I knew the owner of that cab, he always invests a lot more in them than I do. I'll put like $300-$400 into a 19" cab, and he will spend a grand doing a 19" cab. Mine will have an old cheapo 500 mhz comp, his will have a brand new one, mine will have an old monitor, his will have a brand new one, etc, etc, scale that up to a big cab and you see why he has to bid his up.
He had a nice 19" one at the last auction that he had to bring home, he had $1000 in it and there were 6 mame cabinets there, mine was the only one that actually sold ($575). I didn't WANT to bring mine home so I let it sell at that price. I think his got bid up a bit higher than mine, but still way less than his cost.
I am also not going to bring anything else to superauctions anymore because in the past when I have brought a single high dollar item on saturday morning they have put it in the first row, this time I brought 3 items one high dollar and 2 cheapies, they agreed to put the good item in the first row and they did, then one of the big sellers complained and they skipped my machine (and the aformentioned $1000 19" cab) and didn't do them until darn near the end of the auction.
That was a big mistake on their part, made me mad enough where I won't sell with them again, I'm not making a 100 mile round trip the day before to bring ONE game to the stinking auction. That little trick also meant they lost out on getting some higher prices too, I didn't buy ANYTHING because I didn't know how much I had to work with, there was a dedicated Neo 2-slot and a converted Midway mini that I would have went a good deal higher on if I knew I had $575 to spend. Instead I let the mini go at $75 and didn't bid on the Neo at all. I bought NOTHING at that auction.
The ironic part is that the guy who complained had to buy his 2 mames back, he actually bought them back twice, he bought them back at $500 each the first time, then had them sell them again after mine went $575 and he bought them back again for less than mine (his both actually looked nicer, but mine was the only 4-way vertical machine there, and that is what a lot of people want). I have no beef with that guy though, I know him too, he didn't realize he was complaining about someone he knew, and it was really on superauctions for going back on their word. The PROPER thing would to have simply told me that next time I had to have it there on friday to get it in the first row, not to unplug my machine and skip it.