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Thanks to John, we now all know how to upset the fairground economy by loading up on horrible cuddly toys above the odds:
Last week when you discussed the grabby machine, Olly seemed amazed that the inquisitor’s friend had been successful at the ‘game’.
I would have shared this logical scepticism until on recent trip to Bournemouth I watched amazed as a scruffy-looking older bloke in a grubby mac was playing the machine and winning more or less every other go! He was putting the prizes in a big plastic bag.
After I’d been standing and watching aghast for about fifteen minutes or so, he told me to fuck off, picked up his bag of plushies (as our American cousins call them) and left. I watched him cross the road to a similar arcade, take a key out of his pocket, open the window of the grabby machine and pour all the prizes from his bag into it! A very low cost restocking.
In case you wonder, his technique was to use the initial go to not grab but hook with just one hook causing the teddy or similar fluffy grotesque to roll on top of the stack, then due to its elevated position the grabber could take a firm grip on the next go. His success rate was extremely high!
I have since tried this technique with a modicum of success. I think looking out for recently filled machines is key to the level of success he enjoyed.
That man really has it made. He gets to enjoy all the fun of the grabbing (a questionable amount) and he’s supplying his own business all the while. I don’t know why he’s not wearing a smart business suit, but maybe the grubby mac is his equivalent of Steve Jobs’s perennial t-shirt. He’s so successful, he doesn’t need his clothes to brag about it.
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