, bar and then the attendants f***in head. Oh, and don't forget to raid the till. Then run!

[Bencrest]

Why not get the Gambling Commission involved?

We had someone make the most ridiculous complaint once, and they turned up to quiz us

The complaint was that despite there being a grabber bed full of toys, they thought they could win the toys on the display shelf at the back of the cabinet, which the grabber barely touched (they were big toys, it might have tapped them on the way down but there was no way to get enough contact to win them - they were tied on display stock!). There were plenty of exactly the same toy on the bed, but they thought because the grabber touched the back shelf, that meant they should be able to win one. Arseholes.

Anyway, if the GC take a complaint like that seriously, I'd imagine they'd be interested to hear about complaints of stolen winnings.

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[voodoomau5]

Why not get the Gambling Commission involved?

We had someone make the most ridiculous complaint once, and they turned up to quiz us

The complaint was that despite there being a grabber bed full of toys, they thought they could win the toys on the display shelf at the back of the cabinet, which the grabber barely touched (they were big toys, it might have tapped them on the way down but there was no way to get enough contact to win them - they were tied on display stock!). There were plenty of exactly the same toy on the bed, but they thought because the grabber touched the back shelf, that meant they should be able to win one. Arseholes.

Anyway, if the GC take a complaint like that seriously, I'd imagine they'd be interested to hear about complaints of stolen winnings.

Complaints · Gambling Commission

Pfttt, they're more interested in stopping under 18's having some proper gambling fun.

[exibizarep]

In my opinion people under the age of 18 shouldn't have the opportunity to gamble. The amount of 18yr old's I see in the pub whacking in their weekly wage without a clue is shocking.

Giving people the opportunity to do something when they are young and unaware of the consequences, is what leads to addiction.