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A week with the £70 and hopper sizes.....

Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 6:30 pm
by whiteswan
Well had my first collection from the new 70 pound fruities in the pub this week and it was about half of what I usually got from the 35 pounders.

Now this was explained to me by the games company that now the hoppers are £350 (they were previously £250) that some of my money was held back this week to increase the hopper value in each machine !!


Bloody brilliant !!

Lets see what happens with the next few collections............not convinced myself.

Dave

Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 9:13 pm
by Matt Vinyl
That is indeed a concern. :(

Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 2:40 am
by Shaggerty
Played DOND Double Deal earlier.

£7 in, DOND lights up, then double DOND.
£70 and £3 left.
£70 and £5 left.

Clearly £70 in the box. £70, sweet.

Collecting after ran out the last £2 credits.

1£ Empty. IOU £55.

Fan-fucking-tastic. Gotta give the bar staff my details etc etc etc.

Re: A week with the £70 and hopper sizes.....

Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 10:54 am
by sir ratholer
whiteswan wrote:Well had my first collection from the new 70 pound fruities in the pub this week and it was about half of what I usually got from the 35 pounders.

Now this was explained to me by the games company that now the hoppers are £350 (they were previously £250) that some of my money was held back this week to increase the hopper value in each machine !!


Bloody brilliant !!

Lets see what happens with the next few collections............not convinced myself.

Dave
This illustrates the lack of intelligence and open-ness from the distributors - pub landlords (no offence, I'm sure you're not in this category!) are not the most intelligent folks themselves, and if they see a drop in takings then they will react accordingly without thinking about why, especially if they haven't been educated themselves by the distributor.

If I had my own distribution company, I'd make all landlords/pub managers aware of this happening before the install of new machines, otherwise it's natural to think that you're being screwed or the new jackpots are going to lead to a decrease in takings.

Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 11:23 am
by pickareel
bank break on a 70 bfm is 200 lol

Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 11:30 am
by CrosbyRules
fuck me, think if a clicky pub come over and saw 190 in the bank, shotgun would be out

Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 6:09 pm
by whiteswan
Money down again this week - and one hour after collector had been my DOND Double has iou'd for £17 so is out of order !!

Brilliant.

Dave

Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 6:22 pm
by Scott
whiteswan wrote:Money down again this week - and one hour after collector had been my DOND Double has iou'd for £17 so is out of order !!

Brilliant.

Dave


Is that because people are winning to much or that no one is playing it?



hard to believe a filled up hopper could be empty within an hour of the collector leaving (barring some sort of empty?)

Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 6:23 pm
by Pingo
THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN ME :lol:

Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 6:57 pm
by betchrider
Pingo wrote:THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN ME :lol:
Why iou it then?

Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 7:00 pm
by INVINCIBLE
More to the point how was it ioued an mtr or just a jam
also there has been alot of looting recently are you a looter pingo

Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 11:39 pm
by JG
Yes keep us posted Dave, that seems rather bizarre. Best hope for a hopper jam.

Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 11:42 pm
by Shaggerty
In the local paper a few weeks back, got said that a bar in my nearest town got done for £160 VIA looting. (2 DONDs)

Any pubs/clubs in a 2 miles radius got new note acceptors put on trhere machine. :P

Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 4:43 am
by jeffvickers
Shaggerty wrote:In the local paper a few weeks back, got said that a bar in my nearest town got done for £160 VIA looting. (2 DONDs)

Any pubs/clubs in a 2 miles radius got new note acceptors put on trhere machine. :P
Is the article on-line? If so, give link please

Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 10:31 am
by Matt Vinyl
Is the article on-line? If so, give link please
Is that so you can check which mugshot they've used? :)