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gabe:
You know... it could also be that the dude just likes throwing a party with a GIANT bonfire.
Well Fed Games:
--- Quote from: Donkbaca on July 13, 2011, 09:41:01 am ---Just see if they will give it to you, and offer your cash. The idea that they won't sell it to you for tax purposes is dumb. If you offer cash, the probably wouldn't report it, and 100 bucks wouldn't matter for their taxes. Even if they properly reported it, the taxes would be at the 15% capital gains rate. Chances are, the reason they don't sell the old cabs has more to do with not wanting anything to do with geeks.
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Yeah, I don't think the $80 I gave someone for a cab went anywhere but his beer fund, let alone his accountant's records.
Donkbaca:
I'm a CPA. I couldn't give 2 ---smurfs--- about 100 bucks here and there that a client was pocketing. Now, I wouldn't go and TELL him to just pocket the money, but if he did, I wouldn't really care, its not a lot of money in the scheme of things and like I said, he's avoiding, what 15 bucks of taxes? Taxes have NOTHING to do with the situation. Like I said, its probably the fact that they don't want to deal with geeks and flakes. Call, offer cash, show up, be as easy to deal with as possible.
kampcool:
My local arcade has been in business since 1969, and I went there (a month ago) to ask the owner if he had any he could part with. He said he gets that question 100 times a season, and "NO". I mentioned that I noticed he had alot of machines down and with Monitors that need freshened-up, and he hired me on the spot. I have been there three weeks, and last week he let me take a tour of his "graveyard" in the basement. My jaw is still on the floor. Pictures incomming soon. Back in the day (he stopped doing this), he would get a team of guys with sledge hammers to bust them down, so they would fit in the dumpster.
If you cant beat them, join them. Hoping my foot in the door walks away with at least a few 80s cabs. Wish me luck guys. :notworthy:
kampcool:
I love this topic, even more so, because of the diverse input so far. We have guys on both spectrum's of the Arcade Biz, giving VALID points (Extra cool to have some accountants). Our town has had the pleasure of a "Successful Arcade" since 1969. It started as a pinball, and expanded. I ask myself, how is this possible? Anybody else got hometown coin-ops in business longer? I have had the pleasure of working there now for a month. I hate to say it.... I am starting to understand, that the games are NOT the bottom-line money makers, in a succuessfull Family Arcade. My owner is super smart, with a "special business attitude". He is brilliant, actually, and I will describe his attitude towards the video game side of things "AS A LABOR OF LOVE 1st", and "AS A LABOR OF NESSECITY -------5TH".
I am slowly accepting, that the "ARCADE" in a successfull "Arcade business", is not profitable.
The Machines we all "Covet", and "Love", are not worth the initial price, the maintenance price, the price they draw on the electric bill, not even the price it costs to throw them away.
Bottom line, These machines are just "NOISEY-BRIGHT EYE CANDY", to attract consumers into buying "FOOD", I.M.O. By the time an owner has dedicated to throw a machine away, he is cutting losses already in time and manpower, and doesnt want to waste ANYMORE time. :banghead:
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