Importing cabs from the USA

[level42]

Hi, yes, I heard that you are doing this. That's great. Did you have to pay export tax because you transpor cabs to another country?

...... so there is a good chance my games will rot in some deposit near genova

  Don't tell me that you didn't look into this on forehand? Before I will execute my idea, I will know pretty sure which 'overhead' costs I can expect to have.

so make sure your contact is a good contact! 

Yes, I know how important that is. Fortunately I think that I have a very good contact. In fact, I will meet him myself because I intend to go to the USA when I buy the cabs, and I will pack and supervise the packing myself. I will combine my trip with a short holiday, visit a nice location in New Hampshire amongst others.

Get all the cabs there and we're done ! Instead of a container charter an entire ship

By the way there never are taxes for exporting stuff, only for importing. Import taxes depend on the value you import. Of course, you may value the stuff differently than customs do.

[Alpha1]

You already know what I want.....

But just in case:

-Quantum (Wahahahaha, 0 chance)
-Lunar Lander
-Lunar Lander
-Lunar Lander
-Lunar Lander
-Lunar Lander
-Lunar Lander
-Lunar Lander
-Lunar Lander
-Lunar Lander
-Lunar Lander
-Any Atari Vector
-Q*bert
-Anything Nintendo
-a gigantic gameroom

If you want a Quantum I will sell you mine.

Oliver

[Superully]

If you want a Quantum I will sell you mine.

once again my question for oliver: is there a cab that you don't have? EDOT, quantum, cosmic chasm - i'm sure you also have an original pong, right? where did you get al those games?

[Alpha1]

yes I have an original Pong :-)

[robotype]

Hi, yes, I heard that you are doing this. That's great. Did you have to pay export tax because you transpor cabs to another country?

you will have to pay a number of things, not sure about export taxes.

...... so there is a good chance my games will rot in some deposit near genova

  Don't tell me that you didn't look into this on forehand? Before I will execute my idea, I will know pretty sure which 'overhead' costs I can expect to have.

you are very lucky to live in the netherlands my friend, you can't do such a thing in italy. this is the land of chaos.

[Superully]

yes I have an original Pong :-)

did you import all those games from the usa?

[Alpha1]

yes I have an original Pong :-)

did you import all those games from the usa?

Hi, I imported a few over the years from the USA yes. I'l be honest, I bought most of my machines (I have somewhere around 75-100) from Germany I found a good warehouse in Germany from person that became a good friend.

Pictures here: http://www.arcadeoll.com/wh/01.jpg upto 21.jpg


Oliver

[scr33n]

I'l be honest, I bought most of my machines (I have somewhere around 75-100) from Germany

OMG !!! 

[Superully]

holy sh**!!! why can't i "find" a warehouse like that? trons, gauntlets, defenders - you name it, it's there! do you have a gameroom for all your games or are they just stashed away in storage?

[ckong]

On topic please 

[Alpha1]

I have imported from the USA a few times. I have done single machines via air freight. That usually works out to be around 800E after taxes.. Not cheap...

I also imported a 20ft container, pics here: http://www.arcadeoll.com/pics/container/

That was £1900 + taxes

Oliver

[ckong]

Nice photos. Did you pack those cabs yourself, or did someone else do it for you?

[Alpha1]

I had a friend in the USA that looked after all the cabs and generously loaded up the container also. I then emptied the container at my end in the UK.

[ckong]

Hi guys,

A little update. The first lead which I had in the USA is unfortunately not working out.    It was not possible at all for me to select certain games, I had to go with a bulk of 28 cabs, with no knowledge of the technical condition and hardly any information on the exterior condition. Sure, there were 2 Galaga's, a Pac-man and one or two Ms. Pac-man's, but most other games involved were not that interesting for me and for you.

So I had to pass on that one. 

However, I do have another lead which could be more interesting. This guy claims that he can get most of the cabs which I want. See for instance this list which I did send him, with his remarks:

Asteroids (yes I can get one or more)
Asteroids Deluxe (yes I can get one or more)
Black Widow (yes I should be able to get one)
Bump ‘n jump (yes I should be able to get one)
Burgertime (I have one now)
Centipede (yes I can get one or more)
Commando (yes I can get one or more)
Crystal castles (yes I can get one or more)
Defender (yes I can get one or more)
DigDug (yes I can get one or more)
Disc of Tron (yes I should be able to get one, but will cost $$$)
Donkey Kong (yes I can get one or more)
Donkey Kong 3 (yes I can get one or more)
Donkey Kong jr. (yes I can get one or more)
Dragon's Lair (yes I should be able to get one, but will cost $$$)
Frogger (yes I can get one or more)
Galaga (yes I can get one or more)
Galaxian (yes I can get one or more)
Gorf (yes I can get one or more)
Gravitar (yes I should be able to get one)
Joust (yes I can get one or more)
Joust 2 (yes I should be able to get one)
Mappy (yes I might be able to get one)
Marble Madness (yes I can get one or more)
Mario bros. (yes I can get one or more)
Millipede (yes I can get one or more)
Missile Command (yes I can get one or more)
Moon Cresta (yes I can get one or more)
Moon Patrol (yes I can get one or more)
Ms. Pacman (yes I can get one or more)
Outrun (yes I can get one or more)
Pacman (yes I can get one or more)
Phoenix (yes I can get one or more)
Pole Position (yes I can get one or more)
Pole Position 2 (yes I can get one or more)
Popeye (yes I can get one or more)
Qbert (yes I can get one or more)
Qix (yes I can get one or more)
Road Blaster (yes I can get one or more)
Robotron (yes I can get one or more)
R-Type (yes I might be able to find one)
Scramble (yes I can get one or more)
Simpsons (yes I can get one or more)
Space Duel (yes I can get one or more)
Space Invaders (yes I can get one or more)
Star Wars cockpit (yes I might be able to fine one, but will cost $$$)
Stargate (yes I can get one or more)
Streetfighter II Ch. Edition (yes I can get one or more)
Super Cobra (yes I can get one or more)
Super Zaxxon (yes I can get one or more)
Tempest (yes I can get one or more)
Time Pilot ‘84 (yes I can get one or more)
Track ‘n Field (yes I can get one or more)
Tron (yes I can get one or more but will cost $$$)
Turbo Outrun (yes I can get one or more)
Zaxxon (yes I can get one or more)

Any games on the list which you would like? It will take some time for me to ‘investigate’ this lead, price-wise and attainability wise, but I’m still on it.

What I am aiming for is to get cabs over here which are technically in 100% working order, and which exterior is decent to good. Of course it mostly will depend on the prices.

It might be that I will have to change the plan with regard to financing it all, with which I mean that I might go for the route to take pre-orders for cabs with prepayments. Nobody should however be afraid that they will do a complete blind buy, there will be cab descriptions and pictures before committing to a purchase. As I said, I might do that, and I still have to work out the rules, but would you consider this as an option? Besides the financial reason another reason is that in this way people commit themselves to take a cab (I often hear people say “sure I want that”,  and then later pull back for various ‘reasons’). I want some nice games also, but I don't want to get stuck with 35 of them, which is the amount in a 40ft. container.

I will keep you informed.

[jcp]

A very detailed text Erik, you can rely on me for a Joust as I said upper .