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Games walk out of places like laundromats all the time.
The sole employee "just went to pick up lunch" and like magic, the game is gone.
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Even with a contract, 99% of business owners will not pay for a damaged or stolen machine.
If the location earns $1600 a month, then it's too good to loose - drop another game in there and you'll break even in 4 months @ 60/40 split.
Quoted from Blackbeard:Easy enough to garnish wages and freeze bank accounts. Plus interest.
I highly doubt the judge is going to freeze bank accounts of a theater chain over a stolen vending machine.
If you run a route, your games are going to get damaged and stolen.
You carry your own insurance.
A high dollar location like that theater is way too good to lose over a stolen game.
Are you going to lose a $12,000 a year cut, over a game that the judge will depreciate to $2,800?
Quoted from ForceFlow:I'm surprised the police aren't taking grand larceny more seriously. Has the owner phrased it as such to the police?
It's a vending machine to the police. They don't have time to chase around stolen commercial equipment.
If you want a real laugh, ask any Soda machine vendor about stolen Soda machines.
People steal them all the time; but the funny part is that stolen Soda machines are ALWAYS tossed in the river.
No one ever leaves one on the side of the road, or behind the high school.
The cops find your number on the machine, then call you to tell you that you have 5 days to get it out of the river, or pay a fine.
Quoted from Blackbeard:It's amazing that people on here can make light of someone's stuff being stolen.
When it is on route, you can't get personally attached to a game.
They get stolen all the time.
They get broken into all the time.
They get vandalized all the time.
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If it were a cigaret machine that got stolen, would anyone here be weeping about it?
2 weeks later
Quoted from QuarterGrabber:Lesson to everyone operating pins in the wild is insure them. If you don't carry insurance on your pins because of the cost be prepared to eat the cost of stolen or vandalized machines and you have no one to blame but yourself for being too cheap to insure them. It sucks it was stolen but you should have had insurance like most other business owners, it's part of the game.
Exactly.
Even if the bar owner tells you his insurance covers you, it does not.
Not for loss, and not for liability.
You will quickly find that out the first time someone hits their head on your machine.
8 months later
Quoted from cavalier88z24:Did a pinball machine really just disappear? probably stored away for life or REALLY wanted to play it. sorry to hear
It happens all the time.
Especially in laundromats and other minimally manned locations.
Quoted from flashinstinct:People that did this had balls of steel.
Well, if they didn't then, they certainly do now.
Usually an employee who is wink to the game, magically turns a blind eye to the game being pulled out. They know when they are working with the smallest staff (like the opener who comes in to fire up all the concessions). They know how to unplug the DVR.
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We used to put nuts on the insides of the leg bolts on games we placed in high risk locations. Pretty funny trying to steal a game with the legs on and the head up.....
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