Yeah... my budget was somewhat enormous, as I had to build up an inventory for my store... At least this time I didn't leave PAX with regrets for not buying more than 1 set of PAX East pins
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This thread makes me happy. I did a lot of budgeting and bought a good number of Behemoth pins. My new-pin friend who I was with was shocked at what I bought. But they dont know, man. Brain squirrels, man. Brain squirrels.
Okay, now I'm just curious. How did the Behemoth machine work? Did it accept credit cards, cash only? Did you pay someone standing next to the machine and then pull a lever?
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Okay, now I'm just curious. How did the Behemoth machine work? Did it accept credit cards, cash only? Did you pay someone standing next to the machine and then pull a lever?
You have to buy tokens from a guy (cash only) and $10 gets you three tokens. You put the tokens in the machine, turn the crank and get a ball. Ball will contain a Pin.
ClixThis guy I knowSeattle, WARegistered Userregular
Yeah, on the first day there was a constant mob of attendees surrounding the machines. But over the weekend the crowd thinned out even though all the machines were still stocked with pins.
Gotcha. Could you give the guy $100 and get lots of tokens at once then go to town, or was there a limit of $10 per person, then back to the end of the line?
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ClixThis guy I knowSeattle, WARegistered Userregular
You could buy as many tokens as you wanted, or that the exchange guy had on him (and he constantly restocks). A guy in front of me exchanged $150 at once.
The machines were literally gashapon machines if you're familiar with Japanese toys at all, pretty much 3 coins for a pin in this case however. You would either pay credit at the Behemoth booth for coins, or cash to the dude by the machines for coins, depending on what you had.
I sunk so much money at East into these to get the rest of Series 1, as well as 2x of Series 2... I think I got lucky spending not much more than what I needed though between trading and whatnot.
Note: If you're on a budget, spend what you need and then trade right there, it will make your life so easy, because you'll always have what someone needs.
Gotcha. Could you give the guy $100 and get lots of tokens at once then go to town, or was there a limit of $10 per person, then back to the end of the line?
At Prime I got $200 worth in one, because collecting 3 full sets was a task. Best way to do it was have them empty the drawer of one machine and count $100 worth of tokens. Feed the machine, they empty the drawer back into your hands and you feed it again. Now the price has doubled and the target Pins halved, it is a lot easier to just get a few at a time.
Okay, now I'm just curious. How did the Behemoth machine work? Did it accept credit cards, cash only? Did you pay someone standing next to the machine and then pull a lever?
You actually could buy them at the main counter with a credit card as well, which is how I did it when I also bought a shirt, etc.
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You have to buy tokens from a guy (cash only) and $10 gets you three tokens. You put the tokens in the machine, turn the crank and get a ball. Ball will contain a Pin.
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I sunk so much money at East into these to get the rest of Series 1, as well as 2x of Series 2... I think I got lucky spending not much more than what I needed though between trading and whatnot.
Note: If you're on a budget, spend what you need and then trade right there, it will make your life so easy, because you'll always have what someone needs.
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At Prime I got $200 worth in one, because collecting 3 full sets was a task. Best way to do it was have them empty the drawer of one machine and count $100 worth of tokens. Feed the machine, they empty the drawer back into your hands and you feed it again. Now the price has doubled and the target Pins halved, it is a lot easier to just get a few at a time.
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You actually could buy them at the main counter with a credit card as well, which is how I did it when I also bought a shirt, etc.