Episode 35 - Payment Systems

“I'm basically just carrying around pinball cash at any given point.”

“You go spend twenty dollars it gives you forty five hundred credits or some shit... that's not dollars it's not like none of this... they turn the money into an arbitrary system where you have no idea what you're paying”

“I think that it's got to be a thing where the people that make these card reader systems, the salespeople, they're trying to sell the business... they're trying to be like, oh, but this is going to make you so much more money. And here's one of the ways to do it is don't let them know that one dollar and you get four credits.”

“If you're just stopping by somewhere... you don't want to have to deal with any other bullshit you want to just like you don't want to have to load a card you don't even really want to have to make tokens usually”

“As soon as a person buys five dollars of tokens from you you're already making money even if they walk out of the place and they forget that they ever came there and they throw the five dollars of tokens away, you're already up.”

“When you go to card systems most of them you spend 20 and it'll assign you any arbitrary credit number they can set it up... my biggest gripe with the cards is that they intentionally make it difficult to track those numbers”

“I really don't care there because their games are cheap enough. I'm not worried about it at all. They're not like scalping me. It's just confusing.”

“It's like you're just spending so much time just changing shit around like moving this shit around... it feels very arbitrary it feels like a shell game”

“I kind of like them... I always, when I visit arcades that I don't, like that aren't in my town or whatever, I always keep tokens from them.”

“When you're a regular pinball player, anyone listening to this podcast is. You're going to get it back. You're going to get it back.”