Nice meager collection, you poor soul

WOZ, Addams, Monster Bash, etc!

I sort of like the " list 15 pins here, post pics once, set your nonnegotiable price" wash, rinse, repeat until gone. The fee you would pay here is way less than eBay, gives everyone a shot, and most likely your buyers are pretty legit ( compared to eBay CL stalkers). Just make sure the price is good for YOU.

After you run through the lot, call the truck guys for a bulk sale to end.

There will be hassles regardless...good luck, and hope you accomplish your goal.....

Exactly.that's why I'm broke I need some reasonable price machines for a change.

Not his concern what anyone does with the game. Someone can buy it and burn it. Would be a bummer, but not his concern at all.

Looks like he stated that above as well

yeah, also stated that he is putting measures in place to limit games to a single person. That is good.

Either way, I am guessing distance really outs you out of the option. Maybe he should do it based on distance traveled? That would show some major dedication to drive all the way from Oregon

Fair way to settle the question of who wants it most:

The first thing you should do is start a thread about how to sell a bunch of pinball machines, maximize profit and avoid eBay even though that is how you made the bulk of your income over the last 15 years. Excellent marketing idea.

Secondly, to say it goes to pick up buyers first is a big mistake as you know. Not even interested in getting into that pricing debate. Let's try and sell it for top dollar locally first and then if it doesn't sell I'll take less? Not a good idea. Put it up for sale across the board or don't.

Finally, just make a decision and start listing. Good luck.

Ok then. Good luck with that strategy

Just list it like you want, is that clear enough, who cares, wtf?

much easier to buy than sell.

So you're trying to cut out the middleman (ebay) who's allowed you to be semi retired since you were 51 years old. You'd rather sell for ebay prices and NOT pay the ebay fees. That's absolute genius... if you can pull it off.

This will be fun to watch. Is there a timeline?

Oh I'm not interested in any of these games. They will be top dollar and in need of loads of repair. I don't have the time for anything like that. Not my Era of games either it looks like. It doesn't sound like any of the pins at their selling prices would be worth driving too far for unless it's some grail.

Your never going to make everyone happy. "Fair" means too many different things to different people. Do what you are comfortable with and the heck with it. If I were in your position? I have no clue what I'd do!
An auction is the best way to move volume fast. But that doesn't help with your wanting to get them to as many people as possible.

Good luck!

I'm kind of seeing posts in a couple of threads of people I wouldn't ever want to sell to. I also agree, money isn't everything. I've been dead broke and refused to sell items to a few guys who were arrogant with a pocket full of money. Stupid or twisted on my part? I don't know and don't care!

Concur completely on this sentiment. Other people's opinions really don't matter as regards to how these get sold (my own included). Sellers has lots of options, some more a hassle for them than others. Nobody should fault for whatever choice is made (but they will anyway because people love to hear themselves complain).

If I had this collection my main thing would be to make sure I sold to people who weren't just going to wipe down the playfield and post at 2X the price. I shouldn't really care about that, money is money, but I do somehow. Main way that's avoided is making it so that prices leave little margin on open market for flippers.

There are lots of machines I would be interested on Craigslist and EBay if they posted them at non ridiculous prices.

As others have posted the approach is admirable. Arriving at a solution that doesn't allow someone to game the system and allows many to partake of this collection is difficult.

Good luck.

Just kind of thought of something else....And maybe this has already been mentioned. Have you thought about potential problems of having this many different people showing up at your house? Not to be the doom and gloom paranoid guy, but man It would be in the back of my mind for sure! I've dealt with semi valuable items in the past and people will do some crazy things just to see where "the hoard" is. It's more common than people think. Maybe, not with pinballs since they are so big. Kinda hard to sneak one of those off...

This whole thread is your marketing strategy to create some attention and hopefully speed up the sale of some machines in my opinion.

Auction, High bid wins . That way you get max price , Quick 3 day auctions . you can do it in many ways . pick one

GLWS

Sir Brian of Ortonville

Here's an out there thought....And maybe already mentioned...I have no clue what shipping is on a machine. But how about a raffle on a couple machines? Doesn't matter condition, even if they are project machines, what era, etc.... I'm not sure if the interest would be there or not though. But I look at it this way, Your wanting to reach as many people as you can that may not have deep pockets. But most any one would kick $30 or $40 towards a raffle ticket. If the numbers work out? a percentage gets donated to pinside, pays for shipping, and maybe would even be a mystery machine and mystery condition. I'd take the chance! I'd bet others would too. You may even make more that way on a few while just shipping them off. No waiting, money's already in hand, etc...You would have to play with numbers a little and based on your pm and thread interest, would probably be a good indicator of possible ticket sales etc...

You could even do good machines. Not sure how you would do that to protect your end if there weren't enough ticket sales. But a few machines may even get you way way more than you wanted and someone would get one heck of a deal! By reading your threads I would feel your honest enough to do a random drawing. The cheaper machines would be better though. I, or maybe a bunch of us would be thrilled to get any kind of project on a $20 to $40 chance,or whatever amount works that covers you,shipping,a donation, based on the value of the machine . Maybe even some of the stuff that no one wants from the lists. You have one left at the end of the week? It goes up for the weeks raffle. or something, the idea would need tuned and played with....... Right now I have 3 huge projects so I shouldn't be talking! 2 of them should have been parted. But I'll save them and bring them back from the dead , slowly!!! So, maybe I'm in a small portion of the pinball community? I'm happy getting junk as long as it's somewhat all there, even though a couple I way over paid for were missing more than they are worth in the end, but I wanted them!!! I like working on them and seeing how far from the dead I can bring it back.

Just an out there thought. I know it doesn't solve your problem and something like this may even add more to it. Would be kind of a fun side thing though! Randomly pick the person from the raffle and randomly pick a machine from the price range would be fun too!

Funny you should say that - US pinball people have been draining out games from Canada for decades because of the 25% discount our dollar provides, so turnabout is only fair play.

As for "flipping," I doubt the prices will be so good as to do more than cover my gas costs. It's more about finding actual project machines, instead of fully restored games. So many people up here enjoy fixing, but everything is already fixed!

Just post the games for sale already. It's really not that complicated (at least it doesn't have to be)

Really, such drama never before seen.

No offense, but you really sound clueless. If you price the games at a price less than market, you would have no issues as there would be buyers like me that would swoop in with $10k+ and buy several games at once. I will bring the pins back to Northern New England, keep half and sell the rest for a small profit to cover my costs. This would save a lot of people time and money and get pins into more collectors hands. Instead you are suggesting a ridiculous scenario of a hundred pinheads individually going down to pick up their games......Please just put the games for sale and end this drama. Sorry if I sound like a jerk, but if you could only see your posts through my eyes, you would say, "Who does this guy think he is, the Jesus of pinball?"

You could have a craigslist auction like this guy is about to. harrisburg.craigslist.org link

It's funny, as most of your posts read that way. No offense.

Pretty sure that IS the guy in this thread, no?

Selling one at at time on Craigslist? Sounds like a lot of work, but it should bring in every possible penny.

Where is the "attention whore" siren for yet ANOTHER post regarding these damn games. Please, mods, can you shut this down and tell the OP what the rules of selling games are on Pinside or shall we call it "TooManyPinside"?

Mods, can you please consider making a rule for this? This guy should have had his threads closed after he whined to have his first fs thread closed.

This has been a very clever well planned out marketing tactic. The only thing I can give OP credit for.