Quoted from Joker2415: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.
