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| Vesper:
I bought my cabinet from Superauctions in Milwaukee. It went for way too much, but I was very annoyed with the thought of waiting around 2 hours for another suitable cabinet to come up. Be warned: Lots of people dislike the guy who runs Superauctions. He has been known to accept "phantom bids". ie- point as if he saw a bidder, when in fact there was none. Be on your toes. It goes very fast and can be hard to see. |
| crashdmj:
http://www.superauctions.com/dates.html For all those who wanted to know... |
| SirPeale:
--- Quote from: Vesper on April 22, 2003, 01:12:38 pm ---I bought my cabinet from Superauctions in Milwaukee. It went for way too much, but I was very annoyed with the thought of waiting around 2 hours for another suitable cabinet to come up. Be warned: Lots of people dislike the guy who runs Superauctions. He has been known to accept "phantom bids". ie- point as if he saw a bidder, when in fact there was none. Be on your toes. It goes very fast and can be hard to see. --- End quote --- Which guy would this be? The blond wussy looking guy, or the old, bald guy? |
| paigeoliver:
THe wussy blond guy at least pretends to see the bids. The old bald guy doesn't even bother to pretend. He will keep upping the price while he isn't even looking at the crowd, and then turn around and see no one bid at all, and then drop down to $50 from $300. But really, even with all the shilling and stupid auctioneer tricks. Just know the value of what you are buying, and don't pay more. You can't go wrong that way. I have also noticed something. The popularity of MAME has really raised the price of the crappiest cabinets. Used to be lots of stuff could be had for $25. Not so anymore. |
| SirPeale:
Part of the problem with auctions is that the auctioneers speak in auctioneese! I've been to a few auctions in my life, only one arcade auction, and I find it very difficult to know exactly how much the auctioneer is going for. "Starting at $300! How about $350! $400!" I'm guessing this is just how auctions are run, but damn... |
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