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Columbus Ohio 11/6
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
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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!