Pinball Machine Removal and Pickup. Basements, Tight Stairs, Anywhere.
If there is a pinball machine in your house that needs to go, Tri-State Pinball will come and get it. We handle pinball machine removal and pickup across the Hudson Valley from our home base in Newburgh, NY, and we take the jobs everyone else turns down: the basement with the narrow staircase, the second-floor game room, the machine that has not been plugged in since the nineties.
We Come Get It. That Is the Whole Job.
I'm Christian, and Tri-State Pinball is my family-run operation. Pickups are the heart of what we do. Most folks who call are not collectors. They are homeowners staring at a machine the size of a refrigerator that is in the way of a closing date, a cleanout, or a basement project. You do not need to know what the machine is, whether it works, or how to move it. You just need it gone. That is the service.
Plenty of outfits will "take" a pinball machine as long as you get it to the curb or a loading dock first. That is not help, that is homework. We show up with the dolly, the straps, the blankets, and a plan. We break the machine down the way it was built to come apart: head unbolted or folded, legs off, glass secured, everything padded. Then we carry it out, load it, and it leaves with us the same visit. No second appointment, no "can you have someone meet the truck," and no leaving a few-hundred-pound problem half taken apart in your hallway.
One more thing. If the machine still runs and part of you wants to keep it, that is a real option too. Our pinball repair side works on Bally, Williams, Stern, Data East, and Jersey Jack machines, and sometimes a game you were ready to lose just needs an afternoon of work.
Hard Access Is the Job, Not an Excuse.
Basements are where pinball machines go to sleep for twenty years, and basements are exactly why people call us. Narrow stairs. A low beam at the bottom. A ninety-degree turn into the laundry room. A bulkhead door that has not opened since the last owner lived there. We have worked machines out of all of it: finished basements, second floors, attics, garages packed to the ceiling, barns with dirt floors. The rule is simple. If the machine got in, it can come out. We measure first, take the machine apart to fit the path, pad the corners and the railings, and walk it out without gouging your walls or your floors.
If you are tempted to try it yourself first, read how to move a pinball machine without wrecking it and how much a pinball machine weighs. Then call us anyway. Your back is worth more than the machine.
What Pinball Machine Removal Costs.
The honest answer is that it depends on the machine and the access, so I will not print a number that turns out to be wrong for your house. Here is how it really shakes out. In many cases we can haul it away at no cost, and if the machine is worth money we pay you. If a machine is truly rough and the access is brutal, there may be a fee, and you will hear it from me before we book anything, never in your driveway after the fact. Send a couple photos, get a fast, no-obligation answer, and decide from there. No pressure either way.
Before you write it off as junk: your machine might be worth cash. Titles that look like basement clutter surprise their owners all the time. Take two minutes and find out what your machine might be worth before you book a pickup.
How a Pickup Works, Step by Step.
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Who calls us
Realtors call us more than almost anyone. A pinball machine in the basement can stall a closing, complicate a final walkthrough, or sit in an empty listing like a boulder nobody wants to own. Sometimes the previous owner left it behind. Sometimes the estate never dealt with it. Either way, the house needs to be empty by a date on a contract, and that is a problem we are built for. We work around closing dates, coordinate directly with listing agents, arrange lockbox access with you for empty houses, and leave the space broom-clean. If you are an agent in Orange, Dutchess, or Ulster County with a machine sitting in the middle of a deal, one call handles it.
Clearing out a parent's or relative's home is hard enough without a machine nobody knows what to do with. We handle estate pickups quietly and respectfully. We show up when we say we will, we treat the house and the family right, and we get the machine out without adding drama to a difficult week. If you are an executor, or you are handling the cleanout from out of state, we can coordinate with whoever has the keys. And if the machine turns out to have real value, I will tell you straight instead of quietly carting off something the family should know about. That is how I would want my own family treated, so that is how we do it.
Moving companies do not want pinball machines, and most will say so on the spot: too heavy, too fragile, glass everywhere, not covered by their insurance. Junk crews will drag one out, but dragging is exactly how banisters and door frames die. If you run a moving or cleanout crew and there is a pinball machine on a job, call us and we will handle that one piece while you do the rest. And if you are a homeowner whose mover just said "we don't take those," that is normal. It is not laziness. It is a specialty item, and this is the specialty.
Type "pinball machine removal near me" and the top results are national lead sites. You fill out a form, your phone number gets passed around, and a truck may or may not route through your county sometime. We are not that. Tri-State Pinball is a family-run shop in Newburgh, NY, usually 20 to 40 minutes from your door. The person you talk to on the phone is the person who shows up at your house. One phone number, one visit, machine gone.
Where We Pick Up.
We cover roughly a 40-mile radius around Newburgh: the Hudson Valley core plus the edges of New Jersey and Pennsylvania that give Tri-State its name. That includes Poughkeepsie, Middletown, Kingston, and every town in between. See the full list on our service areas page. Near the edge of the map? Call anyway and we will figure it out.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Basements are the most common pickup we do. Narrow stairs, low ceilings, and tight turns are normal for us. We break the machine down, protect your walls, and carry it out in pieces sized for the staircase.
It depends on the machine and the access. In many cases we can haul it away at no cost, and if the machine is worth money we pay you. If there is ever a fee, you will know before we schedule anything.
No. Leave it exactly where it sits. Moving a pinball machine without the right gear is how people get hurt and machines get wrecked. We handle the stairs, the doorways, and the loading.
Yes. Machines that do not power on, machines with water damage, missing legs, no keys, even mouse nests. Condition does not change whether we come get it.
We cover roughly a 40-mile radius around Newburgh, NY, which takes in most of the Hudson Valley plus the nearby corners of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. If you are near the edge of that range, call and we will work it out.
Yes. We do this for realtors and homeowners all the time. Tell us the date the house needs to be empty and we will schedule the pickup ahead of it and leave the space broom-clean.