Little old lady

jamie20

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Ok i got the call today that everyone dreams about . The little old lady has 9 games in a storage facility that have been in there for 15 years. She heard about the Auction but doesn't have the means to get them there . Just come take them and make me an offer. Here are the pictures her daughter just sen me.
 

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Here we go!!! Lou's gassing up the box truck!!!!!
 

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There are multiple pics of Ms Pacman, I am waiting to hear if she has more than 1 or just duplicate pics. I am also waiting for the rest of the games
 

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The Deal

The Old lady said her husband had a store in S. Philadelphia which closed down 15 years ago.
He rotated the games in and out. They have been in this storage facility ever since.
She said they worked when she put them in there. There is no electric in the storage facility.
She doesn't want to sell them to me she wants them in the auction. She will pay me to pick them up and put them in the auction.

So working on not they will be there.

She couldn't answer if they had water damage or any corrosion. She felt they will all work.
 
That went from a cool deal, to a shitty deal.
+1! Go to the auction, after 15 years I bet >50% won't "work" when just plugged in and you'll get them pretty cheap anyway. If she is trying to milk every dollar she can out of them as it certainly appears, I wouldn't do her any favors by cracking any open to check for "easy fixes."
 
I would scramble around and show her some "like" values over the past years for games in those conditions and see if you can snag them from her before auction.

Better yet, just never find the auction house! :D
 
Scratch my last post...All of that about the auction got posted as I was typing haha. But yeah, I wouldn't have done any extra for her if she won't just sell them to you.
 
I would ask "how much will it take to be able to avoid the auction and just buy them straight from you". Also remind her that she wouldn't have to pay you a fee for taking them to the auction. Probably a good idea to also point out to her that games that sit for years often will stop working. Maybe she thinks they're gold and maybe she doesn't. She must have a price where she'd say "screw the auction - take them" and it just might be low enough to be worth it to you. If you let them go to auction, you never know what they'll go for so you may or may not get them cheap there (especially since you're drawing attention to it here).
 
Hopefully you'll have better luck than I did. I looked at those exact games about 5-6 years ago and they were thinking they had a gold mine.

Anthony
 
Ok i got the call today that everyone dreams about . The little old lady has 9 games in a storage facility that have been in there for 15 years. She heard about the Auction but doesn't have the means to get them there . Just come take them and make me an offer. Here are the pictures her daughter just sen me.

I want to know what you did to get such a call in the first place.
 
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