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How do you sell a warehouse of arcade games and pins?

By pindoc1

3 years ago


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#1 3 years ago

Before I start getting the usual questions of WHERE?, WHAT?, HOW MANY AND WHAT CONDITION?
I am asking for the brother of a friend.
I have no idea of condition, yet.
I have no idea what games, yet.
It is not local to me. Don't ask where it is!
I do know it is about 250 to 300 arcade and pins may be from the 70's to 90's.
They may be in rough shape and/or not. I don't know if there is exposure to rain and animals. Not sure yet.
The guy bought a building that is said to contain the above. He is interested in selling/auctioning them.

I am looking for some honest suggestions on how to help this guy out
Are there honest companies that do this sort of thing for a reasonable margin?
Thanks for any suggestions.

#4 3 years ago

Yup. That is the idea. I was looking for suggestions for companies that can do this kind of thing, get the exposure, present the games working or not and get the best price for the owner.

#5 3 years ago
Quoted from TronGuy:

Yeah but before you do that, send coindork and I a list of games and give us first shot.

That is precisely what I am trying to avoid. =)

#31 3 years ago

Thank you all got the suggestions and help. I am hoping to be able to assess the situation in person soon and find out what the owner would like to do. Depending on how tightly packed and stacked I hope to get at least a partial list of the games.

#38 3 years ago

Going to look and talk tomorrow. I will give an update as allowed by the owner. I have no stake in this other that trying to be helpful and the excitement of witnessing a warehouse of games, good, bad or ugly. =)
Thanks for all the help and suggestions.

#42 3 years ago

I had a chance to view the warehouse today.
Here is what I can tell you:
Location is in Kansas
There are 2 adjacent buildings that have broken windows, a leaky roof and animal infestation
All of the few pins in there are missing the playfield glass, most of the plastics, score displays and the circuit boards.
The backglasses are missing on most. The owner will hopefully check with the previous owner to see if they took them to another location for safe keeping.
Playfields are covered with debris and dirt. A couple of playfields are covered with animal feces.

Eight Ball Deluxe - no playfield art remaining. Cabinet does not look horrible
Eight Ball Deluxe LE
Cyclops - cat/racoon/possum litter box
Bounty Hunter
Black Pyramid,
Hollywood Heat
An early solid state Gottlieb game that I could not identify with an orange, red, yellow and black cabinet
Chicago Coin Yankee Baseball. Actually has the backglass in ok condition
An odd smaller cabinet pinball type game I could not get close to with 7's within 3 blocks on the side of the cabinet. It has the backglass upside down on the siderails, likely flaking.
A pinball-ish type cabinet hidden behind a basketball game that appears to be titled Wild Wild West. No flipper buttons and the playfield glass is so dirty, I could not see anything from 5 feet away.
No other Pinball type games I could see.

There are many many upright and sit-down video games. claw games, dart games, Golden Tee's, cigarette machine, pool tables, 70's to 90's jukeboxes, and skee-ball games.
There is a storage area with about 45 boxes of what appear to be "new" circuit board replacements boxes to repurpose arcade cabinets to old favorites such as PACMan. Dated 1997 so may not be multicade at that point.

The video games appeared to be largely complete and most in decent physical shape, but presumably have problems. However this may be a decent buy for a company looking to bulk buy a video game stash. Just a guess.

The few pins I found have already been parted for displays, plastics and circuit boards by the operator. The backglasses are missing and may or may not be available.

The owner wants to clear it all out including the boxes of junk and trash. He would like to get it done in a month. He has been in contact with a bulk buyer but nothing set at this point. He wishes to keep the exact location unknown for obvious reasons.

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#46 3 years ago

Yes. Not much in the way of pins but may be useful for a business that deals in videogames.

#54 3 years ago

I do have some superficial photos of many of the video games. I’ll try put the up tomorrow.

They do have quite a few juke boxes. I don’t know what type. Wasn’t paying much attention to them but some are included in the pictures tomorrow.

#67 3 years ago

Here are the rest of the pictures I took.
Sorry for the distance and dirt. I was a guest and did not want to keep the owner waiting too long. Plus not being a videogame or jukebox collector, I really don't know if any of it is of any value.
Thanks

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#69 3 years ago

There were many other similar games that I could not get to in order to take pictures of or even see what they were, and did not take pictures.

#142 3 years ago

UPDATE:

The owner has engaged a building manager to deal with the clearing of the arcade equipment. I have passed your message(s) on to him. If you are still interested in any given item(s), or a total clean out contract, I would suggest contacting him yourself directly also. All transaction will go through this building manager.
If you have any interest in obtaining any specific item, PM me for his contact information. I don't need the details. Just let me know you are interested in buying something. If you have already contacted me with interest via Pinside PM's, I have already sent what you sent to me on to him, and sent you his contact information via PM. You might want to follow up with him directly yourself as there are several requests for the same item(s).

I do not know what the plans are, if things will even be parted out first or just bulk cleared out.
Thanks for all the useful suggestions. I also gave the new owner and building manager a link to this thread.

I will suggest to them that, if they are going to have a one day sale, to post information to Pinside, KLOV and local pinball Facebook groups.

#144 3 years ago

Yes. Unfortunately the days of a stash of abandoned, protected valuable games is long gone.

#212 3 years ago
Quoted from LTG:

You can't here. Put it on Youtube and post the link here.
LTG : )

YouTube will take it down saying it offends someone or a raccoon or something.

#221 3 years ago
Quoted from cottonm4:

Gee, your post generated a down vote. Raccoon lover, maybe?

I dunno. I don't see a down vote. Just 3 up votes.
My comment was just meant as a mostly light hearted swipe at social media trying to control everyone.

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