KC Superauction - anybody else go?

[MinerAl]

I wish I had kept better track of the cabs and prices.  There were probably 60-75 full size cabs, 2 cabarets, 4 complete/nonfunctional space invaders cocktails, 3 pinballs, 2 driving cabs, one light gun game, and a bunch of redemption games.  Also severalteen slots.

Not the biggest auction ever; the crowd was small and things went cheap.
The cabarets and the first few games went for >$400.   By the time they got to the third row, everything was going for less than $100.  The space invaders tables went for $65, $55, and $45x2.

I got a good condition pacman cab with a working taito golf game in it for $35.  I'll have to get a poorly applied coat of black spray paint off, but it'll make a fun project.  I just couldn't stand to not get it for what I'd pay for an empty cab.

There was a Playboy pinball that went for $650, and the gun game went for >$500 too, otherwise it was a bargain extravaganza.

Fun way to waste a Saturday morning.

I hope the low prices and turn-out don't keep them from coming back to KC.

Anybody else go?  I was the overweight nerd.  Heh.

[nostrebor]

I wanted to go   Had to work instead Your news really sucks    Congratulations on your cheap buy

[walls83]

I had to work too.  that sucks  

[Kremmit]

I just wish the same kind of bargains would happen at the San Jose, CA auctions.  Damn Sillicon Valley nerds for driving up our prices out here!

[Pipercub]

Sheesh, that is a fraction of what they go for out here in the D.C. area at the Baltimore auction.

[rjarcade]

I almost went.  Damn.  Too bad that I missed it.

[Dav]

I almost went.  Damn.  Too bad that I missed it.

A lot of the machines at the KC Superauctions are buybacks.  The people who run the auction own a lot maybe even most of the games.  So you are actually bidding against the owner.  If you go to the next Des Moines auction they usually have a lot of the same games since they couldn't sell them and the auction people "won" most of the auctions.  If you watch during those auctions you'll notice the same 1 or 2 people usually buy most of the games.  Then they just happen to have a really large trailer there.   Not that this is neccessarily a bad thing.   Before they started bringing their games they would sometimes have less than 10 videogames at the auction.  The buyers quit going because there was no sellection and the sellers quit going because there was no buyers.