A Sea Of Video Games

Tornadoboy said:
This is what my basement would look like in heaven
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Love this. :)

Looks like the "omg is rlevin going out of business?" sale was a success in enabling new pickups. I'm assuming that's the total from the mess of places you cleared out down south? Great pictures, always nice to see a shitload of games in one place, looks like lots of job security for your repair guys.
 
I looked through the link to the pics from the Ebay ad and it appears that there is stuff pictured there that is not part of the sale - namely the pinball machines.

Why don't you just list what you have for sale? Considering the kind of money you are asking for, it would be the least you could do.

Some of that stuff looks pretty good.
 
Dale, I can't believe you're seriously asking nearly a quarter of a million dollars and you don't list the games out. The other thing is in your picture flickr account you have machines pictured that certainly are not going with this ebay lot. You need a gamelist if you're serious about selling them, it blows my mind since I don't know anyone who would pay top dollar AND not know what they're getting.

I guess it bugs me and alot of other people when someone wants a healthy price and has shit for pics/description. On a super cheap deal I could give a shit less about whats in a lot or whats what in there.

I HAVE A RED FERRARI FOR SALE, TAN INTERIOR, SOME MINOR FLAWS, FUN CAR - $200,000
What year is it? Does it run? Is the body straight? Whats the mileage? What motor does it have?
 
YellowDog said:
Not bad, since he only paid a little over $50 each + the cost of hauling them. I assume hauling charges are the $6.25 per game...;)

ken
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Those games are not in this lot, 105 of these games are shopped and ready for retail. The 250 is a starting point and the listing does include free shipping. If they sell great and if not who cares. You never know in this business who is looking. Who would of ever thought a 15 year old kid would buy 150 pinball machines but he did and he paid for the in full. So like I said you never know.
 
YellowDog said:
Not bad, since he only paid a little over $50 each + the cost of hauling them. I assume hauling charges are the $6.25 per game...;)

ken
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I will it only cost 6.245 per game to transport but try 6000.00 in shipping for 249 games
 
FullThrottle said:
Dale, I can't believe you're seriously asking nearly a quarter of a million dollars and you don't list the games out. The other thing is in your picture flickr account you have machines pictured that certainly are not going with this ebay lot. You need a gamelist if you're serious about selling them, it blows my mind since I don't know anyone who would pay top dollar AND not know what they're getting.

I guess it bugs me and alot of other people when someone wants a healthy price and has shit for pics/description. On a super cheap deal I could give a shit less about whats in a lot or whats what in there.

I HAVE A RED FERRARI FOR SALE, TAN INTERIOR, SOME MINOR FLAWS, FUN CAR - $200,000
What year is it? Does it run? Is the body straight? Whats the mileage? What motor does it have?
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Well here we go. I could care less if it sells or not what it does is advertise my business and gets my phone ringing. If someone is going to drop that kind of cash then he or she will make a business trip and come see for themselves what is there. It is funny I have sold around 3 million dollars worth of games in the past 5 years and I do pretty good , so I guess since you are offering your advise how many games have you sold? Please I do not mean to sound like a ass and I know I do but really you do not ask a cook how to do heart surgery nor do you ask a heart doc how to cook I guess. I do things my own way and I have got this far so I must be doing something right. I did not want to start a flame war I just thought it made for a cool picture.
 
RLEVIN said:
Well here we go. I could care less if it sells or not what it does is advertise my business and gets my phone ringing. If someone is going to drop that kind of cash then he or she will make a business trip and come see for themselves what is there. It is funny I have sold around 3 million dollars worth of games in the past 5 years and I do pretty good , so I guess since you are offering your advise how many games have you sold? Please I do not mean to sound like a ass and I know I do but really you do not ask a cook how to do heart surgery nor do you ask a heart doc how to cook I guess. I do things my own way and I have got this far so I must be doing something right. I did not want to start a flame war I just thought it made for a cool picture.
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It is a cool picture! I've moved/sold/traded hundreds of machines but that doesn't really matter at the angle I'm looking at it. It could be with anything you sell, guns, jewelery, cars, parts... What matters is that you're blowing off a majority of your potential customers. I know dozens of guys with craploads of money in their pockets constantly buying frivelous or big lots of shit. But if there is no pictures or accurate description they aren't interested.

FOR INSTANCE: I have a buddy who recently was looking for an '87 Buick Grand National. He looks constantly, daily, hoping to find the right one. I've sat there and watched him blow right by tons of ads that didn't have good pics, didn't have any more than a half assed description, all the time bitching about it. He's willing to pay good money above average market value, but wants to know what he's jumping into. Ended up paying more than the average one would sell for, ended up biting on one that had a overly explained ad and had it shipped.

I know a jukebox collector that if there wasn't good pictures or a descent description he won't even try to send off an email or call on it.

All I know RLEVIN is I've picked up alot of stuff that had vague descriptions and lousy pictures and the person almost always tells me how people might have called but nobody would bother coming out or taking them seriously, no matter how nice it was, how good the deal was.

I would bet half or more of the general public that is SERIOUSLY interested in arcade lot buyouts and pinball machines that size would:
Open your ad,
laugh,
close the ad and take it as a joke or someone who is not serious about selling anything.

Not going at it to rip on ya' Dale, going at it to point out WHY those types of ads bug people more than they help you're credibility. I think you're an OK guy, you're in it to make money and your living, I understand that. I even appreciate your business and the service you provide to your area. Your ads instantly identify you as someone hard to deal with, no joke.
 
FullThrottle said:
It is a cool picture! I've moved/sold/traded hundreds of machines but that doesn't really matter at the angle I'm looking at it. It could be with anything you sell, guns, jewelery, cars, parts... What matters is that you're blowing off a majority of your potential customers. I know dozens of guys with craploads of money in their pockets constantly buying frivelous or big lots of shit. But if there is no pictures or accurate description they aren't interested.

FOR INSTANCE: I have a buddy who recently was looking for an '87 Buick Grand National. He looks constantly, daily, hoping to find the right one. I've sat there and watched him blow right by tons of ads that didn't have good pics, didn't have any more than a half assed description, all the time bitching about it. He's willing to pay good money above average market value, but wants to know what he's jumping into. Ended up paying more than the average one would sell for, ended up biting on one that had a overly explained ad and had it shipped.

I know a jukebox collector that if there wasn't good pictures or a descent description he won't even try to send off an email or call on it.

All I know RLEVIN is I've picked up alot of stuff that had vague descriptions and lousy pictures and the person almost always tells me how people might have called but nobody would bother coming out or taking them seriously, no matter how nice it was, how good the deal was.

I would bet half or more of the general public that is SERIOUSLY interested in arcade lot buyouts and pinball machines that size would:
Open your ad,
laugh,
close the ad and take it as a joke or someone who is not serious about selling anything.

Not going at it to rip on ya' Dale, going at it to point out WHY those types of ads bug people more than they help you're credibility. I think you're an OK guy, you're in it to make money and your living, I understand that. I even appreciate your business and the service you provide to your area. Your ads instantly identify you as someone hard to deal with, no joke.
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Sorry I would have to deisagree with you on me being hard to deal with. We have 100 postive feedback on our Ebay and I have sold 1000's of games and not had many problems.
 
I want to know about this 15-year-old who bought 150 pinballs? Was he some rich kid with a huge gameroom or a budding op looking to set up a route? And how much were the 150 pins?
 
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