Hi folks,
after weeks of negotiation I need to reveal a story which made me very sad and angry.
While I traded an arcade cab with a nice Nintendo collector from germany a friend of him asked if he is into the arcade hobby.
Not at all, why you are asking he pointed back.
Well - seemed that girl had a brother...who collected arcade cabinets and his house was "full of these huge machines".
She pointed out that her brother commited suicide and that these machines are still there and if my friend would be interested.
He handed me the details and I offered him the following (as I usually do when these things happen*):
1) I can take a look for her, saying her the prices or stating some information on the games at all.
and/or
2) try to sell these off for her (keeping one or two for myself and paying a fair offer)
3) make an offer on the whole lot if I could afford these at all.
Now she wanted to take pictures while she just could remember the following "he had these huge machines....where you can sit in. I remember some looking like cars and there was that Star Wars cabinet".
Wait. Star Wars cabinet? I got a bit nervous on this.
The cabs were stored at his house and while she hadn't a key she wanted to go home for her parents (seems that the house was next to their parents house).
Her parents didn't let her in - "it's all okay you don't have to look".
I tried to contact her again after a few weeks. It's always a bit difficult talking to persons in the event of death and in addition under these circumstances.
She said that her parents won't let her in, so I took the opportunity to send her some pics from old Ebay auctions or current ones (especially on the Star Wars cabinet).
From the pictures she could remember a Daytona Deluxe Single Unit Sit Down and *oh no* an original 1980 Star Wars Sit Down cabinet.
Yes. A Star Wars sit down. Not only my holy collector grail since I played it on GameOn 2008 in London and Andres nice cabinet at Eurocade.
It was obvious to me if that guy had these 2 cabs - the other 10-15 units are of the same quality.
I offered her 4000 EURs for that Star Wars and while I'm out of money then offered again to sell all other cabinets off.
Well with these prices on her back (e.g. a Dayona DLX should cost 800-1200 EURs normally) she went again to her parents.
And now...they revealed the following:
ALL (!) cabs have been sold to someone from northern germany for the complete price of 500 EURs (that was the offer by that guy). He came with 4 persons and a large trailer to pick everything.
So if someone finds out who this person was...I would be very interested:
Just to say him he will never went to heaven for this shameless behaviour picking over someones bones 
It is my decent hope that he will have nightmares every day he falls asleep.
* I sold 10 cabs for a friend of mine who has a hard life with his cancer
* I sold 1000 original games and computer periphals from the 80's for the family of a friend of mine who died at 24 due to cancer
**Note to everybody: I hope your parents/best friends know whom to contact if something happens / in case of such things.
