My new Garfield topper is alive!

[Buzz]

  We need the tacman or stat to figure this out with their CSI minds  but it seems   1st time slot owner  ( a new member ) and the seller on Ebay  Jim_lasvegas  both live in the same City. hum  same picture, same town, maybe same person???  Buzz

[enforcer]

I guy on Criagslist was selling that Uncle Fester topper a few months back.  Don't kow if he ever unloaded it, but I think he was asking $300.

[tacman]

Probably a good bet Buzz. But in his post he was just asking for a value quote, probably intending to sell it all the time. Would be nice to offer to NLG members first, but after seeing tabasco oval INSERTS going for $80 on Ebay, I can understand. I wouldn't even bother with that garish item unless I had the machine to put it on to complete it, but to each his own.

 Dan (tacman)

[enforcer]

All sorts of toppers up on ebay now, including pink panther, Jeopardy and Las Vegas.  Watch the pink panther and las vegas ones skyrocket....

[ashyron]

All sorts of toppers up on ebay now, including pink panther, Jeopardy and Las Vegas.  Watch the pink panther and las vegas ones skyrocket....

I ran across those and the Pink Panther one is pretty cool.   There is an S&H green stamp on there now too:

http://cgi.ebay.com/S-H-Green-Stamps-Slot-Machine-Topper_W0QQitemZ150348328488QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item2301756e28&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1205%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A0%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50

I think it's a challenge to find toppers, almost as much as a challenge to find the machine I want to buy when I want to buy one.   That Las Vegas one would be MOST EXCELLENT to own but I have a feeling it's going to shoot up at the last minute.

[stayouttadabunker]

I bid on the Vegas topper...had one in my hands last winter...but alas, it was for someone else....lol

[Brianzz]

Renee Pafundi has toppers listed on ebay from time to time, I just checked her store and she has nothing at all listed at the moment, but you may keep an eye on her listings.

http://myworld.ebay.com/endz_of_a_casino


If anyone is wondering what everyone else is talking about.....

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZtippyem2QQhtZ-1

[ashyron]

I bid on the Vegas topper...had one in my hands last winter...but alas, it was for someone else....lol

I didn't bid on that one - I bid on a couple other ones though.

[Thor777]

I bid on the Vegas topper...had one in my hands last winter...but alas, it was for someone else....lol

Never .. Never .. Bid on anything untill the last 1.5 seconds     .. it just raises the price I have to pay !    

[Buzz]

 I don't know how the Ebay sellers come up with thier shipping fees. Fedex is charging about $50 from West coast to East coast for these Garfield toppers I have. I wish someone here can find a cheaper way to ship them  The box is 30 X 24 X 12.  15 pounds  Buzz

[Thor777]

I don't know how the Ebay sellers come up with thier shipping fees. Fedex is charging about $50 from West coast to East coast for these Garfield toppers I have. I wish someone here can find a cheaper way to ship them  The box is 30 X 24 X 12.  15 pounds  Buzz

   Why FedEx?...Why not UPS 7 - 10 day ground..should be a LOT cheaper ? 

[Buzz]

  I'll check

[Brianzz]

If you buy your shipping through paypal or ebay, whichever it all goes to the same pocket, you get a discount also.

[knagl]

I'm bidding on the Green Stamps topper, for what it's worth. 

[ashyron]

I'm bidding on the Green Stamps topper, for what it's worth. 

  I was thinking of bidding on that one and am watching it but will back off and not bid on it.   I am bidding on a couple other ones anyway.   I hope you win it. 

[enforcer]

What machine did the Green Stamps and Las Vegas Toppers originally go on ??  Or were they generic for whatever theme the casino was running at the time ?

-enforcer

[tacman]

Don't know about Las Vegas topper, but S&H Green Stamps went on the matching video slot on one of the newer Bally platforms, Alpha maybe??

 Dan (tacman)

[uniman]

I see you can play S&H green stamps free at;

http://www.masque.com/ballynewuser.php

I haven't tried it yet.

[tacman]

Hey Jim thanks for reposting that link. Actually you can play S&H Green Stamps, Hot Shots and Playboy there. Pretty entertaining! 

 Dan (tacman)

[Brianzz]

Greenstamps is both a video and alpha reel with video top box theme... booooooooooooooring

[uniman]

Greenstamps is both a video and alpha reel with video top box theme... booooooooooooooring

I have to agree. Played green stamps last year in Laughlin. YUCK!!!!

I saw this statement on the site www.openvegas.com   ;

"Talking to friends who just got back from Vegas - they told us they saw scam artists hanging around the S&H Green Stamp slot machines in 3 different casinos.(NYNY, Bellagio and Wynn)

Some of you know how these slots work better than me. I guess you have stamp books on the screen,, and you earn stamps to fill the books. When you get a full book, you can "trade it in" for free spins.

If you stop playing with a partially full book, you forfeit the credits associated with the partially filled book.

My friends saw 'helpful" individuals - targetting players at these games in the following way:

"Do you know how to play this? Its really fun!" They encouraged the player to bet more an more. When the game got to the point of having a book almost full, they would then encourage the player to give up and "cash out their credits" - the game's not paying off.

When the player left, the scammer then sat down and with very few additional credits was able to fill the book of stamps and play the free spins.

I know sometimes you come across a machine with some books with stamps in them.
And I know none of YOU would ever take a stranger's advice on playing a slot.

But have you seen this happen?

Our friends also mentioned they did not see the Green Stamps machines in any of the Harrahs properties this visit, and wondered if they were removed because of this problem."

[Brianzz]

There's still a few floating around a Harrah's here and there. Most of the Harrah's removed them because nobody played them, replacing them with more times than not, hot shots

[a69mopar]

Bally had a series of machines called City Scapes, such as Chicago, Seattle, Niagara, New York, and Las Vegas as well as others.  I would think the Las Vegas topper would go on a Las Vegas machine

Thanks,
Wayne

[Brianzz]

Some of those city scape themes had huge jackpots, like 40,000 credits for 2 coins bet. I saw a lady hit it twice within just a few hours one night.

[knagl]

There's a new version of S&H Green Stamps out there now -- S&H Green Stamps Deluxe.

I love the campy 50's theme, plus the banking feature is what makes it valuable.  I've never even come close to the scamming that uniman posted about, but when I see an empty machine I'll see how many stamps are completed.  I once found a machine that someone had walked away from that had a full book plus half of the next book completed.  I put in a $5 bill, filled the second book, took the free spins, and cashed out at $95 for a $90 profit.