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TNT amusements drops cabs & pins from roof. Unbelievable.
Hoopz:
--- Quote from: saint on January 31, 2011, 04:12:14 pm ---When challenged on these points before, I believe his response was that no one was willing to come buy the stuff. :dunno
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Then offer them for free. I realize the tax implications of doing that vs. the right off (reminds me of Kramer on Seinfeld), but the good will in doing that is much better than sending these to a landfill. :banghead:
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: Hoopz on January 31, 2011, 04:17:23 pm ---Then offer them for free. I realize the tax implications of doing that vs. the right off (reminds me of Kramer on Seinfeld), but the good will in doing that is much better than sending these to a landfill. :banghead:
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The good will is not going to pay the rent. The only unusual thing these guys did was make a spectacle of breaking up the games. We're not going to like it but we're not supporting our families with coin op equipment.
CheffoJeffo:
In at least one case, nobody was willing to come and haul away the stuff.
To be fair, hobbyists and collectors like us are not the preferred clientele for folks who sell this stuff retail. Many of them are happy to deal with us, but our occasional $35 marquee purchase doesn't put us in the same league as someone who throws down $2500 on a turnkey game. I have lived within a 10 minute drive of a large op/distributor and have bought a ton of stuff from them over the years (cabinets, boards, trackballs, guns, joysticks, buttons, etc.). They have made less on my years of purchases than they would from a retail customer who buys a single game.
People are eager to say the obvious truth that anything can be restored, but the point is that nobody shows up to buy or even take this stuff away. The simple fact is that all of this stuff costs money to store --the guy who pays for that gets to do what he wants with his stuff.
Todd has given away literally hundreds of cabinets and I have stuff in my shop from him that I couldn't find anywhere else. He has a generally good reputation, despite what PBJ says.
He is, however, an idiot for posting these videos (he uses them in TV ads for retail customers, with the point being that he doesn't sell junk -- he would rather trash it) so that people can make a mountain out of a molehill.
Hoopz:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on January 31, 2011, 04:27:21 pm ---
--- Quote from: Hoopz on January 31, 2011, 04:17:23 pm ---Then offer them for free. I realize the tax implications of doing that vs. the right off (reminds me of Kramer on Seinfeld), but the good will in doing that is much better than sending these to a landfill. :banghead:
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The good will is not going to pay the rent. The only unusual thing these guys did was make a spectacle of breaking up the games. We're not going to like it but we're not supporting our families with coin op equipment.
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That's a short sighted approach. Giving stuff away versus lowering a tax liability is one thing but when you don't create good will, you don't have the opportunity to generate a loyal base of quasi-customers who decide to support you rather than someone else.
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CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: Hoopz on January 31, 2011, 05:59:04 pm ---That's a short sighted approach. Giving stuff away versus lowering a tax liability is one thing but when you don't create good will, you don't have the opportunity to generate a loyal base of quasi-customers who decide to support you rather than someone else.
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Dunno -- he's been in this business a lot longer than any of us have and he's been doing the exact same stuff for a long time.
:dunno
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