FullThrottle
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West Coast WA to OR to No. CAL to So. Cal arcade transport pipeline?!
I got this hair brain idea from another thread, but decided it was good enough to warrant a copy and paste with its own thread! Any West Coast guys willing to tackle this with me? We'd need an L.A. area hauler/storer, a Sacramento area hauler/storer, and an Oregon hauler/storer... We already have a crazy Washington guy who transports games... here's the idea!
I see it in my travels though I've seen entirely different market trends... in WA we like the classics and California is flooded with them. Games that would sell for $250 in CA could easily bring $500 in WA simply because of availability and market prices. But then there's alot of older vintage games that people want in CA because they're obsure and a cheap 2-300 game up here could easily fetch double down South. The games and grails are sitting all around us, but no way to get them to their caretakers...
If you really seriously wanted to do some sort of pipeline, it would have to be a deal like $50 a leg, 3 people (3 legs) involved each covering a state and bringing back to a location. A guy like me in WA who drives to Portland, OR... A guy in OR who meets up in Oregon and drives the games to the CA border, and a guy near Sacramento, CA who goes North and meets the other leg near CA/OR border. We could even do FOUR legs and cover Los Angeles to Sacremento to Oregon to Washington.
@ $50 a leg for a standard upright, it would be $150 to get a game from Seattle to Sacramento...
$200 for a game L.A. to Seattle... THATS DAMN GOOD!!! Do the trip every couple months and swap cabinets from each truck it could easily cover the expenses and be a good way to migrate these games to beloved homes!!
Charge more for a 25" game like $60, and charge a single cockpit game @ $80 per leg. Store cabinets at each location until we have 4 - 6 or more cabinets that are ready for the next leg. It would take 4 dedicated guys that had garage space and trucks, who like to haul... You got one up here in Washington... ANY OREGON, NORTH CAL. AND SOUTH CAL. GUYS WANNA SEE IF WE CAN SETUP A LIGHT RAIL SYSTEM FOR ARCADES ALONG THE WEST COAST?!
I got this hair brain idea from another thread, but decided it was good enough to warrant a copy and paste with its own thread! Any West Coast guys willing to tackle this with me? We'd need an L.A. area hauler/storer, a Sacramento area hauler/storer, and an Oregon hauler/storer... We already have a crazy Washington guy who transports games... here's the idea!
I see it in my travels though I've seen entirely different market trends... in WA we like the classics and California is flooded with them. Games that would sell for $250 in CA could easily bring $500 in WA simply because of availability and market prices. But then there's alot of older vintage games that people want in CA because they're obsure and a cheap 2-300 game up here could easily fetch double down South. The games and grails are sitting all around us, but no way to get them to their caretakers...
If you really seriously wanted to do some sort of pipeline, it would have to be a deal like $50 a leg, 3 people (3 legs) involved each covering a state and bringing back to a location. A guy like me in WA who drives to Portland, OR... A guy in OR who meets up in Oregon and drives the games to the CA border, and a guy near Sacramento, CA who goes North and meets the other leg near CA/OR border. We could even do FOUR legs and cover Los Angeles to Sacremento to Oregon to Washington.
@ $50 a leg for a standard upright, it would be $150 to get a game from Seattle to Sacramento...
$200 for a game L.A. to Seattle... THATS DAMN GOOD!!! Do the trip every couple months and swap cabinets from each truck it could easily cover the expenses and be a good way to migrate these games to beloved homes!!
Charge more for a 25" game like $60, and charge a single cockpit game @ $80 per leg. Store cabinets at each location until we have 4 - 6 or more cabinets that are ready for the next leg. It would take 4 dedicated guys that had garage space and trucks, who like to haul... You got one up here in Washington... ANY OREGON, NORTH CAL. AND SOUTH CAL. GUYS WANNA SEE IF WE CAN SETUP A LIGHT RAIL SYSTEM FOR ARCADES ALONG THE WEST COAST?!
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