What would you do?

I wish I had your problems! Cherry pick the top 20 at least. Unless you are good friends don't leave the games at his place. Or work out one price for all of it. My guess is he probably has less than 25 games of value. Or hell quit your job and open a store. lol
 
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I think a lot of it depends on the type of storage... if they're all in an enclosed warehouse, just sitting there for thirty years untouched? Probably get about that much even just in parts, especially if there are pins. If the "storage" is a barn that's been flooded, had rats shit in them, etc... you'd be lucky to salvage even a marquee and a CP from most of them, and unless it's crazy rare shit you'd be hard pressed to make 175 a piece on cabs like that. Getting an idea of what kind of lot you're looking at, even just a single pic of the inside, would help a lot. Gut reaction is that it would be very likely worth more than he's asking per cab, but you want to make sure it's not a nightmare situation before you dive in, I'd say. I've seen some terrifying "storage" conditions of games, and if they're literally swamped and collapse when you poke the sides, then you're SOL.

Also... definitely offer less per machine, even if you'd take it for the 175. You're doing a big bulk buy and its the KLOV way :D
 
175 each is expensive
the "dead row" at auctions can buy games for 50/75/100 and you have to haul them there, deal with all the paper work and haul away any that don't sell or you buy back because they are selling too cheap

however, some of them are worth more
depends on whats there and if in working condition or not

if you did buy 100 games, where would you house them while you slowly worked on them/restored them
10x20 size storage units here run 75 a month

get a few guys together and each buy 20 games apiece ?

20 games are more easily dealt with and you can choose which games you want since you are King

I wouldn't mind buying 10/20 games from you if you decide to part some out and I'm not that far away but you need to do whats best for your situation

get yourself some games is what i'd do and get some others some games too if you don't want to handle 100 yourself

good luck
 
what would I do?

Not post on here since now there are 50 people trying to find out whats up.
 
Your in for a lot a lot of work! Get a decent appliance dollie that kick back wheels.

Easy way flip the whole deal and take the money and run.
Zero cost in shipping or storage or repairs.

Flip it to an auctioneer company and hope you attract enough buyers and they sell for a price minus the cost of the auction house take.

You need to spend time to figure out what you got. Some cabs won't break even if they are falling apart. They maybe worth more apart than together.

You might reach saturation in your market area. you might want to attract buyers from other states who are willing to rent out a truck.

I spend my time at the arcade expo. Currently I am in charge of the repairs of over 430 working games plus another 130 in shipping containers plus more on the way.

I can tell you by experience. repair a large amount of arcade machines is possible but it not cheap. I blew past the 6k mark a long time ago and I am still buying parts.

If your interested in selling them to the arcade expo. Get a list.. take a lot of pictures and I will be happy to connect you with the owner.

What ever you decide to do, it going to be an adventure. Good luck and stay in touch..
 
Well good luck man, that is a ton of work anyway you look at it. You will be busy as hell just getting stuff organized for sale.
 
TheArcadeGeek did something similar a couple of years ago. See his YT channel, where he posted regular vids about it. It was an interesting journey.

You can definitely make out, IF you're a person who really likes games, and likes to fix things. It will be a lot of work, but the chances of them being all crap games is low, so there are likely enough gems in there to get you your money back. And you will get more for them if you can sell them working, vs not.

Do it because you love working on games, not for the money. It's going to be a LOT of work, so you need to make sure you really enjoy it.

(And yeah, #1 rule of KLOV - Don't talk about a deal until it's in your posession.)
 
so i have an something that kind of fell into my lap today. i am a mailman, and on my route is an old guy that used to run and arcade/pinball route. while im talking to him, he tells me that he has over 100 arcades/pins in storage, some work, he believes quite a bit of them do not work. I dont know what exactly he has, but he is pretty solid on the number. and he will sell them to me for 175 dollars each if i buy them all. we are supposed to go look at them tomorrow, my banker of course says yea, whatever you want, ill give you the money. even my wife says " whatever you want to do" so im good there. so the big questions are of course, what exactly is in there, he isnt solid on the pinballs, not even sure he has any left. but is sure on the over 100 arcades. i could also get the space to store them.

So what exactly would you do? I could of course offer him less per machine if i take them all.
do i move them or do i leave them there and have an Auction? (based on the recent tulsa pinball auction that would be most profitable).
do i move them and try to sell them individually, or try to fix them? (i have minimal experience repairing machines and usually just watch youtube videos) and even when they get fixed usually dont know exactly what i did, i just know they are working again!!!

ideas? concerns im not seeing? worries? anyone with any experience in this type of stuff?
any advice and why would be appreciated. Just saying "go go go go" when its not your $$ on the line isnt really helpful. ill know more with hopefully some pics after tomorrow afternoon

A lot of us would like to have your 'dilemma'! lol

$175/cab is a bit high, especially if they are in questionable 'Barn' find condition, but i would say it could be promising if say a fifth of that hoard is in good condition. That makes your $17.5G back and then some.


I say go for it, swoop in, move everything off his site, before anyone else comes in, so as you have control of the hoard, and then there is no opportunity for anyone else to come in and rock your boat.
 
Right now the KLOV Detectives are working against you behind the scenes already trying to figure out who you're dealing with to swoop in before you to flip some games. Always difficult posting these threads on here as it usually always backfires. Best of luck! Hope there are some rare titles that get saved!
 
Right now the KLOV Detectives are working against you behind the scenes already trying to figure out who you're dealing with to swoop in before you to flip some games. Always difficult posting these threads on here as it usually always backfires. Best of luck! Hope there are some rare titles that get saved!

Not just KLOV Detectives.
I bet the bottom-dwellers on FaceBook and Pinside are onto this too.
Good luck to the OP. Next time, keep it quiet. :001_scool:
 
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