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ArcadeDunce:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on December 12, 2012, 03:44:23 pm ---
--- Quote from: ArcadeDunce on December 12, 2012, 08:48:20 am ---hmm..wouldn't the insurance company just need to visit and catalouge the damage? If what you say is the case, no wonder i never heard back from them...
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If the insurance company is going to claim them on their own taxes as a loss then they need to have possession of them. I'm sure a deal could be worked out with the company to keep the machines but it would substantially reduce the claim payout.
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well, almost a month later and the games are still there. If they hadn't been sitting in the elements for a month, i'd still want to make an offer..better off building one now..sigh..so much history :/
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on December 11, 2012, 10:27:31 am ---Doesn't matter if they can be saved or not. The insurance company will take possession of them when they pay off his flood claim. The insurance company will very likely destroy them as required by tax/depreciation laws. Those laws are very specific in regard to commercial equipment. If they pull anything for salvage then they can't write the game off as a loss on their taxes.
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Wow... that brought up an age old memory.
I don't know if it's still there but there is (was?) an insurance graveyard in Nevada near Sparks. The insurance towed my wrecked S10 straight from the repair shop to the yard before I ever had a chance to remove my possessions (primarily a now crappy audio system). I gave them some song and dance about how I had my school stuff in there and the insurance company agreed to let me fetch my things. So in what I understood to be a rare occurrence, I was allowed to walk into the lot and find my truck.
In the two hours I spent hunting the S10 down (I got a, "it's over in section 12a", given a hand drawn map and left to my own devices), there was a stunning amount of stuff, not just for autos, but just about everything imaginable. Boats of every description. ORVs, Quads, snowmobiles, heavy machinary, you name it, I saw it there. If you ever saw the Land of the Lost remake, it was kind of along the same lines. As a teenager I drooled over quite a bit of it.
As I was leaving, I asked the guy what does the insurance company do with it all? "Nothing." was his reply. That's right. Absolutely nothing. No recycling. No salvaging. Nothing. All that crap just sits there rotting in the Nevada desert. That was in 1997ish.
Your comment makes sense I guess. A dirty little secret insurance companies have. They can't salvage it. They can't sell it for scrap. So that stuff goes somewhere to die. To be forgotten. I haven't had an insurance company do that since though. Since that time, I changed insurance companies and their attitude has been "get a recycler to pick it up and give you a certificate of destruction." Which makes me wonder..... Is that graveyard still there? >:D
ark_ader:
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on January 12, 2013, 01:04:47 am ---
--- Quote from: ChadTower on December 11, 2012, 10:27:31 am ---Doesn't matter if they can be saved or not. The insurance company will take possession of them when they pay off his flood claim. The insurance company will very likely destroy them as required by tax/depreciation laws. Those laws are very specific in regard to commercial equipment. If they pull anything for salvage then they can't write the game off as a loss on their taxes.
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Wow... that brought up an age old memory.
I don't know if it's still there but there is (was?) an insurance graveyard in Nevada near Sparks. The insurance towed my wrecked S10 straight from the repair shop to the yard before I ever had a chance to remove my possessions (primarily a now crappy audio system). I gave them some song and dance about how I had my school stuff in there and the insurance company agreed to let me fetch my things. So in what I understood to be a rare occurrence, I was allowed to walk into the lot and find my truck.
In the two hours I spent hunting the S10 down (I got a, "it's over in section 12a", given a hand drawn map and left to my own devices), there was a stunning amount of stuff, not just for autos, but just about everything imaginable. Boats of every description. ORVs, Quads, snowmobiles, heavy machinary, you name it, I saw it there. If you ever saw the Land of the Lost remake, it was kind of along the same lines. As a teenager I drooled over quite a bit of it.
As I was leaving, I asked the guy what does the insurance company do with it all? "Nothing." was his reply. That's right. Absolutely nothing. No recycling. No salvaging. Nothing. All that crap just sits there rotting in the Nevada desert. That was in 1997ish.
Your comment makes sense I guess. A dirty little secret insurance companies have. They can't salvage it. They can't sell it for scrap. So that stuff goes somewhere to die. To be forgotten. I haven't had an insurance company do that since though. Since that time, I changed insurance companies and their attitude has been "get a recycler to pick it up and give you a certificate of destruction." Which makes me wonder..... Is that graveyard still there? >:D
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I'm not surprised. There was places like this in Vegas before they cleaned it up for the real estate value. Sparks and houses north of Reno are filled with rotting scrap junk. I remember going to an arcade warehouse in 2001 and the OP recovered 10 machines out of a barn, all with water damage. I'm sure there are plenty more cabinets left or buried out in the Nevada desert. You would think with the scrap value, the old cars out there in the wastes would be worth the salvage.
Fixd
Howard_Casto:
If if the games themselves were trashed, there are still tons of salvagable parts. Marquees, sticks, retainers, coin doors, ect... none of that stuff is effected by water damage that much. Just the electronics and the wood.
ArcadeDunce:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on January 12, 2013, 05:59:39 pm ---If if the games themselves were trashed, there are still tons of salvagable parts. Marquees, sticks, retainers, coin doors, ect... none of that stuff is effected by water damage that much. Just the electronics and the wood.
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true, but you can still buy those new...or gently used. less cleaning..
more i think about it, the more annoyed i am. Addams family is gone from barnacle bills, and somewhere on the ocean floor in seaside heights along with the star wars and spy hunter. sigh. if i where rich, i'd open up the worlds biggest arcade
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