Alright Boys!!! SUPER AUCTIONS ROLL-CALL!!! Charlotte NC results.

[ArtMAME]

Alright Boys... 

It's time for the SUPERAUCTIONS ROLL-CALL!!!

Plenty of action going on this weekend:

SUPERAUCTIONS
December 9th
ORLANDO, FL.
CENTRAL FLORIDA FAIRGROUNDS
4603 WEST COLONIAL DRIVE
ORLANDO, FLORIDA

SUPERAUCTIONS
December 9th
CHARLOTTE, NC.
METROLINA EXPO TRADE CENTER
7100 STATESVILLE RD, BLG #3
CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA

AUCTION GAME SALES
December 9th
Richmond International Raceway
600 East Laburnum Avenue
Richmond, VA
804-228-7500

Who's going?

I'll be in Charlotte NC...

See y'all there...

[javeryh]

Little far for me... maybe if there was one in north jersey or eastern PA or NYC I'd go...  I really want to one day.

[leapinlew]

I sold some games at the Dec. 2nd auction in St. Louis. Talk about a buyers market! Low turnout because of a freak snow storm.

[squirrellydw]

Little far for me... maybe if there was one in north jersey or eastern PA or NYC I'd go...  I really want to one day.

yeah, I live in harrisburg and nothing is ever close

[ArtMAME]

Little far for me... maybe if there was one in north jersey or eastern PA or NYC I'd go...  I really want to one day.

yeah, I live in harrisburg and nothing is ever close

I am in Atlanta GA, I guess SuperAuctions and AGS serve the southeast US, Texas, and California. 

It will take me about 3.5 hours to get to Charlotte.  The ones in NC and TN would take 6 hours for me to get to... Orlando...10 hours...

Don't know when they will have another one here in Atlanta, so I do not want to miss the Charlotte auction...

[MinerAl]

They used to come to KC, but after several poorly attended, low money auctions, they stopped coming.

[ArtMAME]

ALRIGHT BOYS...

Not many replies...  ... everybody must be pretty busy during the holidays...

BUMP 

Is anybody going?  Does anybody know how good the turn out usually is at these December auctions???

Please don't make me buy up all the cabinets myself... ...

I will have to get a much bigger truck...

[kelemvor]

They still don't have any info for next year yet.  What's the deal?  I'm sure they'll be back in Milwaukee in another month or two.

[Numbski]

I was at St. Louis last weekend.  3 MAME cabs, 2 running MameWah or similar, and one running advancemenu.

At least one had a note saying "I didn't want to sell this, but I'm moving and can't take it with me...".

[ArtMAME]

Were there many people there? 

How were the prices in general?

[Numbski]

Turnout sucked, but that's because we got a pretty nasty ice storm here.  Pricing was a bit NUTS.

What I mean is that there were fully functioning cabs with 25" monitors and decent games going for <$150, yet there were golden tee cabs with broken/missing monitors going for over $200.  Either these people are clueless as to how to mod a cab, or the board was worth more than the monitor (not likely).

Also a heaping helping of cabinet sabotage going on.  Things that worked during preview that mysteriously didn't when bidding came around.

Bring your own extension cable, a PC power cable, and a pocket full of fuses.   Amazing how things magically break....or the good 'ol "oh, the power supply must have a bad fuse."  riiiiight.  Hiding something are we?

[ArtMAME]

Turn-out was amazing!!! Despite it being 20 degrees... and they left the loading bay doors open all the time...

Highlights and pic coming soon...

 

[ArtMAME]

Sorry about the quality...

[ArtMAME]

The guy in the plaid shirt and shorts managed to load 6 vids in his pickup truck!!! Count them SIX!!!

[Numbski]

Pfffffft!

That stupid Skee Ball machine made the trip to NC???

 

That thing didn't sell in St. Louis.  Did it sell there?  Also, did they have the cash changer that didn't take current bills?  They offered to give it away FOR FREE and no one wanted it, then they said it would be in NC "next week".

[FrizzleFried]

Does any auction ever make it to BOISE, IDAHO?

[ArtMAME]

Here are some highlights...
by no means complete list, just the interesting stuff...

Pretty much all the machines were complete and working... no row of junk cabs in this one.
the non-working machines, or once-working machines were put in a corner and they decided not to sell them at least as long as I stayed.  They would bypass the games that they could not get working during the bidding...

Did not stay for any of the driving games...

Tons of Touchmasters and Pachincos to begin with... bunch of Multicades in refurbished cabs...

Only two cocktails... DK Jr and MsPacman

Video Games:
Gauntlet Legends 450 and 400
Donkey Kong (Nice!!!) 475
Golden Tee Fore 1675
Ms Pacman 400
Centipede (Nice!!!) 575
MK 4 300
Area 51 525
x-MEN VS Street Fighter 275
Surf Planet 130
Xmen 175 and 140

about 20 or 30 Neo-Geos with different games most went for 100 plus change

Tekken Tag 275
NBA 210
Outrun x2 175
Metal Slug 2 170
Captain America (Stern cabinet) 40
MK3 210
Marvel vs Capcom 140 and 100
Metal Slug (with inkjet marquee) 185
Raiden II (playing blind?)
Virtua Fighter 3 170
WWF Wrestlemania 160
Gouls and Ghosts 140
Arkanoid in centipede cab
Cenipede mini cabaret 380
GT 2K 270
Operation Wolf 290
SF2 100
Thunderblade 110
Bowlorama 60
Road Blasters (graphics issues) 85
Die Hard 100 and 60
Buster Bros in Qbert cab (no image) 25
Snow Bros in Centiped cab with inkjet marquee 65
Aero Fighters with 25" monitor
Metal Slug 2 100 and 100
Toobin' (in skinny cabinet) 130
Marvel vs Capcom 150 and 130 and 130
Marvel vs Capcom in a Smash TV cabinet 140

Pinballs
Elvis (NIB) 3200
Simpsons (NIB) 3125
Adams Family 1725
Whirlwind 1200
Road Show 1350
Mousin Around 625
Cyclone 900
Bullwinkle 800
Twilight Zone 1650
Tales from the Crypt 1000
SF II 625
Shadow 1050
Hook 850
Last Action Hero 600
Spring Break 425
Super Mario 950
Hollywood 200

[ArtMAME]

Donkey Kong...NICE!!!

Centipede Mini "CAB-O-RAY" ...NICE!!!

[ArtMAME]

Tons of NEO GEOs, SNK, Capcom...etc...

Most of them went for $100 and change!!!  Most had 25" monitors and cabinets were in great shape...

I got me one with a Fatal Fury 2 in it.  Never played FF 2, but such a great deal, I could not pass it up...