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ChadTower:
--- Quote from: More Cowbell on April 05, 2007, 12:01:51 pm ---That would be my issue with the kids. They would want every one of the cabs, the weirder the better.
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It's a good lesson in picking and choosing which to buy and which to leave. It's not an easy lesson but there are worse ways to learn that.
More Cowbell:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on April 05, 2007, 12:05:38 pm ---
--- Quote from: More Cowbell on April 05, 2007, 12:01:51 pm ---That would be my issue with the kids. They would want every one of the cabs, the weirder the better.
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It's a good lesson in picking and choosing which to buy and which to leave. It's not an easy lesson but there are worse ways to learn that.
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True. I'm looking forward to one day learning that lesson. ;D
Angry_Radish:
Bah, once again I can't make it to the auction.
I work on the weekends for the owner of an antique shop downtow for some under the table cash, and with all the rain we had this week, they developed a roof leak.
Looks like while you folks are at the auction, I'll be moving furniture and wet rugs around :angry:
Drink a beer for me! :cheers:
Angry_Radish:
OK, now that I officially missed it, how was it?
DrewKaree:
--- Quote from: Angry_Radish on April 07, 2007, 08:55:39 pm ---OK, now that I officially missed it, how was it?
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SWEET! Cowbell won a Pink slot machine and lost out on a Star Wars pinball because his wife took her top off and he wouldn't join in to seal the deal (I'm kinda thankful for that, btw)....
Nah, bunches more stuff than normal, but not nearly the amount of pinball machines, FAR less jukes than normal (about half), but they had some scratch-off ticket redemption machines....lessee what I can remember:
First off, Rob was calling for as long as we were there (we both left somewhere in the 3:00 range, IIRC). They were going to easily go until 7, and prolly didn't get out of there until 8 or later.
Slot machines - I'd say somewhere in the neighborhood of 40-50, every last one of them looked to be in decent shape. They auctioned them off fairly weird.
Stand-up cabs - 4 complete end-to-end rows, one additional partial row. The first row went for seemingly standard prices, the second row seemed to be dropping to somewhere around a third to half less than the first row. Those 2 rows took from around 11:00 to 1:45-2:00, then they moved to the pinballs.
I'd say there were about 20 pinballs. Prices seemed to be in the $1500-2000 range, although we both had to leave after the first 5-6 were auctioned off, so I don't know what the rest went for.
A metric crapload of driving games. MANY many 2-4 player setups - a complete row of them. We couldn't even stick around to see close to what those went for.
Dart machines - about 6-8 of 'em, there was only one dog of the bunch, but the rest all seemed to have been shopped - spiders replaced, scoring sections were C-L-E-A-N, everything seemed to be in good working order. If I had to guess, I'd bet they went for $350+ and could have easily went for close to $500 based on past auctions.
There were 8 cocktails, IIRC, but they ALL seemed to have been treated like a red-headed stepchild in one area or another. I didn't see many (any?) of them plugged in, but mebbe Cowbell did.
All in all, I TOTALLY wish I had more time today due to the huge increase in the number of stand-ups they had, and they had a Jungle King that I REALLY wanted to see what it sold for (or take home with me), but twas not to be.
Oh, and I dunno if you've seen 'em around Radish, but I don't recall EVER seeing a Simpson's Bowling there, but they had TWO there, which stuck out to me and is why I can remember 'em. One sold for $375, the other for $425. If I had any spare cash lying around, I may have taken a stab at one of 'em for that price.
They had a lot of machines they simply passed on since they weren't getting a decent starting bid. I hadn't ever seen that before with Fred, so I dunno if there was a reserve not met, or if they knew the price they were looking to start at was ridiculously low and they were gonna run 'em off later, or what, but I personally witnessed 4 cabs they passed on.
Prices....meh, you're gonna have to check the newsgroups. I was enjoying hanging out with Cowbell and his wife, and I was only keeping a vague tally on prices as they went on. I know he got a Pole Position for $150 with an effed up monitor that a few fuses and a sledgehammer to the neck seemed to perk right up, and the other one he was looking at a few machines away went for $200. Slot machines - 2-3 people started off at $250, and Rob gave them their choice of machine, then added a 2-for-1 deal after he had those bidders identified (and didn't open that deal up to anyone else. The next round was $125 for your choice, and a bunch more folks jumped on 'em, including Cowbell - I think if he had waited one more round, his machine probably wouldn't have been available (it seemed to be in excellent shape and was a nice looking one also). IIRC, they did one last round of $100 for choice of what was left, then auctioned off the rest in the order they were left. No slot machine sold for less than $50 (and there were only 3-4 at that price), MANY (prolly 8-12) sold for $62.50, but IMO, those were a hit-or-miss proposition, another 4-5 sold for $75, and anything else sold for $100. I've NEVER seen them run off the slot machines like this before, and I think they did it this way because of the sheer number of Stand-up cabs they had.
All in all, nice day to be at the auction.
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