EXPERIMENT: Last Call Thread Mandatory For Planned Part-Outs June 15 to July 31.
Date: June 8, 2011
Subject: Last Call Thread Mandatory Instead of Voluntary June 15, 2011 to July 31, 2011.
Summary. The Last Call Threads have been used on a voluntary basis for a few months now. It's been a good experiment. Several games have been saved as result. At the same time, other games have not been saved. A few have utilized the Last Call Threads but haven't found a savior. In other cases, the threads have been ignored and a poster has simply announced that they are in the middle of scrapping a game and are selling pieces one at a time. Thus, as a test, from June 15 to July 31, 2011 if you are planning on parting out a game (cabinet complete or not) and selling the parts here you must first offer the game for sale (even if damaged), and if you are keeping some of the parts, offer to sell the remaining parts as a set. Such offers should be posted for 2 weeks prior to any part-out. If you have a cabinet that you are thinking of simply dumping, please offer it here for 2 weeks before you do. If someone wants to save a game, please give them 2 weeks from that point to pick it up. Additionally, please consider listing games for sale in VAPS—it's free to do so.
Goal:
(1) To reduce the needless parting out of games (whether working or not, whether complete or incomplete) and to encourage the preservation of endangered games,
(2) while minimizing any burdens or obligations on an owner wishing to get rid of, or part-out a game, and
(3) not imposing enough of a burden as to push "parting-out" underground, and
(4) to massively reduce any harassment of people looking at disposing of a game in any way if done with notice, and opportunity to save, to the community
Last Test: Several months of a voluntary "Last Call" thread.
New Test: 45 days of the "Last Call" threads being mandatory, from June 15, 2011 to July 31, 2011. If you are going to part out a game doing this time period and want to sell any of the parts on line here, you will follow the 'Last Call' thread guidelines, including (1) Offering a machine or partial machine such a cabinet and some parts to there use for 2 weeks being conducting a part-out, (2) if you are considering the part-out because you want the use of a part in the machine let people know and maybe they will sell you the part you need, and (3) if you part it out anyway, try offering it up as a partial machine, ie: a whole machine minus a monitor or pcb before you scrap it altogether, (4) if any seller thinks these rules crimp their style too much, please feel free to contact me privately.
Exception to the 2 week rule occurs when a machine is located someplace that it can't stay at period. In such case, a original poster should explain why they can't give too weeks notice. Yes, this is a judgment call, but then again, this is an experimental process.
If you are thinking of parting out a machine, post about it, and also post a link or reference to your thread in the monthly 'Last Call' sticky.
Violation: Violations could result in the deletion or closure of your thread, and/or a temp ban (which would be of short duration for a first offense and climb from there). I'm sure the enforcement of this experiment will be flawed by the very nature of the task, but you can all do your part to help make this as smooth as possible.
Refinement: I'm posting this a week in advance before putting these rules into place to give us time to refine them. Additionally, we reserve the right to adjust these rules any time during the six-week experiment period.
Date: June 8, 2011
Subject: Last Call Thread Mandatory Instead of Voluntary June 15, 2011 to July 31, 2011.
Summary. The Last Call Threads have been used on a voluntary basis for a few months now. It's been a good experiment. Several games have been saved as result. At the same time, other games have not been saved. A few have utilized the Last Call Threads but haven't found a savior. In other cases, the threads have been ignored and a poster has simply announced that they are in the middle of scrapping a game and are selling pieces one at a time. Thus, as a test, from June 15 to July 31, 2011 if you are planning on parting out a game (cabinet complete or not) and selling the parts here you must first offer the game for sale (even if damaged), and if you are keeping some of the parts, offer to sell the remaining parts as a set. Such offers should be posted for 2 weeks prior to any part-out. If you have a cabinet that you are thinking of simply dumping, please offer it here for 2 weeks before you do. If someone wants to save a game, please give them 2 weeks from that point to pick it up. Additionally, please consider listing games for sale in VAPS—it's free to do so.
Goal:
(1) To reduce the needless parting out of games (whether working or not, whether complete or incomplete) and to encourage the preservation of endangered games,
(2) while minimizing any burdens or obligations on an owner wishing to get rid of, or part-out a game, and
(3) not imposing enough of a burden as to push "parting-out" underground, and
(4) to massively reduce any harassment of people looking at disposing of a game in any way if done with notice, and opportunity to save, to the community
Last Test: Several months of a voluntary "Last Call" thread.
New Test: 45 days of the "Last Call" threads being mandatory, from June 15, 2011 to July 31, 2011. If you are going to part out a game doing this time period and want to sell any of the parts on line here, you will follow the 'Last Call' thread guidelines, including (1) Offering a machine or partial machine such a cabinet and some parts to there use for 2 weeks being conducting a part-out, (2) if you are considering the part-out because you want the use of a part in the machine let people know and maybe they will sell you the part you need, and (3) if you part it out anyway, try offering it up as a partial machine, ie: a whole machine minus a monitor or pcb before you scrap it altogether, (4) if any seller thinks these rules crimp their style too much, please feel free to contact me privately.
Exception to the 2 week rule occurs when a machine is located someplace that it can't stay at period. In such case, a original poster should explain why they can't give too weeks notice. Yes, this is a judgment call, but then again, this is an experimental process.
If you are thinking of parting out a machine, post about it, and also post a link or reference to your thread in the monthly 'Last Call' sticky.
Violation: Violations could result in the deletion or closure of your thread, and/or a temp ban (which would be of short duration for a first offense and climb from there). I'm sure the enforcement of this experiment will be flawed by the very nature of the task, but you can all do your part to help make this as smooth as possible.
Refinement: I'm posting this a week in advance before putting these rules into place to give us time to refine them. Additionally, we reserve the right to adjust these rules any time during the six-week experiment period.





