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what do empty cocktail cabs go for at auctions usally?
danny_galaga:
well thats ONE thing us aussies aren't so lucky in :( . cabs seem to go for a lot here. i looked at a very sorry looking cocktail cab (japanese/aussie style) before i built on instead. he said 'not for sale', but if he did wanted something like $600-$700 (from memory). it was something converted to 1942, which didn't work properly.
so to an aussie, we'd be happy with ANY of the prices mentioned here!
paigeoliver:
Well of course you are going to have high prices from an operator. We are talking about auction prices here. I don't think you guys have auctions.
wboy:
yeah we do, but the operators (one comes to mind) run them every few months or so.... have fake bidder friends within the crowd.... or alternatively, a ridiculous high reserve price.
hulkster:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on November 02, 2004, 06:40:59 pm ---There are rarely EMPTY cocktails at auction at all. There are dead ones though. When MrArcade and I were at the st. louis auction saturday he bought two of the twin monitor nintendo ones for $35 each. A working Birdie King 3 one went for $45.
Note, the ever popular Midway style cocktails rarely show up dead, and command at least $100 when they do.
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okay, whats the midway style of cocktail? is that style like Kyle Lydstroms plans? not the desk style, but the traidtional style?
paigeoliver:
Midway, specifically the design used for pac-man. 19" monitor, no legs, coin door on one side and flat control panels that extrude from the sides.