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Arcade Collecting => Miscellaneous Arcade Talk => Topic started by: eccs19 on December 03, 2005, 05:57:07 pm
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Just kinda wondering if anyone here has ever approached a local store, pizza joint, etc, and asked them if you could put one of your machines in their store. I don't imagine that anyone would want to put their pristine Galaga / Pacman, etc, but if you had an old beater hanging about..... Any thoughts?
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Just kinda wondering if anyone here has ever approached a local store, pizza joint, etc, and asked them if you could put one of your machines in their store. I don't imagine that anyone would want to put their pristine Galaga / Pacman, etc, but if you had an old beater hanging about..... Any thoughts?
You'd most likely need to have a vendor's license.
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You'd most likely need to have a vendor's license.
Indeed. It depends on where you live. Some places not only have state licensing, there is local (town/city) licenses as well.
I'm lucky enough to live in Vermont, where there is no longer a state license needed.
If I lived in Greenfield, MA, however...it's $100 for the TOWN license, for EACH machine, plus whatever it is for the state.
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And here in Washington state you must also pay sales tax on the money in the machine.
Before putting a machine "on location" you better be damn sure the location owner does not already have a contract with another game operator or you will be sued for breaching the contract.
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I did. I have some machines around town.
They don't make much. I pulled some of them out.
They stay together pretty good. I haven't had too many "service" calls.
I try and keep one handy to put in place if one goes down.
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Before putting a machine "on location" you better be damn sure the location owner does not already have a contract with another game operator or you will be sued for breaching the contract.
How could you possibly breach a contract to which you are not a party?
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Before putting a machine "on location" you better be damn sure the location owner does not already have a contract with another game operator or you will be sued for breaching the contract.
How could you possibly breach a contract to which you are not a party?
I was wondering the same. I would have thought that the store owner would be the one in breach. Of course I know nothing about putting games on location apart from the fact that here in OK they have to have some kind of tax stamp on them.
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It has nothing to do with the nature of the contract, really... only the store owner could breach that contract, and they actually would be in breach if a contract did exist.
What you would get is a nice little visit from the Op's biggest employee, and a nice grape soda down the back of your monitor.
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The guys I work with own the stores and I'm the only guy. I don't have a contract. I just split the winnings 50/50