smisch
Member
Pickers
I wouldn't mind nosing thru there inventory, I'm sure something would turn up.
I wouldn't mind nosing thru there inventory, I'm sure something would turn up.
Anybody know the folks on AM Pickers?
- Thread starter YellowDog
- Start date
AUSyTyIN
Well-known member
I saw a Ms Pac, and a few blue Nintendo cabs in the first location that they never showed close up. Everything else I could identify was because I could read the marquee...
Yeah he just about stepped on that Nintendo cab to look at the butt ass ugly Cafeteria sign...
LyonsArcade
Well-known member
The guy that appraised it on the show is over on rgp talking about how they contacted him a few weeks before and asked him about that game and send him pictures of it. He sent them some info by email, they asked it they could come by the week of the pinball show and have him talk about it on camera.
Roh Roh.
modessitt
Volunteer: Encyclopedia Submission Moderator
Just had someone call me from Arizona asking about this show - not because of the pinballs, but because they wanted to know where that motorcycle collector guy was. How should I know...?
OP
OP
Doesn't everybody know everybody else in Texas??? It's such a tiny little state after all..........
ken
sguenther
Member
I happened to stop at their shop while heading east to see relatives this summer. They're just a couple of miles off I-80 at the Iowa/Illinois border. They had the Ali pin there and it was listed for $600, I think. Still missing the displays. Not too much stuff in their shop so I think they do have a big list of collectors and they just sell directly to them.
We need a Pickers show for arcade and pin collectors. These guys don't endure anything close to the stuff I've read about on KLOV
OregonPacman
New member
No kidding. They would never touch a maggot infested Tempest or risk life and limb to retrieve Computer Spaces from a rickety barn.
Ripweade
Active member
They've said on previous episodes that they have people who come out and pick the stuff up. There's no way they can load all the stuff they buy into the van, so for the interest of the show, they load up what they feel is the most interesting.
They've bought old cars and a few cycles before, and there is NO way they would fit in that van. Lol!
CEC_DFW
Active member
Having a coin op show will be a horrible idea. Auctions will be packed with idiots raising the bid. And warehouse raids will be fucked up by idiots trying to make starwars Chairs and computer space Mame cabs
AUSyTyIN
Well-known member
Or if you look at it another way, it would be an awesome time to make some serious $ selling off your collection, then waiting a few years and buying it back for a fraction of the cost.
Dude, that sounds AWESOME!
wolfeel
Well-known member
Doesn't everybody know everybody else in Texas??? It's such a tiny little state after all..........
ken
If they cut Alaska into 3 equal parts Texas would be number 4 in size (almost). Texas isn't really that big, but they do like to pretend so.
Last edited:
LyonsArcade
Well-known member
It's not. It's horrible. I think I cried when I saw the video. The guy was all proud of it too, like he had done this great thing. It's like you go in the Louvre museum, and walk over to the Mona Lisa, and talk about what a great job you did painting the wall behind it. "Look; if you look closely, I used the Satin Sheen. This is the new Dupont american master series; it's supposed to last 25 years! It covered pretty well blah blah blah" all the while a fucking masterpiece is getting ignored. So the guy goes on endlessly about how his mame can do this and that like my computer I bought at Wal Mart can do, and doesn't even mention how the Computer Space was the coolest thing in his zipcode at the moment.
