how many games are leaving the Country??!!

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No offense to any KLOVers outside the States, but I just saw another post about not 1 game, but a CONTAINER, of games leaving MD for the land down un-dah...

How many games are leaving the States to take on new life elsewhere?? This is very sad for me to see. :(
 
at the Grandview auction, there has been an Iraqi whos been buying everything. he hasnt been there in a few months but when he is, he drives prices up. that can be a good thing and a bad thing, depending on your POV.
 
at the Grandview auction, there has been an Iraqi whos been buying everything. he hasnt been there in a few months but when he is, he drives prices up. that can be a good thing and a bad thing, depending on your POV.

He's probably still mad at Bush. ;)
 
At the local auction a couple years back, there was a guy buying anything and everything - drove the prices up to ridiculous levels. Word was that he was shipping it all to Mexico.
 
On the other side of the coin, tons of games can be had from Singapore and similar areas for pennies. You just need to ship an entire container, which isn't as costly as you'd think. It'd be mostly DDR and newer titles, though.
 
On the other side of the coin, tons of games can be had from Singapore and similar areas for pennies. You just need to ship an entire container, which isn't as costly as you'd think. It'd be mostly DDR and newer titles, though.

I have heard the DDR's still bring a nice price in the U.S.
 
No offense to any KLOVers outside the States, but I just saw another post about not 1 game, but a CONTAINER, of games leaving MD for the land down un-dah...

How many games are leaving the States to take on new life elsewhere?? This is very sad for me to see. :(



Interesting......could you post a link to that thread ?





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No offense to any KLOVers outside the States, but I just saw another post about not 1 game, but a CONTAINER, of games leaving MD for the land down un-dah...

How many games are leaving the States to take on new life elsewhere?? This is very sad for me to see. :(

Hopefully filled with multicades and 48-1's etc.
 
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The same thing started happening with the antique motorcycle hobby about 10 years ago. I would go to AMC swap meets a couple times a year. There was a gang of dudes from Europe with a fistfull of cash snapping up all the parts and shipping them home. They would leave with truckloads of parts and bikes to take home and flip for huge profits.
 
At the local auction a couple years back, there was a guy buying anything and everything - drove the prices up to ridiculous levels. Word was that he was shipping it all to Mexico.

Must have been the same guy that was at Mesquite auction around the same time.
I had brought a couple cabinets to sell that day and got a whole lot more from him buying them.
 
Not to mention container loads of original tooling, drawings, historical archives and tons of parts for williams, capcom, etc that all went down under. Sure it was 99.9% pinball, but still.
 
I think the balance of games is still somewhere between neutral and positive inflow to the US.

Why? Because the pin collectors have been bringing in containers like crazy from Europe.

Jukes seem to be exporting, mostly to Europe, so my thumbnail analysis would say those are trending towards declining numbers in the US.
 
I used to follow the pinball side of things a lot closer than I do now...what were the ratios back in the hey day of williams/bally/stern/gottlieb in terms of percentage of games shipped over seas....I'm sure someone has some documentation on some of this stuff...I've seen some numbers but nothing really detailed..I guess that kind of info was top secret to competitors..
 
I posted a question about this on RGP a while back about pins exporting. In particular the Gottlieb/Premier ones. The production number for these were in the low 2k's. Well there is no way there is that many around here; some of these are next to impossible to find! Anyway someone chimed in and said that around half of these were exported overseas. Apparently, Gottlieb's of this era were huge in the european market......
 
BITD in Europe there weren't as many dedicated cabs as in the US, many generic ones, so finding e.g. a Tempest cab is a hard task. That's why there are people who buy containers full of stuff in the US. Though to my understanding mostly pins and jukeboxes, as selling these seems to be more profitable, plus they are more popular than vids.
And I guess that more containers full of candy cabs arrive from Asia than classic games from the USA ;)
 
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