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quarterback:


--- Quote from: Lilwolf on November 05, 2004, 12:58:35 pm ---Hey, I think I'm going to go..
but now I can't find the URL for directions / times.

Anyone have it handy?

Thanks

--- End quote ---

http://www.usamusement.com/columbus_map.html

blacktiger:

Hey, if anyone wants to meet up at the auction we can do so.  I should have an orange hat with a Clemson University tiger paw on it and probably an orange Clemson shirt on.   If anyone here is going, what if anything are you bringing?

ratabase1:

So how was the Columbus auction?  Does anybody have prices from it?

quarterback:

I was there and it was my first auction.  I met "blacktiger" there strictly based on his description.  He was indeed wearing an orange hat.

I ended up buying a non-working "Main Event" cab with some water damage for $20 and paid 'blacktiger' to help me move it and get it back to my house :)  (Thanks again Mike and I hope my directions got you back to the auction)

I was there from 9:30-6pm and there were still two rows of stuff to go through.  One row of 25" cabs and 1/2 row of the sit-down-games (what are they called again?) and 1/2 row of pinball

Overall prices?  I had started taking notes but lost that battle.  I went there looking for a cab to Mame-out.  After missing the first non-working $20 cab (the very first cab auctioned off) they went through a bunch of working ones that all seemed to go for over $100 so I tuned out.  

I'm a little upset I didn't buy a "breathalizer" machine for $1.  They sold the first one for $10 but without a truck (and being tired already) I didn't jump on the 2nd one which they gavea away for a buck.

The only other thing I was looking at went early with the 'parts', and that was a box full of control panels.  There was a Tron in there along with some big 4-player CP and some other smaller parts.  The box full went for $100 or $125 I think.

Beyond that it was a blur.  I had been up late the night before so I was tired when I got there.  Add on another 3 or 4 hours before they even got to the first cabinets and I was already bleary eyed.

Oh, there was some HUGE rear-projection TV that went for $30 I think.  They said it had powered up earlier but it wasn't coming up at that point and was really freakin' big.  I mean, it was longer than I am tall, I swear it was almost 6 feet wide.  

Oh yeah, I also should have bid up on a Xevious that went for $55 (I think)  It wasn't "working" when the bidding came around, but I *swear* it had been working earlier.  When they were auctioning it I thought it must be a different machine, but later I came to the conclusion that it was the same one.  

So, all in all I did what a lot of people probably do at their 1st auction... I missed the boat on a couple things that I'm now wishing I had bought.  Oh well :)

paigeoliver:

You can never make the boat on everything. If I had made the boat on everything at the last auction alone then I would have 10 or 15 more machines!

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