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animatorJustin:

Been a long time since ive been on these forums  :) glad to be back.

Personal Experience. Ive gotten 3 cabinets off of TNT. 2 were free, my latest was $50, came with a coindoor, and very little wear. the people their showed me around the warehouse and it is packed. they do tons of craigslist post giving away these cabnets. while tossing them off the roof is not exactly what I would do, If they are gonna get chucked, they might as well get one last hurra out of it.

Jack Burton:


--- Quote from: paigeoliver on August 02, 2013, 09:10:13 am ---I am just a backyard shed game dealer and I have torched or dumpstered probably 8 cabinets this year because I couldn't even give them away. You can sell the right empty cabinet for $150 even if it is nothing but the wood, but you can't even give away a lot of cabinets.

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Pretty sad.  I don't know how you came across them in the first place, but I'd hope they were something you thought were sellable or 2 minutes from the dumpster. 

I think we all ought to be a little more cautious these days in grabbing unattended cabs.  Or there won't be anything left for the next generation to discover. 

jennifer:

      Half of this generation wants nothing to do with them,   big, dedicated, with "sucky" res graphics. And the ones who do want them make Mame cabs, all but destroying them without the big flamboyant shove off the roof, Luckily howevever these games/art  have been quite well documented (in most cases), and building a clone isnt really that difficult.

hypernova:

With all this being said, people also have to realize that TNT cannot possibly start offering every single cab that doesn't sell for free.  If they did, consumers would make that realization, then never buy anything from them at all, instead waiting for the free offer.

Not exactly going to make any profits that way.

paigeoliver:

You buy out the contents of the barn, the contents of the shed, everything in the basement, etc. When I go to the auction I fill up the flatbed, which usually means 4 or 5 dicey dead row units after the good stuff has all been auctioned off. You aren't really picking and choosing this stuff so much as getting everything in the shed, and every item that my continual end of auction lowball bid actually snags.

What ends up being burned or dumpstered largely falls into three categories. Gambling games, non-working C-list classic / conversion games with water damaged particle board cabs and half parted BIG STUFF.

I literally can't sell the average video poker machine for what the monitor and power supply are worth (and I usually hold them for a good 6 months trying). The water damaged cabinets get sneered at by dozens of buyers before I finally give in to the people who have requested parts instead of the whole machines.


--- Quote from: Jack Burton on August 03, 2013, 05:04:41 am ---
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on August 02, 2013, 09:10:13 am ---I am just a backyard shed game dealer and I have torched or dumpstered probably 8 cabinets this year because I couldn't even give them away. You can sell the right empty cabinet for $150 even if it is nothing but the wood, but you can't even give away a lot of cabinets.

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Pretty sad.  I don't know how you came across them in the first place, but I'd hope they were something you thought were sellable or 2 minutes from the dumpster. 

I think we all ought to be a little more cautious these days in grabbing unattended cabs.  Or there won't be anything left for the next generation to discover.

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