Arcade Basement Vist - Price advice

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Met a OP who is interested in selling the JUNK that's in his basement. Mostly "OLD" skeeballs, a couple of small cranes, one galaga and a Ms Pac. Everything in the basement is in non working order. The thing is he has boxes of parts from game long gone. Joys, monitors, a few PCBs.

What should I off on the JUNK boxes assuming he will unload them. The machines he knows what he wnats for them and he knows their value so they might have to sit for longer. One other item of interest was the BROKEN SF RUCH 2049 - how much for that?
 
Now there's a tricky question. Some OPs are realistic and grounded in their prices, others (like a lot of people) think their junk is gold. Those junk boxes can definitely vary widely. Are they organized at all or just random crap everywhere? For example, a box full of pac joysticks at least gives you a point to start from, but random stuff is just that, random stuff and that's difficult to price.
 
Good point. The stuff can be all over the place. But assume, based on the "non-working" condition of all the games, that many of these parts will have issues or atleast far from NOS. Tell him $20 a box if it's all scattered random shit. If he has it organized up somehow, atleast you'll be able to count joys, buttons, chassis and figure a price easier that way.

Dead Rush? Meh $200 is what I'd tops ever pay for non-working stuff.
 
What it comes down to man is we're not there, and have no clue what's in any of the boxes.

You ARE there and have a clue of what's in the boxes.

What you're going to have to do, eventually, is decide what it's worth to YOU. Screw what it's worth to me or anybody else on the board. We can't hold your hand through this, just go pay what you're willing to pay for what you're interested in buying.
 
Problem solved. After a short conversation I'll be repairing his broken skeeballs in exchange for basement goodies.
 
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