Ten years back, in central PA, we had about a dozen Wal-Marts in various towns that each had pins--I used to travel to some of them just to play. Turns out they were all run by the same vendor. Then they disappeared suddenly, so I contacted the vendor. It turns out that vendor lost his contract with Wal-Mart (where he had a total of 40 pins in different counties), and Wal-Mart went with CoinStar instead as a vendor for the claw machines. Because of this I was able to contact the vendor and was able to buy three of the machines from him for good prices at the time--good for me, but bad for community pinball.

I have had success routing two games at small businesses (a pizza shop and a bar) where I know and trust the owners.