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[djcr]

I found a change machine once at the amusements in Stourport-on-severn that gave you your tenners worth of coins and the note back. I think I managed qbout 50 quid before the machine thought sod it and kept the note. Woz well happy tho.
Do i remember a scam many years ago something to do with ripping a note about halfway along to make a little V shaped cut in it in order to make the change machine do exactly that? Or was it just one of the many bullsh*t scam stories you hear?

[heyburt]

sweet christ...i remember this thread from when I joined the site two years ago...dude how time flies!

[Pgamblin]

sweet christ...i remember this thread from when I joined the site two years ago...dude how time flies!

and yet you have posted 4 times in that time.. hehe

dig !

[heyburt]

and yet you have posted 4 times in that time.. hehe

dig !

Na I had a different user name then and was an orrible lil c***... haha..

but i changed my wicked ways!!

[LiamsLocks]

Last night I was in my local and was playing their new machine, the name of which escapes me. It's got a hi-lo game in the middle when you collect three parrots. Anyway, so i am on the board and up to 20 quid on the trail and was aware that i could collect it when i landed on a mystery. So i get the mystery and right at the very second that i was going to collect the money, the f*****g fire alarm goes off causing all the electrics to shut down!! If i'd been 5 seconds quicker i'd have had it in the bank and safe.

I called over the barman who said there's nothing he can do, so i started to shout a bit which was embarrasing cos it was pretty empty in there and people were staring. I got the landlord over too and he said he can't do anything. I was absolutely fuming and vowed never to play machines in his pub ever again. His ale's spot on though and i'm going there for the footy the day, so hopefully i can keep off!

[heyburt]

Last night I was in my local and was playing their new machine, the name of which escapes me. It's got a hi-lo game in the middle when you collect three parrots. Anyway, so i am on the board and up to 20 quid on the trail and was aware that i could collect it when i landed on a mystery. So i get the mystery and right at the very second that i was going to collect the money, the f*****g fire alarm goes off causing all the electrics to shut down!! If i'd been 5 seconds quicker i'd have had it in the bank and safe.

I called over the barman who said there's nothing he can do, so i started to shout a bit which was embarrasing cos it was pretty empty in there and people were staring. I got the landlord over too and he said he can't do anything. I was absolutely fuming and vowed never to play machines in his pub ever again. His ale's spot on though and i'm going there for the footy the day, so hopefully i can keep off!

That's a f*****g pisstake.... wait for someone else to play on the machine and set fire to the pub.. that'll teach em...


bastards.. haha

[jonny_the_rod]

i remember me and a friend were in this arcade and all the buttons were flashing on one of those video poker machines. Thinking someone had left some credits in it we went over. Not sure what had happened to it but we noticed that pressing start didn't deal the cards but when you pressed the hold buttons it changed the cards on the screen. So we started pressing the buttons to change the cards to set up the jackpot. All was going well but being abit young at the time we were both getting giddy and laughing, started getting afew looks from one of the attendants. We set up the jackpot £6 and managed to get about £30 out in total before the attendant hearing all the noise we were making and from it paying out so much finally came over to investigate and kicked us off it.

Thing is back then jackpot was all paid in tokens so we ended up with pockets full of tokens which after playing off probably only got maybe £15 in actual cash. Many times since I've thought if only we'd of stayed there quietly set the machine for £3 the maximum cash payout and collected it bits at a time we could of totally emptied the little bugger.

[moneymad martian]

Blackpool arcades, the home of the cheating bastard. I remember playing Myagays Epoch version of The Simpsons; 20p play, £10 JP in Carousel arcade between the Central Pier and the Tower. Backing from £1 number one, had watched some other poor soul pile in a fortune and thought was on to a winner. £90 quid later, the run finally occurs and the machine gives £50 quid. The hopper was empty and the alphanumeric displays, quite clearly, "Pay 50.00". Asked an attendant, who called over the manager, "Sorry Sir we will have to verify that, come back in a couple of weeks" and asks for my details. Now, I go to Blackpool quite often, so a couple of weeks later I go in, explain the situation and ask for said manager (who I saw on the way in) and was told "he no longer works for the Company". Asking if the verification process was complete on the machine, was told, emphatically whilst security staff approached, we have no record of this complaint, and the machine is working in a proper manner. Lo and behold, whilst I am being escorted from the premises, no money refunded, some other poor sod is attempting to collect and the same fault has happened again. Now I should have taken it further, but what proof did I have? Lesson learnt.

The same happened on the North Pier, to a lot less extent. Was playing the Crystal 5p £5 Nudge Double Up, whilst killing some time waiting for a show we were going to see. Had only put shrapnel in, maybe 60p, and it dropped in three melons and held. So attempting to take my tenner with no credits left (and no change) with the melons on the line the machine pays nothing. The attendant is even watching me because I asked him to. "Can't help ya mate". "Hang on, there on the bloody winline, you can see them" I spluttered. "Can't help ya mate, now f**k off".

However, down at the Pleasure Beach they do operate fairly. They have a number of Money Mad Martian machines accross the site which invariably I do very well on. In the arcade at the entrance, the machine went on a mental streak and gave nearly £140; they are not fitted with note changers so the hopper capacity is £120 (ish); the machine was nowhere near full as it eventually stopped at £62 owing. Without a slightest flicker, the attendant went to the cash box and paid up. No taking details or crap like that.

Seaside arcades - approach with extreme caution.

[LiamsLocks]

That's a f*****g pisstake.... wait for someone else to play on the machine and set fire to the pub.. that'll teach em...


bastards.. haha

Not a bad idea at all mate. Ironic thing is that someone opened the fire escape at the start of the footy the other day, so the telly went off and we ended up missing England's goal haha. Yes, I think arson is the only answer!

[CrAzYbAr]

Y'know I have been quite scott-free of problems in arcades except the chavs coming to "Help you out"....The only thing I can think of was playing a £5 Money Laundry and having £1.60 in the cash stack. Anyway I mysteried myself and hit collect and it said I had won £2.60. I was in a service station at the time so too big really to patrol one machine, so a nice little earner on my part
Knowing me all these problems I found with fruities will come flooding back to me now,,,

[hitthesix]

don't ya just love it when the machines f*ck up and pay out too much.
a few years ago playing crazy pays in my local arcade.stuck £20.in and down to my last £2.when i got a lousy £2. back so collected that and lo and behold it paid me £8.instead so i just played on and won £2 again
and yet again it gave me £8.. so stuck that in and got the jp with 3 holds

= £24. collected that and it gave me nearly a ton oh boy was i pmsl
so stayed on it and emptied the bloody thing..the manager filled it up .and i went back on and emptied it again nearly £200 up ..and quickly left.....

a couple of weeks later i decided to go back in and see if it was still coughing out the cash ....and unbeliavable but true it was paying out as the reels were spinning round.. another lucky day woohooo..

apparently there is still a fault with those machines as when the arcade opened in the morning and the machines are all switched on the crazy pays machine would empty all it's coins... sadly they got rid of it . just when i started winning .for a change